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THIS IS A PROMO-FILE INCLUDING ONLY A FEW PAGES AS A SAMPLE OF THE BOOK. Title: Metal Vases & Utensils in the Vassil Bojkov Collection, vol.2. Author: Athanasios Sideris. Publisher: Thrace Foundation. Editor: Ruja Popova. ISBN:... more
THIS IS A PROMO-FILE INCLUDING ONLY A FEW PAGES AS A SAMPLE OF THE BOOK.
Title: Metal Vases & Utensils in the Vassil Bojkov Collection, vol.2.
Author: Athanasios Sideris.
Publisher: Thrace Foundation.
Editor: Ruja Popova.
ISBN: 978-954-92384-8-8.
Sofia 2021.
Pp. 428.
This is the second volume dedicated to the metal vases in the Vassil Bojkov Collection in Sofia (see herein vol. 1, 2016). It comprises 152 entries (cat. 147-298) of vases and utensils issued from the Thracian, Achaemenid, Greek and Hellenistic cultural domains, 105 of which have never been published previously. They are illustrated by 403 colour pictures and 195 drawings, complemented by 193 b&w pictures of parallels in other museums and collections. The time-span covered in this volume extends from the 11th to the 1st centuries BC. The volume comprises as well an extensive bibliography, three indexes, various lists and a map. It includes several unique or very rare pieces, such as a prehistoric gold kantharos, gold and silver phialae, several vases bearing dedicatory and other inscriptions, a new silver kantharos with figurative scenes, a bronze calyx crater, several silver rhyta with some outstanding exemplars decorated with a silenus figure and caracal protomes, as well as a unique silver plate with the representation of Aphrodite's birth from the ocean. The book will be soon available in Amazon.com or by addressing directly the Thrace Foundation.
Title: Metal Vases & Utensils in the Vassil Bojkov Collection, vol.2.
Author: Athanasios Sideris.
Publisher: Thrace Foundation.
Editor: Ruja Popova.
ISBN: 978-954-92384-8-8.
Sofia 2021.
Pp. 428.
This is the second volume dedicated to the metal vases in the Vassil Bojkov Collection in Sofia (see herein vol. 1, 2016). It comprises 152 entries (cat. 147-298) of vases and utensils issued from the Thracian, Achaemenid, Greek and Hellenistic cultural domains, 105 of which have never been published previously. They are illustrated by 403 colour pictures and 195 drawings, complemented by 193 b&w pictures of parallels in other museums and collections. The time-span covered in this volume extends from the 11th to the 1st centuries BC. The volume comprises as well an extensive bibliography, three indexes, various lists and a map. It includes several unique or very rare pieces, such as a prehistoric gold kantharos, gold and silver phialae, several vases bearing dedicatory and other inscriptions, a new silver kantharos with figurative scenes, a bronze calyx crater, several silver rhyta with some outstanding exemplars decorated with a silenus figure and caracal protomes, as well as a unique silver plate with the representation of Aphrodite's birth from the ocean. The book will be soon available in Amazon.com or by addressing directly the Thrace Foundation.
Research Interests: Classical Archaeology, Greek Epigraphy, Metalwork (Archaeology), Greek Archaeology, Ancient Greek Religion, and 15 moreBalkan archaeology, Ancient Greek Iconography, Scythian archaeology, Thracian Art And Iconology, Thracian Archaeology, Toreutics, Achaemenid archaeology, Ancient Greek Pottery, Ancient Metrology, Ancient Weights, Greek and Roman Art and Architecture, Classical Antiquity, Luxury Goods, Gold and Silver, and Praehistoric Archaeology
This is a booklet accompanying the 2018 Calendar published by Thrace Foundation, which presents in a general-public-format some silver vases from the V. Bojkov Collection. Some of them are thus far unpublished and will be included in the... more
This is a booklet accompanying the 2018 Calendar published by Thrace Foundation, which presents in a general-public-format some silver vases from the V. Bojkov Collection. Some of them are thus far unpublished and will be included in the forthcoming: Sideris A., 2021: "Metal Vases and Utensils in the Vassil Bojkov Collection, vol. 2", Thrace Foundation, Sofia.
Research Interests: History of Collections, Greek Archaeology, Collecting and Collections, Metal Finds (Archaeology), Ancient Art, and 25 moreHellenistic and Roman Asia Minor, Seleucid Empire, Ancient Greek and Roman Art, History of Late Classical and Hellenistic Asia Minor, Antiquity, Thracian Archaeology, Hellenistic Pottery, Pergamon, Toreutics, History of the Hellenistic World (Focus: Seleucid Empire), Parthian Empire, Hellenistic Greece, Hellenistic art, Macedonia, Archaeology of the Hellenistic East, Greek and Roman Art and Architecture, Symposium, archaeology of Macedonia and Thrace, symposion Greek banquet, Banquet, Parthian Archaeology, Ancient Greek Metal Vessels, Hellenistic Toreutics, Greek Silver Vessels, and Ancient Greek Silverware
The book is the first of two volumes presenting an extraordinary collection of Greek and related metal ware. The present pdf comprises the introduction and only a selection of 11 vases out of the 146 gold, silver and bronze vessels... more
The book is the first of two volumes presenting an extraordinary collection of Greek and related metal ware. The present pdf comprises the introduction and only a selection of 11 vases out of the 146 gold, silver and bronze vessels included in the original volume. These luxurious artifacts pertain mostly to the Greek and Achaemenid cultural domains and range from the 8th to the 1st centuries BC. The book has 356 pages lavishly illustrated with 110 drawings, 388 colour pictures and 111 b/w pictures. Besides the rich bibliography (more than 800 entries), it includes three indexes (personal names, place names, and general index), and three folding geographical maps in a pocket, showing more than 500 cities and sites mentioned in the text. More than half of the vases are published here for the first time, including a series of masterfully decorated Attic silverware.
Research Interests: Phoenicians, Greek Epigraphy, Lydian, Greek Archaeology, Ancient Greek History, and 26 moreHellenistic and Roman Asia Minor, Etruscan Archaeology, Ancient Greek and Roman Art, Thracian Art And Iconology, Antiquity, Phrygian, Thracian Archaeology, Ancient Thrace, Toreutics, Thracian religion, Greek and Roman Epigraphy, Hellenistic Greece, Hellenistic art, Thracians, Epigraphy, Greek and Roman Art and Architecture, Inscriptions, Greek symposion, Luxury Goods, Phrygian Archaeology, Phoenician trade, Lydian Archaeology, Achaemenid Toreutic, Toreutics / Silver vessels / Metalware / ‘International Achaemenid style’ / ‘Lydian Achaemenid style’ / Colchis / Asia Minor /Lydia, Hellenistic Thrace, and Hellenistic Toreutics
Please, consider that this is not the final version, and it still may contain uncorrected errors. The book deals with three interrelated subjects. The first is the representations of Greek heroes, mainly Theseus and Heracles, on Greek and... more
Please, consider that this is not the final version, and it still may contain uncorrected errors. The book deals with three interrelated subjects. The first is the representations of Greek heroes, mainly Theseus and Heracles, on Greek and local Thracian artefacts of the Classical era. The chiselled and gilt imagery on the luxury silverware creations, mostly found in Thracian and Scythian tombs, served as vehicle of the Athenian state ideology and the aesthetic and philosophical quests of that time. This brings us to the silver toreutics in Athens, a long and heated debate, of which the book dresses a balance and reassesses the evidence. The last part is dedicated to the instrumentalization of toreutics by the Athenian gift-diplomacy in its effort to establish a political alliance, and to achieve economic control on the rich precious metal, timber, manpower, and grain resources of the Thracian lands.
Research Interests: Classical Archaeology, Greek Archaeology, Greek Myth, Ancient Greek History, Ancient Greek Iconography, and 14 moreClassical Mythology, Ancient Greek and Roman Art, Thracian Art And Iconology, Greek Vases, Thracian Archaeology, Thracian History, Toreutics, Greek Sculpture, Archaeology, Classical archaeology, Greek and Roman history, Greek Colonization (Magna Graecia and Sicily), Material Culture Studies, Funerary Archaeology, Theseus, Ancient Greek Metal Vessels, Greek Heroes, Ancient Greek Silverware, and Athenian Art and Archaeology
A synthesis of the mythological and historical sources combined with rich archaeological data, most of which were unpublished until now, on the Phokian city of Antikyra. The book traces its evolution from the Early Helladic period to the... more
A synthesis of the mythological and historical sources combined with rich archaeological data, most of which were unpublished until now, on the Phokian city of Antikyra. The book traces its evolution from the Early Helladic period to the Travelers of Early Modernity, with special chapters on Archaic, Classical, Hellenistic, Roman, Early and Middle Byzantine and Catalan domination periods. Many monuments are discussed, including the temples of Athena, Artemis and Poseidon, the fortification of the city, the Early Christian basilica, as well as private houses and villas. A particular attention is paid to economy, trade and natural resources. The documents commented include large and small scale sculpture and terracottas, pottery, glass, coins and inscriptions. (Full English text from p. 170 ff.)
Research Interests: Classical Archaeology, Hellenistic History, Greek Epigraphy, Late Antiquity, Modern Greek History, and 20 moreByzantine Archaeology, Medicinal Plants, Catalan History, Greek Archaeology, Ancient Greek Religion, Ancient Medicine, Mycenaean era archaeology, Ancient Greek History, Ancient Greek Numismatics, Greek Pottery, Ancient Greek and Roman Art, Madness and Literature, Greek Fortifications, Greek Sculpture, Early Christian Archaeology, Ancient Greek Mythology, History of Botany, Homeric Archaeology, Ancient Greek Economy, and Ancient Phokis
Valavanis P. (ed.) Discover the Panhellenic sanctuary of Delphi, the navel of the Earth and home to the most important oracle in the ancient world. Tour the Sanctuary of Apollo, the Kastalian Spring and learn the history of each monument... more
Valavanis P. (ed.)
Discover the Panhellenic sanctuary of Delphi, the navel of the Earth and home to the most important oracle in the ancient world. Tour the Sanctuary of Apollo, the Kastalian Spring and learn the history of each monument from antiquity through the first centuries of Christianity. Visit the Archaeological Museum of Delphi and marvel at The Charioteer and many other important works of ancient sculpture.
The uploaded document is the chapter on the Delphi Museum by Athanasios Sideris (documenti in Greek, also available in English).
