On the Fascination of Objects

Sir John Boardman is one of the foremost experts on ancient Greek art. Having served as Assistant Director of the British School at Athens between 1952 and 1955, he was Assistant Keeper at the Ashmolean Museum and later Lincoln Professor of Classical Archaeology and Art at the University of Oxford between 1978 and his retirement in 1994. His many publications include the volumes on Greek Sculpture and Athenian Black and Red Figure vases for Thames and Hudson's World of Art series. He continues his research at the Beazley Archive, concentrating on the history of gem collections. Andrew Parkin is Keeper of Archaeology for the Great North Museum with a background is in both archaeology and education. His research interests include the archaeology of Ancient Greek religion, in particular Greek temple architecture and the questions of its origins and potential significance, votive deposition in Greek sanctuaries and elsewhere in the Greco-Roman world and the Classical tradition in the 18th and 19th centuries. Sally Waite is a teaching fellow in Classics at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne with particular research interests in Greek and Etruscan art. She leads a number of projects researching and cataloguing Greek and Etruscan objects held in museum collections in the north of England.

Contents
Contributors
Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations

Foreword
John Prag

1. Introduction
Tony Spawforth and Andrew Parkin

2. Little Boxes, Little Boxes
Elizabeth Moignard

3. Evocative Objects. The Attic Black-Glazed Plemochoai (Exaleiptra) between Archaeology and Vase Painting
Diana Rodríguez Pérez

4. An Attic Red-Figure Kalathos in the Shefton Collection
Sally Waite

5. Farewells by the Achilles Painter
Susan B. Matheson

6. Note on an Askos in Newcastle
François Lissarrague

7. Some Early Attic Red-Figure Stemless Cups
Brian A. Sparkes

8. The Nostell Priory Bolsal
David W. J. Gill

9. Two Coral-Red Bowls in the Shefton Collection
Athena Tsingarida

10. The Shefton Dolphin Rider
Judith M. Barringer

11. Lydian Gold to Newcastle
Dyfri Williams

12. Three Etruscan Mirrors in the Shefton Collection
Andrew Parkin

13. Brian Benjamin Shefton and the Etruscan Bronze Funnels
Alessandro Naso

14. The Newcastle Gems
John Boardman