The British School at Athens December an institute for advanced research 2018

From the Director

It is a great pleasure to wish everyone a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year with this fourth issue of our newsletter offering up to date news of our activities to all who share our passion for study of the Hellenic world in all aspects and all periods. A year ago I wrote that ‘[t]he wall John Bennet (L) around our premises is a highly porous welcomes visitors, including HMA Kate membrane, through which many Smith (R) to the pass…’. At that time I could hardly have BSA as part of ‘The imagined that we would be looking British Open Day’ back on how that ‘porosity’ allowed 6,500 to visit our garden between Both these collaborations received are available to view on our recently mid-September and mid-November positive media coverage and raised the redesigned website. to experience the NEON organisation’s BSA’s profile here in Athens considerably. The website redesign is part of our City Project 2018 ‘Prosaic Origins’, an Alongside these events, our regular Development programme, about which exhibition of sculpture by Andreas programme in Athens and the UK there is more below, including a reminder­­ Lolis. The sense of loss generated by continued. One highlight for me was a of how to sign up to our new tiered sup­ what now seem like empty spaces is performance at the BSA of the Odyssey — porter structure in effect from 1 January mitigated by the knowledge that a in two hours — by UK-based storytellers­ 2019. I offer warm thanks to all who have physical catalogue is in preparation as Hugh Lupton and Daniel Morden, part already chosen to continue their support a permanent memento. of a conference From Homer to Hatzi- at any of our three levels — Friends, The UK Embassy was our partner in Yavrouda — Aspects of oral narration Pendlebury or Director’s Circle — or, another collaboration that took place in the Greek tradition organised by indeed, have pledged a legacy and thus on 4 November: ‘The British Open Day’. the Danish Institute at Athens; the become members of our 1886 Society. Visitors signed up for guided tours of storytelling performance was made We hope you find this newsletter the Ambassador’s Residence, former possible through the generosity of BSA both enjoyable and informative. Please home of Eleftherios Venizelos, and the supporter Nicholas Petmezas. All our feed back reactions and suggestions to: BSA’s Upper House, Hostel and Library, events — past and future — are listed [email protected]. and Fitch Laboratory. at the end of this newsletter and many John Bennet

BSA Fieldwork 2018 Archaeology remains an important aspect of the BSA’s activities and we were delighted to contribute two papers (by Fitch Laboratory Director, Evangelia Kiriatzi, and Knossos Curator, Kostis Christakis) to the recent conference Φιλό-ξενη Αρχαιολογία: Foreign Archaeological Schools and Institutes in Greece, organised by the Ministry of Culture and Sports as part of the celebration as the European Year of Cultural Heritage. The accompanying exhibition Moments from the Work of the Foreign Archaeological Schools in Greece, displayed in the Fetihiye Mosque, was also enriched by extensive material from the BSA’s Archive. This summer we again enjoyed lectures at Knossos in June, July and September on peripheral and palatial centres in prehistoric Crete, Catholic Map showing religious orders in Venetian Herakleion and locations the travels of Mercy Money-Coutts Seiradaki, of BSA while those in London in November heard Fieldwork an impressive lecture on recent finds from and Study 2018 the Thessaloniki Metro works. The British School at Athens 2018 – December

Fieldwork continued in 2018 at Olynthos, which our major fieldwork took place Universities of Leicester, Liverpool, Dhaskalio and Kato Kouphonisi, Knossos — Dr Dimitris Athanasoulis (Cyclades), Michigan (Classics Department and and Koutroulou Magoula. There were also Dr Alexandra Charami (Boeotia), Mr Kelsey Museum), Oxford, UCL, McDonald study seasons for the Kenchreai Quarries Ioannis Kanonidis (Chalkidike & Mount Institute Cambridge, Cyprus Institute, Project, Knossos (KULP and Gypsades), Athos), Dr Konstantinos Kissas and Dr All Souls and Merton Colleges Oxford, Lefkandi, Mycenae and Palaikastro. Yiota Kassimi (Corinthia), Dr Efthymia Delmas Foundation, Gerda Henkel We are most grateful to Dr Maria Karantzali (Fthiotis & Evrytania), Dr Stiftung, Society of Antiquaries of London, Andreadaki-Vlazaki, Secretary General Vassiliki Sythiakaki (Hera­kleion), Dr American Philosophical Society, EZ-dot, of the Ministry of Culture & Sports, Alkistis Papadimitriou (Argolid), Drs Pari Cosmote, A.G. Leventis Foundation, the Drs Eleni Korka and Polyxeni Adam- Kalamara and Angeliki Simosi (Euboea), Stavros Niarchos Foundation, Blue Star Veleni, successive Directors General of Mrs Evangelia Pantou (Laconia), Mrs Ferries, plus many private donations. Antiquities, and to Dr Elena Kountouri, Chryssa Sofianou (Lasithi), and Dr Stella Further information on these projects Director of Prehistoric & Classical Chrysoulaki (Piraeus & the Islands). will appear in Archaeology in Greece Antiquities, as well as to the numerous In addition we recognise the generous Online and Archaeological Reports, and colleagues in the Ministry who make financial support for projects from a wide we will report again on research and our archaeological work possible. In range of bodies, including: the Institute other activities of the Fitch Laboratory particular, we thank those in charge for Aegean Prehistory, Loeb Classical and the Knossos Research Centre in the of the Ephorates of Antiquities in Library Foundation, Brown University, June 2019 newsletter.

entered from the street on Olynthos 2018 the south via corridor I, and space h is now identified as Bettina Tsigarida (Ephorate of Antiquities an andron, on the basis of its of Pella), Zosia Archibald (Liverpool) position and other features, and Lisa Nevett (Michigan) report on a although we have not located fifth season of this collaborative project a plaster or mosaic floor. seeking to recover a uniquely detailed The western boundary wall picture of Greek households as social of the house is very well and economic units, within their broader preserved with a well-built urban and regional settings. socle surviving to a height Goals for the 2018 season on the of at least five courses in North Hill were to continue investigation places, acting as a terrace to of house B ix 6, working towards retain the soil beneath the completely revealing its final occupation floors — at a higher level — of phase and investigating the range and neighbouring house B ix 4 to distribution of activities taking place the west. The southern edge there; re-opening of Test Trench 3 of the pastas roof can now be (TT03) in order to clarify the character of seen to have been supported activities along the northeast periphery by a series of three columns of the hill; and continued investigation or posts, for which square of the organisation of settlement and the lime­stone bases survive. distribution of activities across the hill Within the B ix 6 pastas, through continued surface collection on traces of a north–south wall the eastern and southern parts of the hill running between the central not previously investigated. base and the south wall now The picture of the layout of house B ix appear to result from a re­con­ 6 in its final phase is now more coherent. figuration of this area after the Satellite image of the North and South hills, showing areas excavated in 2018. D. Stone As hypothesised in 2015, the house was original con­­struction, perhaps

