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Recent Members' Publications That Feature Terracottas, 2008-2012

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Jaimee Uhlenbrock

On-line review of:
Nancy Bookidis, The Sanctuary of Demeter and Kore: The Terracotta Sculpture,
Corinth 18(5). The American School of Classical Studies at Athens, Princeton 2010.

AJA On-line Reviews, January 2012
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Obeloi

Caitlín E. Barrett

Egyptianizing Figurines from Delos.
A Study in Hellenistic Religion

Columbia Studies in the Classical Tradition 36
Brill: Boston/Leiden 2011

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Obeloi

Stephanie Lynn Budin

Images of Woman and Child from the Bronze Age
Reconsidering Fertility, Maternity, and Gender in the Ancient World

Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2011

350 pages * 46 b/w illus 


Obeloi

Frédérique Horn

Ibères, Grecs et Puniques en Extrême-Occident Les terres cuites de l'espace ibérique (VIIIe-IIe siècle av. J.-C.)

Bibliothèque de la Casa de Velázquez no 54, 2011 

402 p. Paperback

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Giorgos Papantoniou

Hellenizing the Cypriote Goddess: Reading the Amathousian Terracotta Figurines, in From Pella to Gandhara
Hybridisation and Identity in the Art and Architecture of the Hellenistic East
,

(A. Kouremenos, S. Chandrasekaran, and R. Rossi, eds.) BAR International Series 2221, 2011, pp. 35-48

 


Obeloi

Oliver Pilz

Frühe matrizengeformte Terrakotten auf Kreta. Votivpraxis und Gesellschaftsstruktur in spätgeometrischer und früharchaischer Zeit.

Beiträge zur Archäologie Griechenlands 2, Möhnesee: Bibliopolis 2011

365 pages, 35 plates


BABESCH

Ágnes Bencze

Symposia Tarentina. The artistic sources of the first  Tarantine banqueter terracottas

BABESCH, Annual Papers on Mediterranean Archaeology 85 (2010), pp. 25-41.

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Obeloi

David Ben-Shlomo, Yosef Garfinkel, Naomi Korn

Sha‘ar Hagolan 3. Symbolic Dimensions of the Yarmukian Culture: Canonization in Neolithic Art. Jerusalem: IES, 2010, 353 pp., illus.

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Obeloi

David Ben-Shlomo

Philistine Iconography. A Wealth of Style and Symbolism

Orbis Biblicus et Orientalis (OBO), Volume 241, Freibourg 2010,
238 pp., illus.

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Obeloi

Laura Gasparri

Greci e non Greci in Sicilia. Note sulla coroplastica greca arcaica nelle necropoli indigene e puniche

Obeloi. Contatti, scambi, e valori nel Mediterraneo antico. Studi offerti a Nicola Parise, (Camia F., Privitera S., eds.) Paestum/Athens 2010.

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Obeloi

Dragos Gheorghiu

Ritual Technology: An Experimental Approach to Cucuteni-Tripolye Chalcolithic Figurines,

In Gheorghiu, D. and Cyphers, A. (eds.) Anthropomorphic and Zoomorphic Miniature Figures in Eurasia, Africa and Meso-America. Morphology, materiality, technology, function and context, BAR International Series 2138, pp. 61-72.

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Tanagras

Violaine Jeammet (ed.)

Tanagras. Figurines for Life and Eternity.
The Musée du Louvre's Collection of Greek Figurines
.

(Chicago: University of Chicago Press) 2010

 


Mechthild Ladurner

Terrakottafunde vom Kultplatz 1 in Velia: Zwei Beispiele, Standortbestimmung.

Akten des 12. Österreichischen Archäologentages am Institut für Klassische Archäologie der Universität Wien 28. 2.- 1. 3. 2008 in Wien(M. Meyer/V. Gassner, eds.), Vienna 2010, pp. 113-119

 

Christina Marangou

Dissentions: Magnitude, Usability and the Oddness of Neolithic Figures,

Anthropomorphic and Zoomorphic Miniature Figures in Eurasia, Africa and Meso-America: Morphology, materiality, technology function and context, Dr. Gheorghiu and A. Cyphers (eds),
BAR I.S. 2138 (2010), pp. 17-24.


Nanoglou-Papa

Stratos Nanoglou & Maria Pappa

Η αναπαράσταση της ανθρώπινης μορφής στο νεολιθικό οικισμό του Μακρύγιαλου Πιερίας. [Human imagery in Neolithic Makriyalos].

