Acoustic toys and buzzing tops from Corinth. On two unpublished ludic objects at Geneva

Authors

  • Claudia Lambrugo University of Milan

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.54103/2035-4797/17675

Keywords:

ludus, toy, spinning top, rattle, Corinthian pottery, Corinth

Abstract

The paper deals with two unpublished ludic objects, made of clay, on display at the Musée d’Art et d’Histoire of Geneva (CH). Clearly, the first item is a ball-shaped rattle. More challenging is the interpretation of the second one, whose elegant decoration let it be compared to Corinthian pottery between Late Protocorinthian Period and Early Corinthian. The Author proposes it should be interpreted as a spinning top. Both ludic artefacts have evocative visual and acoustic effects.

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Author Biography

Claudia Lambrugo, University of Milan

Claudia Lambrugo is associate professor of Classical Archeology at the University of Milan, where she teaches Archeology and History of Greek Art and Classical Ceramography. His main fields of research are Greek archaic ceramics, choroplastics and iconography; she also deals with funerary archeology and the playful and childlike universe in the Greek world. You participate in several research projects in Sicily, Magna Graecia and Greece.

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Published

2022-04-07

How to Cite

Lambrugo, C. (2022). Acoustic toys and buzzing tops from Corinth. On two unpublished ludic objects at Geneva. LANX. Journal of the Scuola Di Specializzazione in Beni Archeologici - Università Degli Studi Di Milano, 193–205. https://doi.org/10.54103/2035-4797/17675

Issue

N. 29 (2021)

Section

Studies by friends and colleagues for Maria Teresa Grassi (part I)

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