Sketch-plan and photomosaic of house B ix 6 at the end of the 2018 season. F. Stefanou/D. Stone

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Left: Satellite photograph showing grid squares collected in 2018 in relation to those in previous years. D. Stone

Right: Satellite photograph showing units collected in the Lower City in 2018 and in previous years. D. Stone

seeking to accommodate an area with noted in 2014 with non-residential probably belonging to earlier buildings a considerable natural slope. The main activities, notably three beehives and a destroyed and re-used to fill the area. room of the oikos unit (f) can now be seen complete grinding stone with a lateral When this deposit was removed a semi- to have been entered from the pastas via a lead clamp still attached to one side. circular ash-like deposit came to light, doorway towards its western end. Within f Surface collections were carried out on an installation or hearth, dating to a rectangular structure of baked clay was a total of 80 30 × 30m grid squares (0.07 the Archaic period, before the Persian partially revealed, which may have been km2) on the hill. The material indicated destruction. Investigation of the pit used for some kind of manufacturing or dense settlement across the hill in showed that it was lined with stones and processing (the absence of ashes or signs Antiquity and the majority of the pottery was cut down into an earlier, larger pit, of burning suggests that it was not a was dated to the Classical period. itself cut down into deposits extending hearth). Finally, the flue (b) was apparently On the South Hill, work continued under the second paved street. not entered directly from f as no trace of a in trench TT23, started in 2017 to Beyond the confines of the archaeo­ doorway was found in its west wall. investigate the potential date at which logical site field walking continued in One of the outstanding questions con­ the grid was established. GPR data had 2018 over an area of 1.11 km2 (a total cerns the range of identifiable activities, indicated the existence of early deposits of 297 units) of the Lower City. The or functional areas, in different sectors of and features there, approximately 1.50m majority of the work covered a strip of the North Hill. Geophysical survey in the below the current surface. Under the land some 600m north of the North Hill. northeast periphery of the hill indicated paved surface of the road identified in Artefact density was relatively low here, an organisation different from the grid- 2017 a preparation deposit was located, although one concentration was noted pattern observed on much of the North Hill. and beneath that an earlier paved on top of a hill overlooking the river TT03, first investigated following discovery street composed of smaller stones. A and the northern edge of the city. As of an unusually large magnetic anomaly clay-like deposit comprising collapsed in previous years, most of the material by geophysical survey in 2014, revealed architectural material, mud­bricks, discovered dated to the Classical period, an exceptionally large — possibly unique pottery, shells and fragments of bone with a small amount of Byzantine and — clay pithos, over 1.5m in diameter, and extended below these contexts, most Late Roman pottery. other features, possibly of ritual character. Given the generally non-residential features in this trench, re-investigation offered an opportunity to collect useful comparative data to house Bix6. TT03 was extended as Trench 31 and the combined configuration of walls here resembles a parallelogram, composed of three walls, each comprising a different lithic matrix, with an apparent opening on the west. Faint outlines of two circular features may be traces of postholes. The Photo model of TT23 at the end of the finds from TT31 confirm the associations 2018 season. F Stefanou

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Keros-Naxos Seaways 2018

Colin Renfrew and Michael Boyd (Cambridge) report on the fourth and final field season of the Keros-Naxos Seaways Project, which has focused on the ‘Small Cyclades’, the archipelago of small islands located between Naxos, Ios and Amorgos in the south-central Cyclades. Combining survey with excavation, it has uncovered remarkable evidence for architecture and town-planning, craft activities, and the widespread import of raw materials and finished goods: the first clear evidence for incipient urbanisation in the early Cyclades. Previous work by the BSA on Keros (2006–2008, now fully published) had focused on the site of Early Bronze Age ritual depositions of broken Cycladic figurines, marble vessels, and pottery, located at Kavos at the western end of the now-deserted island of Keros. That earlier project had also begun investigation of the islet of Dhaskalio, connected to Keros by a causeway in the Early Bronze Age (when the sea level was lower), where traces of settlement were located. Excavation trenches on Dhaskalio in 2018 (yellow), in 2016–2017 (green) and in 2007–2008 (pink) This year saw the third season of excavations on Dhaskalio in the current programme. Six excavation trenches were building. Here two rooms were excavated the Dhaskalio staircase (also on the other open this year. The largest trench (A) was to bedrock. One of these contained a side of the island in Trench E). This stair located on the gently sloping northwest concentration of stone tools and discs also covered a drain whose terminus was plateau below the summit, offering the framed by slabs embedded in the floor. located a few metres north of the trench only large relatively flat area on the islet. Below the floor levels here and to the at the cliff-edge, one of several complex Excavations in 2016 and 2017 had removed south, simple hearths used for casting drains found in the excavations. The path very large quantities of collapsed stone. copper were located in bedrock hollows. divided mid-way up the trench, with one The hard work of the previous years finally Two trenches were set on the north branch going left into unexcavated areas, paid off, as clear outlines of buildings side of the islet to investigate a network and the other going to the right, through a and the pathways connecting them were of impressive walls visible before the room with a large vessel carved from local revealed, and excavation at floor level and start of the excavation. Trench B was set stone set into a bench, toward the direction below produced unexpected results. At immediately to the north of Trench A, in of Trench A, probably meeting up with the the north end of the trench a passageway the hope of finding a pathway from these passageways located there. Finally, a third is now fully defined, with three branches large walls to the area of Trench A. Results metallurgical hearth was located in this facilitating traffic in several directions. in 2018 were spectacular: a flight of steps trench, in close association with a ‘baking At the convergence of the three access from the bottom of the trench leading to pan’ (a large, plate-like ceramic shape) routes is a flat area of flagstones. This an area of flagstones marked by no less which, when examined by portable XRF, nodal point was the intersection of key than four petroglyphs at the point where showed raised levels of copper. paths leading north (downslope), east the path divides. It has been argued that On the other side of the north face of (toward the summit), southeast (to the petroglyphs at other sites (such as Vathy the islet, Trench C had previously revealed upper terrace in Trench A), west, to a in Astypalaia) mark important points on the only dense animal bone midden on lower terrace, and south, into the main paths of movement: this is confirmed on the site. This year excavation focused on

Left: Dhaskalio, Trench A: intersection of pathways and stairs in the northern part

Right: Dhaskalio, Trench A: cache of tools set in the floor of a room in the centre

