M M T Loy
Biographic Data
| ID | 4436017 |
|---|---|
| NAME | M M T Loy |
| GIVEN NAMES | M M T |
| FAMILY NAME | Loy |
| SIGNATURE | LOY M M T |
| AFFILIATIONS | British School at Athens |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9120-0515 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Institutionalization and Market Integration in the Archaic Greek Economy
This article advances the view that there was widespread institutionalization in the early Greek economy from the end of the eighth century bce. Challenging the widespread assumption that Mediterranean market integration crystallized much later and only by the end of the ‘archaic period’, agent-based modelling is used here alongside the archaeological distribution of Samian transport amphoras to demonstrate the coordination that must have existed…
Field Data from the West Area of Samos Archaeological Project (Wasap), 2021–2024
The West Area of Samos Archaeological Project was an interdisciplinary fieldwork project, combining reconnaissance survey, intensive pedestrian fieldwalking, ethnographic research and drone photography in west Samos. It was co-directed by Anastasia Christophilopoulou (Cambridge/Boston MFA), Michael Loy (Cambridge/Durham), Naoíse Mac Sweeney (Vienna) and Jana Mokrišová (Cambridge, 2021 and 2022 only), under the aegis of the British School at Athen…
Collecting Data in the Conservation Lab for Network Visualisation
This article presents the results of a cooperation between conservators and archaeologists in the study of a large assemblage of broken ceramic vessels from a communal tomb, which had multiple episodes of mortuary activity as well as later disturbances. The data collected by the conservators was used with open access software to create a network visualisation of the joins between the pottery sherds found in the tomb. This contributed to the under…
The West Area of Samos Archaeological Project
The West Area of Samos Archaeological Project (WASAP) conducted fieldwork over four years (2021–4), with the aim of investigating the western portion of the island of Samos. This article presents the results of the work undertaken in the southern part of the WASAP study area. WASAP fieldwork in this area was focused on the plain of Marathokampos, and areas of the southern coastline between Koumeiika in the east and Limnionas in the west. The data…
The Landscape and Networks of South-West Samos
This article uses the assemblage of surface-survey ceramics collected in the 2021 and 2022 West Area of Samos Archaeological Project (WASAP) field seasons to discuss the landscape structure and networking patterns (internal and external to the island) of Archaic through Byzantine south-west Samos. Collected in the basin of Marathokampos with intensive field pedestrian methods, a subset of a dataset of 1303 ceramics is discussed alongside the envi…
Landscapes of (dis)connection
The Coastal Landscape of West Samos in the Seventh and Sixth Centuries BCE
This article uses a combination of archaeological, environmental and historical evidence to consider where the most plausible shipping routes and landing points were around the west part of the Aegean island of Samos during the period 700-500 BCE, a time known for significant maritime activity in the region.Emerging evidence suggests that the west part of Samos, although subject year-round to strong and dangerous winds and lacking in safe anchora…
The Samians on Ikaria
Seven inscriptions from Oine on Ikaria that refer to Samians residing on the island have long been used to argue the case for Samian political control over Ikaria. This article seeks to reassess what these inscriptions tell us about Samian-Ikarian interactions by exploring different models of connectivity for the two islands. Specifically, this article considers short-range mobility, and the capacity of each island to perform various political fu…
Introduction and overview
This introduction presents the structure and contents of the current issue of Archaeological Reports. It also offers an overview (not meant to be exhaustive) of archaeological activity in Greece over the past 12 months, focusing on major exhibitions and other cultural events as well as on important recent publications
Coinage networks in fifth-century BCE Ionia
This article revisits ‘the problem of Classical Ionia’, the long-persisting idea put forward by John Manuel Cook in 1961 that Ionia experienced regional economic impoverishment in the fifth century BCE. By looking comprehensively at the dataset of coinage available from fifth-century Ionia, this article argues that there is actually significant evidence for regional networking in Classical Ionia, and that various communities, even if not continua…
Connecting Communities in Archaic Greece
This is a new history of Greece in the seventh and sixth centuries BC written for the twenty-first century. It brings together archaeological data from over 100 years of 'Big Dig' excavation in Greece, employing experimental data analysis techniques from the digital humanities to identify new patterns about Archaic Greece. By modelling trade routes, political alliances, and the formation of personal- and state-networks, the book sheds new light o…
Introduction and overview
This introduction presents the structure and contents of the current issue of Archaeology in Greece. It also offers an overview (not meant to be exhaustive) of archaeological activity in Greece over the past 12 months, focusing on major exhibitions and other cultural events as well as on important recent publications
George Finlay in Egypt and Switzerland
George Finlay was a British gentlemen and philhellene, resident in Greece in the mid-nineteenth century. His journals, letters, library and antiquities now reside at the British School at Athens, collections that provide a wealth of information both about Finlay himself and about the world of his contemporaries. This paper looks at two episodes from Finlay’s life as preserved in his archive, documenting two overseas travels: the first is a tour a…
A brief history of the BSA Museum Study Collection