Discover the Panhellenic sanctuary of Delphi, the navel of the Earth and home to the most important oracle in the ancient world. Tour the Sanctuary of Apollo, the Kastalian Spring and learn the history of each monument from antiquity through the first centuries of Christianity. Visit the Archaeological Museum of Delphi and marvel at The Charioteer and many other important works of ancient sculpture.
The uploaded document is the chapter on the Delphi Museum by Athanasios Sideris (documenti in Greek, also available in English).
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""The volume entitled "Ephesus - History and Architecture", which ιs published by FHW, is the most complete presentation in Greek of ancient Ephesus. This work is the result of collaboration of numerous experts: archaeologists,... more
""The volume entitled "Ephesus - History and Architecture", which ιs published by FHW, is the most complete presentation in Greek of ancient Ephesus. This work is the result of collaboration of numerous experts: archaeologists, historians, architects, designers and graphic designers. It is part of a series of publications dedicated to Asia Minor cities of antiquity.
In 456 pages for the first time we find analytical texts, detailed documentation accurate architectural drawings and excellent illustration for all the buildings and monuments that were unearthed by the archaeological and excavation research, which is conducted in Ephesus for more than a century by the Austrian Archaeological Institute.
In the city the presence of Artemis is dominant, since it was considered to be one of the Seven Wonders of the World. The city also possessed several complexes of baths and gymnasiums. In several of them we find special halls for lectures, since in Greek education the care of the body was combined with the cultivation of intellect. Another special characteristic of the city was the luxurious fountains and monumental buildings. Among them the Fountain of Domitian, the Nyphaeum of Trajan and the Fountain of Laecanius Bassus.
The grandeur and prosperity of Ephesus made it one of the greatest and most important cities of the Greek-Roman world, and it continued to be of importance in the Early Byzantine Period, as it is evident by the magnificent basilica of St John and the other churches."
The English version is scheduled by Harvard University Press for 2014: http://books.google.gr/books/about/Ephesus.html?id=KKgOkgEACAAJ&redir_esc=y
The present uploaded document contains only a few excerpts, all of which are contributed in the volume by the editor himself."
In 456 pages for the first time we find analytical texts, detailed documentation accurate architectural drawings and excellent illustration for all the buildings and monuments that were unearthed by the archaeological and excavation research, which is conducted in Ephesus for more than a century by the Austrian Archaeological Institute.
In the city the presence of Artemis is dominant, since it was considered to be one of the Seven Wonders of the World. The city also possessed several complexes of baths and gymnasiums. In several of them we find special halls for lectures, since in Greek education the care of the body was combined with the cultivation of intellect. Another special characteristic of the city was the luxurious fountains and monumental buildings. Among them the Fountain of Domitian, the Nyphaeum of Trajan and the Fountain of Laecanius Bassus.
The grandeur and prosperity of Ephesus made it one of the greatest and most important cities of the Greek-Roman world, and it continued to be of importance in the Early Byzantine Period, as it is evident by the magnificent basilica of St John and the other churches."
The English version is scheduled by Harvard University Press for 2014: http://books.google.gr/books/about/Ephesus.html?id=KKgOkgEACAAJ&redir_esc=y
The present uploaded document contains only a few excerpts, all of which are contributed in the volume by the editor himself."
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The new publication of the Prefecture of Boeotia and the Foundation of the Hellenic World entitled "Boeotia. History and Culture", editor of which is Athanasios Sideris, is now available and comprises extensive texts on each municipality... more
The new publication of the Prefecture of Boeotia and the Foundation of the Hellenic World entitled "Boeotia. History and Culture", editor of which is Athanasios Sideris, is now available and comprises extensive texts on each municipality of Boeotia (before the Kallikrates unification) and many photographs taken specially for this book. The following researchers have contributed in the volume: Vassilios Aravantinos, Charis Koilakou, John Bintliff, Ioannis Georganas, Kostas Lazaridis, Despoina Lampada, Despoina Moschou, Guentso Banev, Maria-Dimitra Dawson, Vassilis Papadopoulos, Mohammad Shariat-Panahi, Athanasios Sideris, Yorgos Tzedopoulos and Cleopatra Ferla.
Here you can download the chapters "Antikyra" and "Chaeronea" contributed by the editor himslef.
Here you can download the chapters "Antikyra" and "Chaeronea" contributed by the editor himslef.
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The volume includes 23 contributions dealing with the social, economic, political and gender aspects of the athletics. The periods in focus are the Classical Antiquity and the Modern Era. For the fully uploaded contribution of Athanasios... more
The volume includes 23 contributions dealing with the social, economic, political and gender aspects of the athletics. The periods in focus are the Classical Antiquity and the Modern Era.
For the fully uploaded contribution of Athanasios Sideris on "The Athletic Body: Image adn Power", see the section "Papers"
For the fully uploaded contribution of Athanasios Sideris on "The Athletic Body: Image adn Power", see the section "Papers"
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For uploaded chapters on Mythology and History of Athens, as well as on Parthenon, see the section "Papers". "The publication starts with some introductory facts about the city of Athens, regarding its natural environment and the... more
For uploaded chapters on Mythology and History of Athens, as well as on Parthenon, see the section "Papers".
"The publication starts with some introductory facts about the city of Athens, regarding its natural environment and the mythology surrounding its name. Then, there is a brief presentation of the history of the city from Prehistory to modern times. Afterwards, the visitor can follow twelve walks around the city, which enable him to visit all the important monuments and sites of Athens through time. The publication pays particular attention to the most important monuments of the city, such as the monuments of the Acropolis, and to lesser known but equally important ones.
The texts are enriched with a great variety of visual material: maps, original photographs of monuments and architectural drawings. In addition, there is a lot of information about people, areas and monuments, while the book also includes a glossary familiarizing readers with complex archaeological and architectural terms and various artistic movements.
A. Sideris was the editor for the Antiquity entries of the Guide and the author of several entries such as Mythology, Ancient History of Athens, Parthenon and the Benaki Museum."
"The publication starts with some introductory facts about the city of Athens, regarding its natural environment and the mythology surrounding its name. Then, there is a brief presentation of the history of the city from Prehistory to modern times. Afterwards, the visitor can follow twelve walks around the city, which enable him to visit all the important monuments and sites of Athens through time. The publication pays particular attention to the most important monuments of the city, such as the monuments of the Acropolis, and to lesser known but equally important ones.
The texts are enriched with a great variety of visual material: maps, original photographs of monuments and architectural drawings. In addition, there is a lot of information about people, areas and monuments, while the book also includes a glossary familiarizing readers with complex archaeological and architectural terms and various artistic movements.
A. Sideris was the editor for the Antiquity entries of the Guide and the author of several entries such as Mythology, Ancient History of Athens, Parthenon and the Benaki Museum."
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The paper examines the geographical and chronological frame, within which the Odrysian toreutic production has emerged, and discusses some quantitative data in comparison with those of the neighboring Macedonia. Then, some characteristics... more
The paper examines the geographical and chronological frame, within which the Odrysian toreutic production has emerged, and discusses some quantitative data in comparison with those of the neighboring Macedonia. Then, some characteristics specific to the Thracian toreutic output are identified, namely: the deliberate naivety of the figurative representations, the “material upgrade” especially among the banquet and armor elements, the amalgamation of Greek, Achaemenid, and local vessel-shapes and decorative motives, the re-interpretation of motives borrowed from these two most influential cultures, as well as the originality of some figurative and ornamental compositions. The provenance and function of these toreutic artifacts is discussed in connection with their presence in funeral contexts, as well as in some important treasures. The latter suggest that, at least for some periods, precious metal toreutics were used as official gifts and means for tribute payment, and consequently as hoarding media.
Research Interests: Classical Archaeology, Greek Archaeology, Ancient Greek and Roman Art, Thracian Art And Iconology, Thracian Archaeology, and 11 moreAncient Thrace, Toreutics, Thrace, Ancient Metrology, Achaemenid Art and Archaeology, Classical Iconography, Gold and Silver, Hellenistic Toreutics, Odrysian Kingdom of Thrace, Influence of Greek art, and Greek toreutic items
The paper discusses a relatively small wine container called an askos, which is part of a ‘treasure’ of silver vessels allegedly found in central Thrace. The askos is compared to several clay parallels excavated thus far exclusively in... more
The paper discusses a relatively small wine container called an askos, which is part of a ‘treasure’ of silver vessels allegedly found in central Thrace. The askos is compared to several clay parallels excavated thus far
exclusively in Thrace. These clay askoi occur in three different ceramic fabrics: banded ware, a fabric with painted floral and geometric motifs, and monochrome ware. Our silver exemplar is dated to the very end of the 4th century BC and attributed to a workshop most plausibly located in a Greek colony of the western Black Sea coast.
exclusively in Thrace. These clay askoi occur in three different ceramic fabrics: banded ware, a fabric with painted floral and geometric motifs, and monochrome ware. Our silver exemplar is dated to the very end of the 4th century BC and attributed to a workshop most plausibly located in a Greek colony of the western Black Sea coast.
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This paper deals with the Classical Athenian bronze and silver ware found in Thrace and discusses the frame of their production, exchange and use within this specific cultural frame. HERE ONLY A SAMPLE. PLEASE, CONTACT THE AUTHOR IF... more
This paper deals with the Classical Athenian bronze and silver ware found in Thrace and discusses the frame of their production, exchange and use within this specific cultural frame. HERE ONLY A SAMPLE. PLEASE, CONTACT THE AUTHOR IF INTERESTED IN THE FULL PAPER.
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This paper studies the motif of the palmette on Greek bronze ovoid situlae, mainly of the 4th century BC. It traces its origin through Late Archaic and Early Classical examples to Ionia and Athens and discusses the two principal groups... more
This paper studies the motif of the palmette on Greek bronze ovoid situlae, mainly of the 4th century BC. It traces its origin through Late Archaic and Early Classical examples to Ionia and Athens and discusses the two principal groups named after the find-spots of two typical paradigms: the Vratsa and Waldalgesheim groups. A detailed typology of several subgroups is developed in the text and organised in a catalogue as an appendix. The spread of the motif on various toreutics and jewellery is documented from Hellenistic Bactria to the Celtic North and West, as well as in Thrace and Scythia. The paper argues that this wide diffusion of the palmette-and-scrolls motif owes much to the circulation in these areas of Greek metal vases, and especially of bronze situlae.