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two rooms close to the cliff edge. A floor level was excavated with intact pots, tools Above left: Dhaskalio, Trench B: flight of steps in the and triton shells. The small room to the northern part southwest contained a large built drain feature. This probably connected with Above right: Dhaskalio, another drain in the first room. Trench B: petroglyphs on four Downslope to the east, Trench H had flagstones at an intersection already revealed the main entranceway to of pathways the site. This year excavation proceeded Right: Dhaskalio, Trench H: through several relaid floor levels in the metalworking hearths two rooms to the south of the entrance, reaching bedrock. Here two metallurgical hearths were found, one showing evidence for vitrification resulting from very high temperatures. The five hearths this earliest period, contemporary with was the largest known settlement of its found at Dhaskalio constitute unique the main use of the two Special Deposits period in the Cyclades, with a planned direct evidence for the production of located on Keros, across the causeway. and impressive architecture, prodigious metal artefacts at this time. However, it is clear that the floruit of evidence for metalworking, and import of Upslope on the east side of the island Dhaskalio was in Phase B (2550–2400 BC), materials both from surrounding islands two nearby trenches were excavated. after the main period of use of the Special and further afield. The architectural Trench E was placed over the massive Deposits. All of the deposits excavated this programme of Phase B indicates a passageway through the largest terrace year, with the exception of those in Trench remarkable degree of pre-planning, seen wall on the islet, just below the summit. N, are of Phase B. in the placement and use of massive Here a petroglyph was located just above At the same time as the excavation on terraces to form building platforms all over the stairs on the south side. Trench N, Dhaskalio, field survey was carried out the island, the placement of passageways immediately to the east, revealed a on the nearby island of Kato Kouphonisi, and stairs in order to effect movement complex of walls. Some of these date to the midway between Keros and Naxos. Survey between terraces and from bottom to top, earliest period of the site, Phase A (2750– of this small island (3.7 km2) complements and the use of well-designed drainage 2550 BC), providing crucial evidence for the larger surveys carried out on Keros systems in many places. It is remarkable (2012–2013) and on southeast Naxos this was achieved using marble imported (2015). Results suggest Kato Kouphonisi painstakingly from Naxos. was more densely inhabited in the Early Bronze Age than either Naxos or Keros, with Colin Renfrew and Michael Boyd will at least one major site toward its western present the work of the Keros-Naxos end. Late Roman and Modern are the other Seaways project in more detail at the two main periods evidenced, with traces of BSA’s Annual Meeting at the British Mycenaean and Geometric habitation. Academy on 5 February 2019. The project now moves into the study and publication phase, which will continue to the end of 2020, after which results will be published in three volumes by the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research. The project has already demonstra­ ­ted that Dhaskalio

Left: Dhaskalio, Trench E: flight of stairs and entranceway through the massive retaining wall on the east side of the summit

Right: Dhaskalio, Trench E: petroglyph set into the flight of stairs

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based on the results of the Knossos Urban Geophysical Survey of Landscape Project (KULP). Roman Knossos 2018 Although interpretation of all results has yet to be finalised, the data revealed are Daniel Stewart (Leicester) and Jennifer intriguing: rectilinear features are evident, Baird (Birkbeck) report on a fourth and usually in the 1.5–2.5m depth range, and final season of geophysical investigations there may also be evidence of activity at Knossos with the overall goal of areas, roads, and some terracing, as providing a working knowledge of the indicated in the overall interpretation. This urban layout of Roman Knossos. overall picture of the city is increasingly Four seasons of geophysical prospe­ complicated, but the general conclusion ction suggest that there were at least is clear: this is a dense urban landscape 3 different orientations to the layout in exhibiting multiple, intersecting layouts. its latest period of occupation, probably In the ‘Northwest Area’ of the city driven by topography. Earlier work, (where survey began in 2015), GPR further supported by the 2018 season, in 2018 allowed the identification of strongly suggests that Roman period many more rectilinear features, and the inhabitants of Knossos used Minoan extraction of much more detail. There architectural features in the layout of appears to be evidence of at least three portions of the city (primarily close to courtyard structures, probably domestic, the river, and immediately west and and a range of rooms/features. There are Gord Macdonald (assisted by KRC cat Erofili) north of the Minoan Palace). The broader sets up the project’s GPS base station over the no clearly identifiable streets. implication is that the large-scale Taverna’s control point The so-called ‘Northeast Area’ was landscape interventions of the Bronze previously identified as an area where Age impacted the inhabitants of the multiple grid layouts intersected and that Roman city thousands of years later. additional landscape-scale investigative can be seen in the 2018 results too. Unlike The project has demonstrated the techniques such as targeted T-LiDAR and the broadly north–south orthogonality­ of efficacy of geophysics within this land­ photogrammetry. the area further west, this side of the valley scape. Aggregate data offer a meaningful The GPR equipment used was a GSSI (which is more heavily terraced), has a and worthwhile way to build up a larger UtilityScan DF, using two digital antennas, distinct northeast–southwest axis. The picture of the urban topography. In the one providing a detailed snapshot­ up to central block here shows evidence of two first two seasons a wide area of the valley 1m in depth, the other coarser data down distinct layouts: a more North–South axis was covered with magnetometry, while to 5m. As in previous years, we also used to the west and a Northeast–Southwest seasons 3 and 4 focused on targeted a Leica ICON 60 GPS base-station with a layout to the east. The North–South layout examination with Ground Penetrating GS08plus Rover to help locate both the is also evident further west, currently on Radar (GPR) and tests of resistivity. The grid layouts for the geophysical survey a terrace above the central block. The aims for 2018, were: continued targeted and to record significant structural different layouts here probably reflect use of GPR over the survey area, together features in the landscape. ancient topographic differences and with systematic GPS mapping of known In 2018 a further 1.5 ha were covered evidence of terracing, perhaps originally standing remains; further refinement with GPR, making a total of 3 ha, mostly Minoan in date, given the broad alignment of the ‘orthogonal’ plan in centre of within areas already covered with with Minoan features. city; further exploration of the eastern, magnetometry. Total area coverage for Around the remains of the Civil Basilica, northern, and southern edges of survey the geophysical survey was around 17 more of an apsidal structure (with walls area, with the aim of tracing road networks ha. Hood and Smyth estimated the size partially extant) was revealed. It is roughly and a possible interface between city of the Roman city at 50–60 ha in size, on the same alignment as the rest of the and countryside; and deployment of while Whitelaw suggests around 70 ha city grid in this area, which runs North–

Left: Areas covered by GPR in 2018 (yellow) and 2017 (red) and by magneto­metry in 2016 (blue) and 2015 (green), showing areas discussed in the text Right: Total area covered by geophysical investigation showing overall interpretation of results

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South. There appear to be significant Above: The ‘Northeast Area’ structures around this building to the with interpretation of results north and west, but these North–South orientated structures are not on the same Right: The ‘Northwest Area’ alignment as the remains of the Civil with interpretation of results Basilica. It is possible that the Civil Basilica overlies an earlier orthogonal area of the city, suggesting evidence of phasing. courtyard structure, or an extension of the GPR work in 2018 was supplemented More refined analysis of the geophysical villa itself, given its proximity. with a test of a T-LiDAR 3D laser scanner. data may help untangle the various The area around the Makryteichos Pro­ducing over 900,000 single point phases based on depth of response. If provided perhaps the most immediately measure­­ments a second, the device Knossos had a Forum area, it possibly satisfying GPR data in 2018. As previously produces a ‘point cloud’, from which, lay to the east of the Civil Basilica (if it is suggested, the standing wall is probably when combined with images taken Roman in date and not Late Antique). the back of a terrace supporting a stoa with a panoramic camera (iSTAR 360) at Continued exploration with the GPR and associated structures. GPR results not the same focal height, it is possible to in the area of the Villa Dionysus shows only show most of the stoa, but also record create a highly accurate navigable 3-D another courtyard house on the western five of the column bases on the interior model. Application of the technique has terrace above the current villa. To the colonnade. Also visible is the western implications for monitoring­ the condition south there is clear evidence for a street in return of the stoa wall, and, to the north, of monuments, revising architectural both the magnetometry and the GPR data. an East–West and a potential North–South plans, and public outreach. North of the villa there is another possible street, and a large rectangular structure.

