This volume presents new insights into the movement of and trade in Greek pottery across the Mediterranean region. It primarily focuses on distribution mechanisms and trade dynamics at a large scale through a series of case studies and synthetic papers, including previously unpublished material. Contributors aim to identify the routes taken by Greek ceramics across the Mediterranean Sea to distant lands and to consider how they were subsequently redistributed. Commercial contexts (ports, shipwrecks and warehouses) are studied with a view to elucidating the dynamics, organization, and main drivers of the pottery trade. Case studies cover a diverse range of ceramic types and geographical contexts, from the Iberian Peninsula to Thrace. Finally, the book raises questions for future research.

AUTHOR

Alejandro Garés-Molero is La Caixa Foundation Fellow in Classical Archaeology at Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, where he works on Greek pottery trade in the western Mediterranean.

Dr Diana Rodríguez-Pérez is Research Assistant for the Beazley Archive Pottery Database (University of Oxford) and publishes widely on various aspects of Greek art and material culture.

Dr Agustín A. Diez-Castillo is head of the Prehistory, Archaeology, and Ancient History School of the Universitat de València and leads the international El Sec Shipwreck Re-Excavation Project.

List of contributors: Antoine Attout, Maria Chidiroglou, Agustín A. Diez-Castillo, Adolfo J. Domínguez-Monedero, Daniela Ferreira, Alejandro Garés-Molero, Elvia Giudice, Giada Giudice, Pelayo Huerta-Segovia, Meliana Karta, Kleopatra Kathariou, Alejandra Macián-Fuster, Chiara M. Mauro, Natasa Michailidou, Pedro Miguel-Naranjo, Rui Morais, María Isabel Moreno-Padilla, Yiannis Mourthos, Liz Neill, Guiomar Pulido-González, Esther Rodríguez-González, Diana Rodríguez-Pérez, Despoina Tsiafaki, David Vendrell-Cabanillas, Andrew Farinholt Ward.

REVIEW

“I am convinced that researchers from all over the world and from different language regions will be highly interested in the contributions of this volume and its results.” Professor Christoph Reusser, University of Zurich

“This book will be an important contribution for understanding the distribution of Greek potteries outside their area of origin. It will be an essential complement for a central topic of ancient Mediterranean history: Greek colonisation, both in nearby areas such as southern Italy or Sicily and in more distant areas such as the Iberian Peninsula and the Balkans.” Eduardo García Alfonso, Malaga Museum