No CrossRef data available.
Article contents
Extract
It appears to be necessary for the human mind to temper the rigours of the scientific method with certain irrationalities. In archaeology, terminology usually performs this function of safety-valve, as witness the treatment of Greek place-names or the use with ‘B.C.’ of the ill-matched ‘A.D.’, especially in the monstrosity ‘such and such a century A.D.’ When these aberrations cause no confusion of meaning, the logical mind can only hold its breath and swallow hard, knowing that reform is hopeless, but when they lead to equivocation and thereby violate the primary rule of scientific terminology, no protest can be too emphatic.
- Type
- Research Article
- Information
- Copyright
- Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd. 1937
References
1 By the time of the later Empire, the pleonastic nature of this particular phrase had been forgotten and ‘Samian’ was interpreted de novo as ‘sharp’, witness Nonius, ‘Samium rursum acutum’ (xv). This common-sense explanation may have been inspired by the ancient use of a Samius lapis for polishing metal (Pliny the Elder, Historia Naturalis xxxvi, 21 (40), 152).
2 For this ware, see Elderkin, G.W. and others, Antioch on the Orontes I : Lamps, Pottery, Metal and Glass Ware, by Waagé, F.O., pp. 68 ff.Google Scholar
3 Wiegand, T. and others, Priene. Berlin, 1904, pp. 430 ff.Google Scholar
4 Knipowitsch, T., Materialien zur römisch–germanischen Keramik 4, I Die Keramik romischer Zeit aus Olbia, Frankfurt a. M., 1929, pp. 12 ff.Google Scholar
5 Technau, W., Athenische Mitteilungen 54 (1929), pp. 48 ff.Google Scholar
6 Eilmann, R., Athenische Mitteilungen 58 (1933), p. 47.Google Scholar
7 Waagé, F.O., Hesperia 2 (1933), pp. 291 ff.Google Scholar
8 Elderkin, G.W. and others, Antioch on the Orontes 1, p. 72, note 35.Google Scholar
9 Athenische Mitteilungen 54 (1929), p. 48;Google Scholar Österreichisches Archäologisches Institut, Forschungen in Ephesos 1, p. 175.Google Scholar