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The paper presents a late archaic bronze hydria, presumably from Thrace, with a dedicatory inscription to Hera and Demeter and a later ponderal inscription.
Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 215 (2020), pp. 104-112
Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 215 (2020), pp. 104-112
Research Interests: Classical Archaeology, Classics, Greek Epigraphy, Classical philology, Greek Archaeology, and 13 moreAncient Greek Religion, Ancient Greek and Roman Art, Archaic Greece, Ancient Greek Epigraphy, Toreutics, Greek and Roman Epigraphy, Cult of Demeter and Kore, Ancient Metrology, Ancient Weights, Inscriptions, Ancient Bronzes, Dedicatory Inscriptions, and Ancient Greek Onomastics
The paper presents a Late Archaic bronze hydria found in the vicinity of ancient Sinope, and kept in the Sinop Museum director. It is an exceptionally well preserved exemplar combining characteristics of various well established... more
The paper presents a Late Archaic bronze hydria found in the vicinity of ancient Sinope, and kept in the Sinop Museum director. It is an exceptionally well preserved exemplar combining characteristics of various well established Peloponnesian series. The lion head on the top of the vertical handle links the vase to a series popular since the third quarter of the 6th century BC and until the middle of the 5th century. The style of the Gorgo-head-shaped lower attachment of the same handle brings it closer to a series traditionally ascribed to Corinth. More details, such as the body covered with a chiseled-tongues pattern, and the palmettes of the lateral handles, serve to refine its affiliation to a particular workshop and narrow down its dating. Given the main distribution of related hydriae in the Greek mainland and the Balkans, the exceptional presence of this exemplar in the Sinope area may have been related to specific historical circumstances, or/and the development of trade routes along the southern shores of the Black Sea during the late Archaic period.
Research Interests: Archaeology, Classical Archaeology, Greek Epigraphy, Greek Athletics, Greek Archaeology, and 15 moreAncient Greek Religion, Ancient Greek History, Ancient Greek and Roman Art, Black Sea Studies, Peloponnese, Archaic Greece, Toreutics, Black Sea Region Archaeology, Greek bronze vessels, Asia Minor, Archaeology, Classical archaeology, Greek and Roman history, Greek Colonization (Magna Graecia and Sicily), Material Culture Studies, Funerary Archaeology, Sinope, Ancient Greek Metal Vessels, History of Greek Art, and Archaic art
Research Interests: Classical Archaeology, Classical Art, Greek Archaeology, Ancient Greek and Roman Art, Archaic Greece, and 13 moreToreutics, Luxury, Hellenistic art, Precious Metals, Macedonia, Greek and Roman Art and Architecture, Greek art aesthetics Canon Polykleitos, Archaeology, Classical archaeology, Greek and Roman history, Greek Colonization (Magna Graecia and Sicily), Material Culture Studies, Funerary Archaeology, Situla Art, Classical Antiquity, Macedonian archaeology, Ancient Macedonia, and Toreutics / Silver vessels / Metalware / ‘International Achaemenid style’ / ‘Lydian Achaemenid style’ / Colchis / Asia Minor /Lydia
The paper publishes a new vase of the Achaemenid amphora-rhyton type with zoomorphic handles, dated ca. 500 BC and attributed to a Lydian workhshop. It examines its spread and variations through the various local cultures of the... more
The paper publishes a new vase of the Achaemenid amphora-rhyton type with zoomorphic handles, dated ca. 500 BC and attributed to a Lydian workhshop. It examines its spread and variations through the various local cultures of the Achaemenid Empire, as well as the possible influence on Greek toreutics.
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The paper is a review of types, distribution and workshops of the toreutic faces, which adorn the metal sympotic vases in Macedonia and its neighbouring areas. It gives some unpublished examples, describes the main types, which mostly... more
The paper is a review of types, distribution and workshops of the toreutic faces, which adorn the metal sympotic vases in Macedonia and its neighbouring areas. It gives some unpublished examples, describes the main types, which mostly belong to the Dionysian circle, proposes three main workshop groups (Attic, Corinthian, and Macedonian) and tries to shed light on the circumstances, under which these vases reached the burials, where they have been found.
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The paper discusses the bronze vases found in Galaxidi (ancient Chaleion in Ozolian Lokris) and presents a representative sample of 26 out of more than one hundred. Their dates range from the late 7th century BC to the 1st century AD.... more
The paper discusses the bronze vases found in Galaxidi (ancient Chaleion in Ozolian Lokris) and presents a representative sample of 26 out of more than one hundred. Their dates range from the late 7th century BC to the 1st century AD. They were mostly grave goods and have been looted and scattered to more than a dozen museums arround the world during the late 19th century.
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Research Interests: Economic History, Classical Archaeology, Classics, Hellenistic History, Metalwork (Archaeology), and 11 moreMetal Finds (Archaeology), Scythian archaeology, Thracian Art And Iconology, History of Ancient Macedonia, Thracian Archaeology, Toreutics, History of ancient Thrace, Greek and Roman History, Colonization studies, Maritime Studies, and archaeology of Macedonia and Thrace
This paper presents the first preliminary isotopic data of skeletal (animal and human) remains recovered from Tomb A at the Mycenaean archaeological site of Kastrouli (Phocis) during the excavation periods from 2016 to 2021. The study... more
This paper presents the first preliminary isotopic data of skeletal (animal and human) remains recovered from Tomb A at the Mycenaean archaeological site of Kastrouli (Phocis) during the excavation periods from 2016 to 2021. The study also reports the results of the osteological analysis (minimum number of individuals, sex and age-at-death estimation) of several prenatal and adult bone fragments which were found commingled with animal remains in Tomb B, and Buildings 1 and 2. The majority of the animal remains were identified as domesticated species, i.e. Ovis aries, Capra hircus, Bos taurus and Sus scrofa domesticus. Other animal species present were Alectoris, Lepus, and a few different species of gastropod shells (Cerithium, Tarantinaea lignaria, Patella sp.). Isotopic analysis (δ13C, δ15N) of 12 humans and four animals with good quality collagen indicates a mixed diet incorporating significant amounts of domestic animal protein, plants (some potential evidence for C4), and possibly some marine contribution, all of which are archaeologically documented.
Research Interests: Forensic Anthropology, Stable Isotope Analysis, Skeletal Biology, Aegean Bronze Age (Bronze Age Archaeology), Greek Archaeology, and 9 moreAegean Prehistory (Archaeology), Palaeodiet, Mycenaean era archaeology, Mycenaean, Anthropological Archaeology, Paleodietary Reconstruction, Mycenaean Greece, Mycenaean period, and Ancient Phokis
Τhe excavated materials of the Late Helladic III settlement Kastrouli in Phokis, Greece has produced significant diverse information regarding chronology, human mobility, diet, characterization and provenance. The comingled burial of Tomb... more
Τhe excavated materials of the Late Helladic III settlement Kastrouli in Phokis, Greece has produced significant diverse information regarding chronology, human mobility, diet, characterization and provenance. The comingled burial of Tomb A and the finds from at least two buildings also contained some strange materials which properly analyzed offer a plea for caution. Moreover, they offer an opportunity to examine technological aspects, identification of species, dating and firing conditions. The few materials investigated here by Optical microscopy (OM), SEM-EDS, FTIR and 14 C include some spongy-like fibers, an incised ceramic sherd, a burnt bone, burnt clay and four radiocarbon dates of charcoal and bone. It was found that the spongy material was 14 C dated to a modern loofah intruded in the tomb A; and the "decoration" in the grooves in the incised ceramic was remnants of the soil in which it was buried and not any possible incrustation or filling with unfired clay. The burnt animal bone analysis by FTIR provided a possible firing at ca 400-550 o C. The OM of the burnt clay has not produced any possible print textile. The radiocarbon dating of charcoal and one bone produced dates ca.13 th c BCE, and the spans from 14thc BCE to late 12 th C BCE is discussed in the light of wiggles during this period in the calibration curve.
Research Interests: FTIR spectroscopy, Archaeometry, Aegean Bronze Age (Bronze Age Archaeology), Aegean Prehistory (Archaeology), Mycenaean era archaeology, and 10 moreLate Bronze Age archaeology, Mycenaean, Aegean Late Bronze Age, Mycenaean pottery, Radiocarbon Dating (Archaeology), Radiocarbon Age Calibration, Archaeometric analysis of pottery, Ancient Phokis, SEM/EDS, and Mycenaean Tombs
A brief description of the site and excavations at Kastrouli, Phokis (Greece), from where genetic probes for the "Souther Arc" project have been taken.
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Literary and archaeological sources have preserved a rich history of Southern Europe and West Asia since the Bronze Age that can be complemented by genetics. Mycenaean period elites in Greece did not differ from the general population and... more
Literary and archaeological sources have preserved a rich history of Southern Europe and West Asia since the Bronze Age that can be complemented by genetics. Mycenaean period elites in Greece did not differ from the general population and included both people with some steppe ancestry and others, like the Griffin Warrior, without it. Similarly, people in the central area of the Urartian Kingdom around Lake Van lacked the steppe ancestry characteristic of the kingdom?s northern provinces. Anatolia exhibited extraordinary continuity down to the Roman and Byzantine periods, with its people serving as the demographic core of much of the Roman Empire, including the city of Rome itself. During medieval times, migrations associated with Slavic and Turkic speakers profoundly affected the region. Stories about the peopling?and people?of Southern Europe and West Asia have been passed down for thousands of years, and these stories have contributed to our historical understanding of populations. Genomic data provide the opportunity to truly understand these patterns independently from written history. In a trio of papers, Lazaridis et al. examined more than 700 ancient genomes from across this region, the Southern Arc, spanning 11,000 years, from the earliest farming cultures to post-Medieval times (see the Perspective by Arbuckle and Schwandt). On the basis of these results, the authors suggest that earlier reliance on modern phenotypes and ancient writings and artistic depictions provided an inaccurate picture of early Indo-Europeans, and they provide a revised history of the complex migrations and population integrations that shaped these cultures. ?SNV Polities of the ancient Mediterranean world preserved contrasts of ancestry since the Bronze Age but were linked by migration.
