RESEARCH

Discovering ancient technologies

Manti, P. (2022). Book Review: Bridging Science and Heritage in the Balkans: Studies in Archaeometry, Cultural Heritage Restoration and Conservation, edited by Nona Palincaş and Corneliu C. Ponta, Oxford, Archaeopress Publishing Ltd, 168 pp., (paperback).1 ISBN 978-1-78969-196-2 , in Journal of The Institute of Conservation 45:2, 149-151 (May 2022). https://doi.org/10.1080/19455224.2022.2079816

Metals

PhD supervisor 50% - responsible for the scientific methodology, 1^st supervisor Prof. J. Hines (50%) for the archaeological part – Examined successfully Jan. 2016. Nicholas, Matthew 2016. Metallurgy in the gloaming: non - ferrous metalwork from three early Anglo - Saxon cemeteries at RAF Lakenheath, Suffolk. PhD Thesis, Cardiff University. http://orca.cf.ac.uk/id/eprint/91120

Μαντή, Π. και Watkinson, D. (2020). Η επικασσιτέρωση ως τεχνική επιμετάλλωσης σε αρχαία μπρούτζινα αντικείμενα: προσδιορισμός με την χρήση μικροσκοπίας. Πρακτικά του 5^th ARCH - RTN Archaeological Research & new Technologies. Kalamata, Laboratory of Archaeometry, University of the Peloponnese. 4 - 5 October 2018.

Manti, P. (2012). Shiny helmets: investigation of tinning, manufacture and corrosion of Greek helmets (7th-5th c. BC). PhD Thesis. Department of Archaeology & Conservation, Cardiff University, Cardiff. Supervisors D. Watkinson and Prof. Ian Freestone. Examiners: Prof. Mark Pollard, University of Oxford & Dr John Merkel, UCL.

Manti, P. and Watkinson, D. (2011). Hot - tinning of low tin bronzes. In Metal 2010. Proceedings of the Interim Meeting of the ICOM - CC Metal Working Group, Charleston, South Carolina, USA, 11 - 15 October 2010. Mardikian, P., Chemello, C., Watters, C., and Hull, P. (eds), Clemson University, Charleston: 92 - 98. (ISBN 978 - 0 - 9830399 - 2 - 1) URI: https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/17616

Manti, P., Watkinson D. (2009) From Homer to Hoplite: Scientific Investigations of Greek Copper Alloy Helmets. In: Paipetis S.A. (eds) Science and Technology in Homeric Epics. History of Mechanism and Machine Science, vol 6. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978 - 1 - 4020 - 8784 - 4_12 Download post print from URI: https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/17600

Manti, P., Watkinson D., Kockelmann W. and Pantos E. (2007). Technological investigations and corrosion analysis of Archaic Greek helmets: preliminary results. Poster presented at HSC5: Synchrotron Radiation and Neutrons for Cultural Heritage Studies. Hercules Specialized Course. Part of the Marie Curie Conferences and Training Courses. European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF) Grenoble, France, 7 - 13 October 2007.

Vitreous materials & ceramics

PhD supervisor 80%, 2^nd Dr Paul Nicholson with 20%. Examined successfully July 2018. Wilkins, Chris James 2019. An evaluation of portable X - Ray fluorescence on applied blue faience glazes: A study using replicate glazes of the Late, Ptolemaic and Roman period in Egypt. PhD Thesis, Cardiff University. http://orca.cf.ac.uk/id/eprint/118081

PhD viva internal examiner. Doherty, Sarah 2013. The origins and the use of the potter’s wheel in Ancient Egypt. PhD Thesis, Cardiff University. PhD Supervisor: Dr P.T. Nicholson. https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/45612

PhD supervisor 10%, with Prof. J. Hines at 90% supervision – Examined successfully Apr. 2013. Peake, James Robert Nicholas 2013. Early Anglo - Saxon glass beads: Composition and origins based on the finds from RAF Lakenheath, Suffolk. PhD Thesis, Cardiff University. http://orca.cf.ac.uk/id/eprint/47677

Manti, P. (2009). Book Review: Vitreous Material in the Late Bronze Age Aegean: A Window to the East Mediterranean World, edited by Caroline M. Jackson and Emma C. Wager, Sheffield Studies in Aegean Archaeology Series 9, Oxford: Oxbow Books, 2008. in Glass News 26 (July 2009), p15 - 16. Published by The Association for the History of Glass ISSN 1362 - 5195

Manti, P. (2013). Appendix 4: Analyses of selected faience objects. In: Nicholson, P.T. Working in Memphis. The production of faience at Roman period Kom Helum. Excavation Memoir 105. London: The Egypt Exploration Society 3 URI: http://orca.cf.ac.uk/id/eprint/43454

Manti, P., Nicholson P. T., Smith A., Ellis M., Mosselmans F.,Pradell T. and Pantos E. (2008). The art and science of ancient Egyptian faience: the Step Pyramid tiles. Poster presented at The Art of Hard Science. STFC Daresbury Laboratory and Science and Heritage Program. Daresbury Laboratory, Warrington, 12 February 2008.

Tite M.S., Manti, P. and Shortland A.J. (2007). A technological study of ancient faience from Egypt. Journal of Archaeological Science Volume 34, Issue 10, pp: 1568 - 1583. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2006.11.010.

Manti, P. (2004). Chemical analysis of Egyptian faience and reconstruction of faience production methods. MSc Dissertation, Research Laboratory for Archaeology and the History of Art (RLAHA), School of Archaeology, University of Oxford. Supervisor Prof. M. Tite.

Stone & mortars

PhD supervisor 90%, with 2^nd Dr Ruth Westgate at 10%. Oct. 2014 – June 2018 (part-time). Successfully examined 2022. Kontogianni, Vasiliki 2022. Hydrophobic coatings and organic additives in Hellenistic-Roman mortars: the case study of Crete. PhD Thesis, Cardiff University. https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/149401

Kontogianni, V. and Manti, P. (2016). Detection and chemical characterisation of organic surface finishes on mortars by reflectance FTIR microspectroscopy. Poster presented at the 41^st International Symposium on Archaeometry. ISA 2016 Kalamata 15 - 21 May 2016.

Κοντογιάννη, Β. και Μαντή Π. (2015). Κάν’ το όπως ο Βιτρούβιος»: Η χρήση υδρόφοβων επιχρισμάτων σε κατασκευές διαχείρισης ύδατος. Πρώτα αποτελέσματα του χημικού́ προσδιορισμού́ των επιφανειών κονιάματος σε δεξαμενές και λουτήρες από την αρχαία Πολυρρήνια και τη Φαλάσαρνα. Αρχαιολογικό Έργο Κρήτης, Πρακτικά 3^ης Συνάντησης, Ρέθυμνο 5 - 8 Δεκεμβρίου 2013. Π. Καραθανάση, Α. Τζιγκουνάκη, Χ. Τσιγωνάκη (επιμ.). Τόμος Β´ σελ. 231 - 237. (ISBN 978 - 618 - 82325 - 1 - 8).