The Lady of Pottery. Ceramic Studies Presented to Penelope A. Mountjoy in Acknowledgement of Her Outstanding Scholarship

Anna Lucia D’Agata & Peter Pavúk (επιμέλεια)

Πόλη: Rome

Έτος: 2023

Εκδότης: Quasar

Σειρά: Studi micenei ed egeo-anatolici. Nuova serie. Supplemento (2023). Vol. 3

It was during a conference dinner in Rome, a few years ago, that we started talking about a collective volume in honour of Penelope Mountjoy that now we can hold in our hands. Being a scholar of an indisputable quality, which transcends time and space, this volume does not intend to celebrate a special anniversary, but rather our honoree’s extraordinary and enduring contribution to Aegean archaeology.

If we wanted to briefly summarize Penelope’s major scientific contribution to Aegean archaeology, it would not be bold to state that even without a declared methodological framework she has founded anew the study of Mycenaean painted tableware in the Aegean and beyond, applying a rigorous, only apparently empirical, approach. In her perspective, shapes, types and variants within ceramic assemblages become, almost instinctively, distinguishable units, easily classified according to neat line drawings, clearly datable also on the basis of their context associations, plainly attributable to newly identified regional styles. The enormous ceramic ensemble, whose detailed study we owe to her, has come to form the wide regionally and chronologically-defined canvas on which a multitude of Aegean scholars, Mountjoy included, have been able to delineate a new, more detailed historical framework for the Greek Late Bronze Age, from LH I to Submycenaean.

Further on, heir to some of the valorous last century archaeologists, who marked the beginning of mod-ern field research in the pre-Classical Mediterranean – such as Hector Catling, Nicolas Coldstream, or Mervin Popham – Penelope places herself within the British tradition whose interest for the Aegean world extends well beyond the boundaries of the madre patria. Her admirable analyses to detect the origin of imported Aegean pottery, and to identify its impact on local ceramic traditions, are of outstanding importance to investigate the final Late Bronze Age societies of the Eastern Mediterranean and can undoubtedly be acknowledged among the greatest contributions to the study of the many entangled cultures rooted in this vast region in the 12thcentury BC.

Some of the essays collected in this volume pay tribute to Penelope by tackling topics whose first thorough investigation we owe to her. As a whole they act as a significant testimony of her seminal work on the Bronze Age Aegean and surrounding areas.

Περιεχόμενα

Penelope A. Mountjoy. Building History through Pottery [7]
Anna Lucia D’Agata, Peter Pavúk

Penelope A. Mountjoy. Publications [11]

1. I See Friends Shaking Hands … An Early Evidence for a Long-Lasting Social Gesture on a Mycenaean Pictorial Krater from Tiryns [17-38]
Yiouli Chatzina, Eleftheria Kardamaki, Maria Kostoula, Joseph Maran & Alkestis Papadimitriou
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2. LH IIB Kakovatos and the Formation of the Mycenaean Pottery Repertoire [39-56]
Birgitta Eder & Jasmin Huber

3. Minoans versus Mycenaeans [57-70]
Birgitta P. Hallager

4. The Pictorial Jar and the Group of Tin Coated Vases from Tomb 15 at the Mycenaean Cemetery of Dendra [71-90]
Konstantina Kaza Papageorgiou & Eleftheria Kardamaki

5. A Cult Statue Rendered on a Mycenaean Vase from Cyprus [91-104]
Robert B. Koehl

5. Regional Minoan Pottery? A View from Aegean Late Bronze I Transport Jars from Akrotiri, Thera [105-120]
Irene Nikolakopoulou

8. The Upper Interface Twenty-five Years Later. The Northeast Aegean Islands and the West Anatolian Coast during the Late Bronze Age [121-146]
Peter Pavúk, Luca Girella, Magda Pieniążek & Filip Franković
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9. Ephyraean: Shapes, Patterns, Distributions, and Places of Manufacture [147-168]
Jeremy B. Rutter

10. A Jug with Cutaway Neck from the Mycenaean Cemetery of Kamini, Vari in Attica [169-178]
Argiro Soubasi & Maria Kassimi-Soutou

11. Mycenaean Pottery from the Cypriot Hinterland: Luxuries, Commodities or Oddities? [179-206]
Louise Steel

12. Some Unpublished Mycenaean Figurines from the Serraglio on Kos and Their Cultural Significance [207-228]
Salvatore Vitale & Katarzyna Dudlik