Penelope M Allison
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 367072 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Penelope M Allison |
| PRENOMES | Penelope M |
| SOBRENOME | Allison |
| ASSINATURA | ALLISON P M |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Leicester |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6975-639X |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 42 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 136 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 42 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1992 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
An Approach to Quantifying Ceramic Vessels among Diverse Datasets
This article compares approaches to counting ceramic vessels among large datasets of al- ready catalogued sherds and aims to demonstrate that relative proportions of vessel forms can be used to address questions of sociocultural behavior, irrespective of approaches to recording sherd counts. We aim to demonstrate that it is valid to carry out quantita- tive, comparative, intersite analyses of sufficiently large ceramic datasets of sherds that wer…
A Response
Penelope Allison’s 2001 article on using material and written sources to study Roman domestic space has framed the debate on the topic more broadly for ancient world housing. In this chapter, she revisits that contribution and responses to it, and surveys the theoretical and methodological frameworks of the chapters in the volume. By examining the nature of the data, analytical and interpretative approaches to them, and the research questions, Al…
The Arch-I-Scan Project
This article presents the aims, technical processes, and initial results of the Arch-I-Scan Project, which is using artificial intelligence and machine learning to enhance the collection of Roman ceramic data so that these data can contribute more effectively to improved understandings of Roman foodways. The project is developing a system for the automated identification of ceramic types (fabrics, forms and sizes), and potentially the automated c…
Exploring Automated Pottery Identification [Arch-I-Scan]
A hand-held smart device technology (Arch-I-Scan) is currently being developed and tested \nfor scanning and classifying archaeological artefacts. The technology is based on a new \nplatform developed by ARM, jointly with University of Leicester within Innovate UK \nKnowledge Transfer Partnership project (code KTP009890), and takes advantage of new \nalgorithms for one-trial learning based on measure concentration phenomenon in high \ndimensions.…
Building an Ontology of Tablewares using 'Legacy Data
This article aims to demonstrate how an ontology can be constructed to encompass many of \nthe criteria needed for more consumption-oriented approaches to Roman tablewares. For this \nit demonstrates how a dataset in a relational database can be organised for the format and \ncapabilities of an ontology, and then how these data are input into the ontology model. \nFinally it includes some sample analyses to show the effectiveness of such an ontol…
Appendix A
An Introduction to a Research Network
This introduction outlines the rationale for and concerns of the research network, ‘Big \nData on the Roman Table’ – an international forum showcasing and exploring new \nways of harnessing and analysing the extensive datasets of tablewares from around \nthe Roman world, for agenda-changing, consumption-oriented approaches to this rich \narchaeological record from the early Roman empire. The introduction sets out the \nproblems facing more social…
Roman Household Organization
This chapter surveys current perspectives on children and stages of childhood within Roman households and examines how archaeological evidence for household organization can change these perspectives. It discusses what can be gleaned from analyses of archaeological evidence for household space and household activities, and notably from assessing skeletal remains, material culture, and decoration. It discusses what this evidence can tell us about …
David J. Breeze . Bearsden
David J. Breeze . Bearsden: a Roman fort on the Antonine Wall. 2016. xxxii+405 pages, numerous colour and b&w illustrations. Edinburgh: Society of Antiquaries of Scotland; 978-1-90833-208-0 hardback £30. - Volume 91 Issue 356
Characterizing Roman Artifacts to Investigate Gendered Practices in Contexts Without Sexed Bodies
This article concerns the characterization of Roman artifacts so that they can play a greater role in gendered approaches to Roman sites—sites that constitute lived spaces but lack actual references to sexed bodies. It commences with a brief discussion on gendered approaches in the two main strands of Roman archaeology—classical and provincial. Within the differing frameworks of the wider disciplines of classics and archaeology, both strands focu…
Conversations and Material Memories
People and Spaces in Roman Military Bases
The Archaeology Of Household Activities
Domestic Spaces and Activities
The vast majority of houses in Pompeii and Herculaneum take the form of roomsaround inner courtyards, many, especially in Pompeii, conforming in plan to what has become known as the “atrium house.” Nineteenth-and early twentiethcentury excavators of these towns concentrated their interest on such houses, because they saw in them the materialization of textual references to Roman houses, particularly those in the architectural manuals of Vitruvius…
Procedures for measuring women's influence
Preparing data from artefact catalogues of previously published German excavation reports, in the project 'Engendering Roman Spaces', required ongoing refinement of data translation and digital manipulation using a variety of software packages. This process included the use of Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software, spreadsheets, database and graphics programs, and the final presentation of the data in ArcGIS as an interpretative tool. With…
Measuring women's influence on Roman military life
