John A Riley
Biographic Data
| ID | 796238 |
|---|---|
| NAME | John A Riley |
| GIVEN NAMES | John A |
| FAMILY NAME | Riley |
| SIGNATURE | RILEY J A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Manchester |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0139-5991 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 42 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 22 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1975 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The public image
Craig Campbell, Agitating images
Labyrinths of Space and Time * Andrei Tarkovsky
The two latest books on Tarkovsky take very different approaches to their subject: Labyrinths of Space and Time is a film theory tract, while The Collector of Dreams is a memoir of the author's friendship and working relationship with the director. The theoretical and the personal – these are the two main approaches to writing about Tarkovsky. Past examples of both approaches include Robert Bird's rethinking of Tarkovsky's films in terms of ‘pitc…
DVD Reviews
Mental representations
A Theory of Pronominal Reference Based on Information Theory - Part Ii
In this part II, new definitions of speaker reference' and co-reference' are given. A theory of coding and reference in discourse is constructed involving the Lambrecht theory of information and using the idea that reference is never to a linguistic expression, but rather to the mental representation of expressions. The key result is: let D denote a discourse, m a mental representation, p an expression coding m in D. If m is identifiable and acti…
A Theory of Pronominal Reference Based on Information Theory—part 1
Survey of the 'Abu Sha'ar-Nile Road
In January 1989 a survey conducted by the University of Delaware studied all, and redrew plans of most, key installations along the ancient thoroughfare between the Red Sea coast at 'Abu Sha'ar and the Nile emporium of Kainopolis (Qena). Installations in the Roman quarries at Mons Porphyrites were also examined. The survey dated activity at these sites primarily through careful analysis of surface ceramics and secondarily with reference to epigra…
Fieldwork on the Red Sea Coast
Pre-Islamic Pottery from Ajdabiyah
In the course of the Islamic period excavations at Ajdabiyah during the 1970s, three sondages through the floor of the Islamic mosque, produced a limited amount of pre-Islamic pottery. The pottery ranged in date from the early Hellenistic period through to the seventh century AD, attesting more or less continuous occupation of the area. The suite of pottery shapes resembled those commonly occurring in stratified levels at Berenice (Benghazi), ill…
Neutron activation analysis of some roman and islamic coarse wares of western cyrenaica and crete
Higher Research on Libyan Topics in British Universities 1960–1981
A list of 57 theses on Libyan topics successfully presented to British Universities from 1960–1981 is presented as a guide to the range and scope of research in this area
Islamic Wares from Ajdabiyah
A provisional typology for the Islamic glazed and domestic pottery from the excavations of the Fatimid mosque at Ajdabiyah is presented. The bulk of this pottery is likely to belong to the eleventh and twelfth centuries A.D. In addition, attention is drawn to the results of a programme of petrological analysis of the fabrics. Functional and typological variation was found to relate to fabric variation
Imported Grain Mills at Cyrene
There are, in the gardens of the Department of Antiquities at Cyrene, two well preserved grain mills which probably date to the early Imperial Roman period. The context and location of their discovery within Cyrene is not known and their dating must rely on parallels from elsewhere. Moreover, it cannot be certain that each catillus (upper millstone) originally belonged with the meta (lower millstone) with which it is now associated, although it s…
Amphoras in the Apollonia Museum Store
The store rooms of the Department of Antiquities at Apollonia contain pottery from excavations at Apollonia and Ras el Hilal, together with a few stray finds from other sites (including some from the sea collected by the Royal Air Force Aqualung Society in the 1950s and early 1960s). The bulk of this material dates in the later Roman period (i.e. sixth century A.D. onwards), but includes a little earlier Roman and some Hellenistic pottery. There …
Petrological Examination of Coarse-ware Stirrup-jars from Mycenae
Elemental analysis of coarse-ware stirrup-jars from Thebes provided the first objective evidence for the movement of coarse wares in the Late Bronze Age Aegean. While the evidence of the optical emission spectrometry analysis indicates that stirrup-jars occur in several fabrics, the assignation of these fabrics to specific sources has been the subject of some debate, summarized and discussed in the light of fresh evidence by Catling and Jones but…
The Excavation at Tocra 1974
