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From the Director

It is a great pleasure to wish everyone cultural environment in which Sir well for an enjoyably productive or formed his ideas on relaxing — ideally both — summer Minoan after WWI. The day with this fifth issue of our newsletter was rounded off by performances that offers up to date news of of Elgar’s Cello Concerto and Delius’ our activities to all who share our rarely performed Requiem in passion for all aspects of Hellenic the recently refurbished Olympia studies from the Palaeolithic to the Municipal Theatre ‘Maria Callas’. present. Here we profile some of These sit alongside many other our researchers — working across a ongoing partnerships: with the range of subjects from Late Bronze UK Embassy, which kindly hosted Age funerary practice to political a fundraising event for the violence in contemporary Greece Strati­ ­gra­phical Museum; — and report on our world-class with the Academy of Athens and facilities: the Library and Archive, the the University, who support our Fitch Laboratory and the Knossos annual Philosophy Seminars and Research Centre. Cheers! Silver replica ‘Tame’ Vapheio Cup, made the Frede Memorial Lecture; or the The months since the last issue in Birmingham, donated to the BSA in 2016 many members of universities and have been rich and varied and have by Dr Martin Crossley Evans in memory of other organisations in the UK who further emphasised to me the value Dr Arthur Basil Cottle contribute to our activities, host of our partnerships both in the UK events, or generously donate to us and in Greece. Our long-standing — to an enthusiastic audience in their time and experience. partnership with the Centre for the UK Ambassador’s Residence, Also partners are all who have Hellenic Studies at King’s College followed by a visit to the President of chosen to continue or to commence London not only facilitated events the Hellenic Republic. Current holder support for the BSA at any level like our ‘Translations’ panels and the Gonda van Steen spent a week with — Student, Friend, Pendlebury or recent conference on ‘Popular Music us at the BSA in early April and delivered Director’s Circle — or, indeed, have of the Greek World’, but also brought a powerful and moving lecture on the pledged a legacy and thus become both the former and current holders adoption of Greek children during the members of our 1886 Society. We of the Koraës Chair to Greece. Cold War to a packed Penrose Library. welcome your support and value it Former holder Roderick Beaton A special collaboration with the enormously. delivered two lectures — on Byron Ministry of Culture and Sports, the We hope you find this newsletter and on Venizelos — at our Annual Municipality of Athens and the British informative and enjoyable. Please Meetings in Thessaloniki and Athens Council (now in its 80th year here) feed back reactions and suggestions and presented his latest book — brought an internation­al group of to [email protected]. Greece: Biography of a Modern Nation scholars to the BSA to explore the John Bennet

BSA People

Chryssanthi Papadopoulou UCL/BSA Teacher Study Day in February 2019, delivering a course entitled (Assistant Director 2014–19; ‘Greek Religion’, for which feedback was AG Leventis Fellow 2012–14) unanimously positive. “My term as Assistant Director has “I was delighted to see my edited almost come to an end. Five years have volume The Culture of Ships and Maritime gone by very quickly and another two Narratives appear in January in the BSA before these, when I was the AG Leventis series Modern Greek and Byzantine Studies. Fellow. It has been a wonderful seven I had the opportunity to present aspects years. I was able to meet and work with of my monograph Phenomenological supportive, inspiring people, conduct Readings in Greek Religion, currently research on several different topics — in preparation, to audiences in Oxford from shipwrecks to Classical Athenian and Athens. Continuing that theme, I rituals — and teach the most promising participated once again in the annual and responsive groups of students and at The 2019 – June

Left: ‘The Culture of Ships and Maritime Narratives’ (Routledge 2019)

Right: Assistant Director Chryssanthi Papadopoulou (right foreground, facing the group) conducts a class on the Acropolis for the BSA Summer Course that has run for 47 years

professionals. I cannot yet say what I will published academic papers and an edited public seminar series, represented the miss the most; I suspect my students. volume, and wrote most of my monograph BSA on several delightful occasions in “The BSA is a place where one can think (a summary of which I presented at my Greece and the UK, refurbished rooms and produce, a small hamlet of quiet and last Upper House seminar as Assistant in our Hostel, and met and exchanged reflection in the heart of loud Athens. The Director; see Events Past), travelled ideas with distinguished scholars and heterotopia that is our library and the to present papers in conferences and professionals some of whom I now call oasis of our garden sparked my interest departments of / in my friends. I worked under the direction in spatial perception and the agency of knowledgeable, generous people who of places when I first started working here, were always there to offer advice, support and largely directed my research down It has been a wonderful and encouragement. exciting theoretical paths. Since then and seven years. I was able “Seven years down the line, richer in every time I embarked on a new research to meet and work with friends, knowledge, skills and experience, project, I was encouraged by BSA people “ I am happy and honoured to have served in Athens and the UK. In the BSA we supportive, inspiring people, the BSA faithfully and with determination, do not merely preach multidisciplinarity conduct research on several and I promise to continue to do so after or internationalism; we realise their value different topics … and teach the 30th of June. I am departing with a and necessity, and foster them. Here, great love and admiration for my academic there is room for thinking outside boxes … promising and responsive home, which will never fade, a big smile on and academic disciplines, and several groups of students and my face and a world of gratitude looking important meeting grounds for different professionals back, and much excitement for my new (academic) traditions, disciplines and academic post. I wish the best to my professions. the UK, designed and taught courses in successor, Dr Michael Loy, and hope that “During my tenure, amongst many archaeology­ , instigated” collaborations, his time too in the BSA will be as exciting, other activities, I conducted fieldwork, organised academic events including a enlightening, productive and rewarding.”

“I come to the BSA fresh from Michael Loy (Cambridge) completing a PhD thesis on modelling I hope … to continue introduces himself and outlines his state interactions in the Archaic period. the excellent work of my vision for his new role as Assistant I have been investigating, via various predecessors, and to reach out Director: computational techniques, the political “ and economic networks that some Greek to a wide network of students “I am delighted to be taking up the role and teachers who have not of Assistant Director at the BSA. Having traditionally been involved first come to the BSA as an undergraduate with the work of the BSA on the Summer Course, I fell in love with it and its research environment. It is, polis and non-polis states formed with admittedly, rather surreal to be heading one another throughout the 7th and” 6th back now, a few summers later, in a rather centuries BC. My primary research focus is different capacity — but I am nonetheless on Archaic and Classical Greece, but I am excited to be moving to Athens, and for also interested more broadly in the ancient the new challenges and adventures that world as a whole: archaeological fieldwork lie ahead. has taken me from Roman Britain all the way to Prehistoric Turkey. Over recent years, however, I have worked primarily in Michael Loy (Assistant Greece, and I have been a team member Director 2019–) on projects at Kythera, Olynthos, and Pylos. Out of the field, I am interested in museum

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education and public engagement, and I look forward to bringing my experiences and ideas in these areas to the BSA. “Access is at the centre of my vision for the role of Assistant Director. I was state educated in the north of England, and it was outreach initiatives run by the Michael taking University of Cambridge that first put measurements with a total station at Classics (and Cambridge) on my radar; Pylos a few years later, and thanks to winning full scholarships, I was able to study Classics and then at Cambridge through to the PhD. I am incredibly grateful for the opportunities that have been offered to me, and, as to the BSA and to work on delivering and teachers who have not traditionally a result of my own experiences, I am the Summer Course and the teachers been involved with the work of the BSA. passionate about widening participation programme. I hope throughout my time “I look forward very much to joining in studying the ancient world at both as Assistant Director to continue the the community in Athens — and to university level and in secondary schools. excellent work of my predecessors, and to making the BSA, the city, and Greece my It is a great privilege, therefore, to come reach out to a wide network of students new home.”

