J Boardman
Biographic Data
| ID | 14902 |
|---|---|
| NAME | J Boardman |
| GIVEN NAMES | J |
| FAMILY NAME | Boardman |
| SIGNATURE | BOARDMAN J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Oxford |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6252-8546 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 181 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 364 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 180 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1926 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 10 |
Muddy flooding
Localised runoff from cultivated areas carrying large quantities of eroded soil that causes damage to property and freshwater systems is referred to as ‘muddy flooding’. It is widespread in western Europe though underreported in some countries. Muddy flooding is usually generated by heavy rainstorms and occurs where arable fields with little crop cover on high-risk soils are near to built-up areas and freshwater systems; and where runoff is enhan…
Communicating soil erosion in the UK
The presentation of soil erosion on agricultural land, both to the expert and the public, frequently takes the form of pictures and descriptions of extreme events. These attention-grabbing images are case studies of worst-case scenarios and serve an important purpose of warning what may happen under certain circumstances; they also have a potential to mislead. On the other hand, long-term studies of erosion are able to present extreme events in a…
Are ‘free-flowing rivers’ a good idea? The challenge of removing barriers from our rivers
The removal of barriers from rivers is a controversial topic. Barriers come in many forms including weirs, dams, sluices and bridges. Mills are listed in the 11th-century Domesday Book and shown on early Ordnance Survey (OS) maps, often with their use marked ‘corn’, etc. So, what are the arguments for removing them? As this article shows, these relate to the creation of more natural flow regimes and the re-establishment of a connection between th…
Connecting the Ancient West and East
Footpath erosion
Footpath erosion is a problem in many countries where recreational areas are impacted by large numbers of visitors. In the UK, in National Parks and on long-distance footpaths, erosion is a frequent occurrence. Park authorities spend considerable amounts of money on the maintenance and repair of paths. An assessment and measurement of change has been attempted using several methods including remote sensing, experimental trampling on selected slop…
Run‐off and sediment storage
Measures such as detention structures and buffer strips are widely used to limit off‐site damage of run‐off from eroding fields. The effectiveness of such measures varies greatly. However, ‘effectiveness’ is often narrowly defined and ignores the unintended consequences of damage to freshwater systems by sediments and other pollutants. Detention structures and buffer strips retain coarse sediment (>~100 μm diameter) but are less effective at reta…
How much is soil erosion costing us
Soils have many functions including flood alleviation and carbon storage, and act as repositories of micro-organisms and archaeological artefacts. To the farmer and to society, soils are the principal means of producing food. However, soil erosion impacts on these functions over both short and long timescales. These impacts give rise to costs to the farmer and to others away from the farm. Estimates show that off-farm costs are far greater than o…
Babylon, Memphis, Persepolis
Book Review| April 01 2019 Babylon, Memphis, Persepolis: Eastern Contexts of Greek Culture by Walter Burkert Burkert, Walter, Babylon, Memphis, Persepolis: Eastern Contexts of Greek Culture (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2004), 192 pp. John Boardman John Boardman Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Common Knowledge (2019) 25 (1-3): 451. https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754X-7312585 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Face…
Alexander the Great
The Alexander Portraits in Antiquity
This chapter explores how Alexander's life and experiences, real and imagined, were always ready subjects for illustration. As time passed, conventions for showing him and his deeds developed from the probably real, of his lifetime, to the imaginary but based on exaggeration of the “real,” to the totally fanciful. Lifelike portraiture had appeared first in Greek art in the later part of the fifth century BC—possibly first among the Greeks of Asia…
Fellow Travellers, Marco Polo to TV
This chapter considers how many travellers have attempted to follow Alexander's footsteps, or in their account of their own Asian journeys have made a point of referring to him as their forerunner, even guide. During the Great Game, the struggle between the great powers, mainly Britain and Russia, for control of Afghanistan and surrounding territory on the Gateway to India, there were many worthies in this great man's footsteps. The American Josi…
His Biographers
This chapter looks at how several contemporary scholars, courtiers, and writers who knew Alexander wrote histories of his exploits. From them scholars can glean some idea of historical events, but also the nonhistorical ones, as well as much that was generated by prejudice for or against their subject. All these historians have been discussed by Lionel Pearson in his The Lost Histories of Alexander the Great , a monograph of the American Philolog…
