Caspar Meyer
Biographic Data
| ID | 3979390 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Caspar Meyer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Caspar |
| FAMILY NAME | Meyer |
| SIGNATURE | MEYER C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Birkbeck, University of London |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7285-3892 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 27 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Nomadic Material Culture: Eurasian Archeology beyond Textual Traditions
The term nomadic material culture refers to the tools, equipment, and other tangible items associated with communities that are characterized by a high degree of residential mobility [...]
Gold Artifacts from the Early Scythian Princely Tomb Arzhan 2, Tuva—Aesthetics, Function, and Technology
This article explores the extraordinarily rich gold finds from the Early Scythian princely tomb Arzhan 2 in the Republic of Tuva, southern Siberia (late 7th to early 6th centuries BCE), through the methodological framework of the chaîne opératoire (operational sequence), in order to reconstruct the objects’ processes of manufacture. Through an interdisciplinary study of the finds at the State Hermitage in Saint Petersburg, the principal author an…
Rhythm and possibility: Making space for ancient futures
This essay explores some of the ways in which archeology and possibility studies can enrich each other’s understanding of time, agency and materiality in human behavior. It discusses the implications of linear conceptions of time for our perception of human pasts and futures, and argues for the adoption of rhythm as an alternative mode of inquiry that is capable of liberating the past from our hindsight and making space for the possible as a gene…
Domesticating the Ancient House: The Archaeology of a False Analogy
Historians and archaeologists habitually describe ancient households as domestic contexts without explaining what the neologism means or how it relates to Greek and Roman household organization. This chapter interrogates the disciplinary usage of the term by exploring how the category of the ‘domestic’ has evolved at the intersection between representations of private life in modern museum galleries and Athenian vase-painting, on the one hand, an…
Ancient vases in modern vitrines: The sensory dynamics and social implications of museum display
This contribution explores the changing sensory priorities underpinning the display of Greek painted pottery in European collections. The focus is on the introduction of glass-fronted cabinets in the purpose-designed public museums of art and archaeology of the mid-nineteenth century. Contrary to expectations, the contemporaneous debates surrounding the use of gallery furniture show that the museum stakeholders were less worried about the safety …
Foucault's Clay Feet: Ancient Greek Vases in Modern Theories of Sex
Although Michel Foucault never mentions the objects explicitly, his work on ancient Greek sexuality depends in critical aspects on evidence from sex scenes on ancient Greek pottery. The significance of the images comes to the fore in his argument concerning the radical difference of the gender-blind ethics of desire in Greek antiquity from the gender-based norms of modernity. In the overarching narrative of his multi-volume genealogy of modern se…
Rostovtzeff, Michael I. (1870–1952)
Rostovtzeff is mostly known for his seminal books on the social and economic history of the Roman Empire and the Hellenistic world, written in the United States after escaping the Bolshevik Revolution in his native Russia. Owing to his stress on “middle‐class” merchants, industrialists, and bankers as the backbone of ancient civilization, his work became embroiled in the controversy on the nature of the ancient economy. This debate, now considere…
Greco-Scythian Art in Practice
This chapter examines the evidence of Greco-Scythian art in practice by focusing on tombside feasts from burial mounds on the Bosporus. It suggests that those feasts provided one of the primary sites for the use and display of Greco-Scythian metalwork and defined elite power as a religious system independent of other forms of statehood on the Bosporus, especially the Greek polis. It also considers religion in ancient Bosporus in relation to the v…
Looking at Greco-Scythian Art
This chapter examines how the figured scenes in Greco-Scythian art relayed notions of elite virtue and how the objects guided and gave meaning to real-life activities. It attempts to reconcile iconographic and agency-based approaches to Greco-Scythian art in order to analyse the notion that Greek nudity in art was anchored in the Greeks' supposedly untroubled attitude to nakedness in life. It looks at a number of examples of draped nudes to highl…
Conclusion
This book has explored the social lives of Greco-Scythian art over an extensive chronological span from the perspective of the disciplinary traditions of classical archaeology, making ample reference to a selection of the most important grave assemblages from mounded tombs on the Cimmerian Bosporus that were excavated in pre-Revolutionary times. It has also analysed a variety of status occupations represented on the Greco-Scythian implements, par…
Greco-Scythian Art and the Birth of Eurasia: From Classical Antiquity to Russian Modernity