British Museum International Training Programme (30 June — 11 August 2018)

“Two essential parts of the ITP are a ten- alongside three other Fellows, with Drs

BSA Archivist Amalia Kakissis day placement at a UK partner museum Ian Jenkins (Senior Curator, Ancient shares her experience of the and presentation of a final project, the Greece) and Ross Thomas (Curator, BM ITP 2018: ‘Object in Focus’ exhibition. My placement Roman Collections) as mentors. On was at the in Oxford ‘Department Days’ we had special with ITP Fellows Sarah Abdolattif Elsheekh sessions with the various departmental a truly unforgettable (Sudan), and Rana Ramadan Mahmoud curators. The archive material was of (Egypt). The final project both offered a particular interest to me and at one experience great opportunity put what we had learned session I met Celeste Farge, who has “ during the ITP into practice and also posed catalogued the collection of drawings “Last summer I was very fortunate to be the additional challenge that the object to housed in the Department of Greece a Fellow on the annual” be exhibited must not fall within your area and Rome. So impressed was I by the International Training Programme (ITP). of expertise! Our team’s ‘Object in Focus’ William Gell material there that I invited This intensive six-week programme was a beautiful handmade coat of the Celeste to Athens as the 2018–19 Bader is designed for museum and heritage Métis, a tribe of mixed European and Native Archive Lecturer to study the William Gell professionals from around the world to American heritage. collection in the BSA Archive. share information through a mixture “During the programme I was assigned to “I am very grateful for the hard of presentations, hands-on workshops, the BM’s Department of Greece and Rome work the incredible ITP Team (Claire panel discussions and working groups. Messenger, Rebecca Horton, It covers a full range of museum Jessica Juckes and Senior ITP activities, from exhibitions and security Fellow Andrea Terrón) to conservation and staff engagement, undertook to deliver a well- and also includes opportunities to crafted programme sourcing reflect on, discuss and debate current expertise from the British cultural heritage issues, offering a mix Museum and partner of practical and theoretical learning. museums. The ITP has opened up my professional network to corners of the world I had not anticipated and through the friendliness and warmth of the team it has welcomed me into a ‘family’ of cultural heritage Left: British Museum ITP Fellows 2018 at Hever enthusiasts. I also extend my Castle and Gardens, UK deep gratitude to Dr Ian Above: BSA Archivist, Amalia Kakissis, far L, at Jenkins for nominating me, ‘Object in Focus’ exhibition night with project and to the Philip and Irene partner ITP Fellow, Mao Lei (China), far R, flanking Gage Toll Foundation for the British Museum Department of Africa, Oceania supporting my participation, and the Americas Departmental Assistant and thus ensuring a truly Collection Manager unforgettable experience .”

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Lamprini Rori the emergence of circumstances that The precious support I promote the toleration, acceptance and (Early Career Fellow/Exeter) got from the Director and the use of violence. “During the fellowship, I aimed to “BSA team … and the conditions gather documents and testimonies “The BSA’s Early Career Fellowship is provided by the fellowship from members of the political elite, as a magnificent opportunity, which has combined to provide a unique well as to hold discussions with radical substantially contributed to advancing and extremist actors. I thus conducted my research on political violence in crisis- experience in my research and archival research and semi-structured ridden Greece. This research focuses on academic life interviews with MPs who had served as different expressions of political violence Ministers for Citizens Protection since in Greece from 2008 onwards, aiming to 2008, as well as senior police officers identify its repertoires and causes, the ” with experience in issues of terrorism actors involved, their targets, their aims and violence. I also conducted interviews and its consequences. Among different with radical voters and activists of the dimensions and levels of intensity, my radical right and the radical left. During research concentrates on violent episodes my lecture at the BSA, I presented the of low intensity. initial findings from this research to “Political extremism has constantly a vibrant, demanding and engaged been present in Greece since 1974. audience, which offered me valuable Despite the adoption of a counter-terrorist feedback on my research. governmental strategy around the turn “The precious support I got from the of the millennium which temporarily Director and the BSA team, the facilities limited domestic terrorism, political in the BSA at large and the conditions violence remains a serious problem. By provided by the fellowship combined its unprecedented magnitude and durée, Lamprini Rori, Lecturer in Politics, University of to provide a unique experience in my Exeter, with the Director the ongoing financial crisis has triggered research and academic life.”

relations apparent in the armies of Philip military labour is seen to be determined Charlotte van Regenmortel of and Alexander the Great, in a labour market. The presence of such (Macmillan-Rodewald Student) the Successors, and the early Hellenistic a large group of wage labourers active kingdoms. This involved comparative across the extent of Alexander’s former analy­ses of the modes of soldiers’ initial empire has crucial implications for our enlistmen­ t, the ensuing terms of service, understanding and the development of My time at the BSA and the types and extent of remuneration prevailing economic structures. has been a truly enriching offered. My argument is that soldiers “My thesis draws on epigraphic evidence, experience, one that will in voluntary and paid military service notably early Hellenistic military contracts “… help me in my future prog­ressively fit the categorisation and records of negotiation between of ‘wage labourers’, a development soldiers and commanders. Scholarship on endeavours and research! which culminates during the Successor these was not easily accessible at my home Wars, when military service became university, so the excellent collections “As a final-year doctoral student at the increasingly contractual, we see instances held at the BSA were fundamental to University of Leicester, my primary” goal of collective bargaining, and the price of completion of my epigraphic dossier. was to complete my thesis entitled The Equally important was the advice of many Military Trade: Soldiers as Wage Labourers resident epigraphers. The BSA is indeed in the late Classical and Early Hellenistic unique in fostering discussion, often Periods. I really could not have hoped interdisciplinary, whether in the Finlay for a better environment to undertake Room, during a gin-night, or at a late-night this task than the BSA and its wonderful dinner. The varied programme of Upper library, with its wealth of easily accessible House Seminars has likewise been inspiring books and 24-hour access, alongside and offered an excellent opportunity to the encouragement of the thriving BSA learn many new things. Of course, being community. based in Athens for an extended period “My thesis explores the relationship of time has allowed great opportunities to between the many notable military and explore both ancient and modern Athens, economic developments that swiftly from sites and museums, to tavernas and engulfed the ancient world in the late much more in this wonderful city. Classical and early Hellenistic periods. In “My time at the BSA has been a truly this, I employ theories and methodologies enriching experience, one that will developed in the rapidly evolving field — hopefully — help me in my future of labour history, which increasingly endeavours and research! Many thanks to addresses the premodern world. all those who have taken time to chat to Conceiving military service as a form of me and encourage me — I’m sure I will be a work, I traced the various military labour regular visitor in years to come.”

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data offer insights into a major sector of were interlinked. In a city like Corinth, Bela Dimova the ancient economy. which was famed for its crafts, the potters (AG Leventis Fellow in Hellenic “Over this winter I have divided my time used some very creative ways to make Studies) between the peaceful BSA library and mundane tools such as loomweights. fieldwork in museum collections in Working alongside colleagues from the Athens and especially Corinth, in order to BSA and the American School at Corinth I have really appreciated study textile production tools from these and the Athenian Agora, I have really two great ancient cities. A presentation at appreciated the collaborative spirit and the collaborative spirit and one of the Fitch Laboratory lunchtime openness of people at the BSA and “openness of people at the BSA seminars provided very helpful feedback the wider archaeological community and the wider archaeological and sparked a collaboration with in Athens. community in Athens the Fitch Laboratory and Director Dr “One of this winter’s highlights was the Evangelia Kiriatzi and Williams Fellow Dr display of the textiles from Lefkandi at “I joined the BSA as Leventis Fellow in Carlotta Gardner. In the coming months the National Archaeological Museum. The October 2018. The aim of my” project is they will be examining Corinthian textiles were excavated by the BSA and to create a better understanding of the loomweights from the perspective of Greek colleagues in 1981, and they are textile economy of Greece and the south ceramic technology. With its leading exceptionally well preserved: the garment Balkans during the Classical and Hellenistic expertise, long-standing interest in from the male burial is almost complete. period. Textile manufacture was a major Corinthian potters, and extensive They are now being re-analysed by economic sector that absorbed vast reference collection, the Fitch is a fantastic specialists in Athens (Dr Stella Spantidaki, amounts of labour and resources, and partner with which to do this project. Dr Christina Margariti) and Cambridge (Dr whose products ranged from essential With joint forces we hope to shed light Margarita Gleba) in collaboration with the clothes, furnishings, containers, to sails on how the ceramic and textile industry Lefkandi team.” and luxury items. A number of recent studies have examined textile production in the Bronze Age and Early Iron Age Aegean, but our knowledge of the Classical and Hellenistic period remains limited and based only a small part of the available evidence. Over the last ten years methodological advances have profoundly transformed what we know about ancient textiles. Statistical data extracted from spinning and weaving tools now allow us to calculate the production possibilities of ancient households, cities, and polities. We can combine this with microscopic Bela Dimova recording loomweights in the Corinth study of (often tiny, mineralised) remains excavation storerooms (above), and with Holly Parton of ancient textiles and iconography and (Lefkandi team) examining the Lefkandi textile in the written sources. Taken together, these Athens National Museum (right)

