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The invention of ‘Tarentine’ red-figure

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Jed M. Thorn
Jed M. Thorn*
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*Department of Classics, University of Cincinnati, PO Box 210226, Cincinnati, OH 45221-0226, USA (Email: jedthorn@gmail.com)
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Abstract

This deconstruction of how Apulian red-figure pottery came to be termed Tarentine has implications for archaeological methodology far beyond the Mediterranean. The author shows how the assumptions of great authorities, themselves rooted in a colonial world, led to a highly resistant model of core and periphery for pottery production that may have no basis in fact. It is a fine example of the process that has left us with so many unsuitable and immovable names for material from Samian to Gothic.

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MediterraneanItalyApuliaTarantoAtticred-figure

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Antiquity , Volume 83 , Issue 319 , March 2009 , pp. 174 - 183
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd 2009

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