Alexander the Great
This book looks beyond the life of Alexander the Great in order to examine the astonishing range of Alexanders created by generations of authors, historians, and artists throughout the world, from Scotland to China. Alexander's defeat of the Persian Empire in 331 BC captured the popular imagination, inspiring an endless series of stories and representations that emerged shortly after his death and continues today. The book reflects on the most in…
The Indian Alexander
This chapter examines how in India, there is no real reflection of Alexander in the arts of Gandara in the early centuries CE, where memory of classical Indo-Greek and Parthianizied forms and subjects remained strong though far divorced from their sources. Persian and Arab adoption of Iskander/Alexander had its effect far to the east and, naturally enough, into Mughal India. There has been some doubt about whether in Indian languages “Skanda” ref…
The Persian Alexander/Iskander
This chapter discusses the challenge of determining how modern Persia/Iran might value Alexander. The land whose great empire had been destroyed by Alexander did not forget its conqueror and could even be more inclined to forgive him. Indeed, it proved to have the longest memory of antiquity, although not in the immediate aftermath of its defeat. There is virtually nothing of Alexander in Parthian story or art, and Sasanian art appears to ignore …
Collectors, Scholars, and Forgers in the Ancient World by Carolyn Higbie
Beyond Boundaries
Book Review| August 01 2018 Beyond Boundaries: Connecting Visual Cultures in the Provinces of Ancient Rome ed. by Susan E. Alcock, Mariana Egri, and James F. D. Frakes Alcock, Susan E.; Egri, Mariana; Frakes, James F. D., eds., Beyond Boundaries: Connecting Visual Cultures in the Provinces of Ancient Rome (Los Angeles: Getty Publications, 2016), 386 pp. John Boardman John Boardman Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Common …
Palmyra
Book Review| January 01 2018 Palmyra: An Irreplaceable Treasure by Paul Veyne Veyne, Paul, Palmyra: An Irreplaceable Treasure, trans. Fagan, Teresa Lavender (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2017), 88 pp. John Boardman John Boardman Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Common Knowledge (2018) 24 (1): 165. https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754X-4254048 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permission…
The Art of Contact
Book Review| August 01 2018 The Art of Contact: Comparative Approaches to Greek and Phoenician Art by Rebecca Martin Martin, Rebecca, The Art of Contact: Comparative Approaches to Greek and Phoenician Art (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2017), 282 pp. John Boardman John Boardman Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Common Knowledge (2018) 24 (3): 442. https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754X-6940274 Cite Icon Cite S…
Making water policy work in the United Kingdom
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Understanding the influence of farmer motivations on changes to soil erosion risk on sites of former serious erosion in the South Downs National Park, UK
The Hellenistic Far East
Book Review| January 01 2017 The Hellenistic Far East: Archaeology, Language, and Identity in Greek Central Asia Mairs, Rachel, The Hellenistic Far East: Archaeology, Language, and Identity in Greek Central Asia. (Oakland: University of California Press, 2014), 256 pp. John Boardman John Boardman Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Common Knowledge (2017) 23 (1): 108–109. https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754X-3692364 Cite Icon C…
Britain and the Heritage of Empire, c. 1800 – 1940
Book Review| May 01 2016 Britain and the Heritage of Empire, c. 1800 – 1940 Swenson, Astrid and Mandler, Peter, eds., Britain and the Heritage of Empire, c. 1800 – 1940, Proceedings of the British Academy, vol. 187 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013), 304 pp. John Boardman John Boardman Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Common Knowledge (2016) 22 (2): 326. https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754X-3465010 Cite Icon Cite Share …
Beauty
Chios
The island of Chios is widely believed to be the birthplace of Homer, and has since antiquity been prominent as a wine producer and trading state. Chios flourished under the Venetians and the Turks, and is a major cultural center of Greece today. This book contains twenty-six essays by international scholars on the brilliant history and art of Chios, including discussions of literature and poetry, archaeology, and painting
Al Mina and History
Woolley's finds at Al Mina and subsequent discoveries of Greek material along the Syro‐Phoenician coast, are reassessed in the light of recent claims for Phoenician priority in the dissemination of orientalia in the Mediterranean world. The markedly different character of Al Mina and the goods likely to have been distributed from the area is demonstrated by comparison of the record of Al Mina and that of other eastern sites, and the pattern of di…
Periglacial Processes and Landforms in Britain and Ireland
Soils and Quaternary Landscape Evolution
