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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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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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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
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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
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Oliver Pilz
Frühe matrizengeformte Terrakotten auf Kreta. Votivpraxis und Gesellschaftsstruktur in spätgeometrischer und früharchaischer Zeit.
Beiträge zur Archäologie Griechenlands 2, Möhnesee: Bibliopolis 2011
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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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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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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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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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Violaine Jeammet (ed.)
Tanagras. Figurines for Life and Eternity.
The Musée du Louvre's Collection of Greek Figurines.
(Chicago: University of Chicago Press) 2010
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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 |
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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. |
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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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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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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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Miloš Spasić and Dragana Vignjević
Figural plastic and other objects from fired clay from the site of Crkvine,
Kolubara 5: 169-181,2010 |
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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 |
Silvia M. Alfayé Villa
Santuarios y rituales en la Hispania Céltica, (BAR IS 1963) Oxford, Archaeopress 2009.
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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
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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 |
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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.
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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. |
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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
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Christina Marangou and B. Stern
Neolithic zoomorphic vessels form Eastern Macedonia, Greece: issues of function, Archaeometry 51, 3 (2009) 397-412. |
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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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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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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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Stratos Nanoglou
Animal bodies and ontological discourse in the Greek Neolithic,
Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory 16.3 (2009) pp. 184-204.
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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. |
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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.
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Gina Salapata
Female Triads on Laconian Terracotta Plaques
BSA (2009) 104, 325-340 |
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Miloš Spasić, Bisenija Petrović, and Velibor Katić
Life in Clay: Neolithic Art on the Territory of Belgrade,
Belgrade City Museum, 2009.
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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.
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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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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 |
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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. |
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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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