Vasa Virumque Cano: Essays on Roman Ceramics in Honor of Archer Martin
Paperback (Forthcoming)
(December 2026)
ISBN: 9781805833482
8.31 x 11.69 inches
Price: $77.00
Vasa virumque cano honours ceramicist and archaeologist Archer Martin through 25 chapters by students and collaborators. Exploring Mediterranean pottery, archaeological method and interdisciplinary research, the volume highlights Martin’s influence on ceramic studies, teaching and new approaches to understanding past societies.
Vasa virumque cano is an editorial collaboration by three former students of the celebrated ceramicist and archaeologist Archer Martin, and brings together 39 contributors across 25 chapters to honor the illustrious achievements of his scholarly and pedagogical career. Martin’s long tenure as one of the key figures in Mediterranean pottery studies has combined a rigorous and encyclopedic command of the ceramic record of forms and fabrics with new ways of using pottery to explore the lives and connections of past communities, all predicated on generous long-term collaborations, peripatetic and wide-ranging travels, and an inimitable command of languages and global scholarship. But Martin has also dedicated himself and this knowledge to training the next generation of ceramicists, most notably through his summer seminars. This volume examines the impact of his scholarship via the work of his students and collaborators, a cross-section of some of the most important ceramics researchers of several generations, whose scholarship on themes and approaches ranges from an art historical reassessment of a famous Etruscan krater, the anthropological understanding of the agency of small ceramic objects, and a ceramicist’s scrupulous detailing of the small evidence of repair of old vessels. Chapters include an examination of Martin’s importance in the redating of the castrum at Ostia; the role of ceramics in making the sweet perfumes of Pompeii, the necessity of interdisciplinarity in future ceramic research, and the application of Marti n’s method to a new generation of students.
Other Titles in this Series
The Ovoid Amphorae in the Central and Western Mediterranean
Between the last two centuries of the Republic and the early days of the Roman Empire
Scambi e commerci in area vesuviana
I dati delle anfore dai saggi stratigrafici I.E. (Impianto Elettrico) 1980-81 nel Foro di Pompei
Ceramics and Atlantic Connections: Late Roman and Early Medieval Imported Pottery on the Atlantic Seaboard
Proceedings of an International Symposium at Newcastle University, March 2014
Roman Pottery in the Near East: Local Production and Regional Trade
Proceedings of the round table held in Berlin, 19-20 February 2010
Estudios para la configuración de las facies cerámicas altoimperiales en el Sur de la Península Ibérica
El comercio tardoantiguo (ss.IV-VII) en el Noroeste peninsular a través del registro cerámico de la ría de Vigo
Cerámica común romana y ciclo haliéutico
Análisis de los contextos de las cetariae de Iulia Traducta
Ánforas vinarias de Hispania Citerior-Tarraconensis (s. I a.C.– I d.C.)
Caracterización arqueométrica
LRFW 1. Late Roman Fine Wares. Solving problems of typology and chronology.
A review of the evidence, debate and new contexts
Shaping Regionality in Socio-Economic Systems: Late Hellenistic – Late Roman Ceramic Production, Circulation, and Consumption in Boeotia, Central Greece (c. 150 BC–AD 700)
LRCW 6: Late Roman Coarse Wares, Cooking Wares and Amphorae in the Mediterranean: Archaeology and Archaeometry
Land and Sea: Pottery Routes
Once upon a Time in the East
The Chronological and Geographical Distribution of Terra Sigillata and Red Slip Ware in the Roman East
Roman Amphora Contents: Reflecting on the Maritime Trade of Foodstuffs in Antiquity (In honour of Miguel Beltrán Lloris)
Proceedings of the Roman Amphora Contents International Interactive Conference (RACIIC) (Cadiz, 5-7 October 2015)
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