Elizabeth A Murphy
Biographic Data
| ID | 3623041 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Elizabeth A Murphy |
| GIVEN NAMES | Elizabeth A |
| FAMILY NAME | Murphy |
| SIGNATURE | MURPHY E A |
| AFFILIATIONS | New York University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6817-1987 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 16 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 14 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
From Fabric Groups to Clay Recipes
The site of the Legio X Fretensis kilnworks at Jerusalem has provided a wealth of information about Roman‐period military craft production. In this article, we take a closer look at a particular set of work processes documented at the site – those involving the selection, adaptation, and use of local clays. The Jerusalem site has yielded a rather spectacular range of clay evidence – including raw clays, unfired products, furnace linings, and fini…
An Introduction to Late Antique Cross-Craft Studies
The study of crafts and trades in the ancient Mediterranean world has garnered increased attention over the last decade, including through the investigation of cross-craft or inter-industry relations among craft producers. This body of literature represents a range of distinct approaches – including co-production, cross-craft interaction, skeuomorphism, and multicraft – each derived from different disciplinary perspectives, yet collectively these…
Bound by Binders
In the late antique period (fourth-seventh centuries AD), lime was produced and consumed in great quantities for use in building, medicine, tanning, fulling, mortuary practices, and as an agricultural fertiliser. As a result, lime kilns (and associated slaking pits) are common features of late antique contexts – both in urban and rural environments and involving public institutions and private enterprise. In this paper we consider the archaeologi…
Settlement Organization and Distribution in Bronze Age Sardinia
Nuraghi are ubiquitous in the Bronze Age Sardinian landscape, but the reasons for their distribution and wider function remain poorly understood. Here, we evaluate the argument that these megalithic fortified towers were situated for visual control and thus represent nodes of political or coercive power. Using a dataset of 102 nuraghi, we perform a normalized cumulative viewshed to quantify nuraghe visibility in southwestern Sardinia. We analyze …
Late Antique Industry in the Urban Public and Private Spaces of Asia Minor
Geç Antik Dönem’deki kentsel değişimin belirleyici özellikleri arasında endüstriyel faaliyetlerin yaygınlığı ve bu faaliyetlerin bir zamanlar kamu binaları olan yapılarda yürütüldüğü görülmektedir. Bu makale, Küçük Asya’daki Geç Antik Dönem (MS 3. yüzyıl sonu ve 7. yüzyıl arasında) endüstrisinin hem kamusal hem de özel bağlamdaki maddi kanıtları üzerine güncel bir sentez sunmayı amaçlamaktadır. Makalede 39’dan fazla şehirde bulunan 100’ün üzerind…
Intramuros
This article employs network thinking in the study of cross-craft relations in order to evaluate the interconnected nature of local economic activities. In analysing the evidence for sixth-century cross-industry relations at the site of Sagalassos, it becomes possible to reconstruct the structure of the crafting network through the directionality of resources, the work practices that sustained these relations, and the historical trajectories of e…
The Landscape Archaeology of Southwest Sardinia Project
Sardinia has played a vital integrative role in the Holocene Mediterranean, most notably—although not only—as a key locus in emergent maritime “Mediterraneanization” and as an object of contestation among mainland polities over the last three millennia. Yet, despite the florescence of Mediterranean survey archaeology, this standard method has only been sparsely employed in Sardinia, with a pronounced focus on large, urban, coastal sites. Accordin…
The Jerusalem Legio X Fretensis Kilnworks
The Legio X Fretensis Kilnworks at Binyanei Ha’uma (Jerusalem) is one of the few such legionary production sites to be excavated in recent decades and the only legionary kilnworks to be found in the Near East and Asia Minor to date. The study of its production‐related material therefore offers a necessary complement to consumer‐focused discussions of so‐called ‘legionary wares’ by providing a more refined contextualization of ceramic manufacturin…
Roman Workers and Their Workplaces
From Formal to Technical Styles
Changing tableware styles between the Roman Imperial and Late Antique periods have attracted significant attention recently, with socially constructed interpretations of consumer demand that view changing vessel shapes, sizes, and decoration in relation to communal dining practices of late antiquity. Building on that research, this study approaches such stylistic changes from the perspective of the important, yet less investigated, figure of the …
A late antique ceramic workshop complex
Sites of ceramic production have been discovered throughout the area that was once the Roman Empire; as a result, it is becoming increasingly clear that this industry was, in the Roman and late antique worlds, organised in numerous ways. In consideration of the organisational diversity in ceramic production attested during the period, this article presents some of the findings from the excavations of a late antique complex of ceramic workshops at…
Socially Embedded Work Practices and Production Organization in the Roman Mediterranean
Building upon a long tradition of production organization models developed from the 1970s through the 1990s and incorporating approaches developed by economic anthropologists, this paper proposes a new theoretical framework for the archaeological study of Roman work activities that analyzes not only the way that economic activities were structured but also the sets of practices that accompany the execution of tasks. Working outside of materially-…