It is the purpose of this article to provide a convenient summary of the full report of the Tocra kiln site excavation (appearing in Libya Antiqua : Riley, in press 2) to incorporate fresh information which has now become available as a result of the Berenice excavations (Lloyd 1977), and to present, in summary, a revised format for the quantified figures. A considerable quantity of coarse pottery (over 12,000 sherds, weighing nearly 700 kg) was …
Industrial Standardisation in Cyrenaica during the Second and Third Centuries A.D
A detailed study of the coarse pottery of Cyrenaica, and particularly Berenice, in the Hellenistic and Roman periods (Riley, in press) indicates that, with the exception of the total disappearance of locally made amphoras, the Romanisation of Cyrenaica made no impact on the local pottery industry until around the middle of the second century A.D. Indeed, at a time of rapidly increasing prosperity in Cyrenaica from the Augustan period, the local p…
Neutron Activation Analysis of Roman Coarse Ware From Cyrenaica
The Petrological Investigation of Roman and Islamic Ceramics from Cyrenaica
The methodology of Mediterranean pottery study (for all periods, but especially for the Roman period) has developed considerably over the past fifteen years, and the range of questions asked of it has been greatly extended. Alongside the traditional approach to pottery studies, which concentrates on typology and chronology, there has been an increasing emphasis on the characterization and determination of the origin of pottery using scientific me…
Medieval Spiral Ware from Carthage
‘SPIRAL WARE’ MEDIEVALE DA CARTAGINE Si presentano alcuni esemplari di ‘Spiral Ware’ medievale da Cartagine insieme ai risultati delle analisi mineralogico-petrografiche degli impasti e di un'analisi del rivestimento. Dalla prima analisi si possono distinguere due gruppi di ‘Spiral Ware’: il 1° gruppo, di origine vulcanica e quindi importato, potrebbe venire dall' Etruria o dalla Campania, e corrisponde strettamente ad esemplari trovati a Roma. I…
The Pottery from the First Session of Excavation in the Caesarea Hippodrome
Topographie des tranchees lors de cette 1 campagne. Les poteries des niveaux byzantins: amphores de type 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7| ustensiles de cuisine| unguentaria| mortiers syriens| poterie emaillee islamique| divers. Meme repartition pour les autres niveaux. Un test de quantification des poteries byzantines a ete effectue: l'A. souligne la necessite d'etablir les frequences des differents types de poteries et de leurs techniques de fabrication pou…
Islamic Wares from Ajdabiyah
A provisional typology for the Islamic glazed and domestic pottery from the excavations of the Fatimid mosque at Ajdabiyah is presented. The bulk of this pottery is likely to belong to the eleventh and twelfth centuries A.D. In addition, attention is drawn to the results of a programme of petrological analysis of the fabrics. Functional and typological variation was found to relate to fabric variation
The Petrological Investigation of Roman and Islamic Ceramics from Cyrenaica
The methodology of Mediterranean pottery study (for all periods, but especially for the Roman period) has developed considerably over the past fifteen years, and the range of questions asked of it has been greatly extended. Alongside the traditional approach to pottery studies, which concentrates on typology and chronology, there has been an increasing emphasis on the characterization and determination of the origin of pottery using scientific me…
Neutron activation analysis of some roman and islamic coarse wares of western cyrenaica and crete
Amphoras in the Apollonia Museum Store
The store rooms of the Department of Antiquities at Apollonia contain pottery from excavations at Apollonia and Ras el Hilal, together with a few stray finds from other sites (including some from the sea collected by the Royal Air Force Aqualung Society in the 1950s and early 1960s). The bulk of this material dates in the later Roman period (i.e. sixth century A.D. onwards), but includes a little earlier Roman and some Hellenistic pottery. There …
Survey of the 'Abu Sha'ar-Nile Road
In January 1989 a survey conducted by the University of Delaware studied all, and redrew plans of most, key installations along the ancient thoroughfare between the Red Sea coast at 'Abu Sha'ar and the Nile emporium of Kainopolis (Qena). Installations in the Roman quarries at Mons Porphyrites were also examined. The survey dated activity at these sites primarily through careful analysis of surface ceramics and secondarily with reference to epigra…
Fieldwork on the Red Sea Coast
Pre-Islamic Pottery from Ajdabiyah
In the course of the Islamic period excavations at Ajdabiyah during the 1970s, three sondages through the floor of the Islamic mosque, produced a limited amount of pre-Islamic pottery. The pottery ranged in date from the early Hellenistic period through to the seventh century AD, attesting more or less continuous occupation of the area. The suite of pottery shapes resembled those commonly occurring in stratified levels at Berenice (Benghazi), ill…