We present the first ancient DNA data from the Pre-Pottery Neolithic of Mesopotamia (Southeastern Turkey and Northern Iraq), Cyprus, and the Northwestern Zagros, along with the first data from Neolithic Armenia. We show that these and... more
We present the first ancient DNA data from the Pre-Pottery Neolithic of Mesopotamia (Southeastern Turkey and Northern Iraq), Cyprus, and the Northwestern Zagros, along with the first data from Neolithic Armenia. We show that these and neighboring populations were formed through admixture of pre-Neolithic sources related to Anatolian, Caucasus, and Levantine hunter-gatherers, forming a Neolithic continuum of ancestry mirroring the geography of West Asia. By analyzing Pre-Pottery and Pottery Neolithic populations of Anatolia, we show that the former were derived from admixture between Mesopotamian-related and local Epipaleolithic-related sources, but the latter experienced additional Levantine-related gene flow, thus documenting at least two pulses of migration from the Fertile Crescent heartland to the early farmers of Anatolia.
By sequencing 727 ancient individuals from the Southern Arc (Anatolia and its neighbors in Southeastern Europe and West Asia) over 10,000 years, we contextualize its Chalcolithic period and Bronze Age (about 5000 to 1000 BCE), when... more
By sequencing 727 ancient individuals from the Southern Arc (Anatolia and its neighbors in Southeastern Europe and West Asia) over 10,000 years, we contextualize its Chalcolithic period and Bronze Age (about 5000 to 1000 BCE), when extensive gene flow entangled it with the Eurasian steppe. Two streams of migration transmitted Caucasus and Anatolian/Levantine ancestry northward, and the Yamnaya pastoralists, formed on the steppe, then spread southward into the Balkans and across the Caucasus into Armenia, where they left numerous patrilineal descendants. Anatolia was transformed by intra?West Asian gene flow, with negligible impact of the later Yamnaya migrations. This contrasts with all other regions where Indo-European languages were spoken, suggesting that the homeland of the Indo-Anatolian language family was in West Asia, with only secondary dispersals of non-Anatolian Indo-Europeans from the steppe. Stories about the peopling?and people?of Southern Europe and West Asia have been passed down for thousands of years, and these stories have contributed to our historical understanding of populations. Genomic data provide the opportunity to truly understand these patterns independently from written history. In a trio of papers, Lazaridis et al. examined more than 700 ancient genomes from across this region, the Southern Arc, spanning 11,000 years, from the earliest farming cultures to post-Medieval times (see the Perspective by Arbuckle and Schwandt). On the basis of these results, the authors suggest that earlier reliance on modern phenotypes and ancient writings and artistic depictions provided an inaccurate picture of early Indo-Europeans, and they provide a revised history of the complex migrations and population integrations that shaped these cultures. ?SNV A web of migrations between Anatolia, its neighbors, and the Steppe suggests a West Asian origin of Indo-Anatolian languages.
A set of teeth unearthed from two robbed tombs of Mycenean and archaic times; more than a dozen from Tomb A and a lower mandible from Tomb B, have been examined. Visual inspection, X-ray examination, infrared spectroscopy, and examination... more
A set of teeth unearthed from two robbed tombs of Mycenean and archaic times; more than a dozen from Tomb A and a lower mandible from Tomb B, have been examined. Visual inspection, X-ray examination, infrared spectroscopy, and examination in monochrome light were carried out on the tooth samples. Most of the teeth unearthed from Tomb A showed low abrasion, with no particular pathological findings. However, some teeth with caries cavities and severe abrasions, resulting in the exposure of the underlying dentin, were also detected. Regarding the left side of a mandible located in Tomb B, the examination results showed that the bone was fractured and that he had gum disease. Therefore, we can speculate that this is a relatively healthy population in terms of oral hygiene, as no severe pathological findings were found.
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The paper deals with the results of the third consecutive season of excavations in the Late Helladic site of Kastrouli, southern Phokis, during summer 2018. Excavations resumed and concluded in the Building 1, which dates in the LH IIIC... more
The paper deals with the results of the third consecutive season of excavations in the Late Helladic site of Kastrouli, southern Phokis, during summer 2018. Excavations resumed and concluded in the Building 1, which dates in the LH IIIC Early. Research has been conducted as well in three more buildings (2a, 2b, 3), and in the looted chamber Tomb B. A survey in the plane of Miteles identified drainage works of later dates, which however may represent improvements and adaptation of works conceived already in the Mycenaean times. Finally, some considerations are advanced on the labour investment for the Kastrouli fortifications and its implications for its population calculation, and a brief overview of the results achieved thus far by the entire project.
Research Interests: Palaeoenvironment, Mycenaean era archaeology, Prehistoric Fortification (Archaeology), Ancient Greece (History), Archaeological Excavation, and 6 morePhokis, Mycenaean pottery, Minoan and Mycenaean economy and administration, Minoan and Mycenaean Architecture and Urbanism, Mycenaean period, and Excavations
The paper presents the excavations of 2016 season at the Mycenaean site of Kastrouli, Phokis. The site has been looted in the past decades and excavated in a very limited scale by the Archaeological Service. It is located on the top of a... more
The paper presents the excavations of 2016 season at the Mycenaean site of Kastrouli, Phokis. The site has been looted in the past decades and excavated in a very limited scale by the Archaeological Service. It is located on the top of a rocky hill and delimited by a fortification wall, probably constructed in two phases, the earliest of which could be Mycenaean. A hybrid rock-cut and built chamber tomb, excavated at the west-ernmost part of the fortified area, contained an undisturbed commingled burial of at least fifteen individuals. The main pottery shape is the stirrup jar, and the small finds include Phi and Psi figurines, steatite beads, and fragments of gold foil. The period of the original use of the tomb falls between the LH IIIA 2 and the LH IIIC Early or Advanced. There is some evidence that the tomb has been reused in the Middle Geometric Period .
Research Interests: Archaeological documentation, Greek Archaeology, Mycenaean era archaeology, Late Bronze Age archaeology, Aegean Archaeology, and 18 moreMycenaean, Aegean Late Bronze Age, Late Bronze Age, Early Iron Age, Anthropomorphic Figurines, Late Bronze Age, Mycenaean pottery, Minoan and Mycenaean economy and administration, Commingled Remains, Minoan and Mycenaean Architecture and Urbanism, Delphic Oracle and Divination, Steatite beads, Mycenaean period, Sacred Lands, Antikyra, Ancient Phokis, Mycenaean Fortifications, Murex Trunculus, and At-Risk Cultural Heritage
The paper represents the first Scripps Center for Marine Archaeology (SCMA) land and sea study carried out in collaboration with Greek colleagues that took place in 2016 at the Mycenaean site of Kastrouli and the nearby Antikyra Bay on... more
The paper represents the first Scripps Center for Marine Archaeology (SCMA) land and sea study carried out in collaboration with Greek colleagues that took place in 2016 at the Mycenaean site of Kastrouli and the nearby Antikyra Bay on the north shore of the Gulf of Corinth in Greece. It is an interim study of what happened to a Late Mycenaean land and sea system at the end of the Late Bronze Age. It has new data on the social economic nature of a LH IIIC settlement and the anchorages that probably serviced it some 5 km from the site. The paper explores what Thomas Tartaron (2013) defines as a Mycenaean coastal world. The work has implications for the larger issue of the collapse of Late Bronze Age civilizations in the eastern Mediterranean and the possible influences of climate and environmental change.
Research Interests: Archaeology, Prehistoric Archaeology, Mediterranean prehistory, Digital Archaeology, Cultural Heritage Conservation, and 16 moreAegean Bronze Age (Bronze Age Archaeology), Cyber-Archaeology, Aegean Prehistory (Archaeology), Mycenaean era archaeology, Late Bronze Age archaeology, Aegean Archaeology, Mediterranean archaeology, Mycenaean, Marine Archaeology, Aegean Late Bronze Age, Aegean Prehistory, Late Bronze Age, Minoan and Mycenaean economy and administration, Cyberarchaeology, Mycenaean period, and Coastal and marine archaeology
The paper presents the preliminary results of the excavations of 2017 season at the Mycenaean site of Kastrouli, Phokis. It attempts as well a preliminary interpretation of the data obtained during the 2016 season, now based on the first... more
The paper presents the preliminary results of the excavations of 2017 season at the Mycenaean site of Kastrouli, Phokis. It attempts as well a preliminary interpretation of the data obtained during the 2016 season,
now based on the first results of the still ongoing archaeometric research.
now based on the first results of the still ongoing archaeometric research.
Research Interests: Archaeology, Classical Archaeology, Prehistoric Archaeology, Environmental Archaeology, Archaeometry, and 15 moreAegean Bronze Age (Bronze Age Archaeology), Greek Archaeology, OSL dating, Mycenaean era archaeology, Late Bronze Age archaeology, Archaeological Fieldwork, Mycenaean, Archaeological Excavation, Mycenaean pottery, Minoan and Mycenaean economy and administration, Chamber Graves, Minoan and Mycenaean Architecture and Urbanism, Thermoluminescence dating, Mycenaean period, and Ancient Phokis
The Kastrouli Late Helladic (LH) III fortified inland site is located in central Greece between the gulfs of Kirrha and Antikyra, not far from Delphi, controlling the communication between these sites. Characteristic ceramic typology from... more
The Kastrouli Late Helladic (LH) III fortified inland site is located in central Greece between the gulfs of Kirrha and Antikyra, not far from Delphi, controlling the communication between these sites. Characteristic ceramic typology from a tomb and the fortified wall indicate a Late Helladic period (∼ 1300–1100 BC) with apparent elements of reuse of the site in the Geometric, Archaic, Classical and Hellenistic times. The present research refers to the dating by luminescence of the stone wall that circumvents the site, a tomb construction and two ceramics. This approach to applying luminescence dating provides an excellent opportunity to search for the Late Bronze Age (LBA) collapse consequences at the site. The thermoluminescence (TL) measurements of two ceramics were carried out following multiple aliquots made of the polymineral material. For the equivalent dose (ED) estimation of pottery samples, the multiple aliquot, additive dose procedure (MAAD) in TL was applied. Prior to age assessment, the firing temperature was estimated also using TL and it is safe to conclude that the firing temperature of the original ceramic was ca. 400 ± 50 • C. For the case of the rock samples collected from the wall and the tomb, the ED was estimated by applying the Single Aliquot Regenerative OSL (SAR OSL) protocol, after later modifications for polymineralic/mixed quartz-feldspathic samples ('double SAR' protocol). The 'double SAR' protocol procedure includes an infrared stimulated luminescence (IRSL) measurement at 50 • C before the main OSL. Individual ED values ranged between 3.2 to 16 Grays and were accepted based on the following acceptance criteria: recycling ratio between 0.90 and 1.05, recuperation < 10%, dose recovery within ± 10% uncertainties , limited IR response at room temperature, ability to recycle and recover a laboratory attributed dose. For all the measured aliquots, these criteria were fulfilled. Here, six (6) new dates were produced on well stratified archaeological sections and context; two TL dates of ceramics from Tomb A, two OSL dates from stone wall, and two OSL of in situ stone building material from the tomb; the latter four using the surface luminescence dating (SLD). The latter consisted of several aliquots and sub-surface areas making at the end six SLD ages; for the two ceramics TL ages of 890 ± 240 and 1530 ± 290 BC; for the external fortified wall three dates 125 ± 145, 680 ± 130, 437 ± 140 BC and for the tomb 900 ± 138 and 1350 ± 310 BC. The luminescence dating project reconfirms the Late Mycenaean age and reuse of the tomb almost uninterrupted in later periods.