Technical and Social Considerations of Tools from Roman-period Ceramic Workshops at Sagalassos (Southwest Turkey)
Archaeology has maintained a long-standing interest in ‘the tool’. In light of recent theoretical approaches to tools and technology, this paper presents the results of material analysis on a corpus of artifacts used in red-slipped ceramic production from Roman-period Sagalassos in southwest Turkey. Conceptual themes concern technological choices and the process by which tools were selected and appropriated for use in ceramic production. The tool…
Technical and Social Considerations of Tools from Roman-period Ceramic Workshops at Sagalassos (Southwest Turkey)
Archaeology has maintained a long-standing interest in 'the tool'. In light of recent theoretical approaches to tools and technology, this paper presents the results of material analysis on a corpus of artifacts used in red-slipped ceramic production from Roman-period Sagalassos in southwest Turkey. Conceptual themes concern technological choices and the process by which tools were selected and appropriated for use in ceramic production. The tool…
Technical and Social Considerations of Tools from Roman-period Ceramic Workshops at Sagalassos (Southwest Turkey)
Archaeology has maintained a long-standing interest in ‘the tool’. In light of recent theoretical approaches to tools and technology, this paper presents the results of material analysis on a corpus of artifacts used in red-slipped ceramic production from Roman-period Sagalassos in southwest Turkey. Conceptual themes concern technological choices and the process by which tools were selected and appropriated for use in ceramic production. The tool…
From Formal to Technical Styles
Changing tableware styles between the Roman Imperial and Late Antique periods have attracted significant attention recently, with socially constructed interpretations of consumer demand that view changing vessel shapes, sizes, and decoration in relation to communal dining practices of late antiquity. Building on that research, this study approaches such stylistic changes from the perspective of the important, yet less investigated, figure of the …
The Landscape Archaeology of Southwest Sardinia Project
Sardinia has played a vital integrative role in the Holocene Mediterranean, most notably—although not only—as a key locus in emergent maritime “Mediterraneanization” and as an object of contestation among mainland polities over the last three millennia. Yet, despite the florescence of Mediterranean survey archaeology, this standard method has only been sparsely employed in Sardinia, with a pronounced focus on large, urban, coastal sites. Accordin…
Socially Embedded Work Practices and Production Organization in the Roman Mediterranean
Building upon a long tradition of production organization models developed from the 1970s through the 1990s and incorporating approaches developed by economic anthropologists, this paper proposes a new theoretical framework for the archaeological study of Roman work activities that analyzes not only the way that economic activities were structured but also the sets of practices that accompany the execution of tasks. Working outside of materially-…
Settlement Organization and Distribution in Bronze Age Sardinia
Nuraghi are ubiquitous in the Bronze Age Sardinian landscape, but the reasons for their distribution and wider function remain poorly understood. Here, we evaluate the argument that these megalithic fortified towers were situated for visual control and thus represent nodes of political or coercive power. Using a dataset of 102 nuraghi, we perform a normalized cumulative viewshed to quantify nuraghe visibility in southwestern Sardinia. We analyze …
The Jerusalem Legio X Fretensis Kilnworks
The Legio X Fretensis Kilnworks at Binyanei Ha’uma (Jerusalem) is one of the few such legionary production sites to be excavated in recent decades and the only legionary kilnworks to be found in the Near East and Asia Minor to date. The study of its production‐related material therefore offers a necessary complement to consumer‐focused discussions of so‐called ‘legionary wares’ by providing a more refined contextualization of ceramic manufacturin…
A late antique ceramic workshop complex
Sites of ceramic production have been discovered throughout the area that was once the Roman Empire; as a result, it is becoming increasingly clear that this industry was, in the Roman and late antique worlds, organised in numerous ways. In consideration of the organisational diversity in ceramic production attested during the period, this article presents some of the findings from the excavations of a late antique complex of ceramic workshops at…
Technical and Social Considerations of Tools from Roman-period Ceramic Workshops at Sagalassos (Southwest Turkey)
Archaeology has maintained a long-standing interest in 'the tool'. In light of recent theoretical approaches to tools and technology, this paper presents the results of material analysis on a corpus of artifacts used in red-slipped ceramic production from Roman-period Sagalassos in southwest Turkey. Conceptual themes concern technological choices and the process by which tools were selected and appropriated for use in ceramic production. The tool…
Technical and Social Considerations of Tools from Roman-period Ceramic Workshops at Sagalassos (Southwest Turkey)
Archaeology has maintained a long-standing interest in 'the tool'. In light of recent theoretical approaches to tools and technology, this paper presents the results of material analysis on a corpus of artifacts used in red-slipped ceramic production from Roman-period Sagalassos in southwest Turkey. Conceptual themes concern technological choices and the process by which tools were selected and appropriated for use in ceramic production. The tool…
Technical and Social Considerations of Tools from Roman-period Ceramic Workshops at Sagalassos (Southwest Turkey)
