Contents
- Cover
- International Bronze Congresses and Associated Publications and Exhibitions
- Directors’ Foreword — Timothy Potts and Timothy P. Whalen
- Introduction — Jens M. Daehner, Kenneth Lapatin, and Ambra Spinelli
- I. Large-Scale Bronzes
- 1. The Bronze Athlete from Ipanema — Georg A. Plattner, Kurt Gschwantler, and Bettina Vak
- 2. Was the Colossus of Rhodes Cast in Courses or in Large Sections? — Ursula Vedder
- 3. Bronzes from the Aegean Sea: A Reassessment of Old and New Finds — George Koutsouflakis
- 4. A Royal Macedonian Portrait Head from the Sea off Kalymnos — Olga Palagia
- 5. The Bronze Head of Arsinoë III in Mantua and the Typology of Ptolemaic Divinization on the Archelaos Relief — Patricia A. Butz
- 6. The Apollo from Salerno: Hellenistic Influence in Southern Italy — Silvia Pacifico
- 7. Tiberius from Herculaneum: Methods of Assembling a Monumental Bronze Portrait — Erik Risser and David Saunders
- 8. When a Statue Is Not a Statue — Carol C. Mattusch
- Abstracts
- II. The Artist
- 9. More Than Holes! An Unconventional Perspective of the “Greek Revolution” in Bronze Statuary — Gianfranco Adornato
- 10. Polykleitos and His Followers at Work: How the Doryphoros Was Used — Kyoko Sengoku-Haga, Sae Buseki, Min Lu, Shintaro Ono, Takeshi Oishi, Takeshi Masuda, and Katsushi Ikeuchi
- 11. Looking at the Bronze of Lost Sculptures: The Reception of the Delphic Monument of the Admirals in the Imperial Age — Eva Falaschi
- 12. Mobility and Migration: Issues Concerning Itinerant Sculptors — Martin Horne
- Abstract
- III. Statuettes
- 13. Assertions by the Portable: What Can Bronze Statuettes Tell Us about Major Classical Sculpture? — Beryl Barr-Sharrar
- 14. The Use of Inlays in Early Greek Bronzes — Seán Hemingway and Dorothy H. Abramitis
- 15. The Poet as Artisan: A Hellenistic Bronze Statuette in the Metropolitan Museum of Art — Elizabeth McGowan
- 16. The Paramythia Bronzes: Expressions of Cultural Identity in Roman Epirus — Heather Sharpe
- 17. Roman Bronze Figurines of Deities in the National Archaeological Museum of the Marche (Ancona) — Nicoletta Frapiccini
- 18. Function and Use of Roman Medium-Sized Statuettes in the Northwestern Provinces — Annemarie Kaufmann-Heinimann
- 19. Through Celts and Romans: Technology and Symbolism of Bronze Enameled Roosters — Federica Grossi
- 20. Representations of Zeus/Jupiter in Bronze Statuettes from Albania — Sabina Veseli
- Abstracts
- IV. The Hellenistic East
- 21. The Influence of East and West on Bronze Objects Found in Central Anatolia: Small Bronze Finds from Kaman-Kalehöyük — Alice Boccia Paterakis and Sachihiro Omura
- 22. The Portrait of a Hellenistic Ruler in the National Museum of Iran — Gunvor Lindström
- 23. The Influence of Bronze-Working on Roman Provincial Stone Sculpture: The Case of Palmyra — Fred C. Albertson
- Abstracts
- V. Vessels
- 24. Bronze Vessels from the Acropolis and the Definition of the Athenian Production in Archaic and Early Classical Periods — Chiara Tarditi
- 25. Bronze Vessels and Related Instrumenta at Delphi: Remarks on Morphology, Provenance, and Chronology — Valeria Meirano
- 26. Toward the Derveni Krater: On the Rarity of Large Bronze Vessels of the Archaic and Classical Periods Bearing Large Figural Registers — Jasper Gaunt
- 27. Iconography of the Sea World on Late Hellenistic Bronze Vessels — Klara De Decker
- 28. An Anthropomorphic Vessel in the National Museum of Beirut — Zeina Fani
- 29. Hellenistic, Roman, and Byzantine Influence in the Consolidation of Fatimid Metalware — Ayala Lester
- VI. Artifacts
- 30. Minoan Status Symbols: Tweezers, “Weaving Hooks,” and Cosmetic Scrapers — Susan C. Ferrence and Alessandra Giumlia-Mair
- 31. Bronze Trees from the Greek to the Roman World — Marina Castoldi
- 32. Bronze Medical and Writing Cases in Classical and Hellenistic Macedonia — Despina Ignatiadou
- 33. A Group of Items from the Campana Collection as an Example of Nineteenth-Century Restoration — Nadežda P. Gulyaeva
- 34. Roman Silhouette Figures: A Contribution to Music Archaeology? — Norbert Franken
- Abstracts
- VII. Conservation and Analysis
- 35. Sustainable Conservation of Bronze Artworks: Advanced Research in Materials Science — Maria Pia Casaletto and Vilma Basilissi
- 36. Investigating Ancient “Bronzes”: Non-Destructive Analysis of Copper-Based Alloys — Robert H. Tykot
- 37. A Scientific Assessment of the Long-Term Protection of Incralac Coatings on Ancient Bronze Collections in the National Archaeological Museum and the Epigraphic and Numismatic Museum in Athens, Greece — Stamatis C. Boyatzis, Andriana Veve, Galateia Kriezi, Georgia Karamargiou, Elena Kontou, and Vasilike Argyropoulos
- 38. New Approaches in Stabilizing Chloride-Contaminated Ancient Bronzes Using Corrosion Inhibitors and/or Electrochemical Methods to Preserve Information in the Patinas — Vasilike Argyropoulos, Soussani Mavroforaki, Maria Giannoulaki, Stamatis C. Boyatzis, Thanasis Karabotsos, Aggeliki Zacharopoulou, and Elodie Guilminot
- 39. Conservation Treatments and Archaeometallurgical Insights on the Medici Riccardi Horse Head — Nicola Salvioli, Stefano Sarri, Juri Agresti, Iacopo Osticioli, and Salvatore Siano
- 40. The Cleveland Apollo: Recent Research and Revelations — Colleen Snyder, Ernst Pernicka, and Peter Northover
- 41. The Getty Herm of Dionysos: Technical Observations, Review, and Interpretation — Jeffrey Maish
- 42. A Technological Reexamination of the Piombino Apollo — Benoît Mille and Sophie Descamps-Lequime
- 43. New Results on the Alloys of the Croatian Apoxyomenos — Iskra Karniš Vidovič and Benoît Mille
- 44. The Bronze Sculpture of Alexander the Great on Horseback: An Archaeometallurgical Study — Salvatore Siano, Luigia Melillo, Stefano Sarri, and Juri Agresti
- 45. The Auloi from Meroë: Preliminary Notes on the Conservation, Technical Examination, and Interpretation of a Cache of Ancient Musical Instruments — Susanne Gänsicke and Stefan Hagel
- 46. A Defined Protocol for In Situ Micro-XRF Compositional Analysis of Bronze Figurines from the National Museum of Damascus, Syria — V. Kantarelou, A. G. Karydas, L. Mahfoud, A. Qurdab, M. Al-Saadi, and V. Argyropoulos
- 47. Is There an Ultimate Authority in Authenticity? Testing and Retesting Alexander the Great — Lisa Anderson, Katherine Eremin, Henry Lie, Francesca Bewer, and Patrick Degryse
- Abstracts