Bryn Mawr College Scholarship, Research, and Creative Work at Bryn Mawr College Library and Information Technology Services Library Staff Research and Scholarship (LITS) 2001 Protomaiolica in Frankish Athens, in Mark Lawall et al., "Notes from the Tins: Research in the Stoa of Attalos, Summer 1999" Camilla MacKay Bryn Mawr,
[email protected] Let us know how access to this document benefits ouy . Follow this and additional works at: http://repository.brynmawr.edu/lib_pubs Part of the Ancient, Medieval, Renaissance and Baroque Art and Architecture Commons Custom Citation Camilla MacKay, “Protomaiolica in Frankish Athens,” in M. Lawall et al., “Notes from the Tins: Research in the Stoa of Attalos, Summer 1999,” Hesperia 70 (2001), 178–179. This paper is posted at Scholarship, Research, and Creative Work at Bryn Mawr College. http://repository.brynmawr.edu/lib_pubs/9 For more information, please contact
[email protected]. HESPERIA 70 (2001) T tS FROM THEH TIN Pages 163-1r82 RESEARCH IN THE STOA OF ATTALOS, SUMMER 1999 Reportsof the resultsof Americanexcavations and surveysin Greeceap- pearperiodically in the pagesof this journal,and studiesof majorclasses of artifactsfrom these excavationsare also published here. Many details of the archaeologicalrecord, however, lie hiddenwithin the sheervolume of finds from the manydecades of excavations.The notes in this collection areintended to bringsome of these detailsto the foreground. The title "Notesfrom the Tins"points up the authors'primary source of new data:the thousandsof formerolive-oil, motor-oil, and feta cheese tins that storethe uninventoriedcontext pottery from the Agoraexcava- tions.Although some of the objectsdiscussed here were uncovered in lo- cations other than these tins, the referenceto these containersis a re- minderthat researchinto excavationslong past involvesthe digging,and sometimesthe dirt,that is characteristicof excavations.