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The application of ceramic petrology to the study of ancient Greek transport amphorae : with special reference to Corinthian amphora production
No full textTransport amphorae were employed throughout the Greco-Roman World for the conveyance of liquid and semi-liquid produce, principally wine and oil. Greek amphorae of the Archaic to Hellenistic periods are the subject of this thesis. Archaeological evidence for the production of Greek amphorae, their transportation and importation is briefly reviewed. Various aspects of amphora study - examination of stamp impressions, vessel forms, ancient literary sources, coin devices and the use of scientific methods of analysis - are examined with an emphasis on the potential value of ceramic petrology in the development of this field of research. Ceramic petrology is concerned with the microscopic analysis of materials from which ceramics have been made. Current applications of the analytical method are examined both in relation to the allied fields of sedimentary petrography and soil micromorphology, and in terms of fabric description, characterisation, the investigation of ancient ceramic technology and the determination of provenances of ancient ceramics. A method of systematic description is proposed with the aims of increasing the amount of information extracted from the study of ceramic thin sections and of providing a secure foundation for the interpretation of data derived from ceramic petrography. The proposed method is tested by means of its application in the study of fabrics of Rhodian, Knidian, Koan, Samian, Chian, Lesbian, Thasian, Mendean, Parian, Sinopean, Zenon group, prow-stamp group, Parmeniskos group and Corinthian amphorae, with particular attention paid to the characterisation of fabric groups and provenance determination. The study of Corinthian amphorae is also orientated towards the examination of ancient ceramic technology. In particular, this includes the study of raw material procurement and processing, and an investigation of relationships between the amphorae and other Corinthian ceramics with respect to the selection of raw materials and methods of vessel construction. (D75825/87)</p
Local and imported transport amphorae from a Hellenistic kiln site at Knossos. The results of petrographic analyses
No full textPetrographic analyses were carried out at the Fitch Laboratory, Athens, on amphorae dating mainly to the late 2nd or early 1st c. BC from three Cretan sites, Knossos (a kiln site), Mochlos and Myrtos Pyrgos. The results make it possible to distinguish two sites of production: one which supplied Knossos used a sand-tempered clay of central Crete; the other, probably situated in or near ancient Hierapytna, supplied an area of eastern Crete, including Mochlos and Myrtos Pyrgos, using a clay characterized by its inclusions of volcanic rock and amphibolite. Foreign amphorae were imported, and local imitations of them were produced in both parts of the island, but there is little evidence of trade between them.Des analyses pétrographiques ont été effectuées au Laboratoire Fitch à Athènes sur des amphores datant pour la plupart de la fin du IIe ou du début du Ier s. av. J.-C. et provenant de trois sites crétois, Knossos (contexte de four), Mochlos et Myrtos Pyrgos. Les résultats ont permis de distinguer deux sites de production : l'un fournissait Knossos et utilisait une argile à dégraissant de sable de Crète centrale ; l'autre, très probablement situé sur ou à proximité du site de l'anciennne Hierapytna, utilisait une argile caractérisée par des inclusions de roche volcanique et d' amphibolite et fournissait, en Crète orientale, une zone incluant à la fois Mochlos et Myrtos Pyrgos. Des amphores étrangères étaient importées et des imitations locales en étaient produites dans les deux parties de l'île, mais il existe peu de preuves de commerce entre celles-ci.Eiring Jonas, Boileau Marie-Claude, Whitbread Ian. Local and imported transport amphorae from a Hellenistic kiln site at Knossos. The results of petrographic analyses. In: Céramiques hellénistiques et romaines, productions et diffusion en Méditerranée orientale (Chypre, Égypte et côte syro-palestinienne). [Actes du colloque tenu à la Maison de l'Orient méditerranéen Jean Pouilloux du 2 au 4 mars 2000] Lyon : Maison de l'Orient et de la Méditerranée Jean Pouilloux, 2002. pp. 59-65. (Travaux de la Maison de l'Orient méditerranéen, 35
Local and imported transport amphorae from a Hellenistic kiln site at Knossos. The results of petrographic analyses
No full textPetrographic analyses were carried out at the Fitch Laboratory, Athens, on amphorae dating mainly to the late 2nd or early 1st c. BC from three Cretan sites, Knossos (a kiln site), Mochlos and Myrtos Pyrgos. The results make it possible to distinguish two sites of production: one which supplied Knossos used a sand-tempered clay of central Crete; the other, probably situated in or near ancient Hierapytna, supplied an area of eastern Crete, including Mochlos and Myrtos Pyrgos, using a clay characterized by its inclusions of volcanic rock and amphibolite. Foreign amphorae were imported, and local imitations of them were produced in both parts of the island, but there is little evidence of trade between them.Des analyses pétrographiques ont été effectuées au Laboratoire Fitch à Athènes sur des amphores datant pour la plupart de la fin du IIe ou du début du Ier s. av. J.-C. et provenant de trois sites crétois, Knossos (contexte de four), Mochlos et Myrtos Pyrgos. Les résultats ont permis de distinguer deux sites de production : l'un fournissait Knossos et utilisait une argile à dégraissant de sable de Crète centrale ; l'autre, très probablement situé sur ou à proximité du site de l'anciennne Hierapytna, utilisait une argile caractérisée par des inclusions de roche volcanique et d' amphibolite et fournissait, en Crète orientale, une zone incluant à la fois Mochlos et Myrtos Pyrgos. Des amphores étrangères étaient importées et des imitations locales en étaient produites dans les deux parties de l'île, mais il existe peu de preuves de commerce entre celles-ci.Eiring Jonas, Boileau Marie-Claude, Whitbread Ian. Local and imported transport amphorae from a Hellenistic kiln site at Knossos. The results of petrographic analyses. In: Céramiques hellénistiques et romaines, productions et diffusion en Méditerranée orientale (Chypre, Égypte et côte syro-palestinienne). [Actes du colloque tenu à la Maison de l'Orient méditerranéen Jean Pouilloux du 2 au 4 mars 2000] Lyon : Maison de l'Orient et de la Méditerranée Jean Pouilloux, 2002. pp. 59-65. (Travaux de la Maison de l'Orient méditerranéen, 35
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
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