Alan Johnston
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3613779 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Alan Johnston |
| PRENOMES | Alan |
| SOBRENOME | Johnston |
| ASSINATURA | JOHNSTON A |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University College London |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9026-1199 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 48 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 38 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 48 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1973 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Organisational attachment and the academic
Fragmenta Britannica VI. Some epigraphic aspects of East Greek pottery from Naukratis
The study of pottery from the East Greek world in the Archaic period has seen substantial progress in the (long) last generation, thanks in part to the publication of some of the recently excavated material in the home lands but especially from the contribution of clay analysis. The picture of massive pottery production on Rhodes has been completely transformed and the output of workshops in Kos, Knidos, Miletus, Klazomenai, Teos, Smyrna and Aeol…
The precision test of metacognitive sensitivity and confidence criteria
On why we lack confidence in some signal-detection-based analyses of confidence
Predictive extrapolation effects can have a greater impact on visual decisions, while visual adaptation has a greater impact on conscious visual experience
Human vision is shaped by historic and by predictive processes. The lingering impact of visual adaptation, for instance, can act to exaggerate differences between past and present inputs, whereas predictive processes can promote extrapolation effects that allow us to anticipate the near future. It is unclear to what extent either of these effects manifest in changes to conscious visual experience. It is also unclear how these influences combine, …
Fragmenta Britannica V. Amphoras From Top to Bottom
The material published here contributes in differing ways to amphora and onomastic studies. The rare name Demonomos appears on some stamps and the various aspects of name and stamp are balanced up. An understandable misreading by Flinders Petrie of a Rhodian stamp of c. 210 BC is corrected and its bearer identified. An inscribed amphora lid from Naukratis, probably of c. 100 BC and of Adriatic origin, has no known parallel. Three graffiti on amph…
The Hunt Dekadrachm
This paper describes a Syracusan silver dekadrachm (ten-drachma) coin of c 400 bc , now in the Hunt Museum, Limerick, that is set in a gold ring with a text in elaborate Lombardic letters of early fourteenth-century date identifying it as one of the thirty pieces of silver for which Christ was betrayed by Judas. It is an unusual and early example of this type of relic
Seeing Underground
Journal Article Seeing Underground: Maps, Models, and Mining Engineering in America Get access Eric C. Nystrom. (Reno: University of Nevada Press, 2014. xiv, 301 pp. $39.95.) Journal of American History, Volume 101, Issue 4, March 2015, Pages 1286–1287, https://doi.org/10.1093/jahist/jav073 Published: 01 March 2015
Fragmenta Britannica Iv. Naukratis, Cyrenaica and Lydia
I present here some further pottery sherds in the British Museum, from Cyrenaica and, it is argued, Naukratis. Two are stamped amphora handles of a type that points to a Cyrenaic origin and a stamp which I interpret as being of the polis of Barke. A few other pieces are known from Lissus, Antikythera and Alexandria. Other sherds from Naukratis contribute to the discussion of Lydian presence or influence at the port; two joining sherds of a kernos…
Kythera Forty Years On
We present a review of the post Bronze Age material excavated by Coldstream and Huxley at Kastri on Kythera, as part of the ongoing Kythera Island Project. In particular we refer to material not published in Coldstream and Huxley 1972. Greek material is largely confined to one deposit and dates to the period c.500 to 380 bc . From the Roman period material is more plentiful; the two relevant strata are third and late sixth to seventh centuries, w…
Measuring Chronological Uncertainty in Intensive Survey Finds
This paper considers how to make the most out of the rather imprecise chronological knowledge that we often have about the past. We focus here on the relative dating of artefacts during archaeological fieldwork, with particular emphasis on new ways to express and analyse chronological uncertainty. A probabilistic method for assigning artefacts to particular chronological periods is advocated and implemented for a large pottery data set from an in…
Sailors and sanctuaries of the ancient Greek world
The many small maritime sanctuaries where Greek sailors left offerings to the gods are much less well known than such great cult centres as Delphi and Olympia on the mainland. UCL archaeologists have been contributing to the study of these widely scattered but significant sites for over a century, a tradition that continues today
The life and death of Greek local scripts ; not so long durée