Since their discovery in nineteenth-century Russia, Greco-Scythian artefacts have been interpreted as masterpieces by Greek craftsmen working according to the tastes of the Scythian nomads and creating realistic depictions of their barbarian patrons. Drawing on a broad array of evidence from archaeology, art history, and epigraphy to contextualise Greco-Scythian metalwork in ancient society, this volume confronts the deep confusion between ancien…
Le sacrement scythe. Rostovtseff, son interprétation de l’art gréco-scythe et l’étude de l’interaction culturelle dans le royaume du Bosphore
Cet essai analyse le modèle par lequel Rostovtseff proposait d’interpréter l’archéologie du littoral septentrional de la mer Noire, en le replaçant dans le contexte de la science et de l’historiographie russe et européenne de son époque. La discussion porte principalement sur les scènes de commensalité représentées dans la toreutique gréco-scythe et sur les possibilités qu’offre leur interprétation en rapport avec les anciennes religions à mystèr…
Essays in Classical Archaeology for Eleni Hatzivassiliou 1977-2007
A collection of essays dedicated to the memory of Eleni Hatzivassiliou (1977-2007). The range of subjects reflects her broad circle of friends. Many are her contemporaries, but many are very senior scholars; ages range from 25 to 80. It is truly remarkable that someone who had not yet reached her thirtieth birthday could have come to know so many scholars and win their admiration and affection
A Greek Metrological Koine: A Lead Weight From the Western Black Sea Region in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
A unique commercial lead weight from the western Black Sea region is examined in its metrological and historical context. The style and combination of relief symbols on the object (Athenian owl and Kyzikene tunny) suggest a quarter mina in a market weight system used equivalently at Athens and Kyzikos by the last quarter of the fifth century BC, and developed within a long‐term process of broad commercial integration of the Aegean and Black Seas …
Greco-Scythian Art and the Birth of Eurasia: From Classical Antiquity to Russian Modernity
Since their discovery in nineteenth-century Russia, Greco-Scythian artefacts have been interpreted as masterpieces by Greek craftsmen working according to the tastes of the Scythian nomads and creating realistic depictions of their barbarian patrons. Drawing on a broad array of evidence from archaeology, art history, and epigraphy to contextualise Greco-Scythian metalwork in ancient society, this volume confronts the deep confusion between ancien…
Essays in Classical Archaeology for Eleni Hatzivassiliou 1977-2007
A collection of essays dedicated to the memory of Eleni Hatzivassiliou (1977-2007). The range of subjects reflects her broad circle of friends. Many are her contemporaries, but many are very senior scholars; ages range from 25 to 80. It is truly remarkable that someone who had not yet reached her thirtieth birthday could have come to know so many scholars and win their admiration and affection
Foucault's Clay Feet: Ancient Greek Vases in Modern Theories of Sex
Although Michel Foucault never mentions the objects explicitly, his work on ancient Greek sexuality depends in critical aspects on evidence from sex scenes on ancient Greek pottery. The significance of the images comes to the fore in his argument concerning the radical difference of the gender-blind ethics of desire in Greek antiquity from the gender-based norms of modernity. In the overarching narrative of his multi-volume genealogy of modern se…
A Greek Metrological Koine: A Lead Weight From the Western Black Sea Region in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
A unique commercial lead weight from the western Black Sea region is examined in its metrological and historical context. The style and combination of relief symbols on the object (Athenian owl and Kyzikene tunny) suggest a quarter mina in a market weight system used equivalently at Athens and Kyzikos by the last quarter of the fifth century BC, and developed within a long‐term process of broad commercial integration of the Aegean and Black Seas …
Essays in Classical Archaeology for Eleni Hatzivassiliou 1977-2007
A collection of essays dedicated to the memory of Eleni Hatzivassiliou (1977-2007). The range of subjects reflects her broad circle of friends. Many are her contemporaries, but many are very senior scholars; ages range from 25 to 80. It is truly remarkable that someone who had not yet reached her thirtieth birthday could have come to know so many scholars and win their admiration and affection
Le sacrement scythe. Rostovtseff, son interprétation de l’art gréco-scythe et l’étude de l’interaction culturelle dans le royaume du Bosphore
Cet essai analyse le modèle par lequel Rostovtseff proposait d’interpréter l’archéologie du littoral septentrional de la mer Noire, en le replaçant dans le contexte de la science et de l’historiographie russe et européenne de son époque. La discussion porte principalement sur les scènes de commensalité représentées dans la toreutique gréco-scythe et sur les possibilités qu’offre leur interprétation en rapport avec les anciennes religions à mystèr…
Greco-Scythian Art in Practice
