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Theoretical Approaches to the Archaeology of Ancient Greece: Manipulating Material Culture Lisa C. Nevett, Editor https://www.press.umich.edu/8287082/theoretical_approaches_to_the_archaeology_of_ancient_greece University of Michigan Press, 2017 Contents List of Illustrations ix Introduction Lisa C. Nevett 1 Part 1. Disciplinary Context Chapter 1 A eoretical or Atheoretical Greek Archaeology? e Last Twenty-Five Years David L. Stone 15 Chapter 2 Haus und Stadt im klassischen Griechenland: Its eoretical Impact Twenty-Five Years On Bradley A. Ault 40 Chapter 3 Classical Archaeology Comes of Age: Supplying eory to Other World Archaeologies David Small 51 Part 2. Artifacts Chapter 4 e Material Entanglements of Writing ings Down James Whitley 71 Chapter 5 Chaîne Opératoire: Moving from eory to Praxis in the Study of Attic Geometric Pottery Ioannis Smyrnaios 104 Chapter 6 Reception, Intention, and Attic Vases Kathleen M. Lynch 124 Chapter 7 Ethnicity and Greek Art History in eory and Practice S. Rebecca Martin 143
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Page 1: Contentso-CPot r hiinon rat lekythos / pointed aryballos of the early seventh century BCE found at Cumae, Italy 83 4.3. Attic black-figured dinos of the early sixth century BCE, signed

Revised Pages

Theoretical Approaches to the Archaeology of Ancient Greece Manipulating Material Culture Lisa C Nevett Editor httpswwwpressumichedu8287082theoretical_approaches_to_the_archaeology_of_ancient_greece University of Michigan Press 2017

Contents

List of Illustrations ix

Introduction Lisa C Nevett

1

Part 1 Disciplinary Context

Chapter 1 A Theoretical or Atheoretical Greek Archaeology The Last Twenty-Five Years

David L Stone 15

Chapter 2 Haus und Stadt im klassischen Griechenland Its Theoretical Impact Twenty-Five Years On

Bradley A Ault 40

Chapter 3 Classical Archaeology Comes of Age Supplying Theory to Other World Archaeologies

David Small 51

Part 2 Artifacts

Chapter 4 The Material Entanglements of Writing Things Down James Whitley

71

Chapter 5 Chaicircne Opeacuteratoire Moving from Theory to Praxis in the Study of Attic Geometric Pottery

Ioannis Smyrnaios 104

Chapter 6 Reception Intention and Attic Vases Kathleen M Lynch

124

Chapter 7 Ethnicity and Greek Art History in Theory and Practice S Rebecca Martin

143

Revised Pages

Theoretical Approaches to the Archaeology of Ancient Greece Manipulating Material Culture Lisa C Nevett Editor httpswwwpressumichedu8287082theoretical_approaches_to_the_archaeology_of_ancient_greece University of Michigan Press 2017viii Contents

Chapter 8 Material(ity) Girl Examining Images of Aphrodite on the Bullae from Tel Kedesh

Lisa Ayla Ccedilakmak 164

Part 3 Civic and Religious Landscapes

Chapter 9 Coordination Problems Social Architecture and Causal Efficacy The Case of the Old Bouleuterion in the Athenian Agora

Jessica Paga 189

Chapter 10 Mapping the Religious Landscape The Case of Pan in Athens

Michael Scott 212

Chapter 11 The ldquoSpatial Turnrdquo in Ancient Greek Festival Research Venues of the Athenian City Dionysia and the Great Panathenaia Pompai

Soi Agelidis 230

Part 4 Funerary Landscapes

Chapter 12 Funerary Spatial Concepts and Spatial Practices in Southeastern Sicily during the Eighth to Fifth Centuries BCE

Kerstin P Hofmann and Regina Attula 249

Chapter 13 The Tomb Doth Protest Too Much Constructed Identity in Tomb II at Vergina

Elina Salminen 273

Part 5 Responses

Chapter 14 Theory and Method in Greek Archaeology Some Opportunities and Challenges