Industrial Standardisation in Cyrenaica during the Second and Third Centuries A.D
A detailed study of the coarse pottery of Cyrenaica, and particularly Berenice, in the Hellenistic and Roman periods (Riley, in press) indicates that, with the exception of the total disappearance of locally made amphoras, the Romanisation of Cyrenaica made no impact on the local pottery industry until around the middle of the second century A.D. Indeed, at a time of rapidly increasing prosperity in Cyrenaica from the Augustan period, the local p…
Neutron Activation Analysis of Roman Coarse Ware From Cyrenaica
Mental representations
Imported Grain Mills at Cyrene
There are, in the gardens of the Department of Antiquities at Cyrene, two well preserved grain mills which probably date to the early Imperial Roman period. The context and location of their discovery within Cyrene is not known and their dating must rely on parallels from elsewhere. Moreover, it cannot be certain that each catillus (upper millstone) originally belonged with the meta (lower millstone) with which it is now associated, although it s…
Petrological Examination of Coarse-ware Stirrup-jars from Mycenae
Elemental analysis of coarse-ware stirrup-jars from Thebes provided the first objective evidence for the movement of coarse wares in the Late Bronze Age Aegean. While the evidence of the optical emission spectrometry analysis indicates that stirrup-jars occur in several fabrics, the assignation of these fabrics to specific sources has been the subject of some debate, summarized and discussed in the light of fresh evidence by Catling and Jones but…
The Excavation at Tocra 1974
It is the purpose of this article to provide a convenient summary of the full report of the Tocra kiln site excavation (appearing in Libya Antiqua : Riley, in press 2) to incorporate fresh information which has now become available as a result of the Berenice excavations (Lloyd 1977), and to present, in summary, a revised format for the quantified figures. A considerable quantity of coarse pottery (over 12,000 sherds, weighing nearly 700 kg) was …
Medieval Spiral Ware from Carthage
‘SPIRAL WARE’ MEDIEVALE DA CARTAGINE Si presentano alcuni esemplari di ‘Spiral Ware’ medievale da Cartagine insieme ai risultati delle analisi mineralogico-petrografiche degli impasti e di un'analisi del rivestimento. Dalla prima analisi si possono distinguere due gruppi di ‘Spiral Ware’: il 1° gruppo, di origine vulcanica e quindi importato, potrebbe venire dall' Etruria o dalla Campania, e corrisponde strettamente ad esemplari trovati a Roma. I…
The Pottery from the First Session of Excavation in the Caesarea Hippodrome
Topographie des tranchees lors de cette 1 campagne. Les poteries des niveaux byzantins: amphores de type 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7| ustensiles de cuisine| unguentaria| mortiers syriens| poterie emaillee islamique| divers. Meme repartition pour les autres niveaux. Un test de quantification des poteries byzantines a ete effectue: l'A. souligne la necessite d'etablir les frequences des differents types de poteries et de leurs techniques de fabrication pou…
The Petrological Investigation of Roman and Islamic Ceramics from Cyrenaica
The methodology of Mediterranean pottery study (for all periods, but especially for the Roman period) has developed considerably over the past fifteen years, and the range of questions asked of it has been greatly extended. Alongside the traditional approach to pottery studies, which concentrates on typology and chronology, there has been an increasing emphasis on the characterization and determination of the origin of pottery using scientific me…
Medieval Spiral Ware from Carthage
‘SPIRAL WARE’ MEDIEVALE DA CARTAGINE Si presentano alcuni esemplari di ‘Spiral Ware’ medievale da Cartagine insieme ai risultati delle analisi mineralogico-petrografiche degli impasti e di un'analisi del rivestimento. Dalla prima analisi si possono distinguere due gruppi di ‘Spiral Ware’: il 1° gruppo, di origine vulcanica e quindi importato, potrebbe venire dall' Etruria o dalla Campania, e corrisponde strettamente ad esemplari trovati a Roma. I…
The Excavation at Tocra 1974
It is the purpose of this article to provide a convenient summary of the full report of the Tocra kiln site excavation (appearing in Libya Antiqua : Riley, in press 2) to incorporate fresh information which has now become available as a result of the Berenice excavations (Lloyd 1977), and to present, in summary, a revised format for the quantified figures. A considerable quantity of coarse pottery (over 12,000 sherds, weighing nearly 700 kg) was …
Industrial Standardisation in Cyrenaica during the Second and Third Centuries A.D