Το Αρχαιολογικό έργο στη Μακεδονία και τη Θράκη [Archaeological Work in Macedonia and Thrace], 20 years anniversary volume: 249-259 

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Nanoglou-Papa

Stratos Nanoglou

The representation of phalli in Neolithic Thessaly, Greece, Documenta Praehistorica 37 (2010),  215-225


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Antonella Pautasso

On-line review of
S. Huysecom-Haxhi, Les figurines en terre cuite de l’Artémision de Thasos. Artisanat et piété populaire à l’époque de l’archaïsme mûr et récent, Études Thasiennes XXI, (École française d’Athènes, Athènes 2009)

Histara, les comptes rendus
, 2010
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Antonella Pautasso

On-line review:
Giuseppe Garbati,
Religione votiva: per un’interpretazione storico-religiosa delle terrecotte votive nella Sardegna punica e tardo-punica, 121 p., (Fabrizio Serra Editore, Pisa - Roma 2008)

Histara. Le compte rendues, 2010
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Archeologia Classica

Nicoletta Poli

Terrecotte di cavalieri dal deposito del Pizzone (Taranto): iconografia e interpretazione del soggetto

Archeologia Classica, LXI - n.s. 11 (2010) 41-73

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Maja Rzeplinska

Terracotta from Bijan Island, in Parthica, 12 (2010) 47-67

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Miloš Spasić and Dragana Vignjević

Figural plastic and other objects from fired clay from the site of Crkvine,

Kolubara 5: 169-181,2010


Perspective

Jaimee P. Uhlenbrock

Terracotta types of enthroned females from the Extramural Sanctuary of Demeter and Persephone at Cyrene

Cirene "Atene d'Africa," III. Cirene e la Cirenaica nell'antichità, Monografie di Archeologia Libica XXX, (M. Luni, ed.), Rome 2010, 85-100


Perspective

Marina Albertocchi

Daedalica selinuntina II. Osservazioni sulla coroplastica selinuntina d'eta tardo-orientalizzante

Temi selinuntini, (C. Antonetti e S. De Vido, eds.), Edizioni ETS, Pisa, 2009, pp. 9-27

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Silvia M. Alfayé Villa

Santuarios y rituales en la Hispania Céltica, (BAR IS 1963) Oxford, Archaeopress 2009.

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Perspective

Angela Bellia

Coroplastica con raffigurazioni musicali nella Sicilia greca (secoli VI-III a. C.)

Biblioteca di «Sicilia Antiqua», Fabrizio Serra editore, Pisa · Roma, 2009

Pp. 212, illus.

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David Ben-Shlomo and Michael D. Press

A Reexamination of Aegean-Style Figurines in Light of New Evidence from Ashdod, Ashkelon, and Ekron,
BASOR 353, February 2009, pp. 39-74



Perspective

Sylvia M. Bertesago

Figurine fittili da Bitalemi (Gela) e dalla Malophoros (Selinunte): appunti per uno studio comparato di alcune classi della coroplastica votiva

Temi Selinuntini, (C. Antonetti e S. De Vido, eds..), Edizioni ETS, Pisa, 2009, pp. 53-70

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Margherita Bonanno Aravantinos and Marcella Pisani

La tomba 10 del settore sud della necropoli nord-orientale di Tebe,

La tragedia greca e latina, le testimonianze archeologiche e iconografiche, A. Martina M. A. Cozzoli (edd.),Università degli studi di Roma Tre, Roma 14-16 ottobre 2004, Roma 2009, pp. 403-431, tavv. a pp. 533-537


Perspective

Annie Caubet

Les figurines antiques de terre cuite
Perspective 2009-1, pp. 43-56

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Perspective

Sharri R. Clark

Material Matters: Representation and Materiality of the Harappan Body.
Representation and Materiality of the Body, Special edition edited by Stratos Nanoglou and Lynn Meskell.
Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory 16-3 (2009), pp. 231-261.


Durres

S. Huysecom-Haxhi

Les figurines en terre cuite de l'Artémision de Thasos. Artisanat et piété populaire à l'époque de l'archaïsme mûr et récent,

Etudes Thasiennes 21 (2009), 2 vol., 655 p., 90 pls.
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Mechthild Ladurner

Le aree sacre sul crinale in età tardo-arcaica e classica. La coroplastica, La cinta fortificata di Velia e le aree sacre (G. Tocco Sciarelli, ed.), Milano 2009, pp. 96-100.