Lin Foxhall 297

Chapter 15 Does ldquoGreek Archaeologyrdquo Matter Zosia Archibald

301

Contributors 307 Index 311

Revised Pages

Theoretical Approaches to the Archaeology of Ancient Greece Manipulating Material Culture Lisa C Nevett Editor httpswwwpressumichedu8287082theoretical_approaches_to_the_archaeology_of_ancient_greece University of Michigan Press 2017

Illustrations

Tables

11 Statistics for articles and theoretical articles from seven archaeology journals examined for this study 18

41 Archaic inscriptions from Attica 90 42 Archaic Cretan inscriptions known in 1997 91 43 Archaic Cretan inscriptions known in 2013 91 44 The Athenian Agora and Azoria (Crete) compared 92 51 Metrical features and proportions of skyphoi 110 52 Metrical features and proportions of oinochoai 117 61 Definitions of art historical terms 128

131 Some northern Greek burials and their finds assemblages 282

Figures

11andash11g Articles per year and theoretical articles per year from seven archaeology journals 19ndash25

12 Number of theoretical articles by period in five Greek archaeology journals 27

13 Percentage of theoretical articles published in five Greek archaeology journals Year 1 represents the first volume of each journal Year 2 the second etc 29

14 Percentage of articles discussing different periods in five Greek archaeology journals 29

15 Percentage of theoretical articles in AJA during the twenty-five years consulted 32

16 Number of theoretical articles by period in seven archaeology journals during the twenty-five years consulted 34

Revised Pages

x

Theoretical Approaches to the Archaeology of Ancient Greece Manipulating Material Culture Lisa C Nevett Editor httpswwwpressumichedu8287082theoretical_approaches_to_the_archaeology_of_ancient_greece University of Michigan Press 2017Illustrations

21 The hierarchical relationship of sacred civic and private spheres at Priene compared with the Pythagorean tetraktus 44

22a House growth in Zagora in the mid-ninth to mid-eighth centuries BCE and in the middle to late eighth century BCE 48

22b House growth in Megara Hyblaea in the eighth century BCE and the seventh century BCE 48

31 Principal Mayan sites 58 41 ldquoNestorrsquos cuprdquo Rhodian cup of the late eighth century BCE found

at Pithekoussai Ischia with inscription 77 42 Proto-Corinthian lekythos pointed aryballos of the early

seventh century BCE found at Cumae Italy 83 43 Attic black-figured dinos of the early sixth century BCE signed by

Sophilos as potter and painter 87 51 Handle attachment of skyphoi 111 52 Possible hand positions for alternative methods of

handle attachment 115 53 Proportions and constituent elements for a normal-sized oinochoe 118 61 Limestone sculpture of a lion() from Gordion 130 62 Detail of a tondo on a cup attributed to the Briseis Painter from

Cerveteri Italy 138 71 Theo van Doesburg Aumlsthetische Transfiguration eines Gegenstandes

(An object aesthetically transformed) ca 1917 147 72 The Alexander Sarcophagus lsquoAyaa Nekropolis (Sidon) later fourth

century BCE 153 73 Detail of the battle on one long side of the Alexander Sarcophagus 153 74 Detail of the hunt on one long side of the Alexander Sarcophagus 154 75 Detail of the Alexander Sarcophagus pediment the so-called

murder of Perdikkas 155 81 Bulla with Tanit symbol and inscription 167 82 Kallipygos pose 169 83 Semidraped pose 170 84 Anadyomene pose 171 85 Aphrodite or a woman looking in a mirror 180 91 Plan of the Athenian Agora 192 92 The Old Bouleuterion 195 93 Elevation at the Old Bouleuterion 199

101 Archaeologically located temples and sanctuaries in Athens excluding the Akropolis and Agora 216

Revised Pages

Theoretical Approaches to the Archaeology of Ancient Greece Manipulating Material Culture Lisa C Nevett Editor httpswwwpressumichedu8287082theoretical_approaches_to_the_archaeology_of_ancient_greece University of Michigan Press 2017 Illustrations xi

