Religion, politics and social context: what is the role of monumental sculpture?

Patrizia Birchler Emery is a lecturer in Classical Archaeology at the University of Geneva (Switzerland) and curator of the Ostraca Collection in the University's collections. Her main areas of research concern Cyprus in the Iron Age, particularly its ceramic production, the techniques of Greek ceramic manufacture and the transition between the Neolithic and the Early Helladic in the Argolid.