The BSA Museum houses a study collection of artefacts donated to the BSA and collected by its members up to the 1960s. The collection provides a valuable resource for teaching and research, enabling scholars to gain first-hand familiarity with objects from a range of material types (including ceramics, metals, stone, terracotta) dating from the Neolithic through to the Late Byzantine period. The collection comprises some 4,000 individual artefact…
From Archive to GIS
This article is a case study in doing new things with old data. In 1953 Lord William Taylour directed the excavation of a monumental vaulted tholos tomb known as 'Tholos IV' at the site of ancient Pylos, Messenia, Greece. The excavation was conducted over two months, during which detailed notes were recorded in three notebooks now kept in the Archives of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens. The formal publication of Tholos IV, howe…
Shedding Light on the Matter
Reconstructing moments in ancient history is done most effectively when we draw together different types of evidence. Particularly given the fragmentary and random shape of our datasets, many scholars would agree that it is important to combine material – and sometimes patterns only become visible when we do so in new and experimental ways. As scholarship on ancient Greek religion has become increasingly interdisciplinary in recent years, many sc…
The islands of the Saronic Gulf
This article reviews a decade of publications and rescue excavations on the islands of Aegina, Poros and Salamis, and on the island-like Methana peninsula. Considerable amounts of new data have come to light that demonstrate how, from prehistory through to more recent times, the islands of the Saronic Gulf have been plugged in to networks with one another, with their neighbouring mainlands and with the wider Aegean. Moreover, a not insignificant …
Early Modern Travellers in the Aegean
This study uses the collection of fifteenth- to twentieth-century travel literature from the BSA library to consider issues of (elite) mobility in the Aegean Sea. These texts contain a wealth of information on the routes chosen by travellers between various islands and mainland ports, and on the navigability of the Aegean basin. By using a combination of computational Proximal Point Analysis and Social Network Analysis, these routes are visualise…
A brief history of the BSA Museum Study Collection
The BSA Museum houses a study collection of artefacts donated to the BSA and collected by its members up to the 1960s. The collection provides a valuable resource for teaching and research, enabling scholars to gain first-hand familiarity with objects from a range of material types (including ceramics, metals, stone, terracotta) dating from the Neolithic through to the Late Byzantine period. The collection comprises some 4,000 individual artefact…
Shedding Light on the Matter
Reconstructing moments in ancient history is done most effectively when we draw together different types of evidence. Particularly given the fragmentary and random shape of our datasets, many scholars would agree that it is important to combine material – and sometimes patterns only become visible when we do so in new and experimental ways. As scholarship on ancient Greek religion has become increasingly interdisciplinary in recent years, many sc…
Early Modern Travellers in the Aegean
This study uses the collection of fifteenth- to twentieth-century travel literature from the BSA library to consider issues of (elite) mobility in the Aegean Sea. These texts contain a wealth of information on the routes chosen by travellers between various islands and mainland ports, and on the navigability of the Aegean basin. By using a combination of computational Proximal Point Analysis and Social Network Analysis, these routes are visualise…
Early Modern Travellers in the Aegean
This study uses the collection of fifteenth- to twentieth-century travel literature from the BSA library to consider issues of (elite) mobility in the Aegean Sea. These texts contain a wealth of information on the routes chosen by travellers between various islands and mainland ports, and on the navigability of the Aegean basin. By using a combination of computational Proximal Point Analysis and Social Network Analysis, these routes are visualise…
The islands of the Saronic Gulf
This article reviews a decade of publications and rescue excavations on the islands of Aegina, Poros and Salamis, and on the island-like Methana peninsula. Considerable amounts of new data have come to light that demonstrate how, from prehistory through to more recent times, the islands of the Saronic Gulf have been plugged in to networks with one another, with their neighbouring mainlands and with the wider Aegean. Moreover, a not insignificant …
From Archive to GIS
This article is a case study in doing new things with old data. In 1953 Lord William Taylour directed the excavation of a monumental vaulted tholos tomb known as 'Tholos IV' at the site of ancient Pylos, Messenia, Greece. The excavation was conducted over two months, during which detailed notes were recorded in three notebooks now kept in the Archives of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens. The formal publication of Tholos IV, howe…
Shedding Light on the Matter
Reconstructing moments in ancient history is done most effectively when we draw together different types of evidence. Particularly given the fragmentary and random shape of our datasets, many scholars would agree that it is important to combine material – and sometimes patterns only become visible when we do so in new and experimental ways. As scholarship on ancient Greek religion has become increasingly interdisciplinary in recent years, many sc…
A brief history of the BSA Museum Study Collection
The BSA Museum houses a study collection of artefacts donated to the BSA and collected by its members up to the 1960s. The collection provides a valuable resource for teaching and research, enabling scholars to gain first-hand familiarity with objects from a range of material types (including ceramics, metals, stone, terracotta) dating from the Neolithic through to the Late Byzantine period. The collection comprises some 4,000 individual artefact…