Sofia Papaioannou, host of the Greek Gonda Van Steen documentary TV show 360 Degrees, asked (Koraës Professor of Modern Greek me for an interview on the topic of my and Byzantine History, Language and book project and selected the BSA and its Literature, KCL) gardens as one of the locations for filming. Permission was generously granted, for “My stay at the BSA in early April 2019 was which I am most grateful. The TV episode very productive and enjoyable. I had the is now online at https://www.alphatv.gr/ opportunity to give a public lecture on the show/360/ekpobes_360/?vtype=player& topic of my forthcoming book, Adoption, vid=37568&showld=823&year=2019.” Memory, and Cold War Greece. The lecture was very well attended and elicited many insightful comments. Some great I am much obliged to the questions from members in the audience Director of the BSA, and to made me go back and make final changes all of the wonderful and to the book manuscript. I still had the “ opportunity to document these changes efficient staff members for by way of immediate access to the well- making my stay so memorable stocked BSA library and in conversation Gonda Van Steen and the Director prior to her and for embracing the kind with the many affiliates and friends of lecture of research projects that shed the BSA. Over quiet breakfasts, I also very much enjoyed meeting the early-career glass. They, too, gave me a lot of feedback a different light on Greek scholars who had come from far and on my talk. The BSA again proved to be history and culture. I hope to wide to participate in a course on ancient a most welcoming environment when be back

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Cristina Ichim ‘ancient globalisations’, this presents an opportunity for exploring challenging (Richard Bradford McConnell Student) theoretical and cross-culturally relevant questions such as how and under “During the second millennium BC, what conditions communities and settlements across the southern individuals feel a need to connect at Aegean exhibit episodes of intensifying increasing geographical scales, and why connectivity, marked by the development communities over large areas converge of a differentially shared vocabulary in material culture practices — all of which of material culture and practices. As a have relevance in today’s increasingly PhD candidate at the UCL Institute of globalised and interconnected world. Archaeology, my research analyses the “Thanks to my studentship I have been extent to which communities across fortunate to spend the final year of my the southern Aegean both differentially PhD at the BSA. My research has benefited greatly from access to the extensive library resources at the BSA, especially the The diverse archaeological Greek reports, which would not otherwise have been available to me in the UK. I community at the BSA has was also able to make use of BSA archival “provided an intellectually material relating to excavations on Kythera receive feedback. The many networking stimulating environment in order to corroborate the interpretations opportunities — from Upper House from the published reports. The diverse seminars, to gin nights, and everyday participated in, and contributed to, archaeological community at the BSA has breakfast — have generated fruitful the development of a shared cultural” provided an intellectually stimulating exchanges of ideas as well as enabled me discourse — what we identify as the environment. As my ideas and to make my research known and to foster ‘Minoan’ and ‘Mycenaean’ cultures. interpretations are maturing and coming connections for future collaborations. Using funerary evidence — cemetery together in the form of the thesis, I am Living in Athens has granted me the organisation, tomb architecture, burial able to exchange ideas and receive input privilege to visit relevant sites and to see assemblages, and wider burial practices from a diverse range of specialists and to objects displayed in museums, as I was — I trace the long-term patterns of shifting learn about recent research and projects. analysing and writing about them. I will interactions and make inferences about The studentship also provided me with look back on my time at the BSA as an social groups, human mobility and cultural the opportunity to present my research unforgettable, productive and enriching interaction. Analogous to other cases of at an Upper House Seminar and to experience.”

Hallvard Indgjerd served as the export point for agricultural [B]eing in Athens has produce from southern Naxos, possibly (Richard Bradford McConnell Student) allowed me to develop run with a high level of state involvement. my co-operation with the “The inland fortified settlement of “In my final year of a PhD at the University “ Apalirou seems to have been constructed of St Andrews, I have spent four months Ephorate of Antiquities after the mid-7th century, but it is not yet at the BSA, an institution that has already of the , and with clear whether it overlaps chronologically facilitated my work in Greece in the library, members of the other foreign with the costal settlements or succeeds laboratory and the field. schools working in my area them, something on which my work “I work on island settlement and might shed light. This will contribute connectivity in the Cyclades during the Late and in what ways life and economy on the to the discussion on island crisis and Roman and Early Medieval period (mid- islands was interconnected with the wider” abandonment in the face of the Arab 3rd to mid-9th century CE). With southern eastern Mediterranean, and the political presence in the Aegean. Naxos and the Lesser Cyclades as a starting situation in the eastern Roman Empire. The “My approach to the material focuses point, I investigate how settlement structure area and period is understudied, and I rely on activity throughout the landscape, not and landscape use were organised, what heavily on my participation in field work just ‘sites’, and I study functional categories temporal and spatial variation can be found, in five ongoing projects, including and vessel provenance in addition to important material from BSA surveys chronology. To understand local production on , South-East Naxos and Kato and trade connections better, I have 150 Kouphonisi. petrographic thin-section samples spread “I have shown that Naxos was a across the survey projects, which I can frequently used node in long distance compare with the extensive reference networks, but there is also evidence for collection — thin-sections and geological — export related production and shipment from the Cyclades in the Fitch Laboratory. harbours. The surface pottery from South “In addition to giving access to the Naxos, Keros and the shallow waters off excellent library and the lab facilities at the coast of southern Naxos show few, but the BSA, being in Athens has allowed extensive settlements close to the coast me to develop my co-operation with the active from the Roman period into at least Ephorate of Antiquities of the Cyclades, Hallvard takes a break from ceramic analysis the 7th century. Evidence from Panormos and with members of the other foreign for a photograph in particular suggests that it may have schools working in my area.”

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Aside from making possible my Dòmhnall Crystal research on combining two distinct (Cardiff) national archaeological narratives, the BSA also offered an excellent environment As a final-year PhD candidate in the for study: my project makes extensive Department of Archaeology and Ancient use of the somewhat obscure Bulgarian History at Cardiff University, I came to and Greek site reports situated in the Athens to finish my thesis Who were vast collections of the BSA Library. Being the Thracians? A materialist approach to here has made it possible for me to study ancient ethnicity, which examines the and engage with Bulgarian and Greek relationship between the expression literature that would have been otherwise of shared group identities through the unavailable to me in the UK. Living at the mortuary record in the period 1100–500 BSA provided a fruitful setting to converse Dòmhnall investigating an Early Iron Age with colleagues who share experience dolmen near Hlyabovo in southeast Bulgaria with working on the same archaeological I leave richer not only in materials. As a long-term resident, I also and northern Greece. Concentrating helped organise social events, which archaeological data, but also on the notion of ethnic identity, I first presented an excellent opportunity to “in experiences as a result of the examine ‘Thracian’ ethnic identity and meet a broad spectrum of fascinating generosity and kindness of the the intellectual and cultural milieu people. The Upper House seminars were from which it emerged, in part from the also great opportunities to hear more wonderful people I met here ancient Greek authors, but also from the about exciting current research and nationalistic rhetoric emerging from early trends across Modern History, Classics, BCE in Thrace. More specifically, I scrutinise” Bulgarian archaeology. I then turn to how and Archaeology. Overall my experience how exactly communities during the ethnicity and ancient ‘Greek’ identity has at the BSA has been one that I shall not Early to Late Iron Age expressed a been treated within modern academic forget any time soon. As I depart for the possible shared ‘ethnic’ identity using literature and whether or not the same UK, I leave richer not only in archaeological a combination of tomb architecture, criterion of ethnic identity can be applied data, but also in experiences as a result grave assemblages, and inhumation to Thrace, using both the archaeological of the generosity and kindness of the types throughout southern Bulgaria and the ancient literary record. wonderful people I met here.