102 Plan of the slopes of the Athenian Akropolis showing the positions of the sanctuaries 219

103 Map of Attica showing deme locations 224 111 Plan of ancient and modern Athens with the routes

of the processions 236 112 Reconstruction of the Pompeion and the Dipylon Gate

in Hellenistic times 238 121 Nostrification and cultural appropriation as a process 254 122 Identities alterities alienity 255 123 The triadic pragma-semantic of identity totality and multiplicity 255 124 The two funerary space concepts in southeastern Sicily

ldquodrive-throughrdquo versus ldquoclimb-in dead-endrdquo cemeteries 264 131 Schematic plan of Tomb II at Vergina 276

Page 2: Contentso-CPot r hiinon rat lekythos / pointed aryballos of the early seventh century BCE found at Cumae, Italy 83 4.3. Attic black-figured dinos of the early sixth century BCE, signed

Revised Pages

Theoretical Approaches to the Archaeology of Ancient Greece Manipulating Material Culture Lisa C Nevett Editor httpswwwpressumichedu8287082theoretical_approaches_to_the_archaeology_of_ancient_greece University of Michigan Press 2017viii Contents

Chapter 8 Material(ity) Girl Examining Images of Aphrodite on the Bullae from Tel Kedesh

Lisa Ayla Ccedilakmak 164

Part 3 Civic and Religious Landscapes

Chapter 9 Coordination Problems Social Architecture and Causal Efficacy The Case of the Old Bouleuterion in the Athenian Agora

Jessica Paga 189

Chapter 10 Mapping the Religious Landscape The Case of Pan in Athens

Michael Scott 212

Chapter 11 The ldquoSpatial Turnrdquo in Ancient Greek Festival Research Venues of the Athenian City Dionysia and the Great Panathenaia Pompai

Soi Agelidis 230

Part 4 Funerary Landscapes

Chapter 12 Funerary Spatial Concepts and Spatial Practices in Southeastern Sicily during the Eighth to Fifth Centuries BCE

Kerstin P Hofmann and Regina Attula 249

Chapter 13 The Tomb Doth Protest Too Much Constructed Identity in Tomb II at Vergina

Elina Salminen 273

Part 5 Responses

Chapter 14 Theory and Method in Greek Archaeology Some Opportunities and Challenges

Lin Foxhall 297

Chapter 15 Does ldquoGreek Archaeologyrdquo Matter Zosia Archibald

301

Contributors 307 Index 311

Revised Pages

Theoretical Approaches to the Archaeology of Ancient Greece Manipulating Material Culture Lisa C Nevett Editor httpswwwpressumichedu8287082theoretical_approaches_to_the_archaeology_of_ancient_greece University of Michigan Press 2017

Illustrations

Tables

11 Statistics for articles and theoretical articles from seven archaeology journals examined for this study 18

41 Archaic inscriptions from Attica 90 42 Archaic Cretan inscriptions known in 1997 91 43 Archaic Cretan inscriptions known in 2013 91 44 The Athenian Agora and Azoria (Crete) compared 92 51 Metrical features and proportions of skyphoi 110 52 Metrical features and proportions of oinochoai 117 61 Definitions of art historical terms 128

131 Some northern Greek burials and their finds assemblages 282

Figures

11andash11g Articles per year and theoretical articles per year from seven archaeology journals 19ndash25

12 Number of theoretical articles by period in five Greek archaeology journals 27

13 Percentage of theoretical articles published in five Greek archaeology journals Year 1 represents the first volume of each journal Year 2 the second etc 29

14 Percentage of articles discussing different periods in five Greek archaeology journals 29

15 Percentage of theoretical articles in AJA during the twenty-five years consulted 32

16 Number of theoretical articles by period in seven archaeology journals during the twenty-five years consulted 34

Revised Pages

x

Theoretical Approaches to the Archaeology of Ancient Greece Manipulating Material Culture Lisa C Nevett Editor httpswwwpressumichedu8287082theoretical_approaches_to_the_archaeology_of_ancient_greece University of Michigan Press 2017Illustrations

21 The hierarchical relationship of sacred civic and private spheres at Priene compared with the Pythagorean tetraktus 44