Top left: The ‘Civil Basilica Area’ with interpretation of results

Top right: The ‘Villa Dionysus Area’ with interpretation of results

Above: The ‘Makryteichos Area’ with interpretation of results

Left: The Villa Dionysus ‘point cloud’ with colour matching

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Koutroulou Magoula Archaeology and Archaeological Ethnography Project 2018

Nina Kyparissi-Apostolika (Director Emerita, Ephorate of Speleology and Palaeoanthropology­ of Southern Greece), Vasilis Tsamis (UCL) and Yannis Hamilakis (Brown) report on the 2018 season of this collaborative project focused on the tell of Koutroulou Magoula in Thessaly. As in 2017, the major focus was on Trenches Z2 and Z1 showing frequent and rich building exploration of the slope and periphery, activity; Right: Poster for the ‘Itineraries’ performance while excavation also continued on (designed by Brown/RISD student, Remy Poisson) the top of the tell, where work helped clarify questions about the use of and building activity; indeed, it appears the edge of the settlement in Trench X16, space in different temporal moments that building activities were on-going, a whose primary purpose was to identify and to understand better contextual life project for the Neolithic inhabitants and record the edges of the ditch that had associations. To explore the use of space of the site, with walls built and destroyed appeared in geophysical survey in 2011– and social practices here, trenches Z1 at fairly short intervals and floors laid, 12. In 2018, it proved possible successfully and Z2 were reopened. While excavating maintained and re-laid frequently. to identify this ditch and to locate its west the eastern edge of Z1 and the western More striking results were in store on and east edges. It was probably curvilinear edge of Z2 a robber’s cut and pit was the slope and at the periphery of the tell. In with a northeast–southwest orientation, located and explored, apparently dug by 2018 work continued west of trench Ξ15, surrounding the tell. It was approximately the Neolithic inhabitants of the site to in new trench Ξ14. This area yielded many 6m wide and possibly deeper than retrieve and reuse the stones of a wall: the finds, most prominently chipped stone, 3m. The ditch fill contained abundant first time that it can be shown that people including an obsidian microblade core, pottery and other finds, including many dug in the rubble of the previous houses a group of large chocolate chert blades, clay sling pellets. Eroded pottery and to retrieve stone for subsequent building apparently bundled together, perhaps figurine fragments suggest exposure and projects. Across the Z2 area the team with a perishable organic material, and deposition over time, indicating a slowly identified the existence of consecutive a rare, probably Late Neolithic, spear accumulated fill. The ditch appears not to floor layers and thick (more than 0.15m) point made of honey chert, most likely have been maintained in its later phases, trample surfaces, with organic inclusions, from present day Bulgaria, according to but was covered by silt and alluvial soil rich in pottery and animal bones. Work in the project’s chipped stone specialist. from the surrounding flood plain. The trenches Z2/Z1 confirmed the impression In 2017 the first possible evidence for importance of this find for spatial and from previous seasons that this was an a pottery kiln area was revealed here, social practices in the Neolithic and for extremely dynamic area in terms of use while this year’s investigations suggest communal organisation is substantial. the possibility — yet to be In addition to excavation work, confirmed — that there may sampling, post-excavation analysis and have been a series of kiln preparation for publication continued, installations. In the same area an adult inhumation burial was uncovered, which previous experience suggests probably dates to the Medieval period, as with the burial found on top of the mound in 2011. AMS dating samples were taken. The most striking result, however, was to be found at

Left: Locations of trenches excavated in 2018 superimposed on geophysical results

Above right: Late Neolithic spear point

Right: Trench Ξ15, the inhumation burial (L) and remains of a possible kiln installation

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Left: Edges of the ditch located in Trench X16 (red sediment to the extreme right and left)

Right: A clay sling pellet, one of several found in the fill of the ditch in Trench X16

site-specific performance on ‘Itineraries’, devised by Ilektra Angelopoulou, focusing on archaeological finds, memory, place and landscape, and on the migration history of local people, especially those of the nearby village of Neo Monastiri, founded as did programmes in ethnography, by Greek-speaking migrants from an area central square of Neo Monastiri, where it education, community archaeology, and in present-day Bulgaria who settled here was followed by live music and dance, and theatre/archaeology. These included a in 1925. The performance took place in the by the traditional Kourbani feast.

Training the Next Generation — BSA Courses 2018 Each year the BSA offers opportunities will return to our portfolio in 2019. Our by Assistant Director, Dr Chryssanthi to students and professionals to postgraduate courses this year started Papadopoulou. Next year our course participate in a range of courses in April at Knossos with the course in offerings will be back to full strength that offer first-hand experience of ‘Prehistoric, Greek and Roman Pottery’, and will be augmented by a new materials and places that cannot be followed by another based in Athens on course on the analysis of ancient glass offered in a conventional seminar or ‘Numismatics’. The BSA’s summer was in the Mediterranean. For information lecture format in the UK. This year two rounded off, as it has been continuously about upcoming courses and other of our postgraduate courses took a for the past 46 years, with the opportunities offered by the BSA, rest — ‘Epigraphy’ and ‘Introduction Undergraduate Summer Course on the please go to: www.bsa.ac.uk. to Ceramic Petrology’ — but they ‘Archaeology & Topography of Greece’ led