Introducing our London Staff undertaking my PhD, my BSA role allows me Nicholas Salmon to combine my professional and academic As Development Officer of the BSA, interests. I am responsible for our fundraising The BSA was founded to ‘promote the and profile-raising, which involves co- study of Greece in all its aspects’, which ordinating the supporter membership makes development an enjoyable and and our UK events programmes. I sit on varied role, working simultaneously with the BSA Development Committee and the archaeologists, curators, artists, designers, Committee for Society, Arts, and Letters and caterers — to name but a few! and, along with my colleague Kate Smith, I am based at the London Office and travel Kate Smith periodically to Athens to work with the team there. As the London Secretary (or Administrative Although the BSA has always maintained Assistant), it is my responsibility to ensure a presence in the UK, my role focuses on the smooth running of the BSA’s London increasing our public activities there. One base. My main responsibilities are the BSA Chair Dr Carol Bell (L), with Kate Smith initiative that has grown out of this remit administration of the new supporter and Nicholas Salmon at The Queen’s Garden is the BSA Ambassador Programme, which structure, the practical arrangements for Party in Buckingham Palace invites current and previous students Council and committee meetings and the and fellows to present their research AGM, alongside the provision of a first between the artistic representations of throughout the UK. Similarly, we have point of contact for all UK-based queries. women and the osteoarchaeological expanded our roster of events at the I serve ex-officio on the newly formed evidence from Bronze Age Crete. My MA British Academy, where recent topics have Friends’ Committee and am now helping to dissertation then looked at the use of included archaeology, contemporary arts coordinate the series of Friends’ Lectures. I frankincense across the Mediterranean and modern Greek literature. also support Nicholas Salmon in facilitating and its relationship to broader themes. I recently completed a collaborative PhD our programme of UK events. I also participated in University of in Classical Archaeology at Birkbeck and the My background is in Archaeology and, Manchester excavations at Kissonerga British Museum, in which I explored maritime after completing an MA in Mediterranean Skalia, Cyprus. connectivity of the island of Rhodes during Archaeology at UCL, it is a great pleasure As the main contact for the BSA in the Archaic and Classical period. I have also to be working within an organisation that London, please feel free to contact me participated in excavations at Kymissala on promotes and facilitates work I care greatly with any thoughts and questions you may Rhodes with the University of the Aegean. about. My interests and previous research have. I look forward to hearing from, or Having worked in contemporary art before include the contrasts and comparisons perhaps meeting you soon!

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Onyeka Igwe So I have been charting my experiences Greece provides an enriching in a series of narrative descriptions that I (Arts Bursary Holder) context to explore origin stories hope will prompt future film work. and myth “While in the studio, I discovered a “My PhD research investigates the “ 35mm slide projector. Throughout my colonial imagination and how it has colonial imagination at an analogous time research project, I have been keen to think created and circulated mainstream ways but in a different” context. through the possibilities of image-making. of knowing peoples­ , places and cultures “I am particularly interested in what I primarily work with moving images and through archives. Primarily I have been Carolyn Steedman describes, in her book want to challenge the way audiences see looking at colonial film archives of West Dust, as the physiological impact of in a contemporary world where images Africa but during my time at the BSA archive research: what it feels like to be in are ubiquitous. This has taken the form I have been researching the colonial an archive, the consequences of touching of slowing down, reanimating or creating imagination in the context of figures and breathing in the past. I have developed still images in my previous work. The slide visiting Greece around the time of the a methodology — critical proximity — that War of Independence. This has meant uses this experience or encounter in the spending time in the Archive, reading archives to instigate moving image work. through the personal papers of people such as George Finlay and William Gell. Left: George Finlay Papers, A.4, p. 13

Below: Painted cards arranged on a wall to explore the structure of the film I am editing while at the BSA

Right: 35-mm slide projector and slides found in the Artist’s Studio

projector provided an opportunity to experiment further. I have recorded several slide projector performances, in the studio, controlling the time and space in order to provide a framework for looking at images from the colonial archive. These short “Prof. Jonathan Hall’s Upper House videos will form part of a forthcoming film seminar [see Events Past] introduced that I am working on here. me to ideas of ideological colonisation “The film I am constructing at the and the ways in which western European BSA traces the different ways in which travellers imposed a heterotopia on knowledge is shared or passed down, Greece from their immersion in Ancient from family histories to origin stories, to Greek literature. These ideas deeply myth or the archive. So, Greece provides resonated with my research interest, an enriching context to explore origin so I wanted to comparatively trace the stories and myth.”

The Library

This has been a year of expansion for Cataloguing of the Clogg collection has the Library. We are especially grateful commenced and we are grateful to the to Richard and Mary Jo Clogg for the Greek Friends of the BSA for assistance donation of approximately 4,000 books in funding a temporary cataloguer to on Greek, Ottoman and Balkan history. expedite the availability of this collection. We believe this is a singular opportunity We appreciate the support received for the library to strengthen its holdings through many other donations. In in these fields to create a world class particular, we thank Dr Mary Walbank resource, securely placing the study of for her continued generosity following modern Greece and the Balkans within the the death of her husband, a long-time context of Hellenic Studies as practised by supporter of the library, Professor Michael the BSA. Walbank (see December 2018 newsletter). To make adequate space for so many Mary Jo and Richard Clogg We gratefully received books from the new books library staff undertook a major collections of John Hayes through his re-shelving: all periodicals with accessible friends, of David French from his daughter digital versions, with the exception of Library Research Assistant Tom Baumann, Ann, the Sackler library through Helen the most widely used titles, have been we used the September closure to Hughes Brock, plus many other titles she moved to on-site storage, a total of 176 relocate over 40,000 volumes to create has kindly given on and Near titles representing about 6,000 volumes. adequate shelving for the new collection Eastern studies. We would also like to thank With the much valued help of Michael while spacing out other sections of the many individual authors for copies of their Iliakis, Giannis Apostolopoulos and library that had become overcrowded. publications, including Alastair Blanshard,

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Simon Hornblower and Robin Waterfield who have been especially generous. During 2018 the BSA catalogue records were accepted by the UK based National Bibliographic Knowlegebase as one of the 100 trial libraries contributing to this project which seeks to ‘aggregate bibliographic data at scale to support data-driven collection management and provide researchers and students with convenient access to scholarly resources’. Our library collection will thus be much more widely visible. In addition to supporting various BSA courses, the Library has been Left: Visiting students from Victoria University, New Zealand in the Byzantine Room busier than usual this spring during Above: Tom Baumann and Eliza Petrow, BSA Library Research Assistants Our students can accomplish more in two days in the School’s which has connected us with many checking the aerial photograph collection, “superb and specialised library than outstanding students whose experience both students were able also to use the they can in two weeks at home in the Library has developed into a deeper collection for study projects. Jeffrey Tatum, Victoria University of connection with the BSA. This year we During this exciting year of expansion hosted Andrea Mura from the Universita we would like to thank first Tom Bauman Wellington ” degli Studi di Cagliari who undertook the (Durham) followed by Eliza Petrow the closure of the American School metadata cataloguing of our collection of (Durham) for their help and support as libraries for reclassification. The BSA has sales catalogues. In addition we are lucky Library Research Assistants accommodated a number of ASCSA to be included in the Arcadia University Without the valued support of the many members and readers, borrowing chairs internship program which sends students institutions, members, students, friends and book-ends from the Blegen Library to to work as interns for two semesters and colleagues who give so generously of create an extra 20 reading-places. annually. In 2018–19 we welcomed their time, money and effort, the Library We are especially fortunate to participate Sarahii (Massie) Jimenez and Andrew could not continue to expand; to all of you in the Erasmus+ Training Programme, Rivadeneira who worked on scanning and we are extremely grateful.

