Author: S. Kala
Publisher: Humanities Pr
Keywords: museum, allahabad, terracottas
Published: 1981-01
List price: $63.00
ISBN-10: 0391022342
ISBN-13: 9780391022348

Author: John Newick
Publisher: Ellott Press
Keywords: terracottas, modelling
Number of Pages: 84
Published: 2008-10-07
List price: $26.45
ISBN-10: 1443741019
ISBN-13: 9781443741019

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

Author: C. E. Vaphopoulou-Richardson
Publisher: Ashmolean Museum
Keywords: classical, studies, history, archaeology, greek, terracottas, ancient
Number of Pages: 56
Published: 1990-06
List price: $13.95
ISBN-10: 1854440098
ISBN-13: 9781854440099

The Ashmolean Museum possesses a collection of Ancient Greek terracottas which covers the whole of the Greek world, with examples from all the important centres of production. Intended for both the scholar and the general reader, this work features discussions and bibliographic notes.

Author: Rebecca Miller Ammerman
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Keywords: votive, terracottas, paestum, venera, santa, sanctuary
Number of Pages: 560
Published: 2002-07-24
List price: $165.00
ISBN-10: 0472108999
ISBN-13: 9780472108992

The book documents some three thousand votive terracottas recovered by archaeologists at Santa Venera, one of the sanctuaries at Paestum. While each terracotta represents an act of religious devotion, the assembled corpus of votive gifts bears witness to the repeated performance of a dedicatory rite. In this way, the terracottas offer a window on the collective religious beliefs which motivated such ritualized giving in the classical world.The volume treats systematically each type of figurine recovered at Santa Venera and includes its illustration. Careful analysis of technology, style, and i

Authors:Homer A. Thompson, Dorothy B. Thompson, Susan I. Rot
Publisher: American School of Classical Studies
Keywords: terracottas, pottery, hellenistic
Number of Pages: 463
Published: 1987-11-21
List price: $75.00
ISBN-10: 0876619448
ISBN-13: 9780876619445

The articles collected and reprinted here appeared originally in the pages of Hesperia. "Two Centuries of Hellenistic Pottery," by Homer A. Thompson, presented in 1934 some of the pottery found in the early excavations of the American School in the Athenian Agora. The series titled "Three Centuries of Hellenistic Terracottas," by Dorothy B. Thompson, includes ten articles that were published between 1952 and 1966. The working chronology that the authors established has made these studies basic references for investigations of Attic pottery and terracottas of the Hellenistic period, wherever fo