This book examines a period of spectacular environmental change, the Quaternary, with respect to soil-landscape relationships in Western Europe, the British Isles and North America. The possibilities for using soils as climatic indicators in the same way as fossils are discussed. The major themes emerging from the book are: the importance of soil stratigraphy in understanding Quaternary sedimentary sequences; the problems of soil-dating and the s…
Soil Erosion on Agricultural Land
The Oxford History of Classical Art
1: John Boardman: Introduction. 2: Alan Johnston: Pre-Classical Greece. 3: John Boardman: The Classical Period. 4: R. R. R. Smith: The Hellenistic Period. 5: J.J. Pollitt: Rome: The Republic and Early Empire. 6: Janet Huskinson: The Later Roman Empire. 7: John Boardman: The Diffusion of Classical Art. Further Reading. List of Illustrations. General Index
Artemis Orthia and chronology
The British School's work in the sanctuary of Artemis Orthia at Sparta was in its day generally hailed as a classic example of carefully observed stratigraphic excavation in Greece. Equally general has been the reluctance of scholars to accept the dates which were proposed by the excavators for their finds on the basis of their observations on stratigraphy and pottery contexts. In this the excavators were at fault in their choice of absolute date…
Chian and Early Ionic architecture
In the first part of this article are listed the architectural fragments found at or near the site of the temple of Apollo Phanaios in South Chios, including several hitherto unpublished mouldings. The discussion of them is prompted by the excavations conducted by the British School at Athens from 1952 to 1955 at Emporio, some 8 km. from Phanai, and the discovery there of parts of more than one early Ionic building. The similarity of the Emporio …
Socio-economic factors in soil erosion and conservation
Exekias
An approach is proposed for the study of vase painters through appraisal of their choice of subjects compared with that of their contemporaries and predecessors. Exekias' interest in Trojan scenes is explored and in particular his innovations and apparent interest in scenes including Ajax and Achilles, together or alone. It is tentatively suggested that this reflects a positive attitude counter to the myth-propaganda of Peisistratan Athens, and t…
The Cambridge Ancient History
Soil erosion and flooding on the eastern South Downs, southern England, 1976–2001
The South Downs in southern England have been farmed for 5000 years: the initial loess cover is now a thin, stony remnant as a result of erosion. During the 1980s, field monitoring of erosion events in an area of 36 km 2 showed that average rates of erosion are low (0.5–5.0 m 3 ha −1 yr −1 ), but that occasional storms result in losses of over 200 m 3 ha −1 yr −1 on individual fields. On soils that are only 15 cm thick, such rates pose a threat t…
Damage to Property by Runoff from Agricultural Land, South Downs, Southern England, 1976-93
During the last 15 years erosion and the flooding of properties have been associated with the growing of winter cereals on the South Downs. In the relatively wet Winters of 1982-83, 1987-88 and 1990-91 flooding resulted in considerable costs which were borne largely by local authorities, individual householders and their insurance companies. The management options were fully discussed in 1984 but the response to the threat of flooding has in gene…
Muddy floods on the South Downs, southern England
Trade in Greek Decorated Pottery
The suggestions that Greek decorated pottery was cheap, and that in trade overseas it can be regarded as little more than ‘saleable ballast', are refuted by demonstration of its relative value, by weight and by volume, beside that of other commodities for which comparable evidence is available. From this its profitability may also be deduced
Athenian Black Figure Vases
Pyramidal Stamp Seals in the Persian Empire
Making water policy work in the United Kingdom
Modelling long-term anthropogenic erosion of a loess cover
There is growing archaeological evidence that erosion induced by prehistoric agricultural activities has, in many parts of Europe, greatly thinned an original thick loess cover. The evidence for this is, however, almost entirely observational and qualitative. Whether in the time available, anthropogenic activity could have produced modern thin loessial soils has not been quantitatively evaluated. This study adopts a novel modelling approach in th…
Clay Analyses of Archaic Greek Pottery
The study of Greek pottery of the Archaic period has reached the point at which most groups can be identified on stylistic grounds alone and confidently assigned to their place of manufacture, while in some groups works of individual studios, painters, and potters can be detected. There remain, however, both many problem pieces whose origin is disputed or unknown, and some major classes about which, for example, it is still possible to argue whet…
Evidence for the Dating of Greek Settlements in Cyrenaica
The British School's excavations in collaboration with the Libyan Department of Antiquities at Tocra (ancient Taucheira) have demonstrated that this colony was founded very soon after the traditional date for the foundation of Cyrene itself (631 B.C.). In connexion with the excavations the present writer and Mr. John Hayes, who is publishing the pottery from Tocra, took the opportunity to collect evidence of the earliest Greek finds on other site…
