Studying of Local Ancient Greek Pottery of Olbia and Borysthenes (Historiographical Aspect)

The article is devoted to the studying of antient Greek pottery on the example of the centers of the Lower Buh River region in the works of Ukrainian and foreign scholars. An analysis of publications on the production of local ceramics, production areas of Olbia and the settlement on Berezan island at different times is offered; the main tendencies of studying the raw material base of the region are considered. The article was prepared as a part of the Scientific and Research Work (SRW) of young researchers of the NAS of Ukraine 2021—2022: «Raw material base as a factor in the development of pottery of the antient centers of the North-Western Black Sea Coast (Olbia and Berezan)» (state registration No. 0121U112024).

Lydian Sardis and Its Sphere of Influence in the Light of Laboratory Analysis Results

Alongside its programme of chemical analyses of Archaic East Greek pottery, the Lyon Laboratory for Archaeometry has also looked into the field of Anatolian wares, first of all through additional samples from Lydian Sardis and from Kelainai, as well as with a small collection from Daskyleion. The results obtained enriched our data bank of valuable references on these sites and led to useful comparisons with the Greek settlements of Old Smyrna and Ephesus, both in close relationships with the Lydian sphere.

WITOLD DOBROWOLSKI (1939–2019)

The recollections of Prof. W. Dobrowolski focus mainly on his activity at the National Museum in Warsaw (1960–2011) and his scholarly accomplishments. The creator of modern Etruscology in Poland in the 1960s, he contributed greatly to promoting knowledge of Etruscan civilization among Polish society. He won his international fame with the documentation of Etruscan tombs and their painterly decoration in the modern period. Furthermore, W. Dobrowolski was an unquestioned expert in Greek pottery, particularly from the Vilnius and Gołuchów collections kept at the National Museum in Warsaw, and was capable of applying his deepened iconographic analyses to museum displays. His passion being Greek art as a universal and topical model for artistic and esthetical values, he was greatly committed to promoting ancient art in Poland as an organizer of several dozen exhibitions at local museums, author of numerous encyclopaedic entries and chapters in art history textbooks. Moreover, he authored and curated some big and important exhibitions at the National Museum in Warsaw, where he also had a significant impact on the permanent Ancient Art Gallery which existed until 2011. Dobrowolski’s studies in Polish collecting of ancient historical pieces in the 18th and 19th centuries paved him the way to important analyses of the presence of the Antiquity in European and Polish culture that were the academic focus in the last period of his life.

«l’ospizio di quiescenza delle povere pietre...»

The discovery in the Torcello Museum Archiv of an old catalogue copy written by the first director Nicolò Battaglini between 1879 and 1887 puts an end to the endless discussions on the provenance of many archaeological items of the Museum. Now we know for certain that a large number of the greek pottery and the small etruscan bronzes of the Museum were found in the islands of the venetian lagoon and in the land near the old city of Altino.

Vasos gregos em Portugal: diferentes maneiras de contar a história do intercâmbio cultural na Idade do Ferro.

This paper aimed to describe and interpret the archaeological data available associated to the Greek pottery and commercial relations concerning the Eastern Mediterranean and the current Portuguese territory, between the 7th and the 4th centuries b.C.