Athanasios K Vionis
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 205044 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Athanasios K Vionis |
| NOMBRES | Athanasios K |
| APELLIDO | Vionis |
| FIRMA | VIONIS A K |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Cyprus |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1658-4034 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 22 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 41 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 22 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2004 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
A petrographic contribution to the study of handmade vessels from Early medieval Greece
Cooking pottery as indicator of resilience and change in Early Medieval Cyprus. An archaeometric approach
The early medieval times in Cyprus are signified, conventionally, by the Arab invasions of the mid-seventh century (649/650CE). Past research viewed those events as the catalyst which led to a transformation from a prosperous province to a marginal territory balancing between two antagonising empires. Recently, studies have shifted their focus on reassessing this period's scant -yet present- material culture. In pottery studies, despite the advan…
Landscape archaeology in a contested space
This paper presents the activities carried out in the context of the public outreach framework of the Settled and Sacred Landscapes of Cyprus (SeSaLaC) and the Unlocking the Sacred Landscapes of Cyprus (UnSaLa-CY) projects of the Archaeological Research Unit of the University of Cyprus in a former conflict zone, the Xeros River valley (Larnaca district) in Cyprus. The public outreach initiatives were born out of the long-term aim of the projects …
The Construction of Sacred Landscapes and Maritime Identities in the Post-Medieval Cyclades Islands
The Cyclades islands in the South Aegean initially attracted the attention of prehistorians approaching islands as 'laboratories' for the study of cultural development, examining the notions of 'isolation' and 'connectivity', or, more recently, by introducing new terminologies, such as 'seascape' and 'islandscape'. The wealth of material remains of the post-medieval era in the Cyclades islands (e.g., ecclesiastical architecture, ceramics) and the…
Religious and Insular Identities in Context
The introductory article offers a general overview of the highly complicated concept of insularity as discussed variously in historical and archaeological discourse. It also provides a context of sacred landscapes and religious identities, when discussed in relation to insularity. Finally, it outlines the general themes discussed in this Special Issue and situates the Unlocking Sacred Landscapes (UnSaLa) research network and the current volume in…
The origins and evolution of Cypriot glazed ware productions during the thirteenth to seventeenth centuries CE
This paper challenges the conventional characterisation of glazed ware productions in the eastern Mediterranean, especially the ones which did not feature the use of opaque or tin-glazed technology, as technologically stagnant and unsusceptible to broader socio-economic developments from the late medieval period onwards. Focusing on the Cypriot example, we devise a new approach that combines scientific analyses (thin-section petrography and SEM-E…
A guide to good practice in Mediterranean surface survey projects
This article deals with a relatively new form of archaeological research in the Mediterranean region – intensive surface survey, coverage of the landscape by teams walking in close order, recording patterns of human activity visible on the landsurface as scatters of pottery and lithics, or building remains. Since 2000, archaeologists from Dutch and Belgian universities working on Mediterranean survey projects have gathered annually to discuss met…
Landscape approaches to the evolution of the Byzantine/Medieval village-community in Greece
The Greek landscape preserves a wide diversity of settlements of different character, which were established or developed especially during the later Post-Medieval and Early Modern periods (17th–19th centuries). Early studies in Post-Medieval and traditional rural settlements, with specific reference to Greece, have made a distinction between permanent and temporary ones. Temporary agricultural and pastoral settlements usually comprised 40–50 καλ…
Digital Humanities and Ritual Space
In this editorial article for the Special Issue on Unlocking Sacred Landscapes: Digital Humanities and Ritual Space , we introduce the applicability of digital humanities to the study of ritual space. The Issue focuses on digital approaches both to ritual space and to artefacts relating to ritual practice and cult. The terms ritual and cult are used broadly to include sanctuaries, temples and churches, as well as the domestic and funerary spheres…