This chapter examines the evidence of Greco-Scythian art in practice by focusing on tombside feasts from burial mounds on the Bosporus. It suggests that those feasts provided one of the primary sites for the use and display of Greco-Scythian metalwork and defined elite power as a religious system independent of other forms of statehood on the Bosporus, especially the Greek polis. It also considers religion in ancient Bosporus in relation to the v…
Looking at Greco-Scythian Art
This chapter examines how the figured scenes in Greco-Scythian art relayed notions of elite virtue and how the objects guided and gave meaning to real-life activities. It attempts to reconcile iconographic and agency-based approaches to Greco-Scythian art in order to analyse the notion that Greek nudity in art was anchored in the Greeks' supposedly untroubled attitude to nakedness in life. It looks at a number of examples of draped nudes to highl…
Conclusion
This book has explored the social lives of Greco-Scythian art over an extensive chronological span from the perspective of the disciplinary traditions of classical archaeology, making ample reference to a selection of the most important grave assemblages from mounded tombs on the Cimmerian Bosporus that were excavated in pre-Revolutionary times. It has also analysed a variety of status occupations represented on the Greco-Scythian implements, par…
Greco-Scythian Art and the Birth of Eurasia: From Classical Antiquity to Russian Modernity
Since their discovery in nineteenth-century Russia, Greco-Scythian artefacts have been interpreted as masterpieces by Greek craftsmen working according to the tastes of the Scythian nomads and creating realistic depictions of their barbarian patrons. Drawing on a broad array of evidence from archaeology, art history, and epigraphy to contextualise Greco-Scythian metalwork in ancient society, this volume confronts the deep confusion between ancien…
Rostovtzeff, Michael I. (1870–1952)
Rostovtzeff is mostly known for his seminal books on the social and economic history of the Roman Empire and the Hellenistic world, written in the United States after escaping the Bolshevik Revolution in his native Russia. Owing to his stress on “middle‐class” merchants, industrialists, and bankers as the backbone of ancient civilization, his work became embroiled in the controversy on the nature of the ancient economy. This debate, now considere…
Foucault's Clay Feet: Ancient Greek Vases in Modern Theories of Sex
Although Michel Foucault never mentions the objects explicitly, his work on ancient Greek sexuality depends in critical aspects on evidence from sex scenes on ancient Greek pottery. The significance of the images comes to the fore in his argument concerning the radical difference of the gender-blind ethics of desire in Greek antiquity from the gender-based norms of modernity. In the overarching narrative of his multi-volume genealogy of modern se…
Ancient vases in modern vitrines: The sensory dynamics and social implications of museum display
This contribution explores the changing sensory priorities underpinning the display of Greek painted pottery in European collections. The focus is on the introduction of glass-fronted cabinets in the purpose-designed public museums of art and archaeology of the mid-nineteenth century. Contrary to expectations, the contemporaneous debates surrounding the use of gallery furniture show that the museum stakeholders were less worried about the safety …
Domesticating the Ancient House: The Archaeology of a False Analogy
Historians and archaeologists habitually describe ancient households as domestic contexts without explaining what the neologism means or how it relates to Greek and Roman household organization. This chapter interrogates the disciplinary usage of the term by exploring how the category of the ‘domestic’ has evolved at the intersection between representations of private life in modern museum galleries and Athenian vase-painting, on the one hand, an…
Rhythm and possibility: Making space for ancient futures
This essay explores some of the ways in which archeology and possibility studies can enrich each other’s understanding of time, agency and materiality in human behavior. It discusses the implications of linear conceptions of time for our perception of human pasts and futures, and argues for the adoption of rhythm as an alternative mode of inquiry that is capable of liberating the past from our hindsight and making space for the possible as a gene…
Nomadic Material Culture: Eurasian Archeology beyond Textual Traditions
The term nomadic material culture refers to the tools, equipment, and other tangible items associated with communities that are characterized by a high degree of residential mobility [...]
Gold Artifacts from the Early Scythian Princely Tomb Arzhan 2, Tuva—Aesthetics, Function, and Technology
This article explores the extraordinarily rich gold finds from the Early Scythian princely tomb Arzhan 2 in the Republic of Tuva, southern Siberia (late 7th to early 6th centuries BCE), through the methodological framework of the chaîne opératoire (operational sequence), in order to reconstruct the objects’ processes of manufacture. Through an interdisciplinary study of the finds at the State Hermitage in Saint Petersburg, the principal author an…
History (11 works) · Art (9 works) · Archaeology (7 works) · Classical Antiquity Studies (5 works) · Eurasian Exchange Networks (5 works) · Ancient history (4 works) · Byzantine Studies and History (4 works) · Classics (4 works) · Geography (4 works) · History (4 works)