new museums in Corinth and Kalamata 46th Annual Course (covering Messenia), exploring the for Undergraduates: majestic Mycenaean palaces of Mycenae, the Archaeology and Tiryns and Pylos, discussing the principles of Byzantine art in Mystras and finishing Topography of Greece at the Panhellenic Sanctuary of Olympia with re-enactments of the Heraia and The BSA Summer School continues to the Olympic games. The victors in be popular with undergraduates eager the games were crowned with olive to learn more about the landscape and wreaths. Additional highlights of this material remains of Greece and the course included visits to the interiors number of applicants increases each of the Parthenon, the temple of Apollo year. In 2018 we admitted 28 students Epikourios at Bassai and the temple of BSA Undergraduate Course: family photo at pursuing a range of degrees in relevant Zeus at Olympia. the ‘Treasury of Atreus’, Mycenae subjects from 17 universities across the The course was taught by Dr UK. The three-week course began in Chryssanthi Papadopoulou (BSA), Dr familiarised themselves with the Athens with lectures on Greek religion Estelle Strazdins (BSA/Cambridge) and Dr BSA library, had the opportunity for and sanctuaries, the types of sources Matthew Skuse (BSA/St Andrews), with dialogue with academics outside employed in interpretations of the guest talks by Vasso Manidaki (on resto­ a formal university departmental past, and science-based archaeology ration of the Parthenon) and Ioannis Fappas setting, and exchanged ideas and sessions in the Fitch Laboratory. After (Museum of Cycladic Art). The course teaching experiences with peers. site and museum tours in Athens and manager, Cilia Fasianou, looked after the We are most grateful for the Attica, we boarded the bus for a nine- health and well-being of the group. continuing support of several day journey around the Peloponnese Students acquired experiential know­ institutions and societies which performing Aristophanes in the ledge of the most important sites in provided much needed financial theatre in Epidaurus, visiting the central and southern mainland Greece, assistance to keep the course fees low, as well as to offer 18 bursaries The paradigm shift in my understanding of to help those who would otherwise not have been able to participate: Greek archaeology via experiencing the sites with the Craven Committee Oxford, the the guidance of specialists is like nothing else, Classics Faculty at Cambridge, the “and has vastly improved the ways I think about Gilbert Murray Trust, the Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies and archaeology the Classical Association. Leah Wild, Cambridge” www.bsa.ac.uk 9 The British School at Athens 2018 – December

Building 2 as its back wall. There is little intensively surveyed parts of the plot Knossos Gypsades 2018 evidence of occupation in LM IB–II due to were the open southern extent and the its reoccupation­ in Phase 5 (Postpalatial, lower terrace (magnetometry and GPR), Ioanna Serpetsidaki (Ephorate of LM IIIB early). This occupation probably with only partial coverage of the wooded Antiquities of Herakleion), Gianna Ayala followed a hiatus in use and involved area (GPR only, as yet unprocessed). (Sheffield), Amy Bogaard (Oxford) and modifications to the building, including a Gradiometer survey in the southern Eleni Hatzaki (Cincinnati) report on a reduction in overall size. It was destroyed part of the plot (Area 1) showed an mixed season of study and fieldwork on by fire and abandoned, leaving behind extensive array of positive (black) and this collaborative project that seeks to the archaeobotanical residues mentioned negative (white) anomalies consistent investigate a neighbourhood within the in previous reports. Following its with archaeological features and deposits. southern suburbs of Minoan Knossos. destruction, parts were dismantled to A broad positive linear magnetic anomaly Study of stratigraphy, architecture remove usable building materials. The aligned from north to south, thought and ceramics led by Hatzaki confirmed subsequent phases (6–7) represent the to correspond to a road or trackway, and refined the sequence of occupation Hellenistic and Ottoman–early Modern was identified in the centre of the area, observed in the 2014 and 2015 excavation periods and are attested in Buildings 4 while a dense cluster of orthogonal seasons, allowing the definition of archi­ and 5 in Trench 3. negative magnetic anomalies, perhaps tectural phases and associated contexts Serpetsidaki, Ayala and Bogaard, with reflecting a complex of buildings, was that will help all specialists complete John Pouncett (Oxford), carried out identified immediately to its west. Further their studies. Architectural remains were geophysical and geoarchaeological field orthogonal negative magnetic anomalies, grouped into seven phases and a series survey in order to place the excavated perhaps corresponding to additional of ‘Buildings’ defined, associated with one area within the wider context of the buildings, were identified in the southern or more architectural phases. The earliest overall plot under investigation. Earlier and eastern parts of the survey area. A phase (1) is represented by fragmentary gradiometer and resistance surveys series of curvilinear positive magnetic remains of a building (3) dating to the carried out in 2010–11 suggested a anomalies fol­lowing the contours of Protopalatial (MM II) period in Trenches ‘busy’ subsurface landscape, but did not the slope may indicate terraces visible 1 and 7. Phase 2 (early Neopalatial, MM provide a clear picture of the detailed in adjacent plots. On the Lower Terrace IIIA–B) is attested by more substantial layout of structures. The first objective (Area 2) gradiometer survey shows two remains of a building (2) in Trenches 1 and of renewed geophysical survey in 2018 curvilinear dipolar (black and white) 6–8. The following phase (3; Neopalatial– was to achieve a detailed mapping anomalies which correspond to the edges late Neopalatial, LM IA–IB) appears in of subsurface features by integrating of terraces. Trench 5, in the north (building 7), and in three intensive, high-resolution techni­ Trench 7. The main focus of excavation, ques: magnetometry, resistivity and Below left: Plan of the area investigated, Building 1 (Trenches 1 and 6–7) belongs ground penetrating radar (GPR). A showing locations of trenches (2014–15) and to Phase 4 (late Neopalatial–early Final second objective was to investigate boreholes (2018)

Palatial, LM IB–II). It appears to have the stratigraphy of key anomalies using Below right: Gradiometer survey plot of the been founded in LM IB over the earlier sediment coring, also enabling retrieval area investigated Building 3 and using the east façade of of potential dating material. The most

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GPR (left) and sediment coring (right) in progress

Geophysics and coring results show that there is a great deal of archaeological potential in the area. It appears that an approach with multiple techniques and integration of sediment coring allows the identification of several archaeological features, notably in Area 1. Both resistivity and GPR work, once fully processed, have the potential to interpret the depth of A single grid in the northern part of the anomalies when combined with the geophysical and geoarchaeological pro­ Area 1 was surveyed using the resistance results of sediment coring. spection. Refinement of the stratigraphic meter: high resistance anomalies thought Sediment coring has highlighted the sequence of anomalies detected can be to correspond to at least two rooms or complex stratigraphic sequence especially achieved through radiocarbon dating of buildings were identified in the western visible in the southern upper extent. samples recovered from some boreholes. corner and along the northeastern corner. The lower terrace appears to have been Analysis of historic maps and aerial All of Area 1 was surveyed by GPR, but truncated, with the marl substrata at photographs should also facilitate an only four data grids have been processed c. 50cm depth. Only very slight archaeolo­ understanding of the area. Once complete, to date. Parabolas consistent with walls gical traces were captured at quite shallow this team’s survey can be integrated with were identified in the radargrams and depths, suggesting that this area may have the larger geophysical survey undertaken orthogonal reflections at depths of c. 0.3m been highly modified and terraced when in 2010–11, the excavation data from to c. 0.8m appear to correspond to the the modern road was re-laid, removing Trenches 1–7 from previous excavation continuations of the rooms or buildings what archaeology was present. seasons and the high-resolution plough­ identified in the western corner of the grid The results of the 2018 field season zone data collected by the Knossos Urban surveyed using the resistance meter. show considerable potential for integrated Landscape Project (KULP).

