＂The papers in this volume are elaborations of talks presented at the 2015 Annual Meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America in New Orleans. Five were part of a colloquium, ’Consumers’
Choice : Uses of Greek Figure-Decorated Pottery,’ which was sponsored by the Pottery in Context Research Network. This group, formed in 2011-2012 and sponsored by the Institute of Classical
Studies at the University of London, supports research on figure-decorated and associated pottery, with particular focus on shape, iconography, and material contexts in the Mediterranean basin
of the eleventh to fourth centuries B.C.E. Two additional papers on painted pottery from other AIA sessions are included in this volume. These papers addressed similar themes to that of the
colloquium and supplemented the themes of how one might consider a consumer’s choice＂--Provided by publisher.