Archive We hosted another two interns from the in the BSA Archive. Michael Ward (1918– University of Liverpool Masters in Archives 2011) was an SOE agent in Greece during Everyone at the BSA Records Management (MARM) placement WWII. He fell in love not only with Greece was so welcoming and it programme in January 2019. Michaela but also with Avra (Avrilia) Diamantidou felt a privilege to be there (Kayla) Garland and Karla Ingemann whom he had met while stationed in “ undertook the top-level arrangement of the Greece and married in 1947. In 1948 he and to contribute to the Michael and Avra Ward Papers producing a returned as a member of the UN Special work of the School, even finding aid at the end of their placement. Committee on the Balkans (UNSCOB). in a small way. Thanks The Ward Papers are a significant After leaving UNSCOB, he served addition to the ‘Modern Greek’ Collections with the Sudan Political Service until again to everyone! Michaela (Kayla) Garland Below: Michaela (Kayla) Garland (L) and Karla Ingemann independence in 1955. Later” he worked (R), processing the Michael and Avra Ward Papers with BP, mainly in Athens and Baghdad, Right: Major Ward as Greek Dancer, envelope with various and in 1971 became the British Consul Force 133 mementos (c. 1943–44) (WAR/2/1, Michael and General in Thessaloniki. He was awarded Avra Ward Papers) an OBE in 1982 for his services in Greece and retired to live and write in Athens. The majority of the papers consists of correspondence spanning 80 years between members of the Ward family, their friends and business associates. Michael’s experiences with the SOE during WWII are documented through manuscripts, military badges, and wartime diaries, but the collection also includes research notes, manuscripts, photographs, maps and travel ephemera, belonging to Michael and Avra.

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Archive Lecture

Left: ‘Jane Rabnett Collection: This year’s Annual Bader Archive Greek Pottery Remembering Lecture was presented by Celeste Jane’, presented by Lynette Jensen Farge (Department of Greece and Rome, British Museum). Celeste, who Right: Poster for the exhibition has catalogued about 6,000 drawings ‘Moments from the Work of the illustrating objects and sites of Classical Foreign Archaeological Schools in Greece’ Antiquity housed in the Department of Greece and Rome, discussed what the British Museum holds in its collections relating to William Gell and how that collection relates to Gell’s journals at Recent donations to the Archive include the BSA. Her particular focus was on the a set of 25 copper-plate engravings on Society of Dilettanti’s sponsored mission hand-laid paper with original hand- to Ionia: ‘The Society of Dilettanti’s colouring dating to 1785, illustrations of Sir Second Ionian Mission: William Gell’s William Hamiliton’s first pottery collection. journals at the British School at Athens Lynette Jensen, an independent scholar and the British Museum’. ba­sed in Australia, who researches, curates and collects antique engravings, sketches and photographs on ancient themes, donated them in memory of Jane Rabnett, BSA School Secretary 1950–1975, to symbolise her 25 years of service to the BSA. Accompanying the Jane Rabnett Stanley Casson (centre holding pots) with his workmen in 1922 at the excavations of the Collection: Greek Pottery Remembering Iron Age Cemetery at Chauchitsa (Central Jane was an archivist’s report by Liam D. Macedonia, Greece) with the settlement mound Jensen (LDJ Historical Archivist, and also visible in the background (1936 EXH-306g, 1936 the Lego Classicist!) and a digital copy of Exhibition Collection) the collection. Professor Roderick Beaton (King’s Φιλό-ξενη Αρχαιολογία: Moments from the College London; see June 2018 newsletter) Work of the Foreign Archaeological Schools donated a box-file of field notes and in Greece, was organised by Ministry of Celeste Farge shows the 6 sketchbooks by recordings from the 1970s made while he Culture & Sports, alongside a two-day William Gell in the BSA Archives was a BSA Student. Penny Wilson-Zarganis conference, part of the celebration of 2018 (BSA Librarian) kindly gave a painting of the as the European Year of Cultural Heritage. Fortezza at Rethymnon by Emma Faul for The Ephorate of Antiquities of Kilkis included work at Tsaoutsitsa / Chauchitsa the BSA Art Collection. Dr Christopher Stray organised Archaeology in Times of War in [1922], Vardina / Limnotopos [1924], (Swansea) donated a letter from Patrick Kilkis: From the War Trenches to the Kilindri [1925] and Vardaroftsa / Axiochori Leigh-Fermor he received in March 1988. Excavation Trenches in com­memoration [1925]. An online version of the exhibition Once again this year we were delighted of the centenary of the end of WWI, was also produced: https://www.warand to contribute materials from the BSA’s depic­ ting archaeological research in the archaeology.gr/en/excavation-trenches- rich image collections two exhibitions. area during and after the war. BSA research within-the-war-trenches.

Fitch Laboratory The BSA’s Fitch Laboratory seeks to nurture a vibrant interdisciplinary and Fitch Laboratory Director becomes President-Elect of the Society international research environment for Archaeological Sciences and through its wide-ranging activities We are delighted and proud to congratulate Fitch Director Evangelia Kiriatzi, whose maintains a continuous dialogue between contribution to the field has been recognised with her appointment to this prestigious archaeology and science, that is reflected in post. She will serve for two years as President-Elect of the Society, and will sit on its outreach initiatives, training programmes, Executive Board; her main responsibility is planning the annual General Meeting. After collaborations with institutions worldwide two years, the President-Elect assumes the office of President for a further two years. and dissemination of its research findings to multiple audiences. representing different academic traditions underline the crucial role played by the The Fitch team is a lively community and cultural backgrounds. Their everyday BSA/Fitch. of early-career and more experienced interaction — social and intellectual The Aegean remains the Fitch’s primary researchers, comprising long-term staff, — as well as their collaborations with focus, but we are moving further afield, project-linked postdoctoral scholars, various research institutions in Greece seeking to understand the role of the academic visitors, doctoral students, and beyond, lays the ground for a wide Aegean within a much broader diachronic undergraduates / interns, from various network of partnerships, which foster perspective and at a range of scales from institutions in the UK, Europe and beyond, important developments in the field and the local to the global.

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Such studies include the investigation of production locations and circulation Stavroula Fouriki (PhD candidate, Sheffield) patterns of transport amphorae, came to the Fitch to combine petro­graphic and chemical analysis the indicator par excellence of trade in the study of the rich pottery assemblage from Late Bronze Age connections in Antiquity. The analysis of Chania (ancient Kydonia) to interpret the history of this important a large number of Punic amphorae from southern Aegean urban centre gradually revealed by the excavations Corinth and a number of production of the Greek Archaeological Service and their Swedish and Danish sites in southern Spain by Leandro colleagues. Already her research is beginning to reveal an unknown Fantuzzi, Antonio Romero Sáez (Seville), wealth of imports, including cooking pots from nearby and more Evangelia Kiriatzi and Noémi Müller, in distant places such as Kythera and Aegina. Stavroula is collaborating collaboration with Charles K. Williams closely with Maria Andreadaki-Vlazaki and Birgitta Hallager, drawing II (ASCSA), featured in the June 2018 upon and complementing their deep knowledge of the site’s pottery. newsletter, has shed new light on the economic and cultural connections certain Greek cities maintained with the western Mediterranean during the centuries Right: The informal Fitch Lunch following the foundation of Greek emporia Talks, inaugurated last year and colonies in these distant areas. Leandro (see June 2018 newsletter), completed his fellowship at the Fitch and continue to promote social and intellectual/academic interaction took up a research position at the University between experienced and early- of Cadiz, but will continue his collaboration, career academics within the BSA; in the study of transport amphora here Georgia Kordatzaki (Fitch circulation across the Mediterranean. Associate Researcher) speaks about experimental potting

Left: (Part of) the Fitch team on a Sunday excursion to Marathon as a farewell to Leandro Fantuzzi (Punic Amphora Fellow; far R)

