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Dr Ian McPhee

Honorary Asssociate Director, A.D. Trendall Research Centre for Ancient Mediterranean Studies Room: Humanities 3 206 Tel: (613) 9479 1532 Fax: (613) 9479 1942 Email: I.Mcphee@latrobe.edu.au Qualifications: BA(Hons) Sydney, PhD Cincinnati

Ian McPhee studied archaeology at the University of Sydney. He then received a Semple Fellowship to undertake a Ph.D at the University of Cinciinati from 1968 to 1973. After teaching for a year in the Department of Classics at the University of Kansas (Lawrence), he took up a Lectureship in the Department of Art History at La Trobe University in 1974. He worked for many years with A.D. Trendall, and is the inaugural Director of the Trendall Research Centre.

>>Research Interests

My research in recent years has been mainly devoted to two areas: the pottery of the city of Corinth in the 5th and 4th centuries BC; and the red-figured pottery produced in Greece and South Italy during the same period. At Corinth I have been collaborating with Dr Elizabeth Pemberton on the material from a drain deposit of the 4th century. When this project is finished, I hope to produce a more general study of the archaeology of Corinth in the 4th century. My interests in red-figure pottery are currently reflected in two projects: a study of Campanian red-figure of the 4th century; and the publication of the Athenian and local red-figure found in the Australian excavations at Torone (Greece).

Awards:
2003 - A.D. Trendall Fellow at the Institute for Classical Studies, University of London
2005 - Resident at the University of Cincinnati, as a Margo Tytus fellow in the Department of Classics
2005 - Kress Foundation Publication Fellowship (jointly with Dr. Elizabeth Pemberton), by the American School of Classical Studies, for completion of the manuscript on the late 4th century drain deposit in Ancient Corinth

>>Research Projects

• Contributions on South Italian Pottery in A. Lezzi-Hafter (ed.), In Vino Linea: Antike Gefässe und Fragmente der Sammlung Jeannette, Stephan und Muriel Gottet (Akanthus Verlag, Zurich, 2002/3)
• (with E.G. Pemberton) "Hellenistic and Roman Pottery" in A. Sagona (ed.), Archaeology at the North-Eastern Frontier, Vol. I: Survey of the Bayburt Plain, Peeters Press, Louvain, 2002/3)
• Hellenistic and Roman pottery from the Australian excavations at Büyüktepe Höyük for A. Sagona (ed.), Archaeology at the North-East Frontier, Vol. II: Excavations of Büyüktepe Höyük. This study is being undertaken in collaboration with E.G. Pemberton.
  Article of 21,000 words based upon research in Corinth accepted for publication in the journal Hesperia. Title: "The Corinth Oinochoe: One- and Two-handled jugs from Ancient Corinth".
• Pottery and other artifacts from a deposit of the 4th century BCE at Ancient Corinth. This deposit was excavated in 1971 by the American School. The study is being undertaken in collaboration with Dr. E.G. Pemberton. It will be completed in 2004/5, and published in a volume of the prestigious Corinth Excavations series of the American School of Classical Studies.
• Supplementary volume on Campanian red-figure pottery based upon the notes of the late A.D. Trendall. I have already prepared a draft typescript.
  I have recently been invited by Professor Alexander Cambitoglou to study and publish the red-figured pottery from his excavations at Torone (Greece) during the years 1981-1985 for the second volume of the Torone publication. I was able to study the material in the museum in Polygiros in June, 2003.

>>Research Publications

Selected Publications include:

Books

• McPhee, Ian and Trendall, A.D. 1987. Greek Red-figured Fish-plates (Basel)
• McPhee, Ian and Buttrey, T.V. 1998. The Extramural Sanctuary of Demeter and Persephone at Cyrene, Libya, Final Reports, Volume VI (Philadelphia)

Book Chapter

• 
  "The Red-Figured Pottery," in A. Cambitoglou, J. Papadopoulos, O. Jones (edd.), Torone I: The Excavations of 1975, 1976, and 1978 (Athens 2001), 353-390, figs. 56-59, pls. 58-64

Articles

• "Some Red-figure Vase-painters of the Chalcidice," Annual of the British School at Athens 76, 1981, 297-308, pls. 49-53
• "Local Red Figure from Corinth, 1973-1980," Hesperia 52, 1983, 137-153, pls. 33-41
  "Elektra II," Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae, II (Zurich 1986), 709-719, pls. 543-549
• "Laconian Red-figure from the British Excavations in Sparta," Annual of the British School at Athens 81, 1986, 153-166, pls. 3-7
• "Stemless Bell-kraters from Ancient Corinth," Hesperia 66, 1997, 99-145, pls. 32-45
• "Falaieff Bell-kraters from Ancient Corinth," Hesperia 69, 2000, 453-486
• "The Corinthian Oinochoe," Hesperia 74, 2005, pp. 41-94
• The Red-figured Pottery from Torone 1981-1984: A Conspectus, Mediterranean Archaology, Vol. 19/20, 2008, pp.125-132.