La Coroplastica Greca. Metodologie per lo studio di produzioni, contesti e immagini

From May 27 to June 1, 2013, the First International Summer School on Greek Coroplastic Studies was held in Catania, Sicily. Organized by ACoST Executive Committee member Antonella Pautasso, project director at IBAM-CNR, Catania, and Ambra Pace of the University of Messina, with the support of Mario Cottonaro of the University of Catania and Vanessa Chillemi of the University of Messina, this 6-day event was called La Coroplastica Greca. Metodologie per lo studio di produzioni, contesti e immagini. It was developed mainly as a specialized course for university students wishing to conduct research on Greek terracotta objects, or simply to learn more about the study of Greek terracottas, although more advanced researchers also were enrolled. The main thrust of the week was to provide 34 participants (Fig. 1) with a total immersion in coroplastic studies by means of lectures and hands-on workshops (Figs. 2-3). In addition, the volumePhilotechnia. Studi sulla coroplastica della Sicilia greca, edited by Marina Albertocchi and Antonella Pautasso, IBAM CNR 5, Catania, 2012, was officially presented

Hellenistic and Roman Terracottas: Mediterranean Networks and Cyprus

The Archaeological Research Unit of the University of Cyprus in Nicosia was the site of a 3-day conference dedicated to Hellenistic and Roman terracottas that was organized by Giorgos Papantoniou, Demetrios Michaelides, and Maria Dikomitou-Eliadou. I was the discussant. The conference was held within the framework of a research project funded by the Anastasios G. Leventis Foundation via the University of Cyprus. The project aimed to establish a more concrete scholarly discussion on the study of Hellenistic and Roman terracottas in relation to a large corpus of Hellenistic and Roman terracottas that was brought to light during recent excavations at the “House of Orpheus” at Nea Paphos. A particular focus was placed on the integration of different analytical approaches for the study of these figurines and the relationships that these might have had with Hellenistic and Roman terracottas from other sites around the Mediterranean. The convenors of the conference Giorgos Papantoniou, Demetrios Michaelides, and Maria Dikomitou-Eliadou hoped that the continuing and changing patterns of production, distribution and function of Cypriot terracottas would be clarified as a result of discussions that treated the interplay between local structures and incoming Ptolemaic and Roman socio-political and socio-cultural impositions

Terracottas in the News. A Bronze-Age Terracotta Figurine Discovered by a Seven-Year-Old Boy

A seven-year-old boy discovered a late Bronze-Age plaque figurine in the Jordan Valley

Two Collaborative Projects for Coroplastic Research

During the Summer School in Catania in May, 2013, two ideas came into focus that could promote coroplastic research. The first was to have a manual, or handbook, that would give the researcher new to coroplastic studies much-needed tools and methodologies for addressing the study of Greek figurative terracottas. The second was to create an on-line version of Franz Winter’s Die Typen der figürlichen Terrakotten, 1903, in a wiki format so that researchers can add new coroplastic types or add ne..

Hellenistic and Roman Terracottas: Mediterranean Networks and Cyprus

The Archaeological Research Unit of the University of Cyprus in Nicosia was the site of a 3-day conference dedicated to Hellenistic and Roman terracottas that was organized by Giorgos Papantoniou, Demetrios Michaelides, and Maria Dikomitou-Eliadou. I was the discussant. The conference was held within the framework of a research project funded by the Anastasios G. Leventis Foundation via the University of Cyprus. The project aimed to establish a more concrete scholarly discussion on the study of Hellenistic and Roman terracottas in relation to a large corpus of Hellenistic and Roman terracottas that was brought to light during recent excavations at the “House of Orpheus” at Nea Paphos. A particular focus was placed on the integration of different analytical approaches for the study of these figurines and the relationships that these might have had with Hellenistic and Roman terracottas from other sites around the Mediterranean. The convenors of the conference Giorgos Papantoniou, Demetrios Michaelides, and Maria Dikomitou-Eliadou hoped that the continuing and changing patterns of production, distribution and function of Cypriot terracottas would be clarified as a result of discussions that treated the interplay between local structures and incoming Ptolemaic and Roman socio-political and socio-cultural impositions

Terracottas in the News. A Bronze-Age Terracotta Figurine Discovered by a Seven-Year-Old Boy

A seven-year-old boy discovered a late Bronze-Age plaque figurine in the Jordan Valley

La Coroplastica Greca. Metodologie per lo studio di produzioni, contesti e immagini

From May 27 to June 1, 2013, the First International Summer School on Greek Coroplastic Studies was held in Catania, Sicily. Organized by ACoST Executive Committee member Antonella Pautasso, project director at IBAM-CNR, Catania, and Ambra Pace of the University of Messina, with the support of Mario Cottonaro of the University of Catania and Vanessa Chillemi of the University of Messina, this 6-day event was called La Coroplastica Greca. Metodologie per lo studio di produzioni, contesti e immagini. It was developed mainly as a specialized course for university students wishing to conduct research on Greek terracotta objects, or simply to learn more about the study of Greek terracottas, although more advanced researchers also were enrolled. The main thrust of the week was to provide 34 participants (Fig. 1) with a total immersion in coroplastic studies by means of lectures and hands-on workshops (Figs. 2-3). In addition, the volumePhilotechnia. Studi sulla coroplastica della Sicilia greca, edited by Marina Albertocchi and Antonella Pautasso, IBAM CNR 5, Catania, 2012, was officially presented

The “Lady of Zominthos”

Several news outlets for October 2020 have reported the discovery of a Middle Minoan terracotta figurine dubbed “The Lady of Zominthos.

Maenad Terracotta Antefix Returned to Italy

An Etruscan terracotta antefix in the form of a dancing maenad that had been looted from Veii was returned to Italy

The Diphilos Dissertation Prize Winners

The Diphilos Dissertation Prize is a biennial monetary award of €1000 that is granted to a recent graduate student for an accepted dissertation that focuses on coroplastic material from the Mediterranean and Near Eastern worlds from the Neolithic period through late antiquity. This Prize is awarded in support of the eventual publication of the dissertation