Christina Marangou

Gendered/sexed and sexless beings in prehistory: readings of the invisible gender

Fylo. Engendering prehistoric ‘stratigraphies’ in the Aegean and the Mediterranean. Proceedings of an International Conference, University of  Crete, Rethymno, 2-5 June 2005. Aegaeum 30, Université de Liège and University of Texas at Austin, Liège, (K. Kopaka, ed) (2009) 81-95 and plates XI-XIV


Christina Marangou and B. Stern

Neolithic zoomorphic vessels form Eastern Macedonia, Greece: issues of function, Archaeometry 51, 3 (2009) 397-412.


Gloria Merker

Review of Florian Stilp,
Die Jacobsthal-Reliefs: Konturierte Tonreliefs aus dem Griechenland der Frühklassik, Giorgio Bretschneider, Rome 2006
AJA 113, 2009, On-line Book Review

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Perspective

Arthur Muller

Le tout ou la partie. Encore ;es protomés: dedicataires ou dedicantes?,

Le donateur, l’offrande et la déesse. Systèmes votifs dans les sanctuaires de déesse du monde grec
. Actes du 31e colloque international organisée par l’URM Halma-Ipel (Université Charles-de-Gaulle/Lille 3, 13-15 décembre 2007) (Kernos suppl., 23), C. Prêtre (ed.), Liège 2009, pp. 81-95.

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.Durres

Stratos Nanoglou

Representing people, constituting worlds: multiple 'Neolithics' in the Southern Balkans,

Documenta Praehistorica 36 (2009) pp. 283-297

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Stratos Nanoglou

Η αναπαράσταση του ανθρώπου στη Θεσσαλία και τα Βαλκάνια κατά τη Νεολιθική: μορφολογικές διαφορές και τοπικές ταυτότητες. [Human representations in Thessaly and the central Balkans during the Neolithic: morphological differences and local identities.]

Αρχαιολογικό Έργο Θεσσαλίας και Στερεάς Ελλάδας 2. Πρακτικά επιστημονικής συνάντησης, Βόλος 16.3-19.3.06: 31-39. Βόλος: Πανεπιστήμιο Θεσσαλίας και Υπουργείο Πολιτισμού (2009,) 
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.Perspective

Stratos Nanoglou

Animal bodies and ontological discourse in the Greek Neolithic,

Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory 16.3 (2009) pp. 184-204.

 


Antonella Pautasso

La ceramica greco-orientale, con un contributo di M. Kerschner e H. Mommsen, Stipe votiva del santuario di Demetra a Catania 2, SMAG 9, Catania 2009. 

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Oliver Pilz

The contexts of Archaic Cretan terracotta relief plaques. With a note on the Oxford plaques from Papoura,

The Aegean and its cultures. Proceedings of the first Oxford-Athens graduate student workshop organized by the Greek Society and the University of Oxford Taylor Institution, 22-23 April 2005 (BAR-IS, 1975), G. Deligiannakis & Y. Galanakis (eds.), Oxford 2009, pp. 47-52.


Perspective

Oliver Pilz

Some remarks on meaning and function of moldmade terracotta relief plaques depicting naked and dressed female figures,

Le donateur, l’offrande et la déesse. Systèmes votifs dans les sanctuaires de déesse du monde grec
. Actes du 31e colloque international organisée par l’URM Halma-Ipel (Université Charles-de-Gaulle/Lille 3, 13-15 décembre 2007) (Kernos suppl., 23), C. Prêtre (ed.), Liège 2009, pp. 97-110.


Gina Salapata

Female Triads on Laconian Terracotta Plaques
BSA (2009) 104, 325-340


Perspective

 

Miloš Spasić, Bisenija Petrović, and Velibor Katić

Life in Clay: Neolithic Art on the Territory of Belgrade,

Belgrade City Museum, 2009.


Jaimee P. Uhlenbrock

On-line review article: Coroplastic Studies in the Early 21st Century,
AJA Online Reviews October 2009

Camarina: le terrecotte figurate e la ceramica da una fornace di V e iV secolo a.C., by Marcella Pisani, L'ERMA di Bretschneider, Rome 2008

Maresha Excavations Final Report II: Hellenistic Terracotta Figurines from the 1989– 1996 Seasons, by Adi Erlich and Amos Kloner, IAA, Jerusalem 2008

Tanagréennes d’alexandrie: figurines de terre cuite hellénistiques des necropoles orientales, by Dominique Kassab Tezgör, IFAO, Cairo 2007

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Elisabeth Waraksa

Female Figurines from the Mut Precinct: Context and Ritual Function.