In this paper, I outline what I believe to be the salient aspects of the rise, and in particular the survival and demise of the individual epichoric or local scripts in the Greek world, c.750-350 BC. The Italian peninsular is perhaps only involved in this grammatological history to a minor extent after the initial reception of alphabetical writing, and therefore my intention is rather to detail the social life of the alphabet in the Greek world d…
Pots, Piracy and Aegila
The small Greek island of Antikythera has a long history of human exploitation, of which one of the most interesting episodes is represented by a fortified settlement on the north coast of the island that can be plausibly identified as a centre of Hellenistic piratical activity. Hellenistic ‘Aegila’ has left both impressive standing remains and a range of portable finds that have attracted academic interest over much of the last two centuries. Th…
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Marsa Matruh
A sherd previously ascribed to an Attic amphora type and dated to c. 700 BC is reascribed to a vessel type, possibly Laconian, from c. 600 BC. An enigmatic graffito on another fragment is discussed
Amphorae and text
«Texts » on amphorae of the archaic to early classical period appear in various media, on different parts of the jar and on a range of amphora types. Therein distinct patterns of usage are few, but some may be noted, such as «long » texts on SOS and à la brosse jars, underfoot marks on North Greek, and pre-firing ones on Samian. Few texts can help us pinpoint the origin of the jars themselves, but some anomalous ones are of individual interest. T…
Ancient Greece
Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum, Ireland Fascicule 1, University College Dublin, University College Cork
Sailors and sanctuaries of the ancient Greek world
On Archaic Greek orientalizing-weird or woolly
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Building Z at Kommos
Building Z at Kommos is built into one of the Late Minoan shipsheds of Building P; its major phase of use is in the Middle Geometric period. The pottery from the building, including earlier Iron Age material and some from post-use deposition, is fully published here. The totality gives the opportunity of seeing the various contemporary products of the Mesara in fuller detail than is provided by other published sets of material. The purpose of the…
Reprisals
An early inscription from Skiathos
The publication of a partly preserved grave stele, built into a house on the island of Skiathos and assumed to be from ancient Skiathos. The inscription, in Ionic script of the late Archaic period, commemorates a Samian. The most likely reading shows that his name was Pelyessios, and that he is given a ‘tribal’ affiliation, Lykophronides; this is our earliest evidence for that system, in the earliest known Skiathian inscription
Pottery from Archaic Building Q at Kommos
There are three major phases of development at the Greek sanctuary of Kommos in Crete. The first is Protogeometric to Geometric, the time of temple A. The next, with a focus on temple B, occured during the Geometric to Archaic period, after which there was a hiatus before temple C, built ca. 375 B.C., introduced a phase of development that would peak in the Late Hellenistic period. The acme of the second phase of ritual activity was during the se…
Measuring Chronological Uncertainty in Intensive Survey Finds
This paper considers how to make the most out of the rather imprecise chronological knowledge that we often have about the past. We focus here on the relative dating of artefacts during archaeological fieldwork, with particular emphasis on new ways to express and analyse chronological uncertainty. A probabilistic method for assigning artefacts to particular chronological periods is advocated and implemented for a large pottery data set from an in…
Pottery from Archaic Building Q at Kommos
There are three major phases of development at the Greek sanctuary of Kommos in Crete. The first is Protogeometric to Geometric, the time of temple A. The next, with a focus on temple B, occured during the Geometric to Archaic period, after which there was a hiatus before temple C, built ca. 375 B.C., introduced a phase of development that would peak in the Late Hellenistic period. The acme of the second phase of ritual activity was during the se…
Seeing Underground
Journal Article Seeing Underground: Maps, Models, and Mining Engineering in America Get access Eric C. Nystrom. (Reno: University of Nevada Press, 2014. xiv, 301 pp. $39.95.) Journal of American History, Volume 101, Issue 4, March 2015, Pages 1286–1287, https://doi.org/10.1093/jahist/jav073 Published: 01 March 2015
Pots, Piracy and Aegila
The small Greek island of Antikythera has a long history of human exploitation, of which one of the most interesting episodes is represented by a fortified settlement on the north coast of the island that can be plausibly identified as a centre of Hellenistic piratical activity. Hellenistic ‘Aegila’ has left both impressive standing remains and a range of portable finds that have attracted academic interest over much of the last two centuries. Th…
