Potters at Work in Ancient Corinth: Industry, Religion, and the Penteskouphia Pinakes [Paperback]

An unparalleled assemblage of Archaic black-figure painted pinakes (plaques) was uncovered near Penteskouphia, a village west of ancient Corinth, over a century ago. The pinakes-represented by over 1,200 fragments-and their depictions of gods, warriors, animals, and the potters themselves, provide a uniquely rich source of information about Greek art, technology, and society. In this volume, the findspot of the pinakes is identified in a contribution by Ioulia Tzonou and James Herbst, and the assemblage as a whole is fully contextualized within the Archaic world. Then, by focusing specifically on the images of potters at work, the author illuminates the relationship between Corinthian and Athenian art, the technology used in ancient pottery production, and religious anxiety in the 6th century B.C. The first comprehensive register of all known Penteskouphia pinakes complements the well-illustrated discussion. Louvrage constituera, assurement, la publication de reference sur les plaques de Penteskouphia a lavenir. Le catalogue complet des scenes de potiers offrira notamment un formidable reservoir d'images pour construire tout cours ou etude sur la production ceramique antique. Au-dela de lessentiel travail dinventaire, E. Hasaki fournit un bel exemple dapproche holistique dun assemblage de mobilier archeologique, de sa (re)contex- tualisation a son interpretation historique sous des angles varies. Delahaye, Adrien, Revue Archeologique, Numero 2023/2 Hasaki marshals an impressive array of archaeological, archaeometric, experimental, and ethnographic data, resulting in one of the best overviews of the ancient Greek pottery industry. . . . Potters at Work in Ancient Corinth: Industry, Religion, and the Penteskouphia Pinakes is an essential new entry in Greek archaeological research. Olya, Najee, European Journal of Archaeology 26 (4) 2023 . . . proposes an innovative multidisciplinary approach to the study of a portion of the corpus: H. aims to combine iconographl35