Ceramic imitations of metalware at Ancient Corinth: Craft traditions in the Late Hellenistic and Early Roman city
(2025) Interdisciplinary Ceramic Research in the Peloponnese — ISBN: [978-3-7001-9197-1], submitted
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- This article examines a range of glazed mouldmade pottery vessels from Corinth which, following a fashion widely shared across the Mediterranean in the final centuries BC, imitate the expensive metalware by using more affordable and readily available materials. The tumultuous political context that shaped the identity and character of the trading harbour throughout the Late Hellenistic and Early Roman periods provides an excellent case study to approach phenomena of resilience and innovation in an environment of quickly shifting realities in settlement patterns, political and economic dynamics, and cultural traditions. Indeed, in no less than 250 years, Corinth transited from a typically Greek city with a long tradition of hosting a major pottery industry of the Aegean region, through a multicultural center of the Hellenistic koine involved in the geopolitics of its time, to (after one century of presumed abandonment) a strategically located Roman colony in the High Empire.
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Liard, F., & Ben Amara, A. (2025). Ceramic imitations of metalware at Ancient Corinth: Craft traditions in the Late Hellenistic and Early Roman city. In Collectif (ed.), Interdisciplinary Ceramic Research in the Peloponnese. Austrian Academy of Sciences. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/245174