Building Z at Kommos
Building Z at Kommos is built into one of the Late Minoan shipsheds of Building P; its major phase of use is in the Middle Geometric period. The pottery from the building, including earlier Iron Age material and some from post-use deposition, is fully published here. The totality gives the opportunity of seeing the various contemporary products of the Mesara in fuller detail than is provided by other published sets of material. The purpose of the…
The ‘SOS’ Amphora
I Discuss here some features of the type of storage amphora dubbed ‘SOS’, a large semi-decorated container in use from the later eighth to the first half of the sixth century B.C., and found at a large number of sites around the Mediterranean and beyond. In particular, the evidence of clay analyses carried out at the British School by Richard Jones will be adduced to confirm the Attic origin of the majority of these vases, while other centres of …
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Amphorae and text
«Texts » on amphorae of the archaic to early classical period appear in various media, on different parts of the jar and on a range of amphora types. Therein distinct patterns of usage are few, but some may be noted, such as «long » texts on SOS and à la brosse jars, underfoot marks on North Greek, and pre-firing ones on Samian. Few texts can help us pinpoint the origin of the jars themselves, but some anomalous ones are of individual interest. T…
An Archaic Amphora of Thasian Type
Decentralization and the Implementation of Rural Development in Senegal. The View from Below
IG II 2 2311 and the Number of Panathenaic Amphorae
The restoration of the inscription is discussed, and the number of missing lines calculated. On the basis of the surviving text, the minimum number of amphorae awarded is calculated at 1423
Fragmenta Britannica Ii
Journal Article FRAGMENTA BRITANNICA II: SHERDS FROM NAUKRATIS Get access A.W. Johnston A.W. Johnston University College London Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies, Volume 29, Issue 1, December 1982, Pages 35–42, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.2041-5370.1982.tb00511.x Published: 12 March 2010
Rhodian Readings
My main purpose in this article is to present a corpus of graffiti and dipinti on pots found on Rhodes dating down to the end of the fifth century B.C. About one hundred such inscriptions have been overlooked in previous publications or remain unpublished. I discuss the problems of interpreting these short graffiti and the commercial aspects of some of them. In so doing I comment on certain aspects of the alphabet in use on the island, but I have…
Two-and-a-half Corinthian Dipinti
None of the inscriptions discussed here is as complete as one would like, but by the end I expect that the reader will consider the title justified. Whether he will be much the wiser is another matter, since questions are raised to which there are no ready answers. Modern graffiti (or dipinti?—I do not wish to argue terminology here) are often more explicit, though perhaps usually less deliberate
Two-and-a-half Corinthian Dipinti
None of the inscriptions discussed here is as complete as one would like, but by the end I expect that the reader will consider the title justified. Whether he will be much the wiser is another matter, since questions are raised to which there are no ready answers. Modern graffiti (or dipinti?—I do not wish to argue terminology here) are often more explicit, though perhaps usually less deliberate
Naukratis
NAUKRATIS: MORE LIGHT, NO ΣÓAN ? A. W. Johnston A. W. Johnston University College London Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies, Volume 21, Issue 1, December 1974, Pages 96–98, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.2041-5370.1974.tb00143.x Published: 12 March 2010
Rhodian Readings
My main purpose in this article is to present a corpus of graffiti and dipinti on pots found on Rhodes dating down to the end of the fifth century B.C. About one hundred such inscriptions have been overlooked in previous publications or remain unpublished. I discuss the problems of interpreting these short graffiti and the commercial aspects of some of them. In so doing I comment on certain aspects of the alphabet in use on the island, but I have…
Cypriaka From Datça
Journal Article CYPRIAKA FROM DATÇA Get access Alan Johnston, Alan Johnston University College LondonDepartment of Greek and Roman Antiquities, British Museum Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Veronica Wilson Veronica Wilson University College LondonDepartment of Greek and Roman Antiquities, British Museum Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Bulletin of the Institute of C…
Some Non-Greek Ghosts
Journal Article SOME NON-GREEK GHOSTS Get access Alan Johnston Alan Johnston University College London Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies, Volume 25, Issue 1, December 1978, Pages 79–84, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.2041-5370.1978.tb00386.x Published: 12 March 2010