Right: Carlotta Gardner in action

Even further afield, Maria Duggan geographical and historical contexts (Newcastle/BSA; see Inset) launched — the Fitch also aims to develop and a study of the numerous Aegean and customise appropriate methodologies. Mediterranean imports identified at the Carlotta Gardner (Williams Fellow) and site of Tintagel, in order to shed light on Noémi Müller (Scientific Research Officer), the connections of the Byzantine Empire with colleagues at NCSR Demokritos, with the communities of the Atlantic have carried out replication experiments coast and Britain in the 5–7th c. AD. In and mechanical tests to investigate the collaboration wtih Evangelia Kiriatzi mechanical properties and functional choices of Roman metalworkers and the and the site’s current excavator, Jacky requirements of double-layered crucibles organisation of production across the Nowakowski (Royal Cornwall Museum, used in metalworking across the Roman Empire. Truro), Maria’s initial analyses are already Empire, from Britain to France and The Fitch also hosts and facilitates associating the numerous imports at Bulgaria, and possibly also Greece. research in various other fields of Tintagel with more locations across the The results of this work will not only science-based archaeology, such as Mediterranean than anticipated. provide scientific evidence regarding the human and , As well as addressing specific questions functionality of such crucibles, but also contributing to their full integration — on specific materials, in specific a superior insight into the technological within archaeological practice in Greece. For example, Niki Papaconstantinou Elena Cuijpers (PhD candidate, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki/IKY Fellow) continues (PhD candidate, Bonn; Olynthos project) her study of the human remains from took the Fitch Ceramic Petrology course last year and the Mycenaean cemetery at Kolikrepi, returned this year to undertake petrographic analysis of Spata (see June 2017 newsletter). Last tile samples. Elena seeks to reconstruct the organisation of summer she piloted the application of tile manufacture, including the sourcing and processing an innovative method to reconstruct of clay, forming technology and firing conditions, in the depositional history of the human order to understand better the whole phenomenon of body developed recently on prehistoric manufacture, consumption and distribution of tiles in cemetery populations in Britain by classical Olynthos and its wider region of Chalkidiki. Despite Thomas Booth (Wellcome Post-Doctoral their ubiquity, tiles have been largely unexploited as a source of information about Research Associate, Natural History economic and social aspects of life in antiquity. Elena’s work promises to fill this gap. Museum), who spent a period at the Fitch

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Right: The Fitch team at the EAA in Barcelona, September 2018 (L to R: Florence Liard, Bartek Lis, Evangelia Kiriatzi and Leandro Fantuzzi

Left: Lab tour for CYA students led by Y. Papadias

aspects of the laboratory’s research, while Fitch researchers presented their work at a number of international and local conferences and workshops, including the Annual Meetings of the European Association of Archaeologists in Barcelona and the Society for American Archaeology in Albuquerque, New Fitch blog by Fitch Mexico, as well as the Ceramic Petrology Bursary holder Alessandro Ceccarelli Group Annual Meeting and the 12th (Cambridge), July 2018 International Congress on Medieval and Modern Period Mediterranean Ceramics in Athens. We have also launched a blog hosting brief accounts by its long-term and visiting researchers and are placing greater testing its application on samples from post-doctoral scholars (see December emphasis on the use of social media — via Kolikrepi and other Aegean cemeteries. 2018 newsletter). Equally important is the BSA’s Facebook and Twitter accounts A key emphasis of the Fitch is the the dissemination of research to the — to communicate our activities. Bartek enrichment of science-based archaeology academic community and the general Lis (Marie Skłodowska IEF) manages the through training in taught courses and public. A number of publications blog, while Carlotta Gardner handles hands-on practice for postgraduates and appeared last year reflecting different social media.

Maria Duggan (British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow 2018–20)

“It was a great feeling to arrive back in Cornwall, in south-west Britain. The pottery Athens in February to start the second includes transport amphorae and fine year of my British Academy Postdoctoral tablewares, mainly of East Mediterranean/ Fellowship, hosted by the BSA and Aegean and North African origin. These Newcastle University. I was looking forward imported wares are extremely important to starting work at the Fitch Laboratory, in understanding connections between under the guidance of project collaborator, Britain and Europe, in a period with almost Lab Director Dr Evangelia Kiriatzi, and to no textual evidence, but during which meeting the other researchers based at the post-Roman kingdoms of Britain Maria the BSA. During my year at the Fitch I will emerged. Tintagel has been interpreted Duggan be conducting petrological and chemical as a major royal site, where kings feasted (BA PDRF) analysis on samples of 5th/6th century with their retinues, and drank precious looks away from her AD pottery recovered from the citadel at wines imported from the Byzantine World. Tintagel, on the windswept north coast of microscope “I had spent 2018 working between for a moment Newcastle and the Royal Cornwall Museum, Truro, where the ceramics are curated and [M]y project has come displayed, with the permission of English Heritage and the Duchy of Cornwall. Dr samples, and making use of the extensive ‘full-circle’ — my first visit Kiriatzi joined me in Cornwall to advise on the ceramic reference collections at the Fitch. to the BSA was for the sampling process in November 2018. It was Like the ceramics, my project has come ‘full- “Fitch Laboratory’s Ceramic exciting to start my year in Athens by bringing circle’ — my first visit to the BSA was for the over 100 samples of pottery, many of Aegean Fitch Laboratory’s Ceramic Petrology Course Petrology Course in 2015, origin, back to the eastern Mediterranean in 2015, and I am very happy to be back and I am very happy to be after 1,500 years, and even more exciting to develop the skills I gained then. I look back to develop the skills I to see these turned into thin-section slides forward to learning more about the origins for analysis at the Fitch Lab. Since arriving, I and character of the Tintagel pottery, and to gained then ” have started to group and characterise these sharing my findings.” 12 www.bsa.ac.uk The British School at Athens 2019 – June at

Dimitris Filioglou Knossos Research Centre (MSc, Sheffield) One of the main activities of the Knossos used a Fitch Bursary to study the Curator over the winter was to move animal bones from the Final Neolithic along plans to rebuild the Knossos and Early Bronze Age deposits at Stratigraphical Museum. The process of Proskynás in Lokris, excavated by Eleni Zachou of the Ephorate of Antiquities drawing up final plans for construction of Fthiotis during construction of the has begun and a first fundraising event new national road between Athens took place in Athens. and Thessaloniki, the first such study The Knossos Research Centre Summer for the 4th–3rd millennium BC in Lecture Series continued in 2018, seeking eastern central Greece. The size of the to engage a wider public by taking Attendees at the travellers event view a sample faunal assemblage and the variety the audience on a journey through of materials in the KRC Library of contexts attested provide a unique Cretan history from Neolithic times to opportunity to examine consumption the 19th century. This year’s series was practices in different contexts, potential inaugurated by Dr S. Mandalaki (Director Panagiotaki, that attracted 350 visitors. feasting events and social inequalities. of the Heraklion Archaeological Museum) After an introductory lecture on the Following completion of his Fitch speaking on recently excavated sites in travellers and their sociocultural context award, Dimitris won a fellowship the area between Knossos and Malia. — from Cristoforo Buondelmonti to N. to undertake doctoral studies in The second lecture, on the presence Stavrakis — eminent members of the Groningen. of Catholic religious orders in the area local academic community read selected of Heraklion, was given by Dr E. Kanaki passages and the evening concluded with (Ephorate of Antiquities of Herakleion) a concert of English Baroque music by Lily and the third by Mrs Katerina Athanasaki Daka (piano), George Mastorakis (classic on the travels of Mercy Money-Coutts guitar) and Maria Pertselaki (soprano). Seiradaki in Crete. In addition to their The Curator mounted a small exhibition academic impact, these lectures in the KRC Library of travel books from its strengthen the relations of the BSA with holdings, alongside 16th- and 17th-century the local community. maps kindly provided by a collector. A land with a rich mythological and The British School at Athens and historical past, Crete attracted from an the Cultural Association of Knossos early date the attention of European express their warmest thanks to all who travellers, seeking in its ruins the glorious contributed to the successful organisation past described in ancient Greek literature. of this important event, particularly the Travellers’ accounts related to Knossos Cultural Association of Knossos, the staff formed the theme of a cultural event co- of the KRC, the Municipality of Heraklion organised by the KRC and the Cultural for technical support, and Chalkiadakis Association of Knossos, led by Mrs Mara Supermarkets for providing the buffet.