This article outlines the approaches used in the Australian Research Council funded project, 'Engendering Roman Spaces', and summarises some of the results. The project investigates the distribution of artefacts and artefact assemblages and the presence, activities and status of women and children within Roman military forts. It uses data from published excavation reports of 1st- and 2nd-century AD Roman military sites on the German frontier. It …
Dealing with Legacy Data - an introduction
In the Mediterranean region particularly, but by no means exclusively, there exist large datasets from previous excavations, published and unpublished, whose digitisation, spatial mapping and re-analysis can greatly facilitate investigations of social behaviour and changing environmental conditions. Added to this there are also archives of historical maps and excavation plans, whose digitisation and combination with these other archaeological dat…
House I 10,18
The walls outside this entrance were decorated with a high red socle with white fields above, on which were painted simple inscriptions in red. The entranceway itself had a simple pavement and remains of black decoration on the walls. Outside the entrance, on either side, are two plastered masonry seats (south seat—h.: 0.45 m; dimensions: 0.4 m × 1.2 m; north seat—h.: 0.5 m; dimensions: 0.37 m × 0.9 m). These seats are thought to have been for wa…
Terminology for type classification and artefact function
This chapter discusses Latin, Greek and Italian artefact labels used in the Giornali degli Scavi and in the Pompeian inventories on which this artefact catalogue is based, as well as English labels frequently used by modern scholars for Roman artefacts more generally. Scholars tend to use these labels to distinguish artefacts according to shape or form. In general, they have followed Daremberg and Saglio’s detailed study of Greek and Latin termin…
Methodology
As stated in the introduction, this volume presents the ‘loose finds’ from the excavations of the Insula del Menandro in a manner that is divergent from the traditional publications of Roman period sites. The methodology used to catalogue and analyse these finds is determined by the aims of this project which are to present and analyse this material and its contexts for more informed views on the functions of Pompeian household artefacts and on P…
Occupancy of Insula I 10 in ad 79
This chapter summarizes the information that a study of house contents can provide on house occupancy immediately prior to the eruption. In particular, it explores the potential relationship between the number of people within the establishment at that time and the number who might have inhabited it under a concept of ‘normal circumstances’. In other words, the material remains are investigated for evidence that can indicate whether or not the ho…
Casa del Menandro (I 10,4)
To either side of this main entranceway, on the street front, are fixed masonry seats. Such seats have been assumed to have been for waiting clients. However, in Pompeii these seats are not always in front of the largest and most elaborate houses, that is those whose occupants were likely to have had clients. They were therefore likely to have served as a public facility available to anyone, including the house occupants. No loose finds were repo…
Pompeian Households
Studies of Pompeian material culture have traditionally been dominated by art historical approaches, but recently there has been a renewed and burgeoning interest in Pompeian houses for studies of Roman domestic behavior. This book is concerned with contextualized Pompeian household artifacts and their role in deepening understanding of household behavior at Pompeii. It consists of a study of the contents of thirty so-called atrium houses in Pomp…
Towards a feminist archaeology of households
Mesoamerican house lots and archaeological site structure
Pompeian Households
Using the Material and Written Sources
The study of Roman domestic space, which has greatly expanded in the last years of this millennium, is an area of research into the classical world where both material and written sources provide important evidence. This paper outlines the types of evidence and examines several recent studies for a critical perspective on current methodological and theoretical approaches to Roman material culture. While this study demonstrates that more rigorous …
Towards a feminist archaeology of households
Mesoamerican house lots and archaeological site structure
Dealing with Legacy Data - an introduction
In the Mediterranean region particularly, but by no means exclusively, there exist large datasets from previous excavations, published and unpublished, whose digitisation, spatial mapping and re-analysis can greatly facilitate investigations of social behaviour and changing environmental conditions. Added to this there are also archives of historical maps and excavation plans, whose digitisation and combination with these other archaeological dat…
Extracting the social relevance of artefact distribution in Roman military forts
Engendering Roman Spaces' is a research project concerned with using artefact assemblage analyses to better understand spatial and gender relationships in the early Roman Empire and to produce more engendered perspectives of Roman society. \n \nThis paper discusses the methodology and analyses being used in this project to investigate social behaviour within Roman military forts and fortresses of the 1st and 2nd centuries CE through analyses of t…
The Insula of the Menander at Pompeii
This book contains catalogues, analyses, photographs and drawings of some 2,000 archaeological artifacts excavated from the Insula of the Menander in Pompeii. The catalogues, and analyses are organized by provenance--buildings, rooms, and location within rooms--so that the reader can understand the artifacts as household assemblages. The functions of artifacts and groups of artifacts are discussed, as are the Latin names which are often given to …
Exploring Automated Pottery Identification [Arch-I-Scan]