Archaeology has maintained a long-standing interest in ‘the tool’. In light of recent theoretical approaches to tools and technology, this paper presents the results of material analysis on a corpus of artifacts used in red-slipped ceramic production from Roman-period Sagalassos in southwest Turkey. Conceptual themes concern technological choices and the process by which tools were selected and appropriated for use in ceramic production. The tool…
A late antique ceramic workshop complex
Sites of ceramic production have been discovered throughout the area that was once the Roman Empire; as a result, it is becoming increasingly clear that this industry was, in the Roman and late antique worlds, organised in numerous ways. In consideration of the organisational diversity in ceramic production attested during the period, this article presents some of the findings from the excavations of a late antique complex of ceramic workshops at…
Socially Embedded Work Practices and Production Organization in the Roman Mediterranean
Building upon a long tradition of production organization models developed from the 1970s through the 1990s and incorporating approaches developed by economic anthropologists, this paper proposes a new theoretical framework for the archaeological study of Roman work activities that analyzes not only the way that economic activities were structured but also the sets of practices that accompany the execution of tasks. Working outside of materially-…
Roman Workers and Their Workplaces
From Formal to Technical Styles
Changing tableware styles between the Roman Imperial and Late Antique periods have attracted significant attention recently, with socially constructed interpretations of consumer demand that view changing vessel shapes, sizes, and decoration in relation to communal dining practices of late antiquity. Building on that research, this study approaches such stylistic changes from the perspective of the important, yet less investigated, figure of the …
The Jerusalem Legio X Fretensis Kilnworks
The Legio X Fretensis Kilnworks at Binyanei Ha’uma (Jerusalem) is one of the few such legionary production sites to be excavated in recent decades and the only legionary kilnworks to be found in the Near East and Asia Minor to date. The study of its production‐related material therefore offers a necessary complement to consumer‐focused discussions of so‐called ‘legionary wares’ by providing a more refined contextualization of ceramic manufacturin…
The Landscape Archaeology of Southwest Sardinia Project
Sardinia has played a vital integrative role in the Holocene Mediterranean, most notably—although not only—as a key locus in emergent maritime “Mediterraneanization” and as an object of contestation among mainland polities over the last three millennia. Yet, despite the florescence of Mediterranean survey archaeology, this standard method has only been sparsely employed in Sardinia, with a pronounced focus on large, urban, coastal sites. Accordin…
Intramuros
This article employs network thinking in the study of cross-craft relations in order to evaluate the interconnected nature of local economic activities. In analysing the evidence for sixth-century cross-industry relations at the site of Sagalassos, it becomes possible to reconstruct the structure of the crafting network through the directionality of resources, the work practices that sustained these relations, and the historical trajectories of e…
Late Antique Industry in the Urban Public and Private Spaces of Asia Minor
Geç Antik Dönem’deki kentsel değişimin belirleyici özellikleri arasında endüstriyel faaliyetlerin yaygınlığı ve bu faaliyetlerin bir zamanlar kamu binaları olan yapılarda yürütüldüğü görülmektedir. Bu makale, Küçük Asya’daki Geç Antik Dönem (MS 3. yüzyıl sonu ve 7. yüzyıl arasında) endüstrisinin hem kamusal hem de özel bağlamdaki maddi kanıtları üzerine güncel bir sentez sunmayı amaçlamaktadır. Makalede 39’dan fazla şehirde bulunan 100’ün üzerind…
An Introduction to Late Antique Cross-Craft Studies
The study of crafts and trades in the ancient Mediterranean world has garnered increased attention over the last decade, including through the investigation of cross-craft or inter-industry relations among craft producers. This body of literature represents a range of distinct approaches – including co-production, cross-craft interaction, skeuomorphism, and multicraft – each derived from different disciplinary perspectives, yet collectively these…
Bound by Binders
In the late antique period (fourth-seventh centuries AD), lime was produced and consumed in great quantities for use in building, medicine, tanning, fulling, mortuary practices, and as an agricultural fertiliser. As a result, lime kilns (and associated slaking pits) are common features of late antique contexts – both in urban and rural environments and involving public institutions and private enterprise. In this paper we consider the archaeologi…
Settlement Organization and Distribution in Bronze Age Sardinia
Nuraghi are ubiquitous in the Bronze Age Sardinian landscape, but the reasons for their distribution and wider function remain poorly understood. Here, we evaluate the argument that these megalithic fortified towers were situated for visual control and thus represent nodes of political or coercive power. Using a dataset of 102 nuraghi, we perform a normalized cumulative viewshed to quantify nuraghe visibility in southwestern Sardinia. We analyze …
From Fabric Groups to Clay Recipes
The site of the Legio X Fretensis kilnworks at Jerusalem has provided a wealth of information about Roman‐period military craft production. In this article, we take a closer look at a particular set of work processes documented at the site – those involving the selection, adaptation, and use of local clays. The Jerusalem site has yielded a rather spectacular range of clay evidence – including raw clays, unfired products, furnace linings, and fini…
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