Parution : Anastasia G. Yangaki, Ceramics in Plain Sight: The Bacini of the Churches of Crete. “Reflections” of the Late Medieval and the Early Modern Material Culture of the Island Volume 2: The Regional Unit of Lasithi
Στην έκδοση, που αποτελεί τον δεύτερο τόμο του σχετικού ευρύτερου έργου, παρουσιάζονται τα εφυαλωμένα αγγεία (τα bacini) που είναι εντοιχισμένα στις όψεις πολυάριθμων ναών της περιφερειακής ενότητας Λασιθίου. Τα αγγεία εντοπίστηκαν στο πλαίσιο του ερευνητικού προγράμματος: «Εντοιχισμένα αγγεία σε βυζαντινές και μεταβυζαντινές εκκλησίες του ελληνικού χώρου: ένα ηλεκτρονικό corpus». Η μελέτη των κεραμικών αναδεικνύει ανεξερεύνητες πτυχές του υλικού πολιτισμού της περιοχής του Λασιθίου στη διάρκεια της βενετοκρατίας, της οθωμανικής περιόδου αλλά και της σύγχρονης εποχής, καθώς οι σχετικές με την κεραμική αυτής της περιόδου δημοσιεύσεις είναι ελάχιστες από την περιοχή, προσφέροντας επιπλέον στοιχεία για την ιστορία της και τις επαφές της με άλλες θέσεις από τον 13ο και έως τον 21ο αιώνα. Στο πλαίσιο της έρευνας, τα κεραμικά συνδέονται με το εκάστοτε μνημείο, με τον χώρο αλλά και με τους ανθρώπους της ανατολικής Κρήτης, καθώς εκτός της λεπτομερούς αρχαιολογικής τεκμηρίωσης σχολιάζονται πτυχές της διάχυσης των κεραμικών και της πρακτικής εντοιχισμού. Το κείμενο συνοδεύεται από αναλυτικό κατάλογο, χάρτες, σκαριφήματα, σχέδια και πολυάριθμες έγχρωμες φωτογραφίες. Μέσα από τη συστηματική μελέτη και τη συνολική παρουσίαση του υλικού από το Λασίθι, αναδεικνύονται οι ιδιαιτερότητες της πρακτικής σε αυτή την περιοχή, όπου εντοπίζονται πρώιμες εκφάνσεις της χρήσης της κατά τον 13ο αιώνα και παρατηρείται μία νέα άνθηση της πρακτικής στη διάρκεια του 19ου αιώνα.
Έτος: 2025
Σελίδες: 344
ISSN: 1108-3840
ISBN: 978-960-371-106-3
ISBNset: 978-960-7905-69-7
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Foreword 9
Editorial Note 12
Chapter Ι. The corpus of the immured vessels in the regional unit of Lasithi 13
I.1. Introduction 13
Ι.2. The geographical distribution of the churches with immured vessels and of their
dispositions in the regional unit of Lasithi 13
I.3. The chronological distribution of the churches with immured vessels in the regional
unit of Lasithi 16
I.4. The architectural types of the churches of the regional unit of Lasithi that bear bacini
and additional remarks 18
I.5. The preservation and the manner the vessels are immured in the churches of the
regional unit of Lasithi 23
I.6. The dispositions of the immured vessels in the churches of the regional unit of Lasithi 27
I.6.1. General remarks 27
I.6.2. The disposition of bacini per province and side of the monument 27
I.6.3. The cruciform arrangement 31
I.6.4. Other arrangements 33
I.6.5. Recapitulating remarks 36
Chapter ΙΙ. Classification of clay and glass vessels used as bacini in the regional unit of Lasithi 41
II.1. Introductory remarks 41
II.2. Categories of pottery used as bacini in churches of the regional unit of Lasithi 44
Monochrome Glazed Ware from the Near East (MGW-NE) 44
Incised or Painted Incised Sgraffito Ware: Workshops of Northern Greece 44
Painted Sgraffito Ware: Workshops of Northern Greece – Group C (PSW-WNG[C]) 45
Incised Sgraffito Ware: Workshops of Northern Greece (ISW-WNG) 45
Elaborate Incised Ware (EIW) 46
Monochrome Glazed Ware from Italy (invetriata monocroma) (MGWI[IM]) 47
Monochrome Sgraffito Ware from Italy (graffita monocroma) (MSWI[GM]) 51
Monochrome Glazed and Painted Ware from Italy (dipinte sotto vetrina) (MGPWI[DV]) 55
Monochrome Slipped Ware from Italy (ingobbiata monocroma) (MSWI[IM]) 56
Lead Glazed Polychrome Ware (LGPW) 57
Montelupo Ware (MW) 61
Ligurian Ware-Maiolica Berrettino (LW-MB) 66
Ligurian Ware-Albisola (LW-A) 68
Italian Painted Sgraffito Ware (graffita arcaica) (IPSW[GA]) 69
Italian Polychrome Sgraffito Ware (graffita rinascimentale/graffita rinascimentale