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Based on the grey pottery from the site of Halka Bunar, municipality Bratya Daskalovi in the south-eastern Bulgaria, the present paper intends a general overview of this class of pottery in inner Thrace, known already since the Archaic... more
Based on the grey pottery from the site of Halka Bunar, municipality Bratya Daskalovi in the south-eastern Bulgaria, the present paper intends a general overview of this class of pottery in inner Thrace, known already since the Archaic period and with documented relations with the Aeolid and the area of the North Aegean Sea. In Halka Bunar the grey ware of the Classical period, as in many other neighbouring sites, it has been found within ritual or domestic pits, and it seems to develop in continuity with that of the Archaic period. The shape repertory includes bowls, cups and mugs, strainers and jugs, lekanae with vertical or horizontal handles, craters, table amphorae and possibly hydriae. The distribution of the grey ware, the dating of which is often based on contextual finds imported from the Greek world, spreads from the shores fo the Black Sea to the western parts of the Maritsa/Evros Valley, and even to the regions on the north of this valley. It is undoubtedly the product of local workshops, which continued, even though with a more restricted shape repertory, during the early Hellenistic period as well.
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"During 2011 season the excavations continued in the Late Neolithic house 2 (sector VI), in ten Classical and Early Hellenistic pits in the sectors VI, VII and IX, in the clay wall remains of the Early Hellenistic houses in the sectors... more
"During 2011 season the excavations continued in the Late Neolithic house 2 (sector VI), in ten Classical and Early Hellenistic pits in the sectors VI, VII and IX, in the clay wall remains of the Early Hellenistic houses in the sectors VII and IX, and in an Early Hellenistic pit with a human skeleton in the sector X.
The most important find of the season was a very well preserved clay eschara found in the central part of the Early Hellenistic house in the sector VII. The dimensions of the eschara are 59.5 X 59.5 cm. Its surface is richly decorated with linear and stamped motives organized in one central and eight peripheral panels designed with a cord imprint. The motives include swastikas, rosettes and two types of ivy branches. The eschara was made and baked in situ and in its multilayered foundation there have been used pottery shards. The decoration combines symbols characteristic for both Apollo and Dionysos, a blend often related to Orpheus cult.
During this season there was another important find too. About 15 meters in the North of the Early Hellenistic house of the sector IX, a new sector X was opened this year following the investigation of a strong geophysical anomaly. A deep pit was discovered, in the filling of which there were pottery shards, a clay loom weight, some clay eschara fragments with stamped decoration, and a large (58 X 42 X 16 cm) well cut rectangular stone. Under the stone there has been discovered a human skeleton in an unnatural position – with the lower limbs in a higher level, the body laying in its left side, the head reposing on the earth with its left side too, and both arms wide open. The left fist was firmly clenched. According to the anthropological analysis the individual is a male approximately 35 years old, in very good health and of a rather unusual height (1.80 ± 3 cm). The context, the pose of the skeleton, and the comparison with analogous cases known from pit sanctuaries in Thrace make the hypothesis for a ritual homicide / sacrifice the most plausible. However it is quite unexpected that this ritual homicide was found only 15 meters from a structure with an escahra and remains of a weaving loom dating to the same period (Early Hellenistic).
Among other noticeable results of this season’s field work was the documentation of some Classical and Early Hellenistic pits, as well as collection of further information on the furnishing and destruction conditions of the Late Neolithic house 2, in the sector VI (culture Karanovo III). During the investigation there have been found and documented the beam holes of the northwestern and southwestern walls of the house.
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Left above: Pits in the northern side of the Early Hellenistic house in the sector IX.
Left middle: Reverse of a bronze coin of Seuthes III.
Left down: Late Neolithic pitcher.
Right above: Clay eschara (and its ornamental details) in the Hellenistic house of the sector VII.
Right middle: Grey ware oenochoe of the Classical period.
Right down: Iron spur of the Early Hellenistic period from the sector V."
The most important find of the season was a very well preserved clay eschara found in the central part of the Early Hellenistic house in the sector VII. The dimensions of the eschara are 59.5 X 59.5 cm. Its surface is richly decorated with linear and stamped motives organized in one central and eight peripheral panels designed with a cord imprint. The motives include swastikas, rosettes and two types of ivy branches. The eschara was made and baked in situ and in its multilayered foundation there have been used pottery shards. The decoration combines symbols characteristic for both Apollo and Dionysos, a blend often related to Orpheus cult.
During this season there was another important find too. About 15 meters in the North of the Early Hellenistic house of the sector IX, a new sector X was opened this year following the investigation of a strong geophysical anomaly. A deep pit was discovered, in the filling of which there were pottery shards, a clay loom weight, some clay eschara fragments with stamped decoration, and a large (58 X 42 X 16 cm) well cut rectangular stone. Under the stone there has been discovered a human skeleton in an unnatural position – with the lower limbs in a higher level, the body laying in its left side, the head reposing on the earth with its left side too, and both arms wide open. The left fist was firmly clenched. According to the anthropological analysis the individual is a male approximately 35 years old, in very good health and of a rather unusual height (1.80 ± 3 cm). The context, the pose of the skeleton, and the comparison with analogous cases known from pit sanctuaries in Thrace make the hypothesis for a ritual homicide / sacrifice the most plausible. However it is quite unexpected that this ritual homicide was found only 15 meters from a structure with an escahra and remains of a weaving loom dating to the same period (Early Hellenistic).
Among other noticeable results of this season’s field work was the documentation of some Classical and Early Hellenistic pits, as well as collection of further information on the furnishing and destruction conditions of the Late Neolithic house 2, in the sector VI (culture Karanovo III). During the investigation there have been found and documented the beam holes of the northwestern and southwestern walls of the house.
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Left above: Pits in the northern side of the Early Hellenistic house in the sector IX.
Left middle: Reverse of a bronze coin of Seuthes III.
Left down: Late Neolithic pitcher.
Right above: Clay eschara (and its ornamental details) in the Hellenistic house of the sector VII.
Right middle: Grey ware oenochoe of the Classical period.
Right down: Iron spur of the Early Hellenistic period from the sector V."
Research Interests: Classical Archaeology, Human sacrifice (Anthropology Of Religion), Greek Archaeology, Sacrifice (Anthropology Of Religion), Balkan archaeology, and 7 moreArchaeology of Ritual and Magic, Archaeology of Ritual, Thracian Art And Iconology, Thracian Archaeology, Ancient Thrace, Thracian religion, and Bulgarian archaeology
The paper presents the excavations of 2016 season at the Mycenaean site of Kastrouli, Phokis. The site has been looted in the past decades and excavated in a very limited scale by the Archaeological Service. It is located on the top of a... more
The paper presents the excavations of 2016 season at the Mycenaean site of Kastrouli, Phokis. The site has been looted in the past decades and excavated in a very limited scale by the Archaeological Service. It is located on the top of a rocky hill and delimited by a fortification wall, probably constructed in two phases, the earliest of which could be Mycenaean. A hybrid rock-cut and built chamber tomb, excavated at the west-ernmost part of the fortified area, contained an undisturbed commingled burial of at least fifteen individuals. The main pottery shape is the stirrup jar, and the small finds include Phi and Psi figurines, steatite beads, and fragments of gold foil. The period of the original use of the tomb falls between the LH IIIA 2 and the LH IIIC Early or Advanced. There is some evidence that the tomb has been reused in the Middle Geometric Period .
A first attempt to date the Kastrouli settlement at Desfina (Delphi Phokis) has been made by optical luminescence dating (OSL) on three ceramic and radiocarbon (C-14) of one bone sample. An initial archaeological reconnaissance of the... more
A first attempt to date the Kastrouli settlement at Desfina (Delphi Phokis) has been made by optical luminescence dating (OSL) on three ceramic and radiocarbon (C-14) of one bone sample. An initial archaeological reconnaissance of the partially looted site has produced some indication of use during late Helladic and later periods. Our four ages by luminescence and C-14 have shown that this site was used initially in Late Helladic period, and reused during the Middle Geometric, the Early Archaic and the Classical periods.
Research Interests: Archaeology, Prehistoric Archaeology, Geology, Historical Archaeology, Archaeological Science, and 15 moreArchaeometry, OSL dating, Late Bronze Age archaeology, Luminescence Dating, Mediterranean archaeology, Late Bronze Age, Late Bronze Age on Crete and the Greek Mainland, Luminescence, Radioactivity, Late Helladic IIIC, Optically Stimulated Luminescence, Optically Stimulated Luminescence and its Applications, Late Helladic IIIC Mycenean IIIC, Mycenean Arcaeology and Architecture, and Mediterranean Archaeology and Archaeometry Journal
The paper publishes three bronzes from the Archaic sanctuary of Athena in Antikyra, in south-eastern Phokis. To set them in context it gives a brief presentation of the temple itself and the stone base for the original bronze cult... more
The paper publishes three bronzes from the Archaic sanctuary of Athena in Antikyra, in south-eastern Phokis. To set them in context it gives a brief presentation of the temple itself and the stone base for the original bronze cult statue, excavated back in 1954 and never published. The first small bronze is a Late Archaic base with a dedicatory inscription giving a name, tentatively identified with a civic subdivision of Antikyra. The second bronze is a mid-fifth century BC headless statuette of a kore. The third is a relatively large bronze statuette of Athena Promachos. It is considered to be the best surviving exemplar of an Attic series, which includes several similar statuettes found on the Acropolis. It is also the earliest, to this date, occurrence of inlaying on small scale bronzes and dates a little before 480 BC.