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In November 2018 we launched our new ultimate goal is that both these collections website at bsa.ac.uk. Built from scratch, in are made accessible through our website collaboration with all BSA departments, via an enhanced user interface. it offers new design, structure, and During the past year we continued functionality. Even if you have already to develop our IT infrastructure at seen the site, please keep checking it: we Athens, with a focus on strengthening are constantly developing and updating cybersecurity. We have further improved it with new content, including recordings Internet access, increasing the bandwidth of events. to 70 Mbps, and we have recently initiated Our digital collections have expanded a project to redesign our network at the significantly since last summer. The Knossos Research Centre, with a new digitised papers of the Pendlebury fibre-optic connection. collection were integrated into the EMu Chavdar Tzochev also continued database in September 2018. With over his research on the monumental 4th- 7,000 catalogue entries and 10,000 century-BC tomb at Starosel (Bulgaria), images, this is the largest dataset to for which he has recorded and virtually enter our digital repository so far. To reconstructed over one hundred accommodate this collection, we moved architectural fragments. our database to a new ThinkSystem SR650 server, a timely upgrade, as we are already working on another large addition, Starosel: composite 3D model of a lintel the image collection of the Society for (above) and Chavdar Tzochev at work on the Promotion of Hellenic Studies. Our the tomb (below)

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The BSA’s Development Programme

The perfect combination in impeccable surroundings: Minoan food and Cretan music. Scenes from the event held at the UK Ambassador’s Residence in Athens to launch the KSM funding campaign. L: Evi Christoulaki and Jerolyn Morrison preparing the meal; R: Kelly Thoma and Ross Daly entertain over dessert

Participation is a key feature of the BSA’s collaboration with the Egypt Exploration The BSA Ambassador Programme activities and has become a focus for Society. The first was a panel discussion on also continued this year with Stephen Development over recent months. From ‘Petrie, Pendlebury and Hogarth in Greece Lambert’s talk on Attic Inscriptions our new supporter membership to our and Egypt’ chaired by Yannis Galanakis Online, as part of the Teachers’ Study expanding roster of UK-based events, the (Cambridge), with panellists Heba Abd- Day at University College London. More level of participation — from our friends, el-Gawad (Durham), Imogen Grundon recently, an audience drawn from several colleagues, and partner institutions — has (Pendlebury’s biographer) and Alice academic departments at the University continued to grow. Stevenson (UCL). The discussion explored of St Andrews heard the Director present First and foremost, thank you to the over the connec­­ tions between these pioneering the ‘Work of the BSA in 2018’, followed 200 BSA supporters who have signed up to archaeo­ log­ ists and their institutions, by St Andrews staff members Daniel the new tiers: Friends (£40 p.a.) or Student rev­ealing­ interesting similarities and Knight (Social Anthropology) on his new Friends (£20 p.a.), Pendlebury Circle (at differences between the BSA and EES. This project exploring the anthropology of the least £150 p.a.), or Director’s Circle (at was followed by a lecture from Margaret future and Huw Halstead (History; former least £1,001 p.a.). This new structure has Mountford, Chair of the EES, who explored BSA Macmillan Rodewald Student: see considerably increased the donations the famous Oxyrhynchus papyri, their June 2018 newsletter) on his fieldwork in received. Our exclusive supporter events contents, and their initial excavation. the region of Karditsa in Thessaly. are now underway, with our fully- Elsewhere in London, the BSA was We are immensely grateful to all booked Director’s Dinner in February and delighted to collaborate in January with the those who support the BSA at this upcoming BSA London Garden Party and, Centre for Hellenic Studies, King’s College important time in our 130-year history. later in the autumn, a behind-the-scenes London, and AIORA Press in realising the Your contributions maintain the margin tour of the Ashmolean Museum. UK leg of ‘Translations — Modern Greek of excellence of our activities, from our Another major focus for Development literature through a translator’s lens’, which research to teaching and publications. We is the campaign to rebuild the Knossos featured Roderick Beaton (KCL), the authors are grateful for several large donations Stratigraphical Museum (KSM) recently Victoria Hislop and Panos Karnezis, David over recent months, including those launched in Athens with an event at the UK Ricks (KCL) and Patricia Barbeito (Rhode from George Cornelius, Harry Nicolson, Ambassador’s Residence. As many readers Island School of Design). A similar panel Nicholas Petmezas, Chris Williams and know, the KSM is in urgent need of repair discussion with different participants took others who wish to remain anonymous. if it is to meet the requirements of modern place in Athens two days earlier. Finally, We are also grateful to those who have researchers. By renovating it we hope to we were delighted to launch the BSA joined the Director’s Circle and Pendlebury reinstate it as an internationally recognised Arts Circle with a drinks reception held in Circle or signed up to the 1886 Society. research centre, at an estimated cost of collaboration with Pericles at Play, a literary Finally, we thank George Cornelius warmly €2m. You will be hearing more about this / classical receptions journal founded by for generously organising a fundraising exciting project over the coming months as previous BSA Library Research Assistant, lunch at Towcester and to Sir Adam Ridley we finalise the architect’s plans and launch Tom Willis (see June 2017 newsletter). The for hosting the London Garden Party on a UK-based campaign. BSA Arts Circle looks to encourage the 9 July. Our events series at the British Academy interplay among art, archaeology, and the Nicholas Salmon continued with two events organised in wider aims of the BSA.

Left: ‘Petrie, Pendlebury & Hogarth’: (L to R) H. Abd-el-Gawad, I. Grundon, A. Stevenson and Y. Galanakis

Right: The London ‘Translations’ panel: (L to R) P. Karnezis, D. Ricks, R. Beaton, P. Barbeito and V. Hislop