Eastern Greeks - J. M. Cook
Eastern Greeks - J. M. Cook: The Greeks in Ionia and the East. (Ancient Peoples and Places, vol. 31.) Pp. 268; 76 figs, in plates, 53 text-figs. London: Thames & Hudson, 1962. Cloth, 30s. net. - Volume 14 Issue 1
From Gibbon to Auden
Book Review| August 01 2010 From Gibbon to Auden: Essays on the Classical Tradition G. W. Bowersock, From Gibbon to Auden: Essays on the Classical Tradition (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009), 240 pp. John Boardman John Boardman Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Common Knowledge (2010) 16 (3): 557–558. https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754X-2010-018 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementa…
A Collection of Classical and Eastern Intaglios, Rings and Cameos
This volume presents a selection from a large private collection of engraved gems, finger rings and cylinder seals. It was created from 1921 through the 1960s from various sources, and includes many examples from old collections that had come on to the market, notably the Evans, Southesk, and (for later gems) Poniatowski, as well as many purchased from dealers and in auctions. They are now in the possession of the collector's son, who encouraged …
Bronze Age Greece and Libya
The possibility of relations between Greece, especially Crete, and Libya, in the Bronze Age has been explored by many scholars. The Minoans and Mycenaeans seem to have been no less intrepid seafarers than their successors in the period of Greek colonization, to whom the shores of Cyrenaica soon became familiar. Professor Stucchi has reviewed these matters in ( Quaderni di archeologia della Libia v (1967) 19 ff., but he goes further since he belie…
A Gift from a Founder Member
The generosity of a Founder Member of The Business Historical Society, Mr. N. Penrose Hallowell, who has contributed the sum of $1,000 to the Society, has resulted in the acquisition of a large collection of miscellaneous books, pamphlets, pictures, broadsides, maps, and manuscript from Rutland, Vermont
Pottery from Eretria
Most of the material published in this study is at present housed in the National Museum at Athens or in the museum at Eretria. It was excavated by the Greek Archaeological Service and under the direction of Kourouniotes over the period of years 1897–1917; annual reports were published in PAE . The vases which Kourouniotes published in AE 1903 and the black figure amphorae published by Laurent in AE 1901 were taken to Athens, together with all th…
British Excavations--Chios
Painted Votive Plaques and an Early Inscription from Aegina
This article is intended to serve as an introduction to the study of painted votive plaques; not that such a study is by any means novel, but since Otto Benndorf's published work on them the amount of material known has increased, and further consideration of them both as painted objects and as dedications seems desirable. As well as a general survey of their nature, name, and decoration, a more detailed account of eighth- and seventh-century exa…
Excavation on the Kofinà Ridge, Chios
The School's decision to undertake work in the island of Chios was made possible by the generosity of an anonymous donor. The work was placed under my direction, and in the first year (1952) excavations were carried out on a limited scale during three weeks of June on the Kofinà ridge in Chios town, while soundings were made on an Early Bronze Age site at Emporio near Pyrgi on the south coast of the island, where work has since continued. The sit…
The Khaniale Tekke Tombs
The material from the Khaniale Tekke tombs was excavated by me in 1940, but most of it had not been photographed, and some vases had been left still unrepaired when the Germans invaded Crete, and they were inaccessible to me when I returned to Crete in 1945. The presence of ‘Geometric’ tombs on this site was first reported to me by the foreman at Knossos, the late Emmanuel Akoumianos, whose eagle eye for ancient remains was noted by Sir Arthur Ev…
Archaeology in Greece, 1955
British Excavations—Chios
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Painted Funerary Plaques and some Remarks on Prothesis
Throughout the history of figure-decorated pottery in Attica the artists also painted flat clay plaques for use as dedications. In addition, for a limited period of a little over a century we find from their workshops similar objects designed specifically for the decoration of tombs: it is with these that this article is concerned, and a catalogue of the surviving examples known to me is appended. All are painted in the black-figure technique and…
Chios Excavations, 1954
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Chian and Naucratite
The fine white-slipped pottery decorated in a lively East Greek style which was first found in quantity at Naucratis in Egypt was soon dubbed ‘Naucratite’ and considered the local product of Greek craftsmen. Subsequent excavations on the island of Chios showed that the same pottery and the same techniques were known there from Late Geometric times, long before the Greek settlement at Naucratis, and more recent excavations there have made the Chia…
Delphinion in Chios
