Hélène Aurigny, Laura Rohaut (edited by), Quand on a la terre sous l’ongle. Le modelage dans le monde grec antique, 2022

Since the publication in 1981 of the monograph “Morgantina Studies. I. The terracottas” by Professor Malcolm Bell, the production of this special class of items from Morgantina, a monumental archaeological site in central Sicily, has become a very important highlight for the knowledge of Sikeliote terracotta figurines produced between the Greek Archaic and Hellenistic period. Even if no workshops have been uncovered yet in Morgantina, the discovery of thousand and thousand various mould-made terracottas - mainly votive items from sanctuaries but also findings from tombs and domestic context - greatly foregrounded this very widespread kind of production in Greek Sicily and it has also proved the excellent level of the moulding technique. On the other side, the small quantity of hand-made figurines discovered at Morgantina is the reason why hand modelling has never been considered by scholars studying the production of terracottas at the archaeological site. But the attribution to Morgantina and the restitution to Sicily of the so called Hades’ head, a Greek Hellenistic polychrome terracotta sculpture looted in the late Seventies and once in the Getty Museum collection, now housed in the archaeological museum in Aidone (where all the findings from Morgantina are on display), nowadays allows us to consider that hand-modelling isn’t evidence of a less advanced stage of production and that it didn’t disappear in the Hellenistic period. Hades’ head, belonging to a life-size cult statue representing the Greek god of the Underworld, is a truly extraordinary hand-modelled masterpiece. All the hand-modelled details of its face (moustaches and eyes) and especially the blue painted beard and red painted hair prove that hand-made figures still existed in Greek Hellenistic world, not only to model common items but also for important terracotta cult sculptures.

Record of the Art Museum Princeton University, 2005

Critical Approaches to Ancient Near Eastern Art edited by Marian Feldman and Brian Brown. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter., 2014

Early Mesopotamian images are several millennia removed in time from us. Their interpretation poses numerous difficulties, beginning with the identification of the represented figures. There are ongoing debates about the identity of quite a few anthropomorphic figures depicted on major early Mesopotamian monuments. They usually revolve around the question of whether the figures represented mortals or deities. Is it reasonable to solve the conundrum by reading ambiguity into the figures? This contribution discusses difficulties of interpretation by re-examining the Uruk Vase as an example of the complexities involved. Moreover, it aims at breaking the reiteration of the prevalent interpretation of this image, which was formulated eighty years ago and rests on a scholarly construct.

Szpakowska, Kasia. Review of Faces in Clay: Technique, Imagery, and Allusion in a Corpus of Ceramic Sculpture, by Peter F. Dorman, 2002. Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 93 (2007): 300-02.

In the study of grotesque terracotta statuettes from the Hellenistic Age many questions are yet to be answered, including the ‘identity’ of these figurines. This article aims at giving reference points for the iconographical interpretation of the grotesques. In the first part of the article I collected some circumstances hindering the decipherment of the grotesque terracottas. Then, as the majority of these objects are head fragments broken from the bodies of statuettes, I tried to present details and attributes that may hint at the original meaning of the figurines, even without any knowledge of the missing parts of their bodies. These details include hairstyle and headwear, facial features typical of certain ethnic groups, signs of medical condition, characteristic injuries and features known from the sphere of the theatre. More Info: http://dissarch.elte.hu Publication Name: Dissertationes Archaeologicae Ser. 3. No. 2 (2014) 143-156.

AIA - San Diego 2019 , 2019

Cardiovascular diagnosis and therapy, 2012

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Fine Arts and Crafts, ed. Prof. LALA RUKH SELIM, Arts and Crafts, ed. Prof. LALA RUKH SELIM, “Cultural Survey of Bangladesh Series”, volume 8, Dhaka: Asiatic Society of Bangladesh, 2007, pp. 91-109