A hand-held smart device technology (Arch-I-Scan) is currently being developed and tested \nfor scanning and classifying archaeological artefacts. The technology is based on a new \nplatform developed by ARM, jointly with University of Leicester within Innovate UK \nKnowledge Transfer Partnership project (code KTP009890), and takes advantage of new \nalgorithms for one-trial learning based on measure concentration phenomenon in high \ndimensions.…
Measuring women's influence on Roman military life
This article outlines the approaches used in the Australian Research Council funded project, 'Engendering Roman Spaces', and summarises some of the results. The project investigates the distribution of artefacts and artefact assemblages and the presence, activities and status of women and children within Roman military forts. It uses data from published excavation reports of 1st- and 2nd-century AD Roman military sites on the German frontier. It …
Placing Individuals
In both popular and scholarly literature, Pompeii is viewed as a typical Roman town reflecting the social and cultural conditions of the capital, a perception now so embedded in Pompeian studies that it is often assumed to be part of the known facts. This paper questions that perception and explores alternative readings for broadening our approaches to Pompeian society through examination of the material contexts of the epigraphical texts from Po…
The Old Kinchega Homestead
The relationship between wall-decoration and room-type in Pompeian houses
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Building an Ontology of Tablewares using 'Legacy Data
This article aims to demonstrate how an ontology can be constructed to encompass many of \nthe criteria needed for more consumption-oriented approaches to Roman tablewares. For this \nit demonstrates how a dataset in a relational database can be organised for the format and \ncapabilities of an ontology, and then how these data are input into the ontology model. \nFinally it includes some sample analyses to show the effectiveness of such an ontol…
An Introduction to a Research Network
This introduction outlines the rationale for and concerns of the research network, ‘Big \nData on the Roman Table’ – an international forum showcasing and exploring new \nways of harnessing and analysing the extensive datasets of tablewares from around \nthe Roman world, for agenda-changing, consumption-oriented approaches to this rich \narchaeological record from the early Roman empire. The introduction sets out the \nproblems facing more social…
Characterizing Roman Artifacts to Investigate Gendered Practices in Contexts Without Sexed Bodies
This article concerns the characterization of Roman artifacts so that they can play a greater role in gendered approaches to Roman sites—sites that constitute lived spaces but lack actual references to sexed bodies. It commences with a brief discussion on gendered approaches in the two main strands of Roman archaeology—classical and provincial. Within the differing frameworks of the wider disciplines of classics and archaeology, both strands focu…
House Contents in Pompeii
(1995). House Contents in Pompeii: Data Collectionand Interpretative Procedures for a Reappraisal of Roman Domestic Lifeand Site Formation Processes. Journal of European Archaeology: Vol. 3, No. 1, pp. 145-176
Pompeii
The relationship between wall-decoration and room-type in Pompeian houses
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The Houses of Roman Italy, 100 B. C.-A. D. 250
House Contents in Pompeii
(1995). House Contents in Pompeii: Data Collectionand Interpretative Procedures for a Reappraisal of Roman Domestic Lifeand Site Formation Processes. Journal of European Archaeology: Vol. 3, No. 1, pp. 145-176
Pompeji
Placing Individuals
In both popular and scholarly literature, Pompeii is viewed as a typical Roman town reflecting the social and cultural conditions of the capital, a perception now so embedded in Pompeian studies that it is often assumed to be part of the known facts. This paper questions that perception and explores alternative readings for broadening our approaches to Pompeian society through examination of the material contexts of the epigraphical texts from Po…
Using the Material and Written Sources
The study of Roman domestic space, which has greatly expanded in the last years of this millennium, is an area of research into the classical world where both material and written sources provide important evidence. This paper outlines the types of evidence and examines several recent studies for a critical perspective on current methodological and theoretical approaches to Roman material culture. While this study demonstrates that more rigorous …
The Old Kinchega Homestead
Pompeian Households
Roman households
This chapter assesses how a study of Pompeian house contents can throw light on the nature of Roman households. The study to which it refers was based on the analysis of thirty Pompeian atrium houses and their contents (Allison 1992a).1 The chapter is particularly concerned with archaeological data, its relationship to textual data and with the nature of the information which the archaeological record can provide on the interactions of the people…
Extracting the social relevance of artefact distribution in Roman military forts
Engendering Roman Spaces' is a research project concerned with using artefact assemblage analyses to better understand spatial and gender relationships in the early Roman Empire and to produce more engendered perspectives of Roman society. \n \nThis paper discusses the methodology and analyses being used in this project to investigate social behaviour within Roman military forts and fortresses of the 1st and 2nd centuries CE through analyses of t…
Mapping for gender. Interpreting artefact distribution inside 1st- and 2nd-century A.D. forts in Roman Germany