Research Interests: Classical Archaeology, Greek Epigraphy, Greek Archaeology, Ancient Greek Religion, Ancient Greek and Roman Art, and 12 moreGreek sanctuaries, Greek and Roman Epigraphy, Greek Sculpture, Athena, Classical Antiquity, Ancient Bronzes, Dedication Practices, Phocis, Small Bronzes, Rural Sanctuaries, Archaic and Classical Greek Art, and Greek Sculpture. Severe Style
The paper presents a new inscription mentioning a dekaprotos from Antikyra, in Phokis, dated around the middle of the 3rd century AD. The office of dekaprotos is examined in its historical perspective with a review of all available... more
The paper presents a new inscription mentioning a dekaprotos from Antikyra, in Phokis, dated around the middle of the 3rd century AD. The office of dekaprotos is examined in its historical perspective with a review of all available sources. The paper tries to closer identify the function of the officials denoted as dekaprotoi in the Roman East, as well as their relationship to the decemprmi and decuriones in the Roman West. It readjusts the dates of introduction and abolishment of the institution, discusses the terms and members’ number of the office, and makes several additions to its already known geographical spread.
Research Interests: Ancient History, Roman History, Greek Epigraphy, Greek Economy, Greek Archaeology, and 11 moreGraeco-Roman Egypt, Imperial Rome, Ancient Greek History, Roman Economy, Eastern Roman provinces (Archaeology), Ancient Greek Epigraphy, Greek social and economic history, Phokis, Roman Law, Taxation, Ancient Greece and Rome, and Ancient Greek Economy
The paper deals with the history and archaeology of the Phokian city of Antikyra, from the Mycenaean to Byzantine periods.
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This document describes the work currently in progress within the Virtual Museum Transnational Project (V-MUST.NET), and specifically within the Second Work, Package (WP2), dedicated to the establishment of users requirements and criteria... more
This document describes the work currently in progress within the Virtual Museum Transnational Project (V-MUST.NET), and specifically within the Second Work, Package (WP2), dedicated to the establishment of users requirements and criteria analysis in the Virtual Museum domain. This deliverable describes how Virtual Museums and Research Institutions,members of the network, are currently dealing with issues related to methodologies,compatibility and re-usability when developing Virtual Museums (VMs). The objective here is not to directly suggest solutions, since this is the scope of other work packages. Conversely, the main objective of this deliverable is to provide a practical view on the consortium member’s practices, experiences and preferences regarding the above-mentioned topics and emphasize on implemented practices. This document under the above perspectives will feed and be generally used as reference by other consortium members when developing the Platform (WP4)and the Common Implementation Framework (WP5).
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This document describes the work done within the Virtual Museum Transnational Project (V-MUST.NET), and specifically within the Work Package 2, dedicated to the creation of a common language in the Virtual Museum domain. This deliverable... more
This document describes the work done within the Virtual Museum Transnational Project (V-MUST.NET), and specifically within the Work Package 2, dedicated to the creation of a common language in the Virtual Museum domain. This deliverable describes the adopted methodology used to build an on line common database that collects terms and definitions. It also defines the main 8 categories chosen to initially classify the domain and used as “glossaries” to collect related-terms.
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Research Interests: Classical Archaeology, Classics, Architecture, Virtual Reality (Computer Graphics), Virtual Environments, and 9 moreArchitectural History, Classical Art, Virtual Archaeology, Archaeology of Architecture, Greek Archaeology, History of Ancient Macedonia, Hellenistic Greece, Classical Archaeology and Art, and Ancient Macedonia
Research Interests: Classical Archaeology, Classical Archaeology, Design, Digital Humanities, Digital Humanities, and 34 moreDirecting, Animation, Photography, Web Design, Cultural Heritage, Cultural Heritage, Virtual Reality (Computer Graphics), Virtual Reality (Computer Graphics), Virtual Environments, Virtual Environments, Digital Archaeology, Digital Archaeology, Advertising, Graphic Design, Interior Design, Storytelling, Storytelling, Digital Culture, Interactive Digital Storytelling, Humanities Visualization, Humanities Visualization, Virtual Art & Virtual Reality, Virtual Art & Virtual Reality, Art and Interpretation, Art and Interpretation, Virtual Worlds, Virtual Worlds, Visual Arts, Fine Arts, Stage Design, Cinema and Television, Digital Imaging Devices, CameraWork, and Eco Construction
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Although this paper appears belated (it has been presented in the Istanbul Black Sea Conference in 2009), and in the meanwhile the site of the Encyclopedia of Black Sea is fully functional,... more
Although this paper appears belated (it has been presented in the Istanbul Black Sea Conference in 2009), and in the meanwhile the site of the Encyclopedia of Black Sea is fully functional, [http://blacksea.ehw.gr/forms/fmain.aspx?lang=en-US] it has the merit to give a methodological support and an explanation of the choices made in this project, for which A. Sideris was the scientific editor of the Antiquity section.
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Research Interests: Classical Archaeology, Cultural Heritage, Virtual Reality (Computer Graphics), Digital Archaeology, Digital Culture, and 8 moreVirtual Art & Virtual Reality, 3D Reconstruction, Virtual Archaeology, Classical Architecture, Digital restoration, Virtual Worlds, Digital reconstruction (Archaeology), and Immersive Virtual Learning Environment
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Co-authored with Dimitris Paleothodoros. Only abstract available
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The first encyclopedic projects, much earlier than the minting of the term ‘encyclopedia’ itself, are closely related to fundamental cognitive issues, expressed mainly through various knowledge organization and management theories. Beside... more
The first encyclopedic projects, much earlier than the minting of the term ‘encyclopedia’ itself, are closely related to fundamental cognitive issues, expressed mainly through various knowledge organization and management theories. Beside the tempting approach one to perceive the entire World Wide Web as an attempt for organizing knowledge, there are more specific encyclopedic projects, which evolve around the crucial issues of accuracy, validity, reliability, completeness, accessibility and sustainability. These issues mostly stem from, or express the actual degree of elaboration of an evolving knowledge theory arsenal and its implementation in the frame of currently available technology. The presentation will draw its paradigms from a long term project, running already for more than a decade, the Encyclopedia of the Hellenic World, and it will comment on the major issues affronted during its development, such as novelty, complementarity, polymorphy and uniformity, in comparison when necessary with other more or less similar projects, also conceived for and released on the web.
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The presentation examines the increasing interest of local societies for virtual reality projects, related to emblematic moments of their history or to symbolic ruined and less known monuments, for which there is also a raising... more
The presentation examines the increasing interest of local societies for virtual reality projects, related to emblematic moments of their history or to symbolic ruined and less known monuments, for which there is also a raising visualization demand. There will be discussed and presented the cases of Thermopylae, Thebes, Livadia and Pella, in Central and Northern Greece, where the latest projects of FHW have been realized.
Research Interests: Classical Archaeology, Human Computer Interaction, Music, New Media, Digital Humanities, and 41 moreE-learning, Virtual Reality (Computer Graphics), Virtual Environments, Serious Games, Digital Media, Gesture, Digital Archaeology, Multimedia, Poetry, Embodiment, Narrative and Design, Digital Culture, Bakhtin, Sound, Machinima, Performance, Reading, Humanities Visualization, Virtual Art & Virtual Reality, Virtual Archaeology, Greek Archaeology, Dialogism, Art and technology, Mycenaean era archaeology, Virtual Worlds, Ancient Greek History, 3D Modelling (Architecture), Greek and Roman Art and Architecture, Cultural history of the Ancient world, Cyborgs, Game Spaces, Virtual Heritage, Spatial Story Telling, Educational Virtual Environments, Computer Graphics and Virtual Reality, Information & Communication Technologies In Education ICT&E, VR for Learning, Educational Web 3D, Authoring & Intelligent Tutoring Systems, Virtual Reality Technology, and Interactive Cultural Learning
Research Interests: Human Computer Interaction, Education, Instructional Design, Educational Technology, Teacher Education, and 13 moreE-learning, Distance Education, Instructional Technology, ICT in Education, Online Learning, Distance Learning, Virtual Learning, Educational Virtual Environments, Information & Communication Technologies In Education ICT&E, VR for Learning, Educational Web 3D, Authoring & Intelligent Tutoring Systems, and Virtual Reality Technology
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Research Interests: Cultural History, Cultural Studies, Sociology of Sport, Classical Archaeology, Gender Studies, and 11 moreArt History, Social Identity, Cultural Theory, History (Archaeology), Fascism and Classical Antiquity, Greek Athletics, Social History, Athletics, Classical Reception Studies, Ancient Greek Iconography, and Reception of Antiquity
Research Interests: Sociology, Social Theory, Sociology of Culture, Classical Archaeology, Historical Anthropology, and 19 moreHistorical Sociology, Cultural Policy, Social Identity, Sociology of Knowledge, Identity (Culture), Nationalism, Modern Greek literature, Cultural Identity, National Identity, Modern Greek History, Classical Reception Studies, Modern and Contemporary Greek poetry, Epistemology of the Social Sciences, Modern Greek Studies, Cultural Globalization, Hellenic Studies, Classical and Contemporary Social Theory, Historical and Comparative Sociology, and Sociology of the State
"This is a brief presentation of the life and works of Celaleddin Rumi (Mevlana), a 13th century poet of Persian origin, active in Iconium, Asia Minor. The paper focuses on his relation to the Greek element and his Neoplatonic sources of... more
"This is a brief presentation of the life and works of Celaleddin Rumi (Mevlana), a 13th century poet of Persian origin, active in Iconium, Asia Minor. The paper focuses on his relation to the Greek element and his Neoplatonic sources of inspiration. It is followed by a selected bibliography and the translation of a few poems into modern Greek.
The English version (first pdf) appeared online in the "Encyclopedia of Asia Minor" in 2005, while the Greek version (second pdf) appeared in the literary quarterly "Odos Panos" in 2003.