Popular Religion and Material Responses to Pandemic
This article explores the materiality of the Orthodox Christian cult of the Epitaphios on Good Friday of 2020 when, during the COVID-19 pandemic, social distancing and isolation were deemed the most effective means of protecting societies from exposure to the virus. Epitaphios is a metonym that references a venerated object, a decorated cloth or wooden icon bearing the image of Christ prepared for burial. It is placed upon a wooden bier, represen…
The beginning of glazed ware production in late medieval Cyprus
Ottoman archaeology in Greece
Some areas of the territory of present-day Greece were under Ottoman rule for more than 500 years. To date, the study of this period has largely been neglected, with academic research generally focused on Prehistoric and ancient Greece. However, over the course of the last 20 years, there have been noteworthy developments in the study of the Ottoman history and archaeology of Greece. This paper has two aims: (1) to summarize research conducted in…
Glaze technology in the medieval and post-medieval Mediterranean
Sacred Townscapes in Late Antique Greece
The towns and surrounding rural areas of the Eastern Roman Empire experienced a remarkable boom during Late Antiquity (late fourth to seventh century ad), which involved both extraordinary diversity from region to region but also continuities and parallel transformations in town size and monumentality. Early investment in church and fortification building on behalf of an ecclesiastical and secular/urban elite gave way to a gradual, progressive ‘C…
Cooking fabric recipes
Characterizing the Historic Landscapes of Naxos
Historic Landscape Characterization (HLC) is a methodology for historic landscape studies pioneered in Britain. Using satellite imagery and RAF archival air photographs, Naxos provides an excellent pilot study to explore the application of this technique to the historic landscapes of the eastern Mediterranean. Our research identifies a number of discrete HLC types and considers their development from the Byzantine period to modern times. In addit…
Characterizing the Historic Landscapes of Naxos
Historic Landscape Characterization (HLC) is a methodology for historic landscape studies pioneered in Britain. Using satellite imagery and RAF archival air photographs, Naxos provides an excellent pilot study to explore the application of this technique to the historic landscapes of the eastern Mediterranean. Our research identifies a number of discrete HLC types and considers their development from the Byzantine period to modern times. In addit…
A Middle–Late Byzantine Pottery Assemblage from Sagalassos
Hesperia: The Journal of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens - Volume 79, Number 3, July-September 2010
The hidden material culture of the Dark Ages. Early medieval ceramics at Sagalassos (Turkey)
On the basis of recent archaeological evidence unearthed in the course of systematic excavations by the Sagalassos Archaeological Research Project (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven) in southwestern Turkey, this paper attempts to pull together different strings of ceramic data in order to bridge the era between late antiquity and the Middle Ages (mid seventh century to ninth century AD). Our aim is to present samples of the ceramic assemblages excav…
The Thirteenth–Sixteenth-century Kastro of Kephalos
The thirteenth-to-sixteenth-century (“Venetian”) defended settlement of Kephalos on the island of Paros was surveyed by the Cyclades Research Project (CY.RE.P.). This article offers an archaeological case-study of the kastro by examining and interpreting its medieval material remains (defensive walls, chapels, cisterns, domestic structures and surface potsherds). Moreover, on the basis of combined information from written sources and comparable b…
Domestic material culture and post-medieval archaeology in Greece
The Kyklades or Cycladic Islands have always been popular amongst archaeologists working on the Aegean Bronze Age and the 'glorious' Classical Greek past. In contrast, not much light has been shed upon aspects of post-Roman life on the islands. Research into the post-medieval period has been a subject mainly for historians and folklorists. This paper attempts to explore aspects of the lifestyle of the peoples who inhabited this island group throu…
The Tanagra Project
John Bintliff et alii Το Πρόγραμμα της Τανάγρας: έρευνες σε μια αρχαία πόλη της Βοιωτίας και στη χώρα της (2000-2002) σ. 541-606 Το άρθρο αυτό παρουσιάζει τα προκαταρκτικά αποτελέσματα του προγράμματος Leiden-Ljubljana για την αρχαία πόλη της Τανάγρας και για τα περίχωρά της, στην ανατολική Βοιωτία. Οι εργασίες ξεκίνησαν το 1999, από μια μεγάλη ομάδα αποτελούμενη από ερευνητές και φοιτητές από την Ολλανδία, το Βέλγιο, τη Σλοβενία και την Ελλάδα. …
