The Role of Metals in Ancient Greek HistoryThe first in-depth study of the field in more than 20 years analyzes the role of various metals in the context of Greek economic life, politics, culture and art, traces the movement of metal from ore to finished objects, including works of art, and shows the relations between the regions where metals were extracted and the centres of metalworking, the structure of the workshops and the connections between them and the role of the workshops in economic life at different stages in Greek history. In doing so it adopts a multidisciplinary approach, defining the role of metals in the history of Greek society using the widest possible variety of sources: the excavated remains of workshops and hoards, archaeometallurgical finds; the results of studies of ancient mines and analyses of ancient metal objects; bronze plastics and jewelry, coins etc. The chronological span of the study is the 8th-1st centuries B.C., i.e. from the beginning of the main period of Greek colonization till the end of the Hellenistic era. The geographical scope of the work is the Greek oikumene. New to most scholars will be Treister's knowledge of objects and technologies in the eastern Greek and Roman world of the Northern Black Sea and Colchis. While this book does not pretend to be a definitive survey of the history of mining and metallurgy in the Greek world, it is a particularly useful interim report. |
Contents
Historiography and Models of Study | 1 |
The Role of Metals in the Period of Greek | 21 |
The Role of Metals in the Classical | 182 |
The Role of Metals in the Hellenistic | 288 |
Conclusion | 388 |
Bibliography | 404 |
List of Abbreviations | 455 |
List of Illustrations | 461 |
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3rd century B.C. 6th century B.C. A.J. Parker A.M. Snodgrass alloy analysis Ancient Archaeological Archaic period Argive arms and armour artistic Asia Minor Athenian Athens Attic B.S. Ridgway Barr-Sharrar Bosporus bronze statuettes bronzeworking C.C. Mattusch cast cauldrons centres coinage coins colonization copper Corinth Corinthian crafts craftsmen Cyprus dated decorated dedications distribution early Eastern Etruscan example excavations finds Floren Geometric gold Greece Greek Hellenistic period helmets hoplite Iberian important ingots inscriptions iron Italy J.N. Coldstream jewelry Kilian-Dirlmeier krater Laconian late Laurion lead ingots M.Yu Macedonian Magna Graecia manufacture Mediterranean metalworking mines mould Olbian Olympia P.C. Bol P.T. Craddock Pfrommer Phoenician Pontic area precious metals probably production protomes Ptolemaic quarter region Rolley Roman Russian Samian Samos sculptures second half silver slag sources style suggested temple Thasos Thorikos Thrace tion toreutic trade Treister vessels votives W.K. Pritchett workshops Zimmer Zimmermann