Artefacts from military bases of the early Roman Empire potentially indicate not only the presence of women and children inside the walls, but also their movements, activities and impact on fort life. This paper explores dynamic approaches to categorizing and gendering artefacts for more holistic investigations of artefact assemblages. It uses GIS mapping techniques to analyse the distribution patterns of ‘gendered’ artefacts within three forts o…
Engendering Roman Spaces
Response. Historical complexity
The concerns of these five commentators are too diverse to be dealt with comprehensively in this short response, but I emphasize that this paper introduces a project which aims to ‘redress the balance’ with regard to Roman military bases as domestic spaces and whose theoretical and methodological underpinnings are wide-ranging and complex. I will briefly address a few basic points
House I 10,18
The walls outside this entrance were decorated with a high red socle with white fields above, on which were painted simple inscriptions in red. The entranceway itself had a simple pavement and remains of black decoration on the walls. Outside the entrance, on either side, are two plastered masonry seats (south seat—h.: 0.45 m; dimensions: 0.4 m × 1.2 m; north seat—h.: 0.5 m; dimensions: 0.37 m × 0.9 m). These seats are thought to have been for wa…
Terminology for type classification and artefact function
This chapter discusses Latin, Greek and Italian artefact labels used in the Giornali degli Scavi and in the Pompeian inventories on which this artefact catalogue is based, as well as English labels frequently used by modern scholars for Roman artefacts more generally. Scholars tend to use these labels to distinguish artefacts according to shape or form. In general, they have followed Daremberg and Saglio’s detailed study of Greek and Latin termin…
Methodology
As stated in the introduction, this volume presents the ‘loose finds’ from the excavations of the Insula del Menandro in a manner that is divergent from the traditional publications of Roman period sites. The methodology used to catalogue and analyse these finds is determined by the aims of this project which are to present and analyse this material and its contexts for more informed views on the functions of Pompeian household artefacts and on P…
Occupancy of Insula I 10 in ad 79
This chapter summarizes the information that a study of house contents can provide on house occupancy immediately prior to the eruption. In particular, it explores the potential relationship between the number of people within the establishment at that time and the number who might have inhabited it under a concept of ‘normal circumstances’. In other words, the material remains are investigated for evidence that can indicate whether or not the ho…
Casa del Menandro (I 10,4)
To either side of this main entranceway, on the street front, are fixed masonry seats. Such seats have been assumed to have been for waiting clients. However, in Pompeii these seats are not always in front of the largest and most elaborate houses, that is those whose occupants were likely to have had clients. They were therefore likely to have served as a public facility available to anyone, including the house occupants. No loose finds were repo…
House I 10,1
In November 1926 the excavators recorded moving lapilli from in front of this house and from the entrance but no finds were reported in these areas. On 8 July 1932 they recorded removing disturbed volcanic deposit from the middle levels in the northeast area of this insula. A breach (min. h.: 2 m), now patched, in the south end of the west wall of room 2 and 1.05 m above the floor, presumably penetrated into this space and documents disturbance a…
Artefact function and the distribution of activities
In chapter 3, I discussed some of the nomenclature ascribed to Roman artefacts by modern scholars. In certain cases, I assessed the validity of this nomenclature’s assignation of functions to particular artefacts in this catalogue, especially with regard to Latin labels. The present chapter develops this discussion further, by using this contextualized study of finds assemblages to further our knowledge of the activities for which certain types o…
The Insula of the Menander at Pompeii
This book contains catalogues, analyses, photographs and drawings of some 2,000 archaeological artifacts excavated from the Insula of the Menander in Pompeii. The catalogues, and analyses are organized by provenance--buildings, rooms, and location within rooms--so that the reader can understand the artifacts as household assemblages. The functions of artifacts and groups of artifacts are discussed, as are the Latin names which are often given to …
Procedures for measuring women's influence
Preparing data from artefact catalogues of previously published German excavation reports, in the project 'Engendering Roman Spaces', required ongoing refinement of data translation and digital manipulation using a variety of software packages. This process included the use of Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software, spreadsheets, database and graphics programs, and the final presentation of the data in ArcGIS as an interpretative tool. With…
Measuring women's influence on Roman military life
This article outlines the approaches used in the Australian Research Council funded project, 'Engendering Roman Spaces', and summarises some of the results. The project investigates the distribution of artefacts and artefact assemblages and the presence, activities and status of women and children within Roman military forts. It uses data from published excavation reports of 1st- and 2nd-century AD Roman military sites on the German frontier. It …
Dealing with Legacy Data - an introduction
In the Mediterranean region particularly, but by no means exclusively, there exist large datasets from previous excavations, published and unpublished, whose digitisation, spatial mapping and re-analysis can greatly facilitate investigations of social behaviour and changing environmental conditions. Added to this there are also archives of historical maps and excavation plans, whose digitisation and combination with these other archaeological dat…
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