Orbis Biblicus et Orientalis 240. Fribourg: Academic Press; Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2009

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David Ben-Shlomo

Zoomorphic Vessels from Tel Miqne-Ekron and the Different Styles of Philistine Pottery,
IEJ 58/1, 2008, 24-47

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Sharri R. Clark

Indus Animals and Myth: Exploring the Realistic and the Fantastic in the Harappan Figurines

Animali e Mito nel Vicino Oriente Antico,
edited by Giancarlo Ligabue and Gabriele Rossi Osmida. Il Punto Edizioni, Venice, 2008.


Sharri R. Clark

Deconstructing the “Harappan Courtiers”: The Constructions and Contexts of Some Anthropomorphic Terracotta Figurines from Harappa

Intercultural relations between South and Southwest Asia: Studies in commemoration of E.C.L. During Caspers (1934-1996), edited by Eric Olijdam and R. H. Spoor, British Archaeological Reports International Series 1826. Archaeopress, Oxford, 2008, pp. 158-174


Izak Cornelius

The Many Faces of the Goddess. The iconography of the Syro-Palestinian goddesses Anat, Ashera, Astarte and Qedeshet c. 1500-1000 BCE.,

Orbis Biblicus et Orientalis 204. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht; Fribourg: University Press. 2nd. enlarged edition 2008

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P. M. Michèle Daviau

Ceramic Architectural Models from Trans-Jordan and the Syrian Tradition,

Proceedings of the 4th International Congress of the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East
, Vol. I
Wiesbaden 2008, pp. 293-308

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Adi Erlich and Amos Kloner

Maresha Excavations Final Reports II
Hellenistic Terracotta Figurines from the 1989-1996 Seasons

Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) Reports, no. 35
Jerusalem 2008

138 pp., 51 plates

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Laura Gasparri

Kouroi vestiti fra i vasi configurati e le figurine ioniche arcaiche, in

Annuario della Scuola Archeologica Italiana di Atene, vol. LXXXVI, serie III, 2008, 327-346.

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Stéphanie Huysecom-Hahxi

La mort avant le mariage : superstitions et croyances dans le monde grec à travers les images en terre cuite déposées dans les tombes d’enfants et de jeunes gens,

Croyances populaires. Rites et représentations en méditerranée orientale, A. Muller, C. Bobas (éds)
Actes du 28e colloque international de Halma, 2e colloque interuniversitaire des Universités Capodistrias d’Athènes et Charles-de-Gaulle — Lille 3, 2- 4 décembre 2004 (2008), p. 55-81


Helen Nagy

"Etruscan Votive Terracottas from Cerveteri in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston: A Glimpse into the History of the Collection," Etruscan Studies11, 2008, pp. 101-119

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Christina Marangou

Review of:
Douglass W. Bailey, Prehistoric Figurines: Representation and Corporeality in the Neolithic. (London and New York: Routledge, 2005,

European Journal of Archaeology
11, 2-3 (August-December 2008), pp. 283-285

.Durres

Stratos Nanoglou

Qualities of humanness: material aspects of Greek Neolithic anthropomorphic imagery,

Journal of Material Culture 13.3 (2008), pp. 311-334.

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.Durres

Stratos Nanoglou

Representation of humans and animals in Greece and the Balkans during the earlier Neolithic,

Cambridge Archaeological Journal 18.1, (2008) pp. 1-13.

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Antonella Pautasso

"Anakalypsis e anakalypteria. Iconografie votive e culto nella Sicilia dionigiana,"

Demetra. La divinità, i santuari, il culto, la leggenda. Atti del I Congresso internazionale
. Enna, 1-4 luglio 2004. (Pisa 2008) pp. 285-291

Marcella Pisani

Camarina. Le terrecotte figurate e la ceramica da una fornace di V e IV secolo a.C.

L'Erma" di Bretschneider, Studia Archaeologica 164
Rome 2008

249 pp., 32 plates

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Frank Rumscheid

Klein, aber Kunst? Berühmte Statuentypen in koroplastischer Umsetzung,

K. Junker – A. Stähli (Hrsg.), Original und Kopie. Formen und Konzepte der Nachahmung in der antiken Kunst, Akten des Kolloquiums Berlin 17.–19. Ferbruar 2005 (Wiesbaden 2008) 135–157 Taf. 31–33.


David T. Sugimoto

Female Figurines with a Disk from the Southern Levant and the Formation of Monotheism

Keio University Press, Tokyo 2008
Pp. xv + 209, with illustrations.

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