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Recent Members' Publications That Feature Terracottas, 2007-Present


Obeloi

Laura Gasparri

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

Marina Albertocchi

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


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

Histara
. Le compte rendues, 2010, 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)

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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


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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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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Angela Bellia

"I 'Santoni' di Akrai. Esempi di raffigurazioni musicali del culto di Cibele in Sicilia," Sicilia Antiqua, IV, 2007, pp. 87-98.


Silvia Alfaye

Usos y contextos de los vasos plásticos zoomorfos en la Céltica hispana: verter, sacrificar, alimentar, silbar, in Salduie. Estudios de Prehistoria y Arqueología, 7 (2007) 71-91.

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Sharri R. Clark

Bodies of Evidence: The Case Against the “Harappan” Mother Goddess
Image and Imagination: A Global Prehistory of Figurative Representation, edited by Colin Renfrew and Ian Morley. McDonald Institute Monographs. McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Cambridge (England) 2007


Trudy Dothan and David Ben Shlomo

"Ceramic Pomegranates and their Relation to Iron Age Cult,"
Up to the Gates of Ekron. Essays in Honor of Seymour Gitin.
S.W. Crawford, W.G. Dever, J.P. Dessel, A. Ben-Tor and A. Mazar (eds.) IES, Jerusalem 2007, pp. 3-16


Sabine Fourier

Sabine Fourrier

La coroplastie Cypriote archaïque
Identités culturelles et politiques à l’époque des royaumes

Travaux de la Maison de l’Orient et de la Méditerranée; no 46, Lyon 2007

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Rick Hauser

Reading Figurines
Animal Representations in Terra Cotta from Urkesh (Tell Mozan)

Bibliotheca Mesopotamica Urkesh/Mozan Studies 5, Ed. Giorgio Buccellati. Vol. Twenty-Eight, Malibu: Undena, 2007.

625 pp. with illustrations

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Stéphanie Huysecom-Haxhi

"Déesses et/ou mortelles dans la plastique de terre cuite. Réponses actuelles à une question ancienne,"
Pallas
75, 2007, pp. 231-247.


Gul Isin

Gül Işın

Patara terrakottalari. Hellenistik ve Erken Roma Dönemleri (Istanbul: Ege Yayinlari, 2007)

180 pp. with illustrations

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Fiona Kidd

"Costume from the Samarkand region of Sogdiana, 2nd-1st century BC - 4th century CE,"
Bulletin of the Asia Institute 17, [2003] 2007, pp. 35 - 70.


Stephanie M. Langin-Hooper

"Social networks and cross-cultural interaction. A new interpretation of the female terracotta figurines of hellenistic Babylon"
OxfJA
26 (2007), pp.145-165.

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Matthieux

Neguine Mathieux

"Des tanagras à l’encan : la salle des ventes comme lieu de diffusion des objets archéologiques et des connaissances à la fin du XIXe siècle."
Tanagras, de l’objet de collection à l’objet archéologique, Paris, 2007, (Violaine Jeammet, ed.) p. 45 – 57.


Matthieux

Hervé Duchêne and Neguine Mathieux

La lettre & l'argile. Autour d'une semaine de fouilles à Myrina
Dijon: Éd. universitaires de Dijon 2007

164 pp., 13 pls.

 


Antonella Pautasso

"'Verso là dove il flusso sarà richiesto.' Su una serie di vasi configurati tra oriente e occidente,"
Numismatica e antichità classiche
, XXXVI, (2007), pp. 11-41.

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Sophie Picaud

"Les figurines en terre cuite du Létôon de Xanthos. Etude préliminaire,"
Céramiques antiques en Lycie (VIIe s. a.C. - VIIe s. p.C.) Les produits et les marchés. Actes de la Table-ronde de Poitiers (21-22 mars 2003). (Bordeaux 2007), pp. 151-190.

Raffiotta

Serena Raffiotta

Terrecotte figurate dal santuario di San Francesco Bisconti a Morgantina
Assoro : EditOpera, 2007

144 pp., 30 pls.


 

Marco Rossi

"Fouilles de Tell Deinit. Les figurines en terrecuite et quelques objets de luxe de l’industrie du verre: typologies et iconographies du divin dans le Bronze Moyen et l’âge du Fer/époque perse achéménide,"

Proceedings of
the Colloquium on the Results of the Archaeological Projects of the Cultural Heritage Training Program (Damascus, December 2004), CHTP 2002-2004, Documents d’Archéologie Syrienne XI, Direction of Antiquities of the Syrian Arab Republic, Damascus 2007.

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Dominique Kassab Tezgor

Dominique Kassab Tezgör

Tanagréennes d'Alexandrie
Figurines de terre cuite hellénistiques des nécropoles orientales

Institut Français d'Archéologie Orientale du Caire
Etudes Alexandrines 13, 2007

495 pp., 87 plates

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Jaimee P. Uhlenbrock

"Influssi stranieri nella coroplastica cirenaica,"
Cirene e la Cirenaica nell'Antichita. Atti del convegno Internazionale di Studi, Roma-Frascati, 18-21 Dicembre 1996 (L. Gasperini/S. M. Marengo, eds.), Ichnia 9, Tivoli 2007, pp. 719-741.