A Middle–Late Byzantine Pottery Assemblage from Sagalassos
Hesperia: The Journal of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens - Volume 79, Number 3, July-September 2010
The beginning of glazed ware production in late medieval Cyprus
Cooking fabric recipes
Cooking pottery as indicator of resilience and change in Early Medieval Cyprus. An archaeometric approach
The early medieval times in Cyprus are signified, conventionally, by the Arab invasions of the mid-seventh century (649/650CE). Past research viewed those events as the catalyst which led to a transformation from a prosperous province to a marginal territory balancing between two antagonising empires. Recently, studies have shifted their focus on reassessing this period's scant -yet present- material culture. In pottery studies, despite the advan…
The origins and evolution of Cypriot glazed ware productions during the thirteenth to seventeenth centuries CE
This paper challenges the conventional characterisation of glazed ware productions in the eastern Mediterranean, especially the ones which did not feature the use of opaque or tin-glazed technology, as technologically stagnant and unsusceptible to broader socio-economic developments from the late medieval period onwards. Focusing on the Cypriot example, we devise a new approach that combines scientific analyses (thin-section petrography and SEM-E…
Popular Religion and Material Responses to Pandemic
This article explores the materiality of the Orthodox Christian cult of the Epitaphios on Good Friday of 2020 when, during the COVID-19 pandemic, social distancing and isolation were deemed the most effective means of protecting societies from exposure to the virus. Epitaphios is a metonym that references a venerated object, a decorated cloth or wooden icon bearing the image of Christ prepared for burial. It is placed upon a wooden bier, represen…
Ottoman archaeology in Greece
Some areas of the territory of present-day Greece were under Ottoman rule for more than 500 years. To date, the study of this period has largely been neglected, with academic research generally focused on Prehistoric and ancient Greece. However, over the course of the last 20 years, there have been noteworthy developments in the study of the Ottoman history and archaeology of Greece. This paper has two aims: (1) to summarize research conducted in…
Domestic material culture and post-medieval archaeology in Greece
The Kyklades or Cycladic Islands have always been popular amongst archaeologists working on the Aegean Bronze Age and the 'glorious' Classical Greek past. In contrast, not much light has been shed upon aspects of post-Roman life on the islands. Research into the post-medieval period has been a subject mainly for historians and folklorists. This paper attempts to explore aspects of the lifestyle of the peoples who inhabited this island group throu…
Sacred Townscapes in Late Antique Greece
The towns and surrounding rural areas of the Eastern Roman Empire experienced a remarkable boom during Late Antiquity (late fourth to seventh century ad), which involved both extraordinary diversity from region to region but also continuities and parallel transformations in town size and monumentality. Early investment in church and fortification building on behalf of an ecclesiastical and secular/urban elite gave way to a gradual, progressive ‘C…
The Tanagra Project
John Bintliff et alii Το Πρόγραμμα της Τανάγρας: έρευνες σε μια αρχαία πόλη της Βοιωτίας και στη χώρα της (2000-2002) σ. 541-606 Το άρθρο αυτό παρουσιάζει τα προκαταρκτικά αποτελέσματα του προγράμματος Leiden-Ljubljana για την αρχαία πόλη της Τανάγρας και για τα περίχωρά της, στην ανατολική Βοιωτία. Οι εργασίες ξεκίνησαν το 1999, από μια μεγάλη ομάδα αποτελούμενη από ερευνητές και φοιτητές από την Ολλανδία, το Βέλγιο, τη Σλοβενία και την Ελλάδα. …
A petrographic contribution to the study of handmade vessels from Early medieval Greece
The Construction of Sacred Landscapes and Maritime Identities in the Post-Medieval Cyclades Islands
The Cyclades islands in the South Aegean initially attracted the attention of prehistorians approaching islands as 'laboratories' for the study of cultural development, examining the notions of 'isolation' and 'connectivity', or, more recently, by introducing new terminologies, such as 'seascape' and 'islandscape'. The wealth of material remains of the post-medieval era in the Cyclades islands (e.g., ecclesiastical architecture, ceramics) and the…
Digital Humanities and Ritual Space