The ‘SOS’ Amphora
I Discuss here some features of the type of storage amphora dubbed ‘SOS’, a large semi-decorated container in use from the later eighth to the first half of the sixth century B.C., and found at a large number of sites around the Mediterranean and beyond. In particular, the evidence of clay analyses carried out at the British School by Richard Jones will be adduced to confirm the Attic origin of the majority of these vases, while other centres of …
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Fragmenta Britannica I
Journal Article FRAGMENTA BRITANNICA I: TWO BRONZES Get access A.W. Johnston A.W. Johnston University College London Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies, Volume 28, Issue 1, December 1981, Pages 142–146, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.2041-5370.1981.tb00425.x Published: 12 March 2010
Fragmenta Britannica Ii
Journal Article FRAGMENTA BRITANNICA II: SHERDS FROM NAUKRATIS Get access A.W. Johnston A.W. Johnston University College London Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies, Volume 29, Issue 1, December 1982, Pages 35–42, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.2041-5370.1982.tb00511.x Published: 12 March 2010
Fragmenta Britannica Iii
FRAGMENTA BRITANNICA III: PITHOI Get access A.W. Johnston A.W. Johnston University College London Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies, Volume 31, Issue 1, December 1984, Pages 39–50, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.2041-5370.1984.tb00529.x Published: 12 March 2010
Late Archaic Alphabets From Le Mollaie, Etruria
Kyliphaktos , a New Vase-name
A vase-inscription originally published by N. Kontoleon is reinterpreted, the word kyliphaktos being taken as a reference to a vase-form rather than a personal name. Other occurrences of this term are discussed. It is suggested that the term refers to a form of stemless cup
A Greek Graffito From Arezzo
Pithoi. An Addendum
Journal Article PITHOI. AN ADDENDUM Get access A.W. Johnston A.W. Johnston University College London Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies, Volume 32, Issue 1, December 1985, Page 117, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.2041-5370.1985.tb00172.x Published: 12 March 2010
Family Planning for Health in Africa
IG II 2 2311 and the Number of Panathenaic Amphorae
The restoration of the inscription is discussed, and the number of missing lines calculated. On the basis of the surviving text, the minimum number of amphorae awarded is calculated at 1423
A geometric graffito from Eretria
Two joining sherds of an East Greek ‘proto-Bird Bowl’, found in Dr Andreiomenou's excavations at Eretria, bear a three-line graffito text very similar in structure, if not in content, to that on Nestor's cup from Pithekoussai. The piece must be of approximately the same date
Decentralization and the Implementation of Rural Development in Senegal
Decentralization and the Implementation of Rural Development in Senegal. The View from Below
Eulimene or not Eulimene
Alan Johnston, Eulimene or not Eulimene?, p. 177-182. A lead pyxis in the British Museum is published here. It bears two inscriptions, apparently of the fifth century, on the outside of the rim and underneath the lid. The latter is a dedication to Eulimene, the former a modest disclaimer concerning the value of the dedication. The texts are probably modern, but nevertheless they point up the particular connexion between Eulimene and Western Crete…
An Archaic Amphora of Thasian Type
Decentralization and the Implementation of Rural Development in Senegal
An Illyrian helmet in the British Museum
Recent research on a helmet of Illyrian type, found in the River Alpheios and purchased by the British Museum in 1914, has yielded interesting historical, epigraphical, and technological information. The helmet was made between about 550 and 525 BC, and it was probably dedicated to Olympian Zeus in the latter years of the century; it was embellished with various types of silver decoration, notably appliqués of horsemen on the cheek-pieces. The in…
Pottery from Archaic Building Q at Kommos
There are three major phases of development at the Greek sanctuary of Kommos in Crete. The first is Protogeometric to Geometric, the time of temple A. The next, with a focus on temple B, occured during the Geometric to Archaic period, after which there was a hiatus before temple C, built ca. 375 B.C., introduced a phase of development that would peak in the Late Hellenistic period. The acme of the second phase of ritual activity was during the se…
An early inscription from Skiathos
The publication of a partly preserved grave stele, built into a house on the island of Skiathos and assumed to be from ancient Skiathos. The inscription, in Ionic script of the late Archaic period, commemorates a Samian. The most likely reading shows that his name was Pelyessios, and that he is given a ‘tribal’ affiliation, Lykophronides; this is our earliest evidence for that system, in the earliest known Skiathian inscription
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