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In occasione di questo seminario dedicato alle “Genti del Tenna” non poteva mancare un’analisi di quello che è uno dei reperti più importanti provenienti da Amandola, il famoso dinos bronzeo, presentando una sintesi aggiornata degli studi più significativi e proponendo una diversa attribuzione per il recipiente e per la base su cui poggia.

In the Greek bronze vessels from the Archaic and Classical periods, basins certainly are the most widespread shape, with a high number of formal and ornamental variants, in particular in the handles. Among these, of particular interest are some specimens in the shape of a lion in an elongated position or, in a simpler form, with only the attachment decorated with a lion’s protome. Two unpublished pieces from the Sanctuary of the Sorgente at Saturo (Ta) offer the opportunity for a review of both variants.

In Greek craftsmanship, bronze vessels take a special position, for the value of the metal, which makes them immediately meaningful and precious: their use restricted to more rich people makes these pieces a clear expression of richness and power. In the Greek world, bronze vessels were early used during aristocratic convivial banquets and symposium, establishing a close relation between objects and their function, and were frequently dedicated as votive offerings in sanctuaries. The spread of these social practices among the indigenous societies, with which Greeks came in contact, is well attested since the Archaic period by imports of Greek bronze vessels: generally coming from funerary contexts of different indigenous areas, from Southern Italy to the Black Sea, they continue to represent wealth, power and identification with the Greek aristocratic culture and society.

The discovery in the Piceno area of some bronze hydriai, complete or attested only by single handles with peculiar stylistic characteristics, has long started an intense debate on what may have been the productive area and on the influence, they had on other artistic contexts through the recovery of single iconographic motifs. The question can be re-examined now in the light of the most recent studies both on the Greek bronze vessels production and on which were the areas and the paths of their diffusion in the Italian peninsula.

Un manico di bacino conservato al Metropolitan Museum di New York, caratterizzato dall'insolita presenza di una figura di cicala, permette alcune osservazioni sulla ricorrenza di questo motivo decorativo e una proposta di attribuzione all'ambito produttivo ateniese.

A large quantity of high-quality bronze vessels has been found in Apulian excavations, generally in funerary contexts. Their number is particularly significant and new discoveries and recent studies have further helped clarify the role of these finds in the cultural development of this region from the Archaic to the Late Classical period. This paper offers a contextual study of Greek bronze vessels found in Peucetian and Messapian sites, analyzing their shapes, chronology and origins, and the coexistence of Greek and locally-made pieces found within the same contexts.

From the excavation of the sanctuary dedicated to Demeter Thesmophoros at Bitalemi (Gela), a very small quantity of iron weapons has been recovered, seven in all, including thrown weapons and dagger blades. These pieces were offered during the first phase of frequentation of the sacred area, from the last quarter of the 7th to the middle of the 6th century BC. The few finds, regularly offered over time, make it difficult to suggest that even in Bitalemi the dedication of weapons had a significant role in the ritual, as proposed for other contexts sacred to Demeter. They require therefore a different explanation, which can be related to their use also for different functions, as for example instead of knives or skewers during the sacrifices and the following ritual meals.

recensione critica del volume di H. Aurigny dedicato al vasellame in bronzo dell'alto arcaismo proveniente dagli scavi di Delfi

Analisi degli oggetti metallici provenienti dai depositi della fase arcaica del santuario di Demetra Thesmophoros a Bitalemi. Lo studio ha preso in considerazione tutti i reperti metallici, frammentari e integri, analizzandoli per tipologia. Si è potuta cosi riconoscere la destinazione votiva dei manufatti dedicati integri e si è evidenziata la peculiarità della prassi di offrire rottami di oggetti in metallo per il valore stesso della materia prima., Analysis of the metal objects from the deposits of the archaic phase of the sanctuary of Demeter Thesmophoros in Bitalemi. All the metal finds have been examined, fragmented and intact, analyzing them by type. It was thus possible to recognize the votive destination of the intact dedicated artifacts and the peculiarity of the practice of offering scrap of metal objects for the value of the raw material.

L’articolo è dedicato all’analisi di un piccolo gruppo in bronzo conservato nel Museo dell’Hermitage: riconosciuto come pertinente ad un’ansa di bacino figurata, trova precisi confronti con altri esemplari noti da tempo; l’insieme cosi’ delineato costituisce un gruppo stilisticamente omogeneo, attribuibile alla produzione ateniese di vasellame in bronzo attiva tra il VI e il V sec. a.C.

Negli ultimi decenni, le ricerche sullo spazio sacro nella Grecia antica hanno goduto di un significativo sviluppo, ampliando notevolmente quelle che erano le conoscenze relative all’archeologia del culto grazie a nuovi rinvenimenti messi in luce durante gli scavi archeologici condotti in diversi santuari greci, a fruttuose riflessioni sulla religiosità del mondo greco e alla revisione critica dei risultati di indagini pregresse. Grazie a questi risultati, è oggi possibile proporre un’occasione di incontro per aggiornare il dibattito scientifico su una specifica classe di materiali proveniente dalle aree sacre, i manufatti in metallo, attestati in modo significativo nei rinvenimenti archeologici ed epigrafici e nelle fonti letterarie., In recent decades, the research on the sacred space in ancient Greece has experienced a significant increase, resulting in a decisive advancement of the state of the art in the field of ‘cult archaeology’, also thanks to the remains brought to light by the excavations carried out in Greek sanctuaries, to the fruitful reflections on ancient Hellenic religiosity and to the review of data and information derived from previous investigations. Thanks to these results, is it now possible to offer a meeting opportunity to update the scientific debate on a specific class of materials from the sacred areas, the metal artifacts, widely attested through archaeological findings, epigraphs and literary sources.