Stratigraphical Museum, and work­ BSA Prehistoric, Greek The … course combines learning shops focusing on key skills such as and Roman Pottery and practice very well. It provides macro­­scopic fabric analysis, forming Course [students] with knowledge about techniques and drawing. Scheduled “ lectures covered theoretical aspects pottery which is very hard to of pottery production, distribution The Prehistoric, Greek and Roman acquire only from books because and consumption, metho­do­­lo­gical Pottery Course was held for the sixth touching and analysing a hand issues concerning the analysis of consecutive year at the Knossos specimen is crucial for developing pottery assemblages from surveys Research Centre in April 2018. We and excavations, and field classes on received a considerable number of archaeological understanding important Bronze Αge and Greco- applications and offered 16 places to Evgenia Drammer, DPhil student, Oxford Roman archaeolo­ ­gical sites. A highlight Masters and Doctoral students from a was a visit to the potting villages of range of UK and non-UK universities. Colin Macdonald (BSA), Conor ”Trainor Margarites and Thrapsano, where tra­ The varied academic background of the (Warwick), Antonio Bianco (Crete), Denitsa ditional potters George Dalamvelas course participants created a close-knit Nenova (UCL), Florence Liard (BSA Fitch and Michalis Ploumakis respectively group and a stimulating environment Laboratory) with Patrick Quinn (UCL) as engaged the participants­­ in many for both students and teachers. Thanks guest lecturer. aspects of potting techniques. Students to the generous support of the Classical The course structure was designed were also introduced to aspects of Cretan Association, bursaries partially covered around two main components: hands-on nature and culture (flora, architecture, the course fees of three participants. sessions using chronologically specific art, music, ethnography, diet). Feedback The course was co-ordinated by assemblages of pottery dating from the on the course was excellent showing the Knossos Curator, Kostis Christakis, Neolithic to the late Roman period, drawn that it had met its goals and fulfilled the and taught by Todd Whitelaw (UCL), from the rich collections of the Knossos training needs of participants.

Left: Participants observing the making of pithoi at the Potters Cooperative of Thrapsano (MINOS)

Right: Participants at the opening of a recently fired kiln at the workshop of G. Dalamvelas in Margarites

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and the Netherlands. This year we had handling coins in collections such as BSA Postgraduate double the number of applications we had those of the Numismatic Museum, the Training Course in Greek in 2016. As in previous years, the course Alpha Bank, and the collection of bronze Numismatics was taught by Professor Keith Rutter coins of the Welfare Foundation for (Edinburgh) and Dr Simon Glenn (Oxford). Social and Cultural Affairs (KIKPE). Several Greek scholars also contributed We are extremely grateful to have The fourth course in ancient Greek lectures on their areas of expertise. received generous support from numismatics was held at the BSA in late The richness of Athens as a centre for the A.G. Leventis Foundation which May and June 2018. This course, offered numismatic study is remarkable: it provides allowed us to keep the course fees low every other year, provides a survey of the not only library resources, especially those and offer bursaries to those students techniques of numismatic investigation of the BSA, but also opportunities for who needed them. (the ‘toolkit’ of numismatics), and a selective overview of the development of Greek coinage from its beginnings in Asia Minor in the later 7th century BC down to the Hellenistic period. The course is designed for ancient BSA Numismatics Course: historians and archaeologists whose lecture by Professor Keith research experience so far has not given Rutter in the Alpha Bank them a chance to engage with specialist Collection numismatic evidence. Ten students attended, from uni­ versities in the UK, Ireland, Switzerland

Legacy Fieldwork at John D. Evans’ excavations of the Neolithic a little material dating both earlier (EM, levels of Knossos. MM) and later (LM II–III). The unexpected Knossos Other initiatives are underway at discovery of Evans’ notebook of 1926 Knossos, one of which involves the House enabled Oddo to correlate the numbers One of the benefits of being an institution of the Frescoes, a structure lying west on his sketch-plan with wooden labels with a long history is the aggregation of of the palace and south of the Royal retained in the pottery boxes in the significant amounts of archaeological Road, excavated by Sir Arthur Evans and Stratigraphical Museum and thus to materials, often referred to as ‘legacy Duncan Mackenzie in 1923 and 1926, and identify the find-spots of the pottery material’, because its original excavators restored by Nikolaos Platon in 1958–59. both inside and outside the building have long passed on. With such material, It was cleaned in July 2018 under the itself, correcting important discrepancies however, comes a double challenge: how to supervision of the Ephorate of Antiquities with data published by Pendlebury. meet the concomitant obligation to make of Herakleion to facilitate republication One important consequence was the it available to the academic public and of the building’s architecture and finds identification of pottery Evans found how to do so in a form that meets modern to modern standards by Emilia Oddo during his 1926 soundings, a box of which standards? The rich material produced by (Tulane) with the assistance of Vasso came from below the floor of room H. generations of scholars at Knossos presents Fotou (Oxford). Ceramic study by Oddo Cleaning and restudy have thus enabled a particular challenge that we are seeking in 2017 was supplemented this year by Oddo to reconstruct — in broad outline — to meet in various ways. Some buildings cleaning and recording — by Oddo and a history of use of the site before, during, excavated by Evans and only summarily Fotou — of the architectural remains on and after the lifetime of the House of published have been restudied and have site and further ceramic study. Frescoes itself, which is consistent with appeared in print, such as the Little Palace The first study season had shown that the analysis of the architectural remains. (published by Eleni Hatzaki in 2005), while the pottery from the structure is a mixed She is now working to complete the the Knossos Neolithic Publication Project assemblage, predominantly LM IA, with publication in 2020. (KNPP), led by Valasia Isaakidou (Oxford) and Peter Tomkins (Sheffield), involves a team of experts who will publish the rich, historically-significant data produced by

Left: The House of the Frescoes area after cleaning in 2018

Right: Evans’ sketch- plan that offered the key to identifying the original find-spots of pottery

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Pictures of an Exhibition

Like the sculptors of the Classical era, [Andreas Lolis] carves ‘realistic’ objects from marble blocks, resembling the original model in shape and scale. Cardboard boxes, ladders “and planks of wood become marble effigies of precarious, transitory and unnoticed original objects. Through this traditional method, he elevates the everyday world of abandoned partial objects, makeshift constructions and ordinary things to the status of statues Nayia Yiakoumaki, Whitechapel Gallery © Panos Kokkinias ” The BSA was thrilled to accept an was an attractive one. About 860 people invitation by the NEON Organisation attended the opening on the evening to host its City Project 2018, an annual of 12 September, while a total of 6,500 initiative for public art and the city, which visits were recorded between then and activates public and historical places the final day on 14 November. We thank through a commission to a contemporary most warmly Andreas Lolis and Nayia Greek artist. ‘Prosaic Origins’, curated by Yiakoumaki for their creative input Nayia Yiakoumaki of Whitechapel Gallery, and the NEON staff — Director Elina comprised a collection of works by Koundouri, Project Manager Alkistis Athens-based sculptor Andreas Lolis that Dimaki, Project Assistant Artemis were thoughtfully and subtly positioned Stamatiadi, Nafsika Papadopoulou and throughout the BSA gardens, in the Hostel the rest of the NEON team, not least foyer and in the Finlay Common Room. the guides who were present every day The images on this page show some of to greet visitors with information (and the works on display. a smile, no matter what the weather): Clearly the combination of the BSA’s Yiannis Drakopoulos, Stamatis Evgenikos space and the works of Andreas Lolis and Faidra Vasiliadou.

