R. M. Cook

A List of Carian Orientalizing Pottery

This paper lists over a hundred Carian pots. It is suggested that in Caria, Subgeometric was dominant till about the end of the seventh century BC, that a tentative Wild Goat style emerged towards the end of that century, that about the 570s the Bochum painter established a coherent version of that style and eventually experimented with the Fikellura style, and that his successors relapsed into incoherence.

Old Smyrna: The Clazomenian Sarcophagi

DURING the campaigns at Old Smyrna in 1948-5I several Clazomenian sarcophagi came to light. The directors of the excavations, Professors E. Akurgal and J. M. Cook, kindly asked me to publish them, but by some mischance the completed notes and drawings did not reach me and I was not importunate. Drawings of decoration and shape and most of the measurements came from Miss E. A. B. Petty (now Mrs. G. U. S. Corbett), details of discovery and photographs from Professor J. M. Cook. Mr. J. S. Cole most obligingly checked many points for me in Izmir. I have myself examined only nos. 2, 3, 5, and IxI. Except for the fragment no. i6, picked up in the Turkish cemetery of Bayrakh, all the sarcophagi and fragments listed here were found in the ancient necropolis which extended to the north-east of the city site of Old Smyrna.2 Some lay disturbed on or below the surface, but others were excavated in their original positions. These were sunk in the ground-one to a depth of 8o cm.-and had stone slabs as lids, and (like the stone cists for which they seem to have been alternatives) were covered by a low tumulus, composed of earth and stones within a rough ring of stones (PLATE 13a). Recorded measurements of such tumuli give diameters ranging from

Greek Painted Pottery

Greek Painted Pottery has been used by classics and classical archaeology students for some thirty years. It thoroughly examines all painted pottery styles from the Protogeometric to the Hellenistic period from all areas of Greece and from the colonies in parts of Italy. In each case it covers the development of iconography and the use of colour, decorative motifs and the distinctive styles of each stage. It examines the most utilitarian pottery objects as well as some of the finest pieces produced by a flourishing civilisation. Other chapters cover the pottery industry and pottery-making techniques, including firing, the types of local clay which were used and inscription. This study also considers how one can date pottery and establish a chronology and the various methods by which these artefacts have been classified, preserved and collected. This is the third edition of this classic text, which has been extensively revised and includes a fully updated bibliography. This edition also includes coverage of new evidence and new theories which have surfaced since the book was last revised in 1972. With over 100 black and white photographs and plentiful line drawings, the new edition of this comprehensive text will be invaluable to students studying classical art, archaeology and art history.

The Distribution of Chiot Pottery

Distribution maps are fashionable among archaeologists, but they are not always used properly. It is not enough to mark the places where objects of a given class have been found; it is important to know also in what frequency they were found, where they have not been found, and where they have not been looked for. To collect this information is often difficult and sometimes impossible since so much excavation has gone unrecorded, and I have therefore chosen one of the easier subjects, the distribution of Chiot pottery in the late seventh and early sixth centuries B.C. Much Chiot pottery is fortunately distinctive, so that even the more conscienceless excavators have often identified it and thought it worth mention, and thus we have fuller data for its distribution than for that of most classes of archaic Greek pottery.