The English version (first pdf) appeared online in the "Encyclopedia of Asia Minor" in 2005, while the Greek version (second pdf) appeared in the literary quarterly "Odos Panos" in 2003.
Research Interests: Gnosticism, Gender Studies, Philosophy, Aesthetics, Medieval Literature, and 32 morePersian Literature, Architecture, Mentoring, Mysticism, Islamic Art, Sufism, Proclus, Contemporary Sufism, Turkish Literature, Neoplatonism, Rumi, Intersectionality, Iamblichus, Western Esotericism, Ibn 'Arabi, Hermeticism, Work Life Balance, Islam and Sufism in South Asia, Ottoman Literary, Faculty Diversity, Ornament studies, medieval islam and Judaism, Hermetic Corpus, Henotheism, Professional Women, Turkish and Persian Poetry, Divan Literary, Women and Minority In STEM Fields, Pipeline Issues, Career Progression In Science and Engineering, Plato and Neoplatonism, and Philosophy of Geoemtric and Abstract Forms
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Ancient Greek sculpture in the Aegean is indubitably connected with the existence of marble quarries in many islands, but it is also the result of a more complicated socio-cultural phenomenon. The societies in the Early Archaic Aegean... more
Ancient Greek sculpture in the Aegean is indubitably connected with the existence of marble quarries in many islands, but it is also the result of a more complicated socio-cultural phenomenon. The societies in the Early Archaic Aegean integrated influences from Egypt, the Near East, Asia Minor and Crete, combined them with their rituals and burial customs, the rising position of the individual in the world, and they contributed in a decisive way to the birth of monumental Greek sculpture. Although in the following periods (Classical and Hellenistic) the important political and artistic centres were to be found elsewhere, the islands of the Aegean did not cease to benefit from their preferential place, in the heart of the Greek world and on the crossroad of the commercial and artistic exchanges.
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Research Interests: Classical Archaeology, Art History, Architecture, Sculpture, Ancient Greek History, and 13 moreAncient Greek and Roman Art, Greek Architecture, History of architecture, Greece, Archaic Period, Greek Sculpture, Athens, Greek and Roman Art and Architecture, Acropolis, Cultural history of the Ancient world, Sanctuaries, Votive offerings, and History of Greek Art
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The term ‘Orientalizing Rhodian jewellery’ refers to an extraordinarily wealthy and homogeneous group of jewellery of the Orientalizing period (7th cent. BC). These are works of exceptional artistry and unique detail, made mainly from... more
The term ‘Orientalizing Rhodian jewellery’ refers to an extraordinarily wealthy and homogeneous group of jewellery of the Orientalizing period (7th cent. BC). These are works of exceptional artistry and unique detail, made mainly from gold and electrum. A variety of jewellery types are included, with diadems, rosettes, pectorals and earrings being the most important. Most of them were found in Rhodes and other few islands of the Cyclades and it is believed that the jewellery workshops which produced them had actually been on these regions.
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"Sardis" is a chapter of an Archaeological guide on Western Asia Minor (Koutsoumpa D. - Palaiothodoros D., eds.) produced by FHW and published by Explorer and FHW in 2005.
Research Interests: Ancient History, Jewish History, Lydian, Ancient Greek Religion, Ancient Greek History, and 13 moreHistory of Late Classical and Hellenistic Asia Minor, Roman Architecture, History and Archaeology of Asia Minor, Asia Minor, Ephesus, Lydia, Eastern Provinces, Jews In the Roman and Byzantine Empire, Jewish Epigraphy and Archaeology, Jewish and Christian Pseudepigrapha and Apocrypha, Orthodox Monasticism and Mt. Athos, Monumental Topography, and Roman and Byzantine Social and Economic History
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Bouzek J., Cistakova V., Tuslova P., Weissova B.: "New Studies in Black Sea and Balkan Archaeology (2014-2016)", Studia Hercynia 21/1, pp. 149-163 (the reviews on pp. 157-158, 160).
Research Interests: Classical Archaeology, Greek Archaeology, Ancient Greek History, Ancient Greek Iconography, Classical Mythology, and 11 moreAncient Greek and Roman Art, Thracian Archaeology, Ancient Thrace, Toreutics, History of ancient Thrace, Silver, Greek and Roman Art and Architecture, archaeology of Macedonia and Thrace, Achaemenid Toreutic, Toreutics / Silver vessels / Metalware / ‘International Achaemenid style’ / ‘Lydian Achaemenid style’ / Colchis / Asia Minor /Lydia, and Hellenistic Toreutics
Review of "Valeva, Nankov & Graninger (eds.), A Companion to Ancient Thrace. Malden; Oxford: Wiley Blackwell, 2015." For the full text, please visit the site of Bryn Mawr Classical Review: http://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2016/2016-12-23.html#t8
Research Interests: Pottery (Archaeology), Balkan History, Greek Epigraphy, Metalwork (Archaeology), Greek Colonisation, and 19 moreGreek Archaeology, Ancient Greek History, Ancient Greek Numismatics, Ancient Greek and Roman Art, Thracian Art And Iconology, Thracian And Illyrian And Early Eurasian Peoples Art And Archaeology, Greek Architecture, Thracian Archaeology, Ancient Thrace, Toreutics, History of ancient Thrace, Thracian religion, Greek and Roman Art and Architecture, archaeology of Macedonia and Thrace, Thracology, Ancient Greek Warfare, Celts in Thrace, Eastern Thrace, and Roman Thrace
Review of my book "Antikyra. History & Archaeology (Athens 2014)", Eirene 51, 2015, p. 337, by Jan Bouzek.
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A brief report of the conference held in Vratsa on the Triballoi and their neighbours, 12th and 13th November 2015.
Research Interests: Painting, Greek Archaeology, Ancient numismatics (Archaeology), Greek Pottery, Thracian Art And Iconology, and 11 moreThracian Archaeology, Hellenistic Pottery, Thracian History, Ancient Thrace, Toreutics, Thracians, Attic pottery, Ancient Weapons and Warfare, coin circulation in Thrace, Toreutics / Silver vessels / Metalware / ‘International Achaemenid style’ / ‘Lydian Achaemenid style’ / Colchis / Asia Minor /Lydia, and Reception of Attic pottery in non-Greek culture
A report on the colloquium on Thracian aristocracy held in Paris in June 12-13, 2015.
Research Interests: Classical Archaeology, Greek Epigraphy, Greek Archaeology, Ancient Textiles, Thracian Archaeology, and 10 moreThracian History, Toreutics, Cultural Change and Political Dominance (Hellenization, Romanization), Greek coinage, Funerary Practices, History of ancient Thrace, Barbarian societies, Thracians, Ancient Greek Jewellery, and Ancient Greek Painting
Report on "Contacts, Migrations and Climate Change" Conference, held in Prague, May 19th-22nd, 2015, in honour of prof. Jan Bouzek.
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Research Interests: Ancient History, Economic History, Classical Archaeology, Greek History, History of Economic Thought, and 9 moreAncient economies (Archaeology), Greek Economy, Greek Archaeology, Ancient Greek History, Ancient economy, Greek and Roman History, Colonization studies, Maritime Studies, and Ancient Greek Economy
The course deals with the domain of small metal artifacts in ancient Greece. It encompasses bronze figurines (small scale sculpture), bronze and silver vases, cosmetic artifacts such as mirrors, and arms and weapons with elaborate... more
The course deals with the domain of small metal artifacts in ancient Greece. It encompasses bronze figurines (small scale sculpture), bronze and silver vases, cosmetic artifacts such as mirrors, and arms and weapons with elaborate decoration.
It examines the sources of material, the techniques of production, the workshops and styles, as well as the uses and the cultural context and significance of such artifacts.
It examines the sources of material, the techniques of production, the workshops and styles, as well as the uses and the cultural context and significance of such artifacts.
Research Interests: Classical Archaeology, Iconography, Art History, Classical Art, History of Art, and 14 moreGreek Archaeology, Ancient Greek Religion, Metal Finds (Archaeology), Trade, Ancient Greek and Roman Art, Greek Vases, Toreutics, Ceramics, Greek Sculpture, Greek and Roman Art and Architecture, Archaeology, Classical archaeology, Greek and Roman history, Greek Colonization (Magna Graecia and Sicily), Material Culture Studies, Funerary Archaeology, Cultural history of the Ancient world, Greek symposion, and Archaic art
The lecture presents the first colonization of Greeks in South Italy, in the gulf of Naples from the second quarter of the 8th century BC. The finds of the Ischia/Pithecusae and of Kyme/Cuma are discussed along with the important remains... more
The lecture presents the first colonization of Greeks in South Italy, in the gulf of Naples from the second quarter of the 8th century BC. The finds of the Ischia/Pithecusae and of Kyme/Cuma are discussed along with the important remains of Poseidonia/Paestum, the Sibarite colony just in the south of the gulf of Naples.
Research Interests: Archaeology, Greek History, Greek Language, Greek Epigraphy, Archaeology of Southern Italy, and 12 moreGreek Colonisation, Greek Archaeology, Ancient Greek History, Ancient Greek and Roman Art, Ancient Greek Language, Greek Colonization (Magna Graecia and Sicily), History of Southern Italy, Early Iron Age Greece and Greek communities overseas, Archaeology, Classical archaeology, Greek and Roman history, Greek Colonization (Magna Graecia and Sicily), Material Culture Studies, Funerary Archaeology, Early Greek epic, Narrative In Early Greek Art, and Greek Colonies In Southern Italy
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Research Interests: Gnosticism, Philosophy, Plato, Neoplatonism and late antique philosophy, History Of Platonic Tradition, and 13 moreMysticism, Byzantine Studies, Late Antiquity, Sufism, Proclus, Plato and Platonism, Neoplatonism, Ancient Greek Philosophy, Iamblichus, Western Esotericism, Hermeticism, Hermetic Corpus, and Henotheism
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Research Interests: FTIR spectroscopy, Archaeometry, Aegean Bronze Age (Bronze Age Archaeology), Aegean Prehistory (Archaeology), Mycenaean era archaeology, and 14 moreLate Bronze Age archaeology, Mycenaean, Aegean Late Bronze Age, Charcoal, Mycenaean pottery, Coating, Radiocarbon Dating (Archaeology), Radiocarbon Age Calibration, Ceramic, Scientific Culture, Archaeometric analysis of pottery, Ancient Phokis, SEM EDS, and Mycenaean Tombs
Literary and archaeological sources have preserved a rich history of Southern Europe and West Asia since the Bronze Age that can be complemented by genetics. Mycenaean period elites in Greece did not differ from the general population and... more
Literary and archaeological sources have preserved a rich history of Southern Europe and West Asia since the Bronze Age that can be complemented by genetics. Mycenaean period elites in Greece did not differ from the general population and included both people with some steppe ancestry and others, like the Griffin Warrior, without it. Similarly, people in the central area of the Urartian Kingdom around Lake Van lacked the steppe ancestry characteristic of the kingdom’s northern provinces. Anatolia exhibited extraordinary continuity down to the Roman and Byzantine periods, with its people serving as the demographic core of much of the Roman Empire, including the city of Rome itself. During medieval times, migrations associated with Slavic and Turkic speakers profoundly affected the region.
