Cutting-edge Technologies in Ancient Greece: Materials Science Applied to Trace Ancient Technologies in the Aegean World

✍ Scribed by Marina Panagiotaki, Ilias Tomazos, Fotios Papadimitrakopoulos

• Publisher: Oxbow Books
• Year: 2020
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 221
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This volume examines materials produced with the use of fire and mostly by use of the kiln (metals, plasters, glass and glaze, aromatics) The technologies based on fire have been considered high-tech technologies and they have contributed to the evolution of man throughout history Papers highlight technical innovations of the technician/artist/pyrotechnologist that lived in the Aegean (mainland Greece and the islands) during the Bronze Age, the Classical and the Byzantine periods

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Title page
Copyright
Table of contents
List of contributors
Advisory Editorial panel
Preface and acknowledgements
Introduction: Lightning – fire – kiln – beacon
Part One
1 Ancient ceramic kilns: recorders of the earth’s magnetic fieldand firing technologies in Greek archaeological sites
2 Firing temperature definition through the application of μ – Ramanspectroscopy: indicative evidence acquired through the study of aceramic kiln from the Knossos area
3 Hagia Photia, Chrysokamino and the development ofmetallurgy in Early Minoan Crete
4 Mycenaean metalwork: technical evolution and socialtransformation in the south-western Peloponnese: an analyticalinvestigation of Mycenaean bronze artefacts from the area of Pylos
5 Rhodian bronze casting workshops in the light of new finds
6 Reviving the techniques of the Mycenaean goldsmith
7 Remarks and hypothesis concerning the stereoscopic examinationof mud and lime plasters in Minoan architecture: case studies forMonastiraki and Knossos in central Crete
8 Hydraulic mortars of antiquity analysis, characterisation andevaluation
9 Painting biographies
10 Aegean vitreous materials of the Bronze Age:technological transfer and local innovation
11 The glass workshop at 45 Vasileos Irakleiou Street,Thessaloniki: an analytical approach
12 Beads and bead making in ancient Methone, northern Greece
13 ‘The oil of Gladness’: the ancient tradition of the manufacture ofaromatic oils in the Aegean and the eastern Mediterranean
14 A Minoan perfumery
Part Two
15 Chemical characterisation and provenance study of late antiquity(3rd–7th century) lamps from Rhodes
16 ‘The walls are decorated with plates, jugs and cups trimmed withgold’: imported glazed ceramics in the Dodecanese from the16th to the 19th century. The case study of the Decorative ArtsMuseum of the Dodecanese
17 I.C.A.R.O.-IKAROS: the pottery factory ofRhodes (1928–1988)
18 Methods of production and ornamentation of Rhodian-Orientalceramics from 1928 to 1988
19 The usage of Lartian stone through the centuries
20 Recent research providing clues on the Koan stonecrafting during antiquity
21 Dating hydrated obsidian artefacts from the Mediterranean region
22 Microscopic observation of ecclesiastic embroidery from theMuseum of Panagia Tsambika Monastery in Rhodes
23 Icon of Deesis from the parish church of the Dormitionof the Virgin in Trianta, Rhodes: the physicochemical study,conservation and restoration
Index