In this editorial article for the Special Issue on Unlocking Sacred Landscapes: Digital Humanities and Ritual Space , we introduce the applicability of digital humanities to the study of ritual space. The Issue focuses on digital approaches both to ritual space and to artefacts relating to ritual practice and cult. The terms ritual and cult are used broadly to include sanctuaries, temples and churches, as well as the domestic and funerary spheres…
Glaze technology in the medieval and post-medieval Mediterranean
The Tanagra Project
John Bintliff et alii Το Πρόγραμμα της Τανάγρας: έρευνες σε μια αρχαία πόλη της Βοιωτίας και στη χώρα της (2000-2002) σ. 541-606 Το άρθρο αυτό παρουσιάζει τα προκαταρκτικά αποτελέσματα του προγράμματος Leiden-Ljubljana για την αρχαία πόλη της Τανάγρας και για τα περίχωρά της, στην ανατολική Βοιωτία. Οι εργασίες ξεκίνησαν το 1999, από μια μεγάλη ομάδα αποτελούμενη από ερευνητές και φοιτητές από την Ολλανδία, το Βέλγιο, τη Σλοβενία και την Ελλάδα. …
Domestic material culture and post-medieval archaeology in Greece
The Kyklades or Cycladic Islands have always been popular amongst archaeologists working on the Aegean Bronze Age and the 'glorious' Classical Greek past. In contrast, not much light has been shed upon aspects of post-Roman life on the islands. Research into the post-medieval period has been a subject mainly for historians and folklorists. This paper attempts to explore aspects of the lifestyle of the peoples who inhabited this island group throu…
The Thirteenth–Sixteenth-century Kastro of Kephalos
The thirteenth-to-sixteenth-century (“Venetian”) defended settlement of Kephalos on the island of Paros was surveyed by the Cyclades Research Project (CY.RE.P.). This article offers an archaeological case-study of the kastro by examining and interpreting its medieval material remains (defensive walls, chapels, cisterns, domestic structures and surface potsherds). Moreover, on the basis of combined information from written sources and comparable b…
The hidden material culture of the Dark Ages. Early medieval ceramics at Sagalassos (Turkey)
On the basis of recent archaeological evidence unearthed in the course of systematic excavations by the Sagalassos Archaeological Research Project (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven) in southwestern Turkey, this paper attempts to pull together different strings of ceramic data in order to bridge the era between late antiquity and the Middle Ages (mid seventh century to ninth century AD). Our aim is to present samples of the ceramic assemblages excav…
A Middle–Late Byzantine Pottery Assemblage from Sagalassos
Hesperia: The Journal of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens - Volume 79, Number 3, July-September 2010
Characterizing the Historic Landscapes of Naxos
Historic Landscape Characterization (HLC) is a methodology for historic landscape studies pioneered in Britain. Using satellite imagery and RAF archival air photographs, Naxos provides an excellent pilot study to explore the application of this technique to the historic landscapes of the eastern Mediterranean. Our research identifies a number of discrete HLC types and considers their development from the Byzantine period to modern times. In addit…
Characterizing the Historic Landscapes of Naxos
Historic Landscape Characterization (HLC) is a methodology for historic landscape studies pioneered in Britain. Using satellite imagery and RAF archival air photographs, Naxos provides an excellent pilot study to explore the application of this technique to the historic landscapes of the eastern Mediterranean. Our research identifies a number of discrete HLC types and considers their development from the Byzantine period to modern times. In addit…
Cooking fabric recipes
Sacred Townscapes in Late Antique Greece
The towns and surrounding rural areas of the Eastern Roman Empire experienced a remarkable boom during Late Antiquity (late fourth to seventh century ad), which involved both extraordinary diversity from region to region but also continuities and parallel transformations in town size and monumentality. Early investment in church and fortification building on behalf of an ecclesiastical and secular/urban elite gave way to a gradual, progressive ‘C…
The beginning of glazed ware production in late medieval Cyprus
Ottoman archaeology in Greece
Some areas of the territory of present-day Greece were under Ottoman rule for more than 500 years. To date, the study of this period has largely been neglected, with academic research generally focused on Prehistoric and ancient Greece. However, over the course of the last 20 years, there have been noteworthy developments in the study of the Ottoman history and archaeology of Greece. This paper has two aims: (1) to summarize research conducted in…
Glaze technology in the medieval and post-medieval Mediterranean
A guide to good practice in Mediterranean surface survey projects
