Publications

This page lists publications and manuscripts submitted for publication relating to Roman material culture authored by persons affiliated with the lab organized by author.  A link is provided to a downloadable pdf for all article- and chapter-length publications and for excerpts from book-length publications more than three years old.

 

Cheung, C., and Tibbott, G.

Cheung, C. and Tibbott, G. 2020. "The Dolia of Regio I, Insula 22: Evidence for the Production and Repair of Dolia." book chapter for publication in Fecisti Cretaria. Produzione e circolazione ceramica a Pompei: Stato degli studi e prospettive di ricerca, eds. L. Toniolo and M. Osanna, 165-175. Rome.

 

Guarino, V., De Bonis, A., Peña, J.T., Verde, M., and Morra, V.

Guarino, V., De Bonis, A., Peña, J.T., Verde, M., and Morra, V. forthcoming. “Multi-analytical investigation of wasters from the Tower 8/Porta di Nola refuse middens in Pompeii: Sr-Nd isotopic, chemical, petrographic, and mineralogical analyses.” 14,000 words, 8 tables, 9 figures; accepted for publication in Geoarchaeology 2/22/21.

 

Ikäheimo, J. and Peña. J.T

Ikäheimo, J. and Peña. J.T.  2009. “The Palatine East Pottery Project: a holistic approach to the study and publication of an excavated pottery assemblage from Rome.” In Biro, K.T. ed. Proceedings of the European Meeting on Ancient Ceramics 07, 37-42.  IKAHEIMO AND PENA 2009

 

Peña, J.T.

Peña, J.T. 1989. “P.Giss. 69: evidence for the supplying of stone transport operations in Roman Egypt and the production of fifty-foot monolithic column shafts.” Journal of Roman Archaeology 2: 126-132. PENA 1989

Peña, J.T. 1990. Internal red-slip cookware (Pompeian red ware) from Cetamura, Italy: mineralogical composition and provenience.” American Journal of Archaeology 94.4: 647-661.  PENA 1990

Peña, J.T. 1992.Raw material use among nucleated industry potters: the case of Vasanello, Italy.” Archeomaterials 6.2: 93-122.  PENA 1992

Peña, J.T. 1993.Two studies of the provenience of Roman pottery through neutron activation analysis.” In Harris, W. ed. The Inscribed Economy: Production and Distribution in the Roman Empire in Light of Instrumentum Domesticum. Journal of Roman Archaeology – Supplementary Monographs 6, 107-120.  PENA 1993

Peña, J.T. and Blackman, M.J. 1994. “A neutron activation study of Plio-Pleistocene marine clays from west-central Italy: compositional variability and implications for the proveniencing of Italian fineware pottery.” In Burragato, F. et al. eds. First European Workshop on Archaeological Ceramics, 313-321.  PENA AND BLACKMAN 1994

Peña, J.T. 1995. “The organization of pottery production in Roman South Etruria.” In Vincenzini, P. ed. The Ceramics Cultural Heritage. Monographs in Materials and Society 2, 69-76.  PENA 1995A

Peña, J.T. 1995. Review of Orton, C. et al. Pottery in Archaeology; American Journal of Archaeology 99.3: 535-536.  PENA 1995B 

De Sena, E., Landsberger, S., Peña, J.T., and Wisseman, S. 1995. “Analysis of ancient pottery from the Palatine Hill in Rome.” Journal of Radioanalytical and Nuclear Chemistry 192.2: 223-234.  DE SENA ET AL 1995

Wisseman, S, Peña, J.T., De Sena, E., and Landsberger, S. 1995. “Neutron activation analysis of Roman fineware pottery from the Palatine Hill, Rome.” In Vincenzini, P. ed. The Ceramics Cultural Heritage. Monographs in Materials and Society 2, 441-448.  WISSEMAN ET AL 1995

Peña, J.T. 1998. “The mobilization of state olive oil in Roman Africa: the evidence of late fourth century ostraca from Carthage.” In Peña, J.T., Rossiter, J.J., Wilson, A.I., and Wells, C. eds. Carthage Papers. Journal of Roman Archaeology – Supplementary Monographs 28, 116-238.  PENA 1998A EXCERPTS

Peña, J.T. 1998. “Aspects of residuality in the Palatine East pottery assemblage.” In Guidobaldi, F. et al. eds. I materiali residui nello scavo archeologico. Collection de l'École Française de Rome 249, 5-19, 290-291.  PENA 1998B

Peña, J.T. 1999. The urban economy during the early Dominate: pottery evidence from the Palatine Hill. British Archaeological Reports - International Series 784).  PENA 1999 EXCERPTS A

Peña, J.T. 2004. “Testae Palatinae: Pottery from the Domus Tiberiana excavations.” Journal of Roman Archaeology 17.2: 599-602.  PENA 2004