© John Bennet

Andreas Lolis with curator Nayia Yiakoumaki, shown below, and works by Andreas Lolis. Images © Panos Kokkinias © Natalia Tsoukala courtesy of Neon

© Panos Kokkinias © Panos Kokkinias © Natalia Tsoukala

The BSA’s Development Programme Collaboration is an essential feature of as a range of events hosted in partnership p.a.). This new supporter structure has the BSA’s activities, as John Bennet notes with individuals and institutions. been positively received throughout the above. Collaboration applies to many First and foremost, thank you to all BSA community and we look forward aspects of our Development Programme those who have already signed up to to realising a programme of exclusive beyond our recent col­laboration with the supporter levels: Friends (£40 p.a.), supporter events in 2019. If you have not NEON. Over recent months, it has seen the Pendlebury Circle (at least £150 p.a.), yet become a supporter, you can do so by launch of a new supporter structure as well and Director’s Circle (at least £1,001 visiting the ‘Become a Supporter’ page on

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our redesigned website. Please note that each level renews each year on 1 January. These are exciting times for the BSA. As we move forward with our new membership structure, we are keen to establish contact with our ‘lost alumni’, including course participants and others that stayed at the BSA but may have since fallen out of touch. If you know anyone who would like to reconnect with the School, they can do so by joining our mailing list (on the BSA website) or by contacting the ‘The British Open Day’: Archivist Amalia between Britain and Greece, including Development Officer, Nicholas Salmon: Kakissis presents material from the BSA recent work on Tintagel in Cornwall. [email protected]. We are keen Archive in the Finlay Library (above), and Fitch Our redesigned website is now fully to hear about the careers of our alumni Laboratory Director Evangelia Kiriatzi explains live at the same web address as before. since they last visited the BSA. the intricacies of ceramic analysis to visitors Development is a key element in its Our events series at the British (above right) design, which is intended to be public

Academy recommenced in October with Below: Phew what a scorcher — London in facing and user-friendly. The ‘Join Us’ ‘MANIAS: Modern Desires for Greek Pasts’. July 2018! (L to R) Hannah Gwyther (Bristol/ section allows you to become a supporter, This lively and engaging panel discussion BM), Amalia Kakissis (Archivist) and Nicholas reader, or member as well as to join our involved Professors Liz Prettejohn (York) Salmon (Development Officer) enjoying the mailing list and update your contact and Nicoletta Momigliano (Bristol), London Garden Party details using online forms. You can also and Drs Katherine Harloe (Reading), donate to the BSA through the donation Andrew Shapland (British Museum), and portal, located on the home page. Alexia Petsalis-Diomidis (St Andrews). We are immensely grateful to all In November, Lorrice Douglas (BSA Arts those who support the BSA at this Bursary holder 2017/18) presented important time in our 130-year history. and discussed her work with Professor Your contributions maintain the margin Malcolm Quinn (UAL). This was the first of excellence of our activities, from our BSA Arts Bursary talk held in London research to teaching and publications. We and it attracted a diverse crowd of artists are grateful for several large donations and curators alongside academics and over recent months, including those from archaeologists. NEON, the Society of Dilettanti Charitable Elsewhere in London, this year’s ICS/ Trust, George Cornelius, Dr Oliver BSA lecture was delivered by Dr Polyxeni Dickinson, Helen Hughes-Brock, and all Adam-Veleni (Hellenic Ministry of Culture Maria Papadaki (Edinburgh/Patras) on the those who have joined the Director’s Circle & Sports). She discussed the recent Byzantine Peloponnese, and in Newcastle in and Pendlebury Circle. A list of supporters excavations for the Thessaloniki Metro December with Drs Evangelia Kiriatzi (Fitch will feature on our website from the New that have led to spectacular discoveries. Laboratory Director) and Maria Duggan Year. We also thank George Cornelius Our BSA Ambassadors programme (Newcastle), who provided an overview of warmly for organising a fundraising lunch continued in London (KCL) in September the history and operation of the BSA and its in Northampton in January. with BSA Centenary Bursary holder Dr role in promoting research collaborations Nicholas Salmon

Intensive Course for I … learnt an immense amount about Athenian School Teachers: ‘The culture, architecture, religion and politics from a series Persian Wars and of expert lectures and guided tours. Of particular use to Athenian Democracy’ “my teaching were the visits to the various theatres and being able to see Mycenaean artefacts at the National Seven teachers from a range of schools Archaeological Museum attended the 2018 BSA School Teachers’ Dr Mike Beer, Head of Modern Foreign Languages and Classics, course; all were very enthusiastic to Exeter College learn more about the archaeology and ” history of ancient Greece to inform BSA. Participants stayed in the Hotel their teaching. Participants came from Parthenon, a comfortable base close the UK and — unusually — one from the to the Acropolis and convenient for US. The programme was intense, with transport links. a number of 12-hour days. Feedback The course was primarily taught by was once again very positive and the Chryssanthi Papadopoulou (BSA). John participants stressed how useful they Bennet offered a lecture on Linear B at found the course. the BSA and Karim Arafat (KCL) taught We visited the Acropolis, Athenian in the sculpture and pottery collections Agora and Kerameikos, in Athens, of the National Archaeological Museum. Delphi and Sounion outside, as well as The course was supported by the the following museums: the Acropolis, Classical Association, whose generous National Archaeological and Piraeus, BSA School Teachers’ Course: group selfie in grant allowed us to award six bursaries. offering in addition lectures at the Monastiraki.