Connecting Communities in Archaic Greece
This is a new history of Greece in the seventh and sixth centuries BC written for the twenty-first century. It brings together archaeological data from over 100 years of 'Big Dig' excavation in Greece, employing experimental data analysis techniques from the digital humanities to identify new patterns about Archaic Greece. By modelling trade routes, political alliances, and the formation of personal- and state-networks, the book sheds new light o…
Introduction and overview
This introduction presents the structure and contents of the current issue of Archaeology in Greece. It also offers an overview (not meant to be exhaustive) of archaeological activity in Greece over the past 12 months, focusing on major exhibitions and other cultural events as well as on important recent publications
George Finlay in Egypt and Switzerland
George Finlay was a British gentlemen and philhellene, resident in Greece in the mid-nineteenth century. His journals, letters, library and antiquities now reside at the British School at Athens, collections that provide a wealth of information both about Finlay himself and about the world of his contemporaries. This paper looks at two episodes from Finlay’s life as preserved in his archive, documenting two overseas travels: the first is a tour a…
The Coastal Landscape of West Samos in the Seventh and Sixth Centuries BCE
This article uses a combination of archaeological, environmental and historical evidence to consider where the most plausible shipping routes and landing points were around the west part of the Aegean island of Samos during the period 700-500 BCE, a time known for significant maritime activity in the region.Emerging evidence suggests that the west part of Samos, although subject year-round to strong and dangerous winds and lacking in safe anchora…
The Samians on Ikaria
Seven inscriptions from Oine on Ikaria that refer to Samians residing on the island have long been used to argue the case for Samian political control over Ikaria. This article seeks to reassess what these inscriptions tell us about Samian-Ikarian interactions by exploring different models of connectivity for the two islands. Specifically, this article considers short-range mobility, and the capacity of each island to perform various political fu…
Introduction and overview
This introduction presents the structure and contents of the current issue of Archaeological Reports. It also offers an overview (not meant to be exhaustive) of archaeological activity in Greece over the past 12 months, focusing on major exhibitions and other cultural events as well as on important recent publications
Coinage networks in fifth-century BCE Ionia
This article revisits ‘the problem of Classical Ionia’, the long-persisting idea put forward by John Manuel Cook in 1961 that Ionia experienced regional economic impoverishment in the fifth century BCE. By looking comprehensively at the dataset of coinage available from fifth-century Ionia, this article argues that there is actually significant evidence for regional networking in Classical Ionia, and that various communities, even if not continua…
Field Data from the West Area of Samos Archaeological Project (Wasap), 2021–2024
The West Area of Samos Archaeological Project was an interdisciplinary fieldwork project, combining reconnaissance survey, intensive pedestrian fieldwalking, ethnographic research and drone photography in west Samos. It was co-directed by Anastasia Christophilopoulou (Cambridge/Boston MFA), Michael Loy (Cambridge/Durham), Naoíse Mac Sweeney (Vienna) and Jana Mokrišová (Cambridge, 2021 and 2022 only), under the aegis of the British School at Athen…
Collecting Data in the Conservation Lab for Network Visualisation
This article presents the results of a cooperation between conservators and archaeologists in the study of a large assemblage of broken ceramic vessels from a communal tomb, which had multiple episodes of mortuary activity as well as later disturbances. The data collected by the conservators was used with open access software to create a network visualisation of the joins between the pottery sherds found in the tomb. This contributed to the under…
The West Area of Samos Archaeological Project
The West Area of Samos Archaeological Project (WASAP) conducted fieldwork over four years (2021–4), with the aim of investigating the western portion of the island of Samos. This article presents the results of the work undertaken in the southern part of the WASAP study area. WASAP fieldwork in this area was focused on the plain of Marathokampos, and areas of the southern coastline between Koumeiika in the east and Limnionas in the west. The data…
The Landscape and Networks of South-West Samos
This article uses the assemblage of surface-survey ceramics collected in the 2021 and 2022 West Area of Samos Archaeological Project (WASAP) field seasons to discuss the landscape structure and networking patterns (internal and external to the island) of Archaic through Byzantine south-west Samos. Collected in the basin of Marathokampos with intensive field pedestrian methods, a subset of a dataset of 1303 ceramics is discussed alongside the envi…
Landscapes of (dis)connection
Institutionalization and Market Integration in the Archaic Greek Economy
This article advances the view that there was widespread institutionalization in the early Greek economy from the end of the eighth century bce. Challenging the widespread assumption that Mediterranean market integration crystallized much later and only by the end of the ‘archaic period’, agent-based modelling is used here alongside the archaeological distribution of Samian transport amphoras to demonstrate the coordination that must have existed…
Archaeology (12 works) · History (12 works) · Ancient Mediterranean Archaeology and History (10 works) · Geography (10 works) · History (9 works) · Ancient history (7 works) · Classical Antiquity Studies (6 works) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Archaeology and Historical Studies (4 works)