22a House growth in Zagora in the mid-ninth to mid-eighth centuries BCE and in the middle to late eighth century BCE 48

22b House growth in Megara Hyblaea in the eighth century BCE and the seventh century BCE 48

31 Principal Mayan sites 58 41 ldquoNestorrsquos cuprdquo Rhodian cup of the late eighth century BCE found

at Pithekoussai Ischia with inscription 77 42 Proto-Corinthian lekythos pointed aryballos of the early

seventh century BCE found at Cumae Italy 83 43 Attic black-figured dinos of the early sixth century BCE signed by

Sophilos as potter and painter 87 51 Handle attachment of skyphoi 111 52 Possible hand positions for alternative methods of

handle attachment 115 53 Proportions and constituent elements for a normal-sized oinochoe 118 61 Limestone sculpture of a lion() from Gordion 130 62 Detail of a tondo on a cup attributed to the Briseis Painter from

Cerveteri Italy 138 71 Theo van Doesburg Aumlsthetische Transfiguration eines Gegenstandes

(An object aesthetically transformed) ca 1917 147 72 The Alexander Sarcophagus lsquoAyaa Nekropolis (Sidon) later fourth

century BCE 153 73 Detail of the battle on one long side of the Alexander Sarcophagus 153 74 Detail of the hunt on one long side of the Alexander Sarcophagus 154 75 Detail of the Alexander Sarcophagus pediment the so-called

murder of Perdikkas 155 81 Bulla with Tanit symbol and inscription 167 82 Kallipygos pose 169 83 Semidraped pose 170 84 Anadyomene pose 171 85 Aphrodite or a woman looking in a mirror 180 91 Plan of the Athenian Agora 192 92 The Old Bouleuterion 195 93 Elevation at the Old Bouleuterion 199

101 Archaeologically located temples and sanctuaries in Athens excluding the Akropolis and Agora 216

Revised Pages

Theoretical Approaches to the Archaeology of Ancient Greece Manipulating Material Culture Lisa C Nevett Editor httpswwwpressumichedu8287082theoretical_approaches_to_the_archaeology_of_ancient_greece University of Michigan Press 2017 Illustrations xi

102 Plan of the slopes of the Athenian Akropolis showing the positions of the sanctuaries 219

103 Map of Attica showing deme locations 224 111 Plan of ancient and modern Athens with the routes

of the processions 236 112 Reconstruction of the Pompeion and the Dipylon Gate

in Hellenistic times 238 121 Nostrification and cultural appropriation as a process 254 122 Identities alterities alienity 255 123 The triadic pragma-semantic of identity totality and multiplicity 255 124 The two funerary space concepts in southeastern Sicily

ldquodrive-throughrdquo versus ldquoclimb-in dead-endrdquo cemeteries 264 131 Schematic plan of Tomb II at Vergina 276

Page 3: Contentso-CPot r hiinon rat lekythos / pointed aryballos of the early seventh century BCE found at Cumae, Italy 83 4.3. Attic black-figured dinos of the early sixth century BCE, signed

Revised Pages

Theoretical Approaches to the Archaeology of Ancient Greece Manipulating Material Culture Lisa C Nevett Editor httpswwwpressumichedu8287082theoretical_approaches_to_the_archaeology_of_ancient_greece University of Michigan Press 2017

Illustrations

Tables

11 Statistics for articles and theoretical articles from seven archaeology journals examined for this study 18

41 Archaic inscriptions from Attica 90 42 Archaic Cretan inscriptions known in 1997 91 43 Archaic Cretan inscriptions known in 2013 91 44 The Athenian Agora and Azoria (Crete) compared 92 51 Metrical features and proportions of skyphoi 110 52 Metrical features and proportions of oinochoai 117 61 Definitions of art historical terms 128

131 Some northern Greek burials and their finds assemblages 282

Figures

11andash11g Articles per year and theoretical articles per year from seven archaeology journals 19ndash25

12 Number of theoretical articles by period in five Greek archaeology journals 27

13 Percentage of theoretical articles published in five Greek archaeology journals Year 1 represents the first volume of each journal Year 2 the second etc 29