This article deals with a relatively new form of archaeological research in the Mediterranean region – intensive surface survey, coverage of the landscape by teams walking in close order, recording patterns of human activity visible on the landsurface as scatters of pottery and lithics, or building remains. Since 2000, archaeologists from Dutch and Belgian universities working on Mediterranean survey projects have gathered annually to discuss met…
Landscape approaches to the evolution of the Byzantine/Medieval village-community in Greece
The Greek landscape preserves a wide diversity of settlements of different character, which were established or developed especially during the later Post-Medieval and Early Modern periods (17th–19th centuries). Early studies in Post-Medieval and traditional rural settlements, with specific reference to Greece, have made a distinction between permanent and temporary ones. Temporary agricultural and pastoral settlements usually comprised 40–50 καλ…
Digital Humanities and Ritual Space
In this editorial article for the Special Issue on Unlocking Sacred Landscapes: Digital Humanities and Ritual Space , we introduce the applicability of digital humanities to the study of ritual space. The Issue focuses on digital approaches both to ritual space and to artefacts relating to ritual practice and cult. The terms ritual and cult are used broadly to include sanctuaries, temples and churches, as well as the domestic and funerary spheres…
Popular Religion and Material Responses to Pandemic
This article explores the materiality of the Orthodox Christian cult of the Epitaphios on Good Friday of 2020 when, during the COVID-19 pandemic, social distancing and isolation were deemed the most effective means of protecting societies from exposure to the virus. Epitaphios is a metonym that references a venerated object, a decorated cloth or wooden icon bearing the image of Christ prepared for burial. It is placed upon a wooden bier, represen…
The origins and evolution of Cypriot glazed ware productions during the thirteenth to seventeenth centuries CE
This paper challenges the conventional characterisation of glazed ware productions in the eastern Mediterranean, especially the ones which did not feature the use of opaque or tin-glazed technology, as technologically stagnant and unsusceptible to broader socio-economic developments from the late medieval period onwards. Focusing on the Cypriot example, we devise a new approach that combines scientific analyses (thin-section petrography and SEM-E…
The Construction of Sacred Landscapes and Maritime Identities in the Post-Medieval Cyclades Islands
The Cyclades islands in the South Aegean initially attracted the attention of prehistorians approaching islands as 'laboratories' for the study of cultural development, examining the notions of 'isolation' and 'connectivity', or, more recently, by introducing new terminologies, such as 'seascape' and 'islandscape'. The wealth of material remains of the post-medieval era in the Cyclades islands (e.g., ecclesiastical architecture, ceramics) and the…
Religious and Insular Identities in Context
The introductory article offers a general overview of the highly complicated concept of insularity as discussed variously in historical and archaeological discourse. It also provides a context of sacred landscapes and religious identities, when discussed in relation to insularity. Finally, it outlines the general themes discussed in this Special Issue and situates the Unlocking Sacred Landscapes (UnSaLa) research network and the current volume in…
Landscape archaeology in a contested space
This paper presents the activities carried out in the context of the public outreach framework of the Settled and Sacred Landscapes of Cyprus (SeSaLaC) and the Unlocking the Sacred Landscapes of Cyprus (UnSaLa-CY) projects of the Archaeological Research Unit of the University of Cyprus in a former conflict zone, the Xeros River valley (Larnaca district) in Cyprus. The public outreach initiatives were born out of the long-term aim of the projects …
Cooking pottery as indicator of resilience and change in Early Medieval Cyprus. An archaeometric approach
The early medieval times in Cyprus are signified, conventionally, by the Arab invasions of the mid-seventh century (649/650CE). Past research viewed those events as the catalyst which led to a transformation from a prosperous province to a marginal territory balancing between two antagonising empires. Recently, studies have shifted their focus on reassessing this period's scant -yet present- material culture. In pottery studies, despite the advan…
A petrographic contribution to the study of handmade vessels from Early medieval Greece
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