Research Interests: Ancient History, Geography, Archaeology, Southern Europe, Slavic Languages, and 15 moreAnatolian History, Science, Byzantine Architecture, Ancient DNA Research, Multidisciplinary, Ancient and Medieval History, Bronze Age, Population, Human Population Genetics, West Asian Studies, Archaeology of the Southern Levant, Ancient Studies, Steppe, Ancient DNA of Human Populations, and Geogenetics
Research Interests: Archaeology, Palaeoenvironment, Mycenaean era archaeology, Ancient Greece (History), Archaeological Excavation, and 8 morePhokis, Mycenaean pottery, Minoan and Mycenaean economy and administration, Excavation, Minoan and Mycenaean Architecture and Urbanism, Mycenaean period, Excavations, and Prehistoric Fortification Archaeology
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Literary and archaeological sources have preserved a rich history of Southern Europe and West Asia since the Bronze Age that can be complemented by genetics. Mycenaean period elites in Greece did not differ from the general population and... more
Literary and archaeological sources have preserved a rich history of Southern Europe and West Asia since the Bronze Age that can be complemented by genetics. Mycenaean period elites in Greece did not differ from the general population and included both people with some steppe ancestry and others, like the Griffin Warrior, without it. Similarly, people in the central area of the Urartian Kingdom around Lake Van lacked the steppe ancestry characteristic of the kingdom’s northern provinces. Anatolia exhibited extraordinary continuity down to the Roman and Byzantine periods, with its people serving as the demographic core of much of the Roman Empire, including the city of Rome itself. During medieval times, migrations associated with Slavic and Turkic speakers profoundly affected the region.
Research Interests: Ancient History, Geography, Archaeology, Southern Europe, Slavic Languages, and 15 moreAnatolian History, Science, Byzantine Architecture, Ancient DNA Research, Multidisciplinary, Ancient and Medieval History, Bronze Age, Population, Human Population Genetics, West Asian Studies, Archaeology of the Southern Levant, Ancient Studies, Steppe, Ancient DNA of Human Populations, and Geogenetics
We present the first ancient DNA data from the Pre-Pottery Neolithic of Mesopotamia (Southeastern Turkey and Northern Iraq), Cyprus, and the Northwestern Zagros, along with the first data from Neolithic Armenia. We show that these and... more
We present the first ancient DNA data from the Pre-Pottery Neolithic of Mesopotamia (Southeastern Turkey and Northern Iraq), Cyprus, and the Northwestern Zagros, along with the first data from Neolithic Armenia. We show that these and neighboring populations were formed through admixture of pre-Neolithic sources related to Anatolian, Caucasus, and Levantine hunter-gatherers, forming a Neolithic continuum of ancestry mirroring the geography of West Asia. By analyzing Pre-Pottery and Pottery Neolithic populations of Anatolia, we show that the former were derived from admixture between Mesopotamian-related and local Epipaleolithic-related sources, but the latter experienced additional Levantine-related gene flow, thus documenting at least two pulses of migration from the Fertile Crescent heartland to the early farmers of Anatolia.
Research Interests: Genetics, Geography, Archaeology, Mesopotamian Archaeology, Anatolian History, and 15 moreScience, Neolithic Archaeology, Ancient DNA Research, Multidisciplinary, Mesopotamian history, Neolithic, Pottery, Bronze Age, Mesopotamia, Archaeogenetic, Ancient DNA, Ancient Mesopotamia, DNA genealogy, Ancient DNA of Human Populations, and Geogenetics
By sequencing 727 ancient individuals from the Southern Arc (Anatolia and its neighbors in Southeastern Europe and West Asia) over 10,000 years, we contextualize its Chalcolithic period and Bronze Age (about 5000 to 1000 BCE), when... more
By sequencing 727 ancient individuals from the Southern Arc (Anatolia and its neighbors in Southeastern Europe and West Asia) over 10,000 years, we contextualize its Chalcolithic period and Bronze Age (about 5000 to 1000 BCE), when extensive gene flow entangled it with the Eurasian steppe. Two streams of migration transmitted Caucasus and Anatolian/Levantine ancestry northward, and the Yamnaya pastoralists, formed on the steppe, then spread southward into the Balkans and across the Caucasus into Armenia, where they left numerous patrilineal descendants. Anatolia was transformed by intra–West Asian gene flow, with negligible impact of the later Yamnaya migrations. This contrasts with all other regions where Indo-European languages were spoken, suggesting that the homeland of the Indo-Anatolian language family was in West Asia, with only secondary dispersals of non-Anatolian Indo-Europeans from the steppe.
Research Interests: Ancient History, Geography, Prehistoric Archaeology, Historical Archaeology, Population Genetics, and 15 moreScience, Southeastern Europe, Multidisciplinary, Bronze Age, Ancient DNA, Pastoralism, Archaeology of the Eurasian steppe belt, Western and Central Asia, Homeland, Archaeology of the southern Levant in the Bronze Age, Steppe Pastoralism, Steppe, Ancient DNA of Human Populations, Geogenetics, and Yamna Culture
The paper presents the preliminary results of the excavations of 2017 season at the Mycenaean site of Kastrouli, Phokis. It attempts as well a preliminary interpretation of the data obtained during the 2016 season, now based on the first... more
The paper presents the preliminary results of the excavations of 2017 season at the Mycenaean site of Kastrouli, Phokis. It attempts as well a preliminary interpretation of the data obtained during the 2016 season, now based on the first results of the still ongoing archaeometric research. During the second season of excavation a circular feature in the eastern side of the fortification wall has been investigated, and a second gate with its access ramp has been located, in addition to the gate already known on the western side. On the E-SE side of the fortified area some walls and foundations visible on the surface led to the excavation of the Building 1, which has been destroyed by fire. Further, a very long wall belonging to a large building (Building 2), or possibly to a complex of buildings, has been cleaned and documented on the southern terrace of the fortified area. Finally, two large holes dug by looters, one close to the Western gate and the other close to the Tomb A, have ...
Research Interests: Archaeology, Classical Archaeology, Environmental Archaeology, Mediterranean prehistory, Archaeological Science, and 15 moreMesolithic Archaeology, Archaeometry, Greek Archaeology, Late Bronze Age archaeology, Ancient Greek History, Archaeological Fieldwork, Mycenaean, Ancient Near Eastern History, Archaeological Excavation, Minoan and Mycenaean economy and administration, Chamber Graves, Minoan and Mycenaean Architecture and Urbanism, Homeric studies, Ancient Phokis, and mediterranean archaeology and archaeometry
The paper presents the excavations of 2016 season at the Mycenaean site of Kastrouli, Phokis. The site has been looted in the past decades and excavated in a very limited scale by the Archaeological Service. It is located on the top of a... more
The paper presents the excavations of 2016 season at the Mycenaean site of Kastrouli, Phokis. The site has been looted in the past decades and excavated in a very limited scale by the Archaeological Service. It is located on the top of a rocky hill and delimited by a fortification wall, probably constructed in two phases, the earliest of which could be Mycenaean. A hybrid rock-cut and built chamber tomb, excavated at the westernmost part of the fortified area, contained an undisturbed commingled burial of at least fifteen individuals. The main pottery shape is the stirrup jar, and the small finds include Phi and Psi figurines, steatite beads, and fragments of gold foil. The period of the original use of the tomb falls between the LH IIIA 2 and the LH IIIC Early or Advanced. There is some evidence that the tomb has been reused in the Middle Geometric Period.
Research Interests: Archaeology, Classical Archaeology, Bioarchaeology, Archaeological documentation, Archaeometry, and 15 moreBronze Age Archaeology, Ancient Near East, Aegean Archaeology, Aegean Late Bronze Age, Aegean Prehistory, Ceramics, Cyber Archaeology, Anthropomorphic Figurines, Commingled Remains, Excavation, Delphic Oracle and Divination, Death and Burial Archaeology, Antikyra, Ancient Phokis, and Burial Practices Archaeology
This document describes the work currently in progress within the Virtual Museum Transnational Project (V-MUST.NET), and specifically within the Second Work Package (WP2), dedicated to the establishment of users requirements and... more
This document describes the work currently in progress within the Virtual Museum
Transnational Project (V-MUST.NET), and specifically within the Second Work Package (WP2), dedicated to the establishment of users requirements and criteria analysis in the Virtual Museum domain. This deliverable describes how Virtual Museums and Research Institutions, members of the network, are currently dealing with issues related to methodologies, compatibility and re-usability when developing Virtual Museums (VMs). The objective here is not to directly suggest solutions, since this is the scope of other work packages. Conversely, the main objective of this deliverable is to provide a practical view on the consortium member’s practices, experiences and preferences regarding the above-mentioned topics and emphasize on implemented practices. This document under the above perspectives will feed and be generally used as reference by other consortium members when developing the Platform (WP4) and the Common Implementation Framework (WP5).
Transnational Project (V-MUST.NET), and specifically within the Second Work Package (WP2), dedicated to the establishment of users requirements and criteria analysis in the Virtual Museum domain. This deliverable describes how Virtual Museums and Research Institutions, members of the network, are currently dealing with issues related to methodologies, compatibility and re-usability when developing Virtual Museums (VMs). The objective here is not to directly suggest solutions, since this is the scope of other work packages. Conversely, the main objective of this deliverable is to provide a practical view on the consortium member’s practices, experiences and preferences regarding the above-mentioned topics and emphasize on implemented practices. This document under the above perspectives will feed and be generally used as reference by other consortium members when developing the Platform (WP4) and the Common Implementation Framework (WP5).