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The publication is sure to become a standard reference for the study of late Hellenistic and Early Roman pottery; let us hope that it will also become a model. --Susan I. Rotroff, Washington University in Saint Louis, Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2017.08.06

Priene has been central to the study of Hellenistic and Early Roman pottery ever since the appearance of Robert Zahn's classic chapter ('Tongeschirr') in the publication of the site's 19th-century excavations. [...] Zahn lacked, however, the perspective and scientific tools that are now available and which have enabled Nina Fenn to make significant strides in her exemplary publication of pottery from renewed excavations at the site. Beginning in 1998, those excavations brought to light a wealth of new ceramic material, recovered and recorded according to modern standarts of stratigraphy and quantification. This forms the basis for Fenn's book (a lightly reworked version of her dissertation), which, using the evidence of context and of an extensive program of scientific analysis, puts the study of ceramic production and imports to the city on an entirely new footing. [...] Fenn aims [...] to characterize the local production of the city and to identify imports, and furthermore to explore the relationship between local and imported ceramics; in short, to come to an understanding of the changing ceramic landscape of Priene in the 1st century BCE. [...] The publication is sure to become a standart reference for the study of late Hellenistic and Early Roman pottery. Susan I. Rotroff (Washington University in Saint Louis), Bryn Mawr Classical Review blog: Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2017.08.06.

Review - German Priene has been central to the study of Hellenistic and Early Roman pottery ever since the appearance of Robert Zahn's classic chapter ('Tongeschirr') in the publication of the site's 19th-century excavations. [...] Zahn lacked, however, the perspective and scientific tools that are now available and which have enabled Nina Fenn to make significant strides in her exemplary publication of pottery from renewed excavations at the site. Beginning in 1998, those excavations brought to light a wealth of new ceramic material, recovered and recorded according to modern standarts of stratigraphy and quantification. This forms the basis for Fenn's book (a lightly reworked version of her dissertation), which, using the evidence of context and of an extensive program of scientific analysis, puts the study of ceramic production and imports to the city on an entirely new footing. [...] Fenn aims [...] to characterize the local production of the city and to identify imports, and furthermore to explore the relationship between local and imported ceramics; in short, to come to an understanding of the changing ceramic landscape of Priene in the 1st century BCE. [...] The publication is sure to become a standart reference for the study of late Hellenistic and Early Roman pottery. Von: Susan I. Rotroff (Washington University in Saint Louis)In: Bryn Mawr Classical Review blog: Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2017.08.06.Von:

Review - German ""Priene has been central to the study of Hellenistic and Early Roman pottery ever since the appearance of Robert Zahn's classic chapter ('Tongeschirr') in the publication of the site's 19th-century excavations. [...] Zahn lacked, however, the perspective and scientific tools that are now available and which have enabled Nina Fenn to make significant strides in her exemplary publication of pottery from renewed excavations at the site. Beginning in 1998, those excavations brought to light a wealth of new ceramic material, recovered and recorded according to modern standarts of stratigraphy and quantification. This forms the basis for Fenn's book (a lightly reworked version of her dissertation), which, using the evidence of context and of an extensive program of scientific analysis, puts the study of ceramic production and imports to the city on an entirely new footing. [...] Fenn aims [...] to characterize the local production of the city and to identify imports, and furthermore to explore the relationship between local and imported ceramics; in short, to come to an understanding of the changing ceramic landscape of Priene in the 1st century BCE. [...] The publication is sure to become a standart reference for the study of late Hellenistic and Early Roman pottery.""Von: Susan I. Rotroff (Washington University in Saint Louis)In: Bryn Mawr Classical Review blog: Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2017.08.06.Von:

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Nina Fenn studied Classical Archaeology, History, Art History and Prehistory at the University Freiburg (1995-2001), where she received the Magister Artium for her M.A. thesis on a late Hellenistic context from the forum of Thugga in Tunisia. From 2001-2004 she hold a DFG-scholarship within the research training group ""Archaologische Analytik"" at the Goethe-University Frankfurt. With her Ph.D. thesis titled ""Untersuchungen zu Herkunft und Produktion hellenistischer und kaiserzeitlicher Keramik in Priene"" she earned her doctoral graduation in 2007. Since 2007 she holds the position as Assistant Professor, first as stand-in for one year at the Archaeological Institute at the University Saarbrucken, and since 2008 at the Archaeological Institute at the University of Cologne. Nina Fenn's current research focuses on Roman Greece as her postdoctoral lecture qualification. Besides she organized the international conference ""Networks in the Hellenistic world - according to the pottery in the eastern Mediterranean and beyond"" at Cologne and Bonn 2011.

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