I wish to homage and remember the long friendship with Enzo Lippolis resuming a topic already studied many years ago thanks to his support, the presence of Athenian bronze vessels among Apulian funerary finds. Increased by recent attributions, these pieces make clear the role of the bronze vessels among the Greeks imports on the coasts of the Peucetia and Messapia from the late sixth to the mid-fifth century BC.

La recensione analizza il volume di R. M. Albanese dedicato allo studioi dei bacini ad orlo perlinato, che costituiscono una classe particolarmente significativa del vasellame in bronzo prodotto in ambito italico e siceliota nel periodo arcaico e classico

Aim of the paper is to define the role of the metal vessels in defining the relation between Greek and Scythian world from the VI to the IV century BC. The finding of many pieces of metal vessels, mainly bronze, in different sites of the Caucasian area, more or less close to the Greek colonies around the Black Sea, can be examined as expression of the well-established commercial trade, probably related with exchange of grain or slaves; and the appreciation by local elites reflects their role as status symbol together with the acceptance of the forms and the ways of self-representation of the Greek aristocracy

Since their discovery during the archaeological excavations managed on the Athenian Acropolis in the XIX century, many bronze vessels fragments of the archaic and early classical period weren’t carefully studied, leaving unknown this important class of materials. The recent analysis of a great part of these pieces (more than one thousand) allowed to recognize the more common shapes, their style and decoration, defining the characteristic of a local production, to which we can now attribute many pieces found in different, even far, places.

Early Greek bronze vessels exported out of Greece among indigenous societies attest, together with the more diffused figured pottery, the spread of Greek cultural model and social practices. Found generally in funerary contexts from Southern Italy to the Black Sea, they represented wealth, power and identification with the Greek aristocratic culture and society and it is interesting trying to recognize the function, these objects could have in the indigenous contexts where they were found.

The book focuses on the results of a project of study and catalogue the bronze vessels fragments discovered on the Acropolis of Athens and today keep in the National Archaeological Museum at Athens. The study has been concentrated in the inventory and analysis of more than one thousand bronze vessel fragments, mostly unpublished: from the careful typological and stylistic analysis it was possible to define the features peculiar of the Athenian bronze vessels production of the late archaic and early classical period, with also new proposal of attribution for many pieces from different sites.

In this work preliminary results from analysis and inventory of the bronze vessel fragments from the early excavations on the Athenian Acropolis are presented. It is now possible to reconstruct Athenian bronze vessel production during the late Archaic and the early Classical periods.

The bronze objects fragments from the archaic votive deposits in the sanctuary of Demetra Thesmophoros at Bitalemi (Gela, Sicily) have been studied in these last years preparing the complete edition of the old excavations. The direct analysis of the bronze objects and the research of comparison made possible to understand how important was the practice of dedication of bronze fragments in this sanctuary, the different commercial route interesting the coasts of the Sicily in archaic time, the meaning of offering mostly just fragments and the rôle of the bronze heaps trade in the Mediterranean basin.

The bronze fragments from the archaic votive deposits of the sanctuary of Demetra Thesmophoros at Bitalemi (Gela, Sicily), partially published by P. Orlandini immediately after their discovery, are now the object of an exhaustive cataloguing and study for the complete edition of the old excavations. The analysis and study of comparisons has made it possible to bet-ter understand the practice of dedicating bronze fragments in this sanctuary, the different commercial routes touching the coasts of the Sicily during the Archaic period, and the meaning of offerings that are simply scrap metal. Key words: Bitalemi, Archaic deposits, Metal votive offerings, Scrap metal, Archaic commercial routes

Archaeological excavations in the greek sanxtuary of Athena Alea at Tegea, Arcadia: excavations in the northern sectors, classical and archaic layers

Lo studio di una significativa quantità di frammenti di vasellame in bronzo recuperati durante gli scavi condotti sull'Acropoli di Atene ha offerto l'occasione per avviare un esame di come il motivo del leone è stato recepito nel repertorio decorativo del vasellame bronzeo prodotto ad Atene in epoca arcaica, Studying a great quantity of bronze vessels fragments from the Athenian Acropolis, actually stored in the National Archaeological Museum at Athens, it is possible to recognize some features in the lion figures rendering that could be considered typical of a local production. It starts so the definition of the characters and influences of an important bronze vessels production working at Athens in archaic time.

Description of the last season of excavations in the sanctuary area of Athena Alea at Tegea, managed in 2014 to connect better the excavated areas

Study of the bronze vessels fragments found during the excavations in the sanctuary of Athena Alea at Tegea, years 1990-1994

The study of a conspicuous quantity of bronze vessels fragments from the Athenian Acropolis provided the opportunity to define better the characters, the chronology and the diffusion of the Athenian bronze vessels production from the late sixth to mid fifth century BC.

Descovered in the XIX century, the sanctuary of Athena Alea at Tegea (Arcadia, Greece) has been interested by new researches from the 1994, the results of which indicates that the cult activity started in Proto-geometric Times, going on until the full Roman Imperiale Period

Short presentation of the archaeological pieces from the Collection of the Università Cattolica; they are mostly pottery examples, of different periods and production, from private and public donations