In 412 B.C., when the Peloponnesian War had reached its most critical stage for Athens after her Sicilian losses, Chios and Erythrae revolted from the Athenian League and appealed to Sparta for armed assistance. This was sent, despite Athenian attempts at interception, and the revolt spread up and down the Asia Minor coast. The Athenians reacted quickly, sent ships to Samos, recaptured Lesbos, and opened operations against Chios by raiding the co…
The Athenian Agora
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Recent Discoveries at Olympia
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A Hellenic Fortification Tower on the Kefala Ridge at Knossos
In the course of a search for tombs in the Knossos area during the spring of 1951 I noticed some large blocks of limestone masonry with curved edges that had just been removed from a newly planted vineyard, the property of Georgios Kargatzes, near the top of the hill forming the southern end of the long ridge on the northern tip of which stands the Isopata Royal Tomb. The site is about 250 metres north-west of the Zafer Papoura cemetery of Late M…
Early Euboean Pottery and History
This paper is divided into three sections. In the first a group of pottery fragments from Chalcis serves as an introduction to a study of early Euboean pottery, and of its appearance and imitation in other parts of the Greek world. In the second some archaic and black-figured vases are published as addenda to my article on ‘Pottery from Eretria’ in BSA xlvii. 1–48, plates 1–14. This I refer to here simply as Eretria . Finally some historical cons…
Unpublished Linear a Inscriptions in Oxford
UNPUBLISHED LINEAR A INSCRIPTIONS IN OXFORD John Boardman John Boardman Ashmolean Museum, Oxford Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies, Volume 5, Issue 1, December 1958, Pages 11–12, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.2041-5370.1958.tb00608.x Published: 12 March 2010
An Early Actor; And Some Herakles-and-Nereus Scenes
AN EARLY ACTOR; AND SOME HERAKLES-AND-NEREUS SCENES Get access John Boardman John Boardman Ashmolean Museum, Oxford Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies, Volume 5, Issue 1, December 1958, Pages 6–10, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.2041-5370.1958.tb00607.x Published: 12 March 2010
Excavations at Pindakas in Chios
Pindakas is a small and low hill lying about 1·5 km. from the harbour at Emporio in South Chios. It is at the foot of the hills which divide the modern town of Pyrgi from the Emporio valley, but it also commands access to the adjacent valley to the north, that leading to modern Kalamoti (see Figs, 1 and 2). The position is, however, one which is better called convenient than strategic. The name must derive from πίδαξ, ‘spring’ or ‘fountain’, and,…
Old Smyrna
The earliest fine Attic pottery (excluding scraps of Geometric ware) found at the site of Old Smyrna was made in the first quarter of the sixth century (see no. 2 in the Catalogue below), although it is not until the second quarter that it appears on the site in any appreciable volume. One of the earliest, and incidentally most complete vases among otherwise very fragmentary material, is a lebes gamikos (no. 1 ) from the workshop of Sophilos, and…
Greek Potters at Al Mina
The subject of this paper is a small group of cups found by Sir Leonard Woolley in his excavations at Al Mina (now in the Turkish Hatay). It has been hitherto ignored because, with some reason, the vases were believed neither to be Greek imports nor the products of Cypriot or North Syrian potters. I hope to demonstrate that they could be the work of Greek potters established at Al Mina towards the end of the 8th century B.C. by discussing their a…
Chian and Early Ionic architecture
In the first part of this article are listed the architectural fragments found at or near the site of the temple of Apollo Phanaios in South Chios, including several hitherto unpublished mouldings. The discussion of them is prompted by the excavations conducted by the British School at Athens from 1952 to 1955 at Emporio, some 8 km. from Phanai, and the discovery there of parts of more than one early Ionic building. The similarity of the Emporio …
Protogeometric graves at Agios Ioannis near Knossos
The graves published here lie in a group by the junction of the main Knossos–Heraklion road and the secondary road to Ambelakia (Fig. 1). In May 1939 workmen widening the road to Ambelakia uncovered a tomb (Tomb I) which was cleared by the British School's Curator at Knossos, Mr. R. W. Hutchinson. In the summer of the same year the late Mr. T. J. Dunbabin, then Assistant Director of the British School, excavated five other tombs (Tombs II–VI) in …
The Multiple Brush
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Underwater reconnaissance off the island of Chios, 1954
In June and July of 1954 a team often divers spent just over four weeks exploring the east coast of Chios. The team was based on Emporio in the south-east, where the British School was excavating under the direction of M. S. F. Hood and J. Boardman, and was thus able to rely on the archaeologists there for expert guidance. Most of the underwater work took place in this area, but the team was also able to spend some time exploring the north-east c…
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