Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum
The Corpus vasorum Antiquorum ( CVA for short ) is an international research project to research and publication of ancient pottery.
The Corpus vasorum Antiquorum goes back to the initiative of the French archaeologist Edmond Pottier, who in 1919 organized a first preparatory meeting in Paris. It was decided to pottery collected according to standard guidelines in a corpus to publish. The first volume, Louvre, fasc. 1, by Pottier appeared in 1922. Initially there were six partner countries together, now belong to the Project 26 countries. Each country is responsible for the publications in his field of expertise. The Union is Académique International in Brussels, whose oldest project is the CVA has taken over the patronage for the entire company, led the CVA traditionally by a French scientist; current director is Juliette de La embarrassed. German volumes, the Corpus vasorum Antiquorum Germany are supervised by the Commission for the Corpus Vasorum quorum of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences in Munich (Chairman Paul Zanker ). The section Austria (since 1935) is of the Austrian Academy of Sciences supervised ( line Claudia Lang- Auinger ). Switzerland will be coordinated to the Swiss Academy of Humanities and Social Sciences ( Management Hans Peter Isler ). Be taken at present only publicly accessible collections in museums.
The CVA published ancient Greek, Italic and Cypriot pottery vessels from the 7th millennium BC divided by countries and museums to Late Antiquity in individual fascicles. The original plan of a publication of all the pottery of the Mediterranean region, Europe, the anterior and middle East has been dropped due to the obvious impracticality 1956. The original plan also all ceramic prehistoric and ancient Near Eastern cultures take was abandoned in the 1940s because of the lack of prospect of feasibility. To this day, so around 100,000 pieces from 24 countries and more than 150 collections have been described in about 380 volumes. Of these 97 volumes are including three volumes of the GDR has been published for German collections (as of 2013, see Corpus vasorum Antiquorum Germany ). Since 2004, the text and the pictures of all volumes of the CVA as a database on the Internet are freely available. The languages of publication are English, French, German and Italian. Were the volumes initially composed of loose cardboard illustrations and an accompanying booklet, individual volumes are now published in book form. For inclusion in the volumes vases must meet certain requirements, which often lead to a new restoration. So vases fragments must be identifiable and distinguishable from modern additions. A vase is described first in their state, it follows an iconographic interpretation and if possible the assignment of painters hands or workshops. Also includes a graphic and photographic documentation. First time, a 3D scanner was used by the working group in Austria for the CVA for the recordings of vessel forms. As a final step, a chronology.
Directors of the company had so far: