Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum
The Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum (abbreviated CVA ) is an international research project for the research and publication of ancient ceramics .
The Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum goes back to the initiative of the French archaeologist Edmond Pottier , who held a first preparatory meeting in Paris in 1919. It was decided to collect and publish ceramics in a corpus according to uniform guidelines . The first volume, Louvre, fasc. 1 , published by Pottier in 1922. Initially, six partner countries came together, today 26 countries belong to the project. Each country is responsible for the publications in its sphere of activity. The Union Académique Internationale in Brussels, whose oldest project is the CVA, has taken on patronage for the entire company. The CVA is traditionally headed by a French scientist; the current director is Juliette de La Genière . The German volumes, the Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum Germany , are supervised by the Commission for the Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences in Munich. The Austrian volumes, the Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum Austria , is supervised by the Austrian Academy of Sciences . Switzerland is coordinated at the Swiss Academy of Humanities and Social Sciences (headed by Christoph Reusser ). Currently, only publicly accessible collections in museums are included.
management
The company's directors have so far been:
- 1922-1934: Edmond Pottier
- 1935–1954: Alfred Merlin
- 1954–1957: Charles Dugas
- 1958–1980: Pierre Devambez
- 1980–1988: François Villard
- 1988–2002: Henri Metzger
- since 2002: Juliette de La Genière
Publications
The CVA publishes ancient Greek, Italian and Cypriot clay pots from the 7th millennium BC. BC to late antiquity divided into individual fascicles by country and museum . The original plan for a publication of all ceramics from the Mediterranean region, Europe, the Middle East and the Middle East was dropped in 1956 due to its obvious impracticability. The original plan to include all ceramics from prehistoric and ancient oriental cultures was abandoned in the 1940s because of the lack of prospect of feasibility. To date, more than 100,000 items from 28 countries and more than 150 collections have been described in around 395 volumes. Of these, including three volumes from the GDR, 103 volumes have been published for German collections (as of 2016, see Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum Germany ). Since 2004, the text and images of all volumes of the CVA that have been published up to then have also been freely available as a database on the Internet. The languages of publication are English, French, German and Italian; a Greek request to publish in Greek was rejected. Initially, the volumes were made up of loose cardboard picture panels and an accompanying booklet, but individual volumes are now published in bound book form. To be included in the volumes, vases must meet certain requirements, which often lead to a new restoration. So vase fragments must be recognizable and distinguishable from modern additions. A vase is first described in its condition, followed by an iconographic interpretation and, if possible, assignment to painters' hands or workshops. This also includes graphic and photographic documentation - partly in color since the 2010s. The last step in the documentation by the CVA is a chronological classification.
Scientific and digital methods
In 2006 the working group in Austria used a 3D scanner for the first time for the CVA to record the vessel shapes and thus forms the basis for the most recently published volumes. For this purpose, all profile sections and several unrolls were calculated from the high-resolution 3D data using the GigaMesh software framework as the basis for the images. The Austrian CVA sub-project is to date the only one that uses scientific and digital methods.