canonica) (IPSW[GR/GRC]) 70
North Italian Polychrome Sgraffito Ware (graffita cinquecentesca a fondo ribassato)
(NIPSW[GCFR]) 75
North Italian Sgraffito Ware (graffita tarda) (NISW[GT]) 76
Polychrome Italian Sgraffito Ware (graffita a decorazione semplificata) (PISW[GDS]) 78
Glazed Pottery from the Iberian Peninsula: Lustreware (loza dorada/loza
dorada y azul) (GPIP-LW[LD/LDA]) 79
Glazed Pottery from the Iberian Peninsula: Monochrome Blue Ware (loza azul)
(GPIP-MBW[LA]) 82
Painted Sgraffito Ware from the South Crimea (PSW-SC) 83
Iznik Ware (IW) 85
Late Polychrome Sgraffito Ware-Thrapsano/Other Cretan Workshops (LPSW-T/OCW) 86
Kütahya Ware (KW) 88
Çanakkale Ware (ÇW) 89
Didymoteicho Ware (DW) 91
Painted Sgraffito Pottery under the influence of North-African Workshops (PSP) 95
Sarreguemines Faience (SF) 96
Transferware (TW) 97
Modern Earthenware (recalling Biltons Ironstone) (MEW) 101
Monochrome or Painted, Sgraffito or Incised Wares (MSIW or PSIW) 102
Monochrome or Plain Glazed Wares (MGW or PGW) 104
Monochrome Glazed Ware: Group A (MGW[A]) 106
Monochrome Glazed Ware: Group C (MGW[C]) 108
Monochrome Glazed Ware: Group E (MGW[E]) 109
Monochrome Glazed Ware: Group F (MGW[F]) 110
Monochrome Glazed Ware: Group G (MGW[G]) 112
Monochrome Glazed Ware: Group H (MGW[H]) 113
Monochrome Glazed Ware: Group I (MGW[I]) 114
Monochrome Glazed Ware: Group J (MGW[J]) 115
Monochrome Glazed Ware: Group K (MGW[K]) 116
Monochrome Glazed Ware: Group L (MGW[L]) 117
Monochrome Glazed Ware: Group M (MGW[M]) 118
Plain Glazed Ware: Group A (PGW[A]) 118
Cretan Ware-Plain Glazed (CW-PG) 121
Cretan Ware-Painted Glazed (CW-PtG) 121
II.3. Categories of glass vessels used as bacini in churches of the regional unit of Lasithi 122
Opaque Opaline Glass Ware (OOGW) 122
Chapter III. Recapitulating on the use of bacini in the churches of Crete: The case-study of the
regional unit of Lasithi 125
III.1. The forms and the decorative themes of the vessels used as bacini in the churches
of the regional unit of Lasithi and additional remarks 125
III.2. The immured vessels as a source of information on the glazed pottery of the Medieval
and the Modern periods distributed within the regional unit of Lasithi 130
III.3. The relation between the vessels’ dates and the churches’ dates: a complex reality 137
III.3.1. The vessels’ correlation to the monuments and the formers’ role as a source
of information on the history of the churches of the regional unit of Lasithi 137
III.3.2. The correlation of the vessels within the same assemblage 146
III.4. Monastic complexes bearing bacini in the regional unit of Lasithi 149
III.5. Remarks on the use of immured vessels in the churches of Crete: a decorative
and/or a symbolic use and evidence of intercultural relations 153
Bacini as symbolic objects and messengers: a. enhancing religious connotations to
the faithful and the passers-by/visitors 153
Bacini as symbolic objects and messengers: b. on their original owners and donors 159
Bacini as symbolic objects and messengers: c. from secular to religious context,
from everyday use to eternal display, between the private and the public spheres:
offerings, heirlooms and relics 161
Bacini as symbolic objects and messengers: d. as markers of an intercultural osmosis
between Venice and Crete and between the Christian and the Other world,
the Muslim world 163
Bacini as expressions of memory: substitutions or original insertions and the awakening
of memory during the Ottoman and the modern periods 165
III.6. Reflections on contemporary practice 167
Chapter IV. Concluding remarks 171
Chapter V. Analytical catalogue of the evidence from the regional unit of Lasithi 175
V.1. Introductory remarks 175
V.2. Catalogue 176
Maps 276
Tables 279
Bibliography 303
Index of geographical areas, places and monuments 327
Illustration credits 335