14 Percentage of articles discussing different periods in five Greek archaeology journals 29

15 Percentage of theoretical articles in AJA during the twenty-five years consulted 32

16 Number of theoretical articles by period in seven archaeology journals during the twenty-five years consulted 34

Revised Pages

x

Theoretical Approaches to the Archaeology of Ancient Greece Manipulating Material Culture Lisa C Nevett Editor httpswwwpressumichedu8287082theoretical_approaches_to_the_archaeology_of_ancient_greece University of Michigan Press 2017Illustrations

21 The hierarchical relationship of sacred civic and private spheres at Priene compared with the Pythagorean tetraktus 44

22a House growth in Zagora in the mid-ninth to mid-eighth centuries BCE and in the middle to late eighth century BCE 48

22b House growth in Megara Hyblaea in the eighth century BCE and the seventh century BCE 48

31 Principal Mayan sites 58 41 ldquoNestorrsquos cuprdquo Rhodian cup of the late eighth century BCE found

at Pithekoussai Ischia with inscription 77 42 Proto-Corinthian lekythos pointed aryballos of the early

seventh century BCE found at Cumae Italy 83 43 Attic black-figured dinos of the early sixth century BCE signed by

Sophilos as potter and painter 87 51 Handle attachment of skyphoi 111 52 Possible hand positions for alternative methods of

handle attachment 115 53 Proportions and constituent elements for a normal-sized oinochoe 118 61 Limestone sculpture of a lion() from Gordion 130 62 Detail of a tondo on a cup attributed to the Briseis Painter from

Cerveteri Italy 138 71 Theo van Doesburg Aumlsthetische Transfiguration eines Gegenstandes

(An object aesthetically transformed) ca 1917 147 72 The Alexander Sarcophagus lsquoAyaa Nekropolis (Sidon) later fourth

century BCE 153 73 Detail of the battle on one long side of the Alexander Sarcophagus 153 74 Detail of the hunt on one long side of the Alexander Sarcophagus 154 75 Detail of the Alexander Sarcophagus pediment the so-called

murder of Perdikkas 155 81 Bulla with Tanit symbol and inscription 167 82 Kallipygos pose 169 83 Semidraped pose 170 84 Anadyomene pose 171 85 Aphrodite or a woman looking in a mirror 180 91 Plan of the Athenian Agora 192 92 The Old Bouleuterion 195 93 Elevation at the Old Bouleuterion 199

101 Archaeologically located temples and sanctuaries in Athens excluding the Akropolis and Agora 216

Revised Pages

Theoretical Approaches to the Archaeology of Ancient Greece Manipulating Material Culture Lisa C Nevett Editor httpswwwpressumichedu8287082theoretical_approaches_to_the_archaeology_of_ancient_greece University of Michigan Press 2017 Illustrations xi

102 Plan of the slopes of the Athenian Akropolis showing the positions of the sanctuaries 219

103 Map of Attica showing deme locations 224 111 Plan of ancient and modern Athens with the routes

of the processions 236 112 Reconstruction of the Pompeion and the Dipylon Gate

in Hellenistic times 238 121 Nostrification and cultural appropriation as a process 254 122 Identities alterities alienity 255 123 The triadic pragma-semantic of identity totality and multiplicity 255 124 The two funerary space concepts in southeastern Sicily

ldquodrive-throughrdquo versus ldquoclimb-in dead-endrdquo cemeteries 264 131 Schematic plan of Tomb II at Vergina 276

Page 4: Contentso-CPot r hiinon rat lekythos / pointed aryballos of the early seventh century BCE found at Cumae, Italy 83 4.3. Attic black-figured dinos of the early sixth century BCE, signed

Revised Pages

x

Theoretical Approaches to the Archaeology of Ancient Greece Manipulating Material Culture Lisa C Nevett Editor httpswwwpressumichedu8287082theoretical_approaches_to_the_archaeology_of_ancient_greece University of Michigan Press 2017Illustrations

