Ergasteria

Elena C. Partida is a Research Archaeologist at the Hellenic Ministry of Culture. She leads interdisciplinary studies on the architecture and sculpture of the Graeco-Roman world with emphasis on ancient Greek sanctuaries, the archaeology of Delphi, Achaea and Paros. Author of museum and open-air exhibitions, she is a member of the Campana Reliefs Network, co-director of the architectural investigation of the Temple of Zeus at Lebadea, and co-editor of the collective volume Listening to the Stones (Archaeopress 2019). Constanze Graml is currently a Lecturer on Classical Archaeology at the universities of Regensburg and Gießen, Germany. Her research interests centre on ancient Greek religion, sacred landscapes and digital archaeology, and she is currently conducting a study on the rock-cut reliefs of Philippi, ancient Macedon. She is a member of the Trochoeides Network on the study of the archaeology of pre-Classical Athens and co-editor of the associated conference proceedings Rethinking Athens before the Persian Wars (2019).

‘Ergasteria is a well-produced book. The many illustrations are mostly in color and are reproduced at a generous scale. The articles are all in English, not the first language of most of the authors, but the editing is excellent, and the text is generally clear and free of major awkwardness. The lengthy common bibliography constitutes a rich source of documentation, and indices help to draw connections between the papers. A list of the contributors with their contact details and affiliations would have been welcome; given the collection’s wide range, few readers will be familiar with all of them and their work. That range ensures, however, that almost anyone with an interest in ancient production will find something of interest here.’ – Susan Rotroff (2026): Bryn Mawr Classical Review

• List of Figures   Chapter 1: ΕΡΓΑΣΤΗΡΙΑ: Premises and Processes of Creation in Antiquity. An introduction – Elena C. Partida and Constanze Graml Α spatial approach to workplaces: Urban, religious, littoral contextChapter 2: Tales from the workshop and normative beauty – Gerhard ZimmerChapter 3: Craft production and nuisance in the ancient Greek city: Spatial and functional approaches to urban industrial activities – Giorgos M. SanidasChapter 4: Dyeworks network around the Gulf of Corinth: A specialised seaside textile workshop in Late Classical-Hellenistic Helike – Dora KatsonopoulouChapter 5: Workplaces in the southern sacred area at Olbia Pontica – Alla V. BujskikhChapter 6: Handicraft activities in the small town of Fanum Martis (Famars, northern France): analysing and interpreting spatial organisation and production size – Raphaël Clotuche, Sonja Willems, Jean-Hervé Yvinec, Marie Derreumeaux, Jennifer Clerget, Nicolas Tisserand, Bérangère Fort and Gaëtan JouaninChapter 7: Evocations of Apollo in northern Gaul and craftsmen engaged in his representation: The example of Fanum Martis – Raphaël Clotuche and Damien Censier (with the collaboration of Sabine Groetembril) Workshops related to quarries and sculpture Chapter 8: Ancient Greek quarries: installations and workshops – extraction and sculpture techniques – Georgia Kokkorou-AlevrasChapter 9: New evidence about the exploitation of Nisyrian millstone lava and its use in nisyrian workshops in antiquity – Eirene A. PoupakiChapter 10: Heracles rock reliefs at quarries and construction sites in Roman Greece: An interpretative approach – Georgios DoulfisChapter 11: Roman calcite alabasters in Tunisia – Ameur YounèsChapter 12: All about marble carving? In search of craftspeople of polychromy in the ancient Roman sculpture workshop – Amalie Skovmøller In the ateliers of potters and coroplastsChapter 13: The ‘Cracking the Code’ project: Stamna’s pithoi workshops – unveiling pottery heritage – Gioulika Christakopoulou and Helene SimoniChapter 14: The coroplast’s workshop and its production: Reflecting on the craft practices of the archaic πλάστης in Magna Graecia – Eukene Bilbao ZubiriChapter 15: Localisation, distribution and nature of pottery production of the fourth-century BC ceramic workshops in Ano Petralona, Athens: A synthesis of the available archaeological evidence – Marilena KontopanagouChapter 16: Local knowledgescapes in pottery production: A new heuristic approach to the Iron Age pottery workshops between the Arno Valley and the Po Plain – Raffaella Da Vela Construction sites, open-air workshops and building workforce Chapter 17: Athenian architecture abroad in the fifth century: Fashion or imperialism? – Jacques des CourtilsChapter 18: More on Athenian architecture abroad: Xanthos as a case study – Laurence CavalierChapter 19: Contextualizing the scaffold: Workspace within cult space and the dynamics of construction sites at Delphi – Elena C. PartidaChapter 20: Building procedures of the fortification at Kastraki on Milesian Agathonisi: Quarrying and construction sites as open-air provisional ergasteria – Konstantinos Sarantidis Repair, re-use and spolia: Concepts of chaîne operatoireChapter 21: Less piety, more pragmatics: Some diachronic observations on the re-use of Greek funerary monuments – Constanze GramlChapter 22: The practicalities of spoliation: Tool marks, craftspeople, and building logic – Anna M. SitzChapter 23: Learning by ...? And learning what? Possibilities and limitations of chaîne(s) opératoire(s)-approaches using the example of the Elgin Lyre – Susanne Bosche Academic apparatusAbbreviations Bibliography Indices