Abstract
This article explores the chemical-element composition of a wide range of local domestic wares (late 6th century b.c. to early 4th century a.d.). Using instrumental neutron activation analysis and two statistical approaches, we examine whether function or date explains variations in the chemical groups we found and if they match their archaeological labels. The initial choice of ceramic pastes (cooking fabric or buff ware) relates to function, but within those main categories, vessel function did not affect grouping. Fabrics did vary with time. Such changes do not occur at the same time in the cooking and buff wares, nor do they correlate well with the political history of the city.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 537-585 |
| Number of pages | 49 |
| Journal | Hesperia |
| Volume | 92 |
| Issue number | 3 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Jul 2023 |
Bibliographical note
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Funding
20. Corinth VII.6, pp. 39–40, 291– 301, including appendix 7 (= Whitton 2012). For comparison with the data presented here, see pp. 565–567, below. 21. Sampling was carried out in October 2006 under Hellenic Ministry of Culture and Sports permit ΥΠΠΟ?? /ΣΥΝΤ/Φ44/4353/83567. The assistance of the staff of MURR in providing neutron irradiations is gratefully acknowledged. Special thanks go to Michael Glascock for sample measurements at MURR, supported by National Science Foundation (NSF) grant no. 1621158, and for helpful information on INAA measurements at different laboratories. The assistance of Charles K. Williams II, former director of the Corinth Excavations, Guy Sanders, director of the excavations in 2006, Christopher Pfaff, the current director, Nancy Bookidis (for advice on contexts to sample in the Sanctuary of Demeter), and several scholars visiting the Corinth workrooms in November 2017 is gratefully acknowledged. James Herbst, Corinth architect, prepared Figure 1. Dayana Oropeza helped with sample preparation. The work at LBNL was supported by the Director, Office of Energy Research, Office of Basic Energy Sciences, Chemical Sciences Division of the U.S. Department of Energy under contract no. DE-AC03-76F00098, and by NSF grants SBR 97-12078 and BCS 0002682, and United States– Israel Binational Science Foundation grant no. 1999-300; funding for the investigation was also provided by Charles K. Williams II. We thank the anonymous reviewers for Hesperia whose comments have helped us to strengthen the paper.
| Funders | Funder number |
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| Office of Energy Research | |
| National Science Foundation | 1621158 |
| U.S. Department of Energy | BCS 0002682, SBR 97-12078, DE-AC03-76F00098 |
| Basic Energy Sciences | |
| United States - Israel Binational Science Foundation | 1999-300 |