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Events Past (January–June 2019) Dr Angela Trentacoste (): Public Lectures ‘Of cattle and connectivity: investigating Prof. Roderick Beaton (KCL/BSA), Prof. Patricia the morphometric change in ancient Barbeito (Rhode Island School of Design), Dr livestock’ (19 March) Dionysis Kapsalis (author), Aris Laskaratos Dr Ricardo Fernandes, ( Institute (AIORA Press), Alicia Stallings (poet): for the Science of Human; University of ‘Translations — Modern Greek Literature Oxford;, Masaryk University): ‘Integrating through a Translator’s Lens’ (21 January, Isotopic, Archaeological, and Historical Athens) Evidence for High-Quality Reconstruction Prof. Roderick Beaton (KCL/BSA), Prof. of Past Human Lifeways (Diet, Nutrition, Patricia Barbeito (Rhode Island School of Mobility, and Chronology) from the Greek Design), Victoria Hislop (author), Panos Bronze Age to the Collapse of the Roman Karnezis (author), Prof. David Ricks (KCL): Empire’ (2 April) ‘Translations — Modern Greek Literature Drs Vayia Xanthopoulou & Ioannis Iliopoulos through a Translator’s Lens’ (23 January, (University of Patras): ‘Assessment of the London) Clayey Raw Material Suitability for Ceramic Prof. John Bennet (Director, BSA): The Work Production in Northern Peloponnese’ (29 of the School in 2018’ (5 February, London; The Director (L), Dr Katerina Ierodiakonou May) 26 February, Thessaloniki; 28 February, and Prof. George Boys-Stones prior to the Athens; 3 May, St Andrews) 2019 Michael Frede Memorial Lecture on ‘The Artist In Residence Talk Prof. & Dr Michael Boyd Rationality of the Stoic God’ (Cambridge): ‘The Sanctuary on Keros and Onyeka Igwe (London College of the Settlement of Dhaskalio in the Light of Communication): ‘Being Close to, with or Amongst: Other Ways of Knowing the Recent Research’ (5 February, London) Upper House Seminars Archive’ (4 June, Athens) Prof. Roderick Beaton (KCL): ‘Ο Λόρδος Prof. Judy Barringer (Edinburgh): ‘The Μπάιρον και η Ελληνική Επανάσταση: από Message is in the Medium: White-Ground Friends’ Lectures τον θρύλο στην πολιτική πραγματικότητα’ Lekythoi and Stone Grave Markers in (26 February, Thessaloniki) Classical Athens’ (25 February). Prof. Dimitris Plantzos (University of Athens): Prof. Roderick Beaton (KCL): ‘1919: Venizelos’ Prof. Jonathan Hall (Chicago): ‘Chasing the ‘Classical Encounters: Past and Present in Asia Minor Policy Revisited’ (28 February, Shadows of the Past in Late Ottoman Argos’ Contemporary Greece’ (23 January, Athens) Athens) (8 April) †Dr Ruth Macrides (Birmingham): ‘Byzantium Prof. Gonda Van Steen (KCL): ‘Adoption, Cristina Ichim (UCL): ‘Dying to Connect: A and Modern Greece in Scottland’ (5 March, Memory, and Cold War Greece’ (BSA Special Mortuary Approach to Southern Aegean London) Lecture; 3 April, Athens) Connectivity in the Middle and Late Bronze Dr Colin MacDonald: ‘Tradition and Innovation Prof. Glynis Jones (Sheffield): ‘The Origin and Age’ (15 April) in the Protopalatial and Neopalatial Spread of Agriculture: What do the Plants Charlotte Van Regenmortel (Leicester): Architecture of Knossos’ (9 May, Athens) Have to Say?’ (Fitch Visiting Fellow Lecture; ‘Warriors into Workers: Military Service as Dr Ioanna Moutafi (Cambridge): ‘Another 6 May, Athens) Wage Labour in the Late Classical and Early Keros mystery: exploring the unusual burial Celeste Farge (British Museum): ‘The Society Hellenistic Periods’ (13 May) choices at the Early Cycladic island of Keros’ of Dilettanti’s Second Ionian Mission: Dr Lamprini Rori (Exeter/BSA Early Career (14 May, London) William Gell’s Journals at the British School Fellow): ‘Political Violence in Crisis-Ridden at Athens and the British Museum’ (Bader Greece. Evidence from the Radical Right Conferences Archive Lecture; 15 May, Athens) and the Radical Left’ (20 May) ‘O Arthur Evans, ο μεγάλος πόλεμος και η Dr Yannis Galanakis (Cambridge), Imogen Dr Chryssanthi Papadopoulou (Assistant ειρήνευση του μινωικού πολιτισμού’, with Grundon (Pendlebury’s biographer), Dr Director, BSA): ‘Exorcising Fear: Ritual performances of Elgar’s Cello Concerto and Alice Stevenson (UCL), and Heba Abd-el- Performances in Classical Athens’ (27 May) Delius’ Requiem (14 March, Athens) Gawad (Durham) in conversation: ‘Petrie, ‘Popular Music of the Greek World’ (17–18 Pendlebury, and Hogarth in Greece and Fitch-Wiener Laboratories Seminar Series May, Athens) Egypt’ (16 May, London) Prof. George Boys-Stones (Durham): ‘The Dr Sevasti Triantaphyllou (Aristotle University): ‘Bodies on Fire: Tracing the BSA/Research Centre for Greek Rationality of the Stoic God’ (Michael Frede Philosophy of the Academy of Athens Memorial Lecture; 28 May, Athens) Practice of Burning Human Remains in the Seminar in Philosophy Dr Margaret Mountford (Egypt Exploration Prehistoric Aegean through Macroscopic Society): ‘Papyrology: Is Anything New and Analytical Methods’ (29 January) Sarah Broadie (University of St Andrews): Under the Sun?’ (11 June, London) Professor Gerald J. Conlogue (Quinnipiac ‘Putting Mathematics in its Place in Republic University): ‘Field Radiography: Non- VI and VII’ and ‘What Does the Divided Traditional Applications of Medical and Line Tell us About the Sun-Good Analogy Industrial Radiography’(19 February) (Republic VI)?’ (6 and 7 March, Athens)

‘Popular Music of the Greek World’, May 2019: Participants outside the Upper House (R) and musicians performing at the conference dinner (L)

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Farewells The BSA was pleased to offer the Upper House garden for a photo We send our good wishes to all those shoot for Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya, who leave us at the end of this directed by G. Kimoulis, which ran year: Students, Fellows and Staff. at the Piraeus Municipal Theatre As noted elsewhere, Dr Chryssanthi in November and December 2018. Papadopoulou, AG Leventis Fellow and Photo © Stavros Habakis subsequently Assistant Director, leaves the BSA after seven years to take up a post as Assistant Professor in at the University of the Future Events (July–December 2019) Peloponnese. Charlotte van Regenmortel (Macmillan-Rodewald Student) will be Public Lectures A. Hobbs, Plato’s Republic (9 October, Athens) M. Ganas, A Greek Ballad: Selected Poems, moving to a post as Lecturer in Ancient Prof. Peter Thonemann (Oxford): ‘Abdera, History at Groningen University. Teos and Rome’ (NHRF-ICS-BSA Lecture; 30 translated by D. Connelly and J. Barley (9 September, Athens) December, Athens). The BSA notes with deep sadness the Dr Maria Andreadaki-Vlazaki (Hellenic passing of Dr Ruth Macrides, Reader Ministry of Culture & Sports): ‘Sacrificial Workshops in Byzantine Studies at the University rituals in the Mycenaean palatial centre of Craftspeople Mobility in the Archaeological, of Birmingham. Only a year ago we Kydonia (Khania, Crete)’ (BSA-ICS Lecture; 3 Historical and Ethnographic Record — A reported her Archive Lecture at the October, London) Comparative Perspective from the Aegean BSA in the newsletter, while she gave a Victoria Hislop (Author): ‘In Conversation’ (27–29 September, Athens) BSA Friends Lecture in London only in (in association with the Anglo-Hellenic Ceramic Petrology Group Annual Meeting League; 3 December, London) (8–9 November, Athens) March. She will be sorely missed, not Professor Gonda Van Steen (KCL) & Others Eretria Workshop (15–16 November, Athens) only as a scholar, but also as a regular t.b.c.: ‘Migration and diaspora’ discussion Tokens, Value and Identity: Exploring contributor to the BSA’s activities, panel (20 January, Athens; 27 January, Monetiform Objects in Antiquity and the notably as a member of the Committee London) Middle Ages Workshop (16–17 December, for Society, Arts & Letters. A short Athens) obituary appeared on the BSA web-site Upper House Seminars [https://www.bsa.ac.uk/2019/04/30/dr- Robert Pitt (CYA): ‘Early British Travellers to Athens and the Hunt for Inscriptions: Some Further events and lectures in Greece ruth-macrides-1949-2019/]. Overlooked Epigraphic Manuscripts of the and the UK will be announced as they are We also learned recently of the 18th And 19th Centuries’ (7 October) organised. For up-to-date information death on 23 April 2019 of Trevor Bryan Dr Polyxeni Adam-Veleni (Hellenic Ministry of on all our events, please go to: https:// (‘Toby’) Owen, who was at the BSA Culture & Sports): ‘Theatre and Spectacles www.bsa.ac.uk/events/. To be sure you in 1954, studying the history of the in Ancient Macedonia’ (14 October) hear about our events, please join our Boeotian League and participating in Mailing List: https://app.etapestry.com/ Book Launches BSA excavations on . Our sincere onlineforms/TheBritishSchoolatAthens/ condolences go to his family. Ann Eldridge: Monemvasia: People, Place, mailinglistrequest.html. Presence (23 September, Athens)

‘Then and Now!’ On the BSA Finlay Terrace, 1921: front, seated (L to R): Frank Lawrence Lucas, unidentified woman (possibly Mrs Ashmole), Mary Herford (later Braunholtz); back, standing (L to R): unidentified man, Winifred Lamb, Stanley Casson (Assistant Director), Francis Bertram Welch and Lilian Chandler (Winifred Lamb Papers: LAM 03.01.03.030); 2019, front row seated (L to R): Thomas Baumann (Library Assistant), Elena Cuijpers (Fitch Bursary holder), Cristina Ichim (Richard Bradford McConnell Student); back row standing (L to R): Dòmhnall Crystal (Member), Chryssanthi Papadopoulou (Assistant Director), Hallvard Indgjerd (Richard Bradford McConnell Student), Duncan Howitt- Marshall (Member), Charlotte Van Regenmortel (Macmillan-Rodewald Student)

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