Peña, J.T. 2005. “The urban economy during the early and middle empire: pottery evidence from excavations in Rome.” Journal of Roman Archaeology 18.2: 559-564.  PENA 2005

Peña, J.T. 2007. Roman Pottery in the Archaeological Record.  Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.  PENA 2007A EXCERPTS

Peña, J.T. 2007.  “A reinterpretation of two groups of tituli picti from Pompeii and environs: Sicilian wine, not flour and hand-picked olives.” Journal of Roman Archaeology 20: 233-254.  PENA 2007B

Peña, J.T. and McCaw, J.  2007. “The quantitative analysis of Roman pottery: general problems and the methods employed for the analysis of the Palatine East assemblage.” In Papi, E. ed. Supplying Rome and the Empire. Journal of Roman ArchaeologySupplementary Monographs 69, 153-172.  PENA AND MACCAW 2007

Peña, J.T.  2009.  “Use of ceramic and numismatic evidence in site chronology.” In Hostetter, E. and Brandt, J.R., The Palatine East Excavations.  Volume 1: Stratigraphy and Architecture.  De Luca, 261-264.  PENA 2009A

Peña, J.T. 2009. “The forming and slipping of African Sigillata: evidence from the Palatine East assemblage.” In Humphrey, J. ed. Studies on Roman Pottery of the Provinces of Africa Proconsularis and Byzacena (Tunisia): Hommage à Michel Bonifay. Journal of Roman Archaeology - Supplementary Monographs 76, 45-63.  PENA 2009B

Peña, J.T. 2009. Review of Facta: A Journal of Roman Material Culture 1 (2007); Journal of Roman Archaeology 22.2: 495-498.  PENA 2009C

Peña, J.T. and McCallum, M. 2009. “The production and distribution of pottery at Pompeii: a review of the evidence. Part 1: production.” American Journal of Archaeology 113.1: 57-79.  PENA AND MCCALLUM 2009A 

Peña, J.T. and McCallum, M2009. “The production and distribution of pottery at Pompeii: a review of the evidence. Part 2: the material basis for pottery production and pottery distribution.” American Journal of Archaeology 113.2: 165-201.  PENA AND MCCALLUM 2009B

McCallum, M, and Peña, J.T. 2010. “A reassessment of the two potteries at Pompeii: 1.20.2-3 and the Via Superior.” Rei cretariae romanae fautorum acta 41, 229-238.  MCCALLUM AND PENA 2010

Peña, J.T. 2011. “Etruscan state formation: a test of the Kipp-Schortman model.” In Terrenato, N. and Haggis, D. eds. State Formation in Italy and Greece: Questioning the Neoevolutionist Paradigm. Oxford: Oxbow, 179-198.  PENA 2011A

Peña, J.T. 2011. “Roman Pottery in the Archaeological Record: some follow-up comments by the author.” In Lund, J. and Lawall, M. eds.  Pottery in the Archaeological Record: A View from the Greek World.  Acts of the International Colloquium at the Danish Institute at Athens, June 20-22, 2008. Monographs of the Danish Institute at Athens, 136-138.  PENA 2011B

Peña, J.T. 2011. Review of  Hayes, J., The Athenian Agora, Volume XXXII: Roman Pottery: Fine-ware Imports; Bryn Mawr Classical Review. 2011.04.06.   http://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2011/2011-04-06.html PENA 2011C 

Peña, J.T. 2012. Review of  Reynolds, P. Hispania and the Roman Mediterranean, AD 100-700; American Journal of Archaeology on-line book review http://www.ajaonline.org/online-review-book/1200.  PENA 2012

Peña, J.T. 2013. Evidence for the use of raw materials for the manufacture of Black-Gloss Ware and Italian Sigillata at Arezzo and Volterra” In Olcese, G. ed. Immensa Aequora Workshop. Ricerche archeologiche, archeometriche e informatiche per la riconstruzione dell’economia e dei commerci nel bacino occidentale del Mediterraneo (metà IV sec. a.C. – I sec. d.C.)  Atti del convegno Roma 24-26 gennaio 2011. Rome: Quasar, 111-116.  PENA 2013A PREPUBLICATION MS

Peña, J.T. 2013. “Comments: The state of archaeological science in the United States of America; A method for the recognition and documentation of ceramic fabrics by means of a low-resolution digital microscope” In Olcese, G. ed. Immensa Aequora Workshop. Ricerche archeologiche, archeometriche e informatiche per la riconstruzione dell’economia e dei commerci nel bacino occidentale del Mediterraneo (metà IV sec. a.C. – I sec. d.C.)  Atti del convegno Roma 24-26 gennaio 2011. Rome: Quasar, 511-514. PENA 2013B PREPUBLICATION MS

Peña, J.T.  2014. “The Pompeii Artifact Life History Project: conceptual background and first season’s results.” Rei cretariae romanae fautorum acta 43, 297-304. PENA 2014 PREPUBLICATION MS

Peña, J.T. 2014. “Ten studies on pottery and other materials from the Fori Imperiali.” Journal of Roman Archaeology 27.2: 552-555.

