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Coroplastic studies: what’s new?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 December 2018

Arthur Muller*
Affiliation:
University of Lille & Institut universitaire de France | arthur.muller@univ-lille.fr
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Extract

This overview discusses the recent scholarly literature on Greek terracottas of the first millennium BC. Figurative terracottas, once seen as meaningless trinkets, are now given their full meaning through rigorous study and anthropological approaches. Perhaps the most explicit and universal source on the piety of a great number of people, they now contribute decisively to the archaeology of religion, particularly in the field of votive and funerary practices. At the same time, research on figurative terracottas, renewed by a technological approach, reveals a craft that is surprisingly modern in its manufacturing and distribution processes.

Type
Archaeology in Greece 2017–2018
Copyright
Copyright © Authors, the Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies and the British School at Athens 2018 

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