Participating States
Country | Responsible institution | current leader | previous volumes | first volume | last volume | Remarks | Wikipedia link |
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Australia | Margaret C. Miller | 2 | 2008 | 2008 | CVA Australia | ||
Belgium | Jean Balty | 3 | 1926 | 1949 | CVA Belgium | ||
Denmark | Bodil Bundgaard Rasmussen | 10 | 1925 | 2004 | CVA Denmark | ||
Germany | Bavarian Academy of Sciences | Paul Zanker | 105 | 1938 | 2019 | so far seven supplements; Among the 105 volumes are one Austrian and six from the GDR | CVA Germany |
GDR | Academy of Sciences of the GDR | 3 | 1972 | 1990 | between 1959 and 1968 six volumes appeared in the Gesamtdeutsche series; continued in the all-German series | CVA Germany | |
Finland | Leena Pietilä-Castrén | 1 | 2003 | 2003 | CVA Finland | ||
France | Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres | Juliette de La Genière | 42 | 1923 | 2010 | CVA France | |
Greece | Maria Pipili | 13 | 1930 | 2012 | CVA Greece | ||
Ireland | 1 | 2001 | 2001 | CVA Ireland | |||
Italy | Unione accademica nazionale | Luigi M. Todisco | 80 | 1925 | 2015 | Supplements appeared in 1974 and 1999 | CVA Italy |
Japan | Japanese Academy of Sciences | Akira Mizuta | 2 | 1981 | 1991 | CVA Japan | |
Yugoslavia | 4th | 1934 | 1979 | is from CVA Serbia continued | CVA Yugoslavia | ||
Canada | 1 | 1981 | 1981 | CVA Canada | |||
Croatia | 1 | 2008 | 2008 | CVA Croatia | |||
New Zealand | Dick Green | 1 | 1979 | 1979 | CVA New Zealand | ||
Netherlands | Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen | Ruurd B. Halbertsma | 12 | 1927 | 2009 | CVA Netherlands | |
Norway | Axel Seeberg | 2 | 1964 | 2000 | CVA Norway | ||
Austria | Austrian Academy of Sciences | Andreas Pülz | 7th | 1951 | 2019 | the first volume on today's Austria appeared in 1942 as part of the CVA Germany ; since 2013 two supplements have also been published | CVA Austria |
Poland | Polska Akademia Umiejętności | Ewdkosia Papuci-Władyka | 11 | 1932 | 2012 | CVA Poland | |
Romania | Lucia Marinescu | 2 | 1965 | 1968 | CVA Romania | ||
Russia | Olga Tugeschewa | 21st | 1996 | 2012 | CVA Russia | ||
Sweden | Charlotte Scheffer | 4th | 1980 | 1995 | CVA Sweden | ||
Switzerland | Swiss Academy of Humanities and Social Sciences | Christoph Reusser | 10 | 1962 | 2015 | CVA Switzerland | |
Serbia and Montenegro | 1 | 2004 | 2004 | which sets CVA Yugoslavia continues | CVA Serbia | ||
Spain | Ricardo Olmos | 6th | 1930 | 1987 | CVA Spain | ||
Czech Republic | Marie Dufková | 4th | 1978 | 2000 | including the Czechoslovak volumes continued by the Czech series | CVA Czech Republic | |
Turkey | 1 | 2009 | 2009 | CVA Turkey | |||
Hungary | 3 | 1981 | 2017 | CVA Hungary | |||
United Kingdom | British Academy | John Boardman | 25th | 1925 | 2010 | CVA UK | |
United States | Archaeological Institute of America | John H. Oakley | 39 | 1926 | 2015 | CVA USA | |
Cyprus | Vassos Karageorghis | 2 | 1963 | 1965 | CVA Cyprus |
literature
- Charles Dugas , Henri Metzger : Colloque International sur le Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum (Lyon, 3–5 June 1956). Center Nationale de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris 1957.
- Summary guide to "Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum". 2nd Edition. Oxford University Press, Oxford 2000, ISBN 0-19-726203-1 (Compiled by Thomas H. Carpenter, updated by Thomas Mannack ).
- Donna C. Kurtz : A corpus of ancient vases. Homage to Edmond Pottier. In: Revue archéologique . 2004, pp. 259-286.
- Elisabeth Trinkl (ed.): Interdisciplinary documentation and visualization methods (= CVA Austria supplement 1). Publishing house of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 2013, ISBN 978-3-7001-7145-4 , ISBN 978-3-7001-7544-5 ( digitized version ).
Individual evidence
- Jump up ↑ Hubert Mara, Elisabeth Trinkl, Paul Kammerer, Ernestine Zolda: 3D-Acquisition and Multi-Spectral Readings for Documentation of Polychrome Ceramics in the Antiquities Collection of the Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna . In: Proceedings of the International Cultural Heritage Informatics Meeting (ICHIM) . 2007 ( archimuse.com ).
- ^ Elisabeth Trinkl: Attic red-figure vessels and white-ground lekyths . In: Kunsthistorisches Museum - Antikensammlung (Ed.): Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum KHM . tape 5 , 2011, ISBN 978-3-7001-6612-2 ( khm.at ).
- ^ Claudia Lang-Auinger, Stephan Karl and Bettina Kratzmüller: Bronze Age and Iron Age vessels from Cyprus. Attic geometric and protoattic vessels . In: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften - VÖAW (ed.): Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum Austria Volume 7 KHM Vienna . tape 6 , 2019, ISBN 978-3-7001-8267-2 ( verlag.oeaw.ac.at ).