A detailed study of the coarse pottery of Cyrenaica, and particularly Berenice, in the Hellenistic and Roman periods (Riley, in press) indicates that, with the exception of the total disappearance of locally made amphoras, the Romanisation of Cyrenaica made no impact on the local pottery industry until around the middle of the second century A.D. Indeed, at a time of rapidly increasing prosperity in Cyrenaica from the Augustan period, the local p…
Neutron Activation Analysis of Roman Coarse Ware From Cyrenaica
Imported Grain Mills at Cyrene
There are, in the gardens of the Department of Antiquities at Cyrene, two well preserved grain mills which probably date to the early Imperial Roman period. The context and location of their discovery within Cyrene is not known and their dating must rely on parallels from elsewhere. Moreover, it cannot be certain that each catillus (upper millstone) originally belonged with the meta (lower millstone) with which it is now associated, although it s…
Amphoras in the Apollonia Museum Store
The store rooms of the Department of Antiquities at Apollonia contain pottery from excavations at Apollonia and Ras el Hilal, together with a few stray finds from other sites (including some from the sea collected by the Royal Air Force Aqualung Society in the 1950s and early 1960s). The bulk of this material dates in the later Roman period (i.e. sixth century A.D. onwards), but includes a little earlier Roman and some Hellenistic pottery. There …
Petrological Examination of Coarse-ware Stirrup-jars from Mycenae
Elemental analysis of coarse-ware stirrup-jars from Thebes provided the first objective evidence for the movement of coarse wares in the Late Bronze Age Aegean. While the evidence of the optical emission spectrometry analysis indicates that stirrup-jars occur in several fabrics, the assignation of these fabrics to specific sources has been the subject of some debate, summarized and discussed in the light of fresh evidence by Catling and Jones but…
Neutron activation analysis of some roman and islamic coarse wares of western cyrenaica and crete
Higher Research on Libyan Topics in British Universities 1960–1981
A list of 57 theses on Libyan topics successfully presented to British Universities from 1960–1981 is presented as a guide to the range and scope of research in this area
Islamic Wares from Ajdabiyah
A provisional typology for the Islamic glazed and domestic pottery from the excavations of the Fatimid mosque at Ajdabiyah is presented. The bulk of this pottery is likely to belong to the eleventh and twelfth centuries A.D. In addition, attention is drawn to the results of a programme of petrological analysis of the fabrics. Functional and typological variation was found to relate to fabric variation
Pre-Islamic Pottery from Ajdabiyah
In the course of the Islamic period excavations at Ajdabiyah during the 1970s, three sondages through the floor of the Islamic mosque, produced a limited amount of pre-Islamic pottery. The pottery ranged in date from the early Hellenistic period through to the seventh century AD, attesting more or less continuous occupation of the area. The suite of pottery shapes resembled those commonly occurring in stratified levels at Berenice (Benghazi), ill…
Fieldwork on the Red Sea Coast
Survey of the 'Abu Sha'ar-Nile Road
In January 1989 a survey conducted by the University of Delaware studied all, and redrew plans of most, key installations along the ancient thoroughfare between the Red Sea coast at 'Abu Sha'ar and the Nile emporium of Kainopolis (Qena). Installations in the Roman quarries at Mons Porphyrites were also examined. The survey dated activity at these sites primarily through careful analysis of surface ceramics and secondarily with reference to epigra…
A Theory of Pronominal Reference Based on Information Theory—part 1
A Theory of Pronominal Reference Based on Information Theory - Part Ii
In this part II, new definitions of speaker reference' and co-reference' are given. A theory of coding and reference in discourse is constructed involving the Lambrecht theory of information and using the idea that reference is never to a linguistic expression, but rather to the mental representation of expressions. The key result is: let D denote a discourse, m a mental representation, p an expression coding m in D. If m is identifiable and acti…
Mental representations
DVD Reviews
Labyrinths of Space and Time * Andrei Tarkovsky
The two latest books on Tarkovsky take very different approaches to their subject: Labyrinths of Space and Time is a film theory tract, while The Collector of Dreams is a memoir of the author's friendship and working relationship with the director. The theoretical and the personal – these are the two main approaches to writing about Tarkovsky. Past examples of both approaches include Robert Bird's rethinking of Tarkovsky's films in terms of ‘pitc…
Craig Campbell, Agitating images
The public image
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