Peña, J.T. 2014. “Regional pottery production in Roman Spain.” Journal of Roman Archaeology 27.2: 800-805.

Peña, J.T. and Gallimore, S.  2014. “Black-Gloss Ware, North Etrurian Red-Slip Ware, and Italian Sigillata from Cetamura del Chianti: composition, provenance, supply and consumption.” HEROM - Journal on Hellenistic and Roman Material Culture 3: 72-224.  PENA AND GALLIMORE 2014 PREPUBLICATION MS

Peña, J.T. 2017 “‘Expo Milano 2015’ on the Tiber?  The catalogue from an exhibition on Roman food” Journal of Roman archaeology 30.2:615-619.

Peña, J.T. 2017 “Issues in the study of rural craft production in Roman Italy.” in T.C.A. De Haas and G.W. Tol eds. The economic integration of Roman Italy: rural communities in a globalizing world. (Brill), 203-230.   PENA SUBMITTED 2014 PREPUBLICATION MS

Peña, J.T. 2018 “Sterling Ruby – Notes from a ceramic archaeologist.” in J. Fleming ed. Sterling Ruby: Ceramics. (Des Moines Art Center), 223-227. PENA SUBMITTED 2018 PREPUBLICATION MS

Peña, J.T. 2019 Review of Dixneuf, D. ed., LRCW 5 Late Roman coarse wares, cooking wares and amphorae in the Mediterranean. Archaeology and Archaeometry; Bryn Mawr classical review. 2019.03.36. http://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2019/2019-03-36.html

Peña, J.T.  2020 Evidence for pottery production from the Torre VIII/Porta di Nola refuse middens at Pompeii.” in M. Osanna and L. Toniolo eds. Fecisti Cretaria. Dal frammento al contesto: Studi sul vasellame ceramico del territorio vesuviano. (Studi e ricerche del Parco Archeologico di Pompei 39), 23-32. PENA SUBMITTED 2016B PREPUBLICATION MS

Peña, J.T. 2020 “Recycling and reuse in the Roman world: concepts, questions, materials, and organization.” in C. Duckworth, and A. Wilson eds., Recycling and reuse in the Roman economy. (Oxford studies on the Roman economy), 9-58. PENA SUBMITTED 2017 PREPUBLICATION MS

Peña, J.T. 2020 Review of Lyding Will, E. and Warner Slane, K. Cosa: the Roman and Greek amphoras; American journal of archaeology 124.3. https://www.ajaonline.org/book-review/4133

 

Manuscripts submitted for publication:

Peña, J.T. “La epigrafía en cerámica de Pompeya” book chapter for publication in A. Ribera i Lacomba and D. Bernal Casasola eds.  La cerámica de Pompeya (6000 words, 7 figures). (submitted November, 2011)  PENA SUBMITTED 2011 PREPUBLICATION MS

Peña, J.T. “The reuse of transport amphoras as packaging containers in the Roman world: an overview.” book chapter for publication in D. Bernal, M. Bonifay, and A. Pecci eds. Roman amphora contents: reflecting on maritime trade of foodstuffs in antiquity. Roman and late antique Mediterranean pottery 9 (12,111 words, 4 figures). (submitted January, 2016)  PENA SUBMITTED 2016A PREPUBLICATION MS 

Peña, J.T. “Amphorae, Roman.” entry for publication in Oxford Classical Dictionary (4,280 words, 3 images; submitted April, 2019). PENA SUBMITTED 2019 PREPUBLICATION MS

Forthcoming  Peña, J.T. “The Investigation of Portable Artifacts at Pompeii and The Pompeii Artefact Life History Project.” chapter for publication in J. Berry and R. Benefiel eds. The Oxford handbook of Pompeii and environs (10,811 words, 1 figure, 3 tables).  PENA SUBMITTED 2021 PREPUBLICATION MS

 

Peña, J.T. and Cheung, C.

Peña, J.T. and Cheung, C. 2015. “The Pompeii Artifact Life History Project: conceptual basis and results of first three seasons.” In Gambardella, C. ed. Heritage and Technology. Mind, Knowledge Experience. Le Vie degli Mercanti XIII Forum Internazionale di Studi. Fabbrica della conoscenza 56, 2115-23.  PENA AND CHEUNG 2015 PREPUBLICATION MS