21 The hierarchical relationship of sacred civic and private spheres at Priene compared with the Pythagorean tetraktus 44

22a House growth in Zagora in the mid-ninth to mid-eighth centuries BCE and in the middle to late eighth century BCE 48

22b House growth in Megara Hyblaea in the eighth century BCE and the seventh century BCE 48

31 Principal Mayan sites 58 41 ldquoNestorrsquos cuprdquo Rhodian cup of the late eighth century BCE found

at Pithekoussai Ischia with inscription 77 42 Proto-Corinthian lekythos pointed aryballos of the early

seventh century BCE found at Cumae Italy 83 43 Attic black-figured dinos of the early sixth century BCE signed by

Sophilos as potter and painter 87 51 Handle attachment of skyphoi 111 52 Possible hand positions for alternative methods of

handle attachment 115 53 Proportions and constituent elements for a normal-sized oinochoe 118 61 Limestone sculpture of a lion() from Gordion 130 62 Detail of a tondo on a cup attributed to the Briseis Painter from

Cerveteri Italy 138 71 Theo van Doesburg Aumlsthetische Transfiguration eines Gegenstandes

(An object aesthetically transformed) ca 1917 147 72 The Alexander Sarcophagus lsquoAyaa Nekropolis (Sidon) later fourth

century BCE 153 73 Detail of the battle on one long side of the Alexander Sarcophagus 153 74 Detail of the hunt on one long side of the Alexander Sarcophagus 154 75 Detail of the Alexander Sarcophagus pediment the so-called

murder of Perdikkas 155 81 Bulla with Tanit symbol and inscription 167 82 Kallipygos pose 169 83 Semidraped pose 170 84 Anadyomene pose 171 85 Aphrodite or a woman looking in a mirror 180 91 Plan of the Athenian Agora 192 92 The Old Bouleuterion 195 93 Elevation at the Old Bouleuterion 199

101 Archaeologically located temples and sanctuaries in Athens excluding the Akropolis and Agora 216

Revised Pages

Theoretical Approaches to the Archaeology of Ancient Greece Manipulating Material Culture Lisa C Nevett Editor httpswwwpressumichedu8287082theoretical_approaches_to_the_archaeology_of_ancient_greece University of Michigan Press 2017 Illustrations xi

102 Plan of the slopes of the Athenian Akropolis showing the positions of the sanctuaries 219

103 Map of Attica showing deme locations 224 111 Plan of ancient and modern Athens with the routes

of the processions 236 112 Reconstruction of the Pompeion and the Dipylon Gate

in Hellenistic times 238 121 Nostrification and cultural appropriation as a process 254 122 Identities alterities alienity 255 123 The triadic pragma-semantic of identity totality and multiplicity 255 124 The two funerary space concepts in southeastern Sicily

ldquodrive-throughrdquo versus ldquoclimb-in dead-endrdquo cemeteries 264 131 Schematic plan of Tomb II at Vergina 276

Page 5: Contentso-CPot r hiinon rat lekythos / pointed aryballos of the early seventh century BCE found at Cumae, Italy 83 4.3. Attic black-figured dinos of the early sixth century BCE, signed

Revised Pages

Theoretical Approaches to the Archaeology of Ancient Greece Manipulating Material Culture Lisa C Nevett Editor httpswwwpressumichedu8287082theoretical_approaches_to_the_archaeology_of_ancient_greece University of Michigan Press 2017 Illustrations xi

102 Plan of the slopes of the Athenian Akropolis showing the positions of the sanctuaries 219

103 Map of Attica showing deme locations 224 111 Plan of ancient and modern Athens with the routes

of the processions 236 112 Reconstruction of the Pompeion and the Dipylon Gate

in Hellenistic times 238 121 Nostrification and cultural appropriation as a process 254 122 Identities alterities alienity 255 123 The triadic pragma-semantic of identity totality and multiplicity 255 124 The two funerary space concepts in southeastern Sicily

ldquodrive-throughrdquo versus ldquoclimb-in dead-endrdquo cemeteries 264 131 Schematic plan of Tomb II at Vergina 276