TY - BOOK ID - 78437461 TI - Panhellenes at Methone AU - Bessios, Matthaios AU - Charalambidou, Xenia AU - Clay, Jenny Strauss AU - Dell'Oro, Francesca AU - Dosuna, Julián Méndez AU - Janko, Richard AU - Johnston, Alan AU - Kiriatzi, Evangelia AU - Kotsonas, Antonis AU - Malkin, Irad AU - Müller, Noémi Suzanne AU - Oikonomaki, Niki AU - Panayotou-Triantaphyllopoulou, Anna AU - Papadopoulos, John K AU - Pappas, Alexandra AU - Roumpou, Maria AU - Skelton, Christina AU - Strauss Clay, Jenny AU - Verdan, Samuel AU - Woodard, Roger D AU - Wecowski, Marek AU - Kourou, Nota AU - Tzifopoulos, Yannis Z PY - 2017 SN - 3110514672 3110515695 9783110515695 9783110514674 3110501279 9783110501278 9783110515701 3110515709 PB - Berlin Boston DB - UniCat KW - Inscriptions, Greek. KW - Greek inscriptions KW - Greek language KW - Greek philology KW - Methōnē (Greece) KW - Antiquities. KW - Methóni (Greece) KW - Modon (Greece) KW - Greek alphabet. KW - Greek inscriptions. KW - trade. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78437461 AB - This volume discusses the multidimensional aspects of the unique, and so far unprecedented for Macedonia, 191 sherds from Methone in Pieria, dated to ca 700 BCE, which bear inscriptions, graffiti, and (trade)marks inscribed, incised, scratched and rarely painted. The 191 vessels were unearthed during excavations in ancient Methone in Pieria, the oldest colony of Greeks from Eretria in the north according to tradition. The Methone find is unique for two reasons. First, most of the pottery dates between 730 and 700 BCE, a period from which very few examples of Greek writing survives. And second, inscribed ceramics, scratched or painted, are extremely rare in Macedonia. This new evidence of inscribed pottery from Methone is invaluable for classical studies, and the papers of this volume contribute notably to current discussions about: the Greeks and the Greek language in Macedonia; the Greek colonization; the pottery trade and the early Greek transport amphoras; trade, the symposium, and other contexts for the development of writing; the ‘alphabets’ of Methone and the introduction of the alphabet in Greece; the dialect(s) of Methone in relation to the Greek dialects; early Greek writing, literacy, and literary beginnings. ER -