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Mazotos Shipwreck, Cyprus, Left: Mazotos 2018: the keel, garboard and planking of the wreck. © U Cyprus 2018 Below: Assistant Director Chryssanthi Chryssanthi Papadopoulou (BSA Assistant Papadopoulou at work Director) reports on the 2018 season of the Mazotos Shipwreck Project, of which she is also the Assistant Director. This underwater excavation, sponsored by the University of Cyprus (UCy) has been in progress since 2007, under the direction of Dr Stella Demesticha (UCy). The shipwreck dates to the 4th century BC, and lies at a planking was attached with mortise and depth of 45m, approximately 1.5 nautical tenon joints. Different species of wood were miles off Mazotos on the southern coast used for the stempost, planking and keel. of Cyprus. It originally carried a cargo of The amphorae were stowed differently Chian wine amphorae and a secondary in the bow than amidships: four rows cargo of jugs. The site consists of a mound of amphorae were excavated from the of around 800 amphorae which largely middle of the ship, while only 1–3 rows preserve their original stowage in the are present at the bow. Additional finds hull of the ship. Underneath the amphorae from the bow include an amphora full of lie extensive hull remains in a good state olive pits, hundreds of loose olive pits, of preservation. few grape seeds, fragments from a Koan Excavation of the site commenced in amphora, a black-glazed lekythos and 2007 and the 2018 field season focused on sherds from a black-glazed, open vessel the area of the ship’s bow. Chian amphorae — most likely a skyphos. The latter two were recovered to the surface, and the objects were most likely the mariners’ stempost and parts of the keel and planking personal belongings. of the ship were revealed. The garboard The next excavation season is planned was sown to the keel, while the rest of the for September 2019.

Events Past (June–December 2018)

Public lectures Upper House Seminars (in Athens) Conference Dr Stella Mandalaki (Director, Archaeological Prof. Dimitris Papanikolaou (Oxford): ‘Critically Hugh Lupton & Daniel Morden: Storytelling Museum of Herakleion): ‘East of Knossos and West queer and haunted: on how (not) to do the performance of the Odyssey (part of conference of Malia: relationships between peripheral and history of Greek (homo)sexuality’ (22 October) From Homer to Hatzi-Yavrouda aspects of oral palatial centres based on recent archaeological Dr Philip Mansel (Author): ‘Alexandria, from narration in the Greek tradition, co-organised with finds (in Greek)’ (28 June, Knossos) Mohammed Ali to Farouk: the rise and fall of a the Danish Institute at Athens, 29 September) Dr Eleni Kanaki (Ephorate of Antiquities of royal capital’ (29 October) Herakleion): ‘The presence of Catholic religious Prof. Dimitris Plantzos (Athens): ‘Mind the gap: orders in the area of Heraklion (in Greek)’ (31 revisiting Greece’s national “sites of trauma”’ July, Knossos) (10 December) Dr Katerina Athanassaki (Archaeological Museum of Herakleion): ‘Esse auam videri: the invisible Book Presentation travels of Mercy Money-Coutts Seiradaki in Prof. Armand Marie Leroi (Imperial College): Greek Crete (in Greek)’ (4 September, Knossos) edition of The Lagoon: how Aristotle invented Dr Maria Papadaki (Edinburgh/Patras): science (ROPI Press) (1 October, Athens) ‘Understanding settlements in Byzantine Greece: old data and new approaches for Artist in Residence Talk the Peloponnese (11th–12th centuries)’ Lorrice Douglas (Chelsea College of Arts): ‘The (Ambassador lecture; 25 September, KCL) value of fragments’ (7 December, Athens) Profs Liz Prettejohn (York), Nicoletta Momigliano (Bristol), Drs Katherine Harloe (Reading), Fitch-Wiener Seminar Series (in Athens) Andrew Shapland (British Museum) & Dr Leandro Fantuzzi (Fitch BSA): ‘Revisiting the Alexia Petsalis-Diomidis (St Andrews), Panel origin of the Punic Amphorae from Corinth’s Discussion: ‘MANIAS: modern desires for Greek Punic Amphora Building’ (27 November) pasts’ (25 October, London) Dr Edyta Marzec (Fitch BSA): ‘Provenance and Prof. Phiroze Vasunia (UCL): ‘Prose of the World: techno­logy of Hellenistic colour-coated ware Hegel, Herodotus and Plutarch’ (NHRF-ICS-BSA pottery from Nea Paphos on Cyprus’ (11 Lecture; 19 November, Athens) December) Lorrice Douglas (Chelsea College of Arts): ‘The value of fragments’ (22 November, London) Friends’ Lectures Dr Polyxeni Adam-Veleni (Director General of Anti­ Dr Virgina Webb (Independent Scholar): ‘Gods, quities, Hellenic Ministry of Culture & Sports): men and animals: a clash of cultures’ (27 ‘Thessaloniki, a Metro-polis through the centuries’ November, London) (BSA-ICS Lecture; 28 November, London) Dr Evangelia Kiriatzi (Fitch Laboratory Director) Exhibition & Dr Maria Duggan (BA PDF Newcastle / BSA): NEON City Project 2018, ‘Prosaic Origins’, ‘The British School at Athens and the work newly-commissioned works by sculptor of the Fitch Laboratory: linking Britain and Andreas Lolis, curated by Nayia Yakoumaki the Mediterranean’ (Ambassador lecture; 6 (Whitechapel Gallery) (12 September–14 Lorrice Douglas presenting her work as BSA Arts December, Newcastle) November) Bursary holder 2017–18 at the British Academy

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Future Events (January–July 2019)

Public Lectures Upper House Seminars (in Athens) BSA Courses Prof. Roderick Beaton (KCL), Prof. Patricia Prof. Judy Barringer (Edinburgh): ‘The message is ‘Archaeology & Archaeometry of Glass in the Barbeito (Rhode Island School of Design), in the medium: white-ground lekythoi and stone Mediterranean’, Fitch Laboratory, Athens (1–5 Dr Dionysis Kapsalis (author, Director MIET), grave markers in Classical Athens’ (25 February) April) Alicia Stallings (poet), & Aris Laskaratos Prof. Jonathan Hall (Chicago): ‘Chasing the sha­ ‘Prehistoric, Greek and Roman Pottery’, Knossos (AIORA Press): ‘Translations — modern Greek dows of the past in Late Ottoman Argos’ (8 April) Research Centre (5–17 April) literature through a translator’s lens’ (21 Cristina Ichim (UCL): ‘Dying to connect: a ‘Introduction to Ceramic Petrology’, Fitch January, Athens) mortuary approach to southern Aegean Laboratory, Athens (13–24 May) Prof. Roderick Beaton (KCL), Prof. Patricia Barbeito connectivity in the Middle and Late Bronze ‘Postgraduate Training Course in Greek (Rhode Island School of Design), Victoria Age’ (15 April) Epigraphy’, Athens (16–29 June) Hislop (author), Panos Karnezis (author), & Charlotte Van Regenmortel (Leicester): ‘Warriors ‘Linear B & Mycenaean Greek’, Athens (14–27 Prof. David Ricks (KCL): ‘Translations — modern into workers: military service as wage labour in July) Greek literature through a translator’s lens’ (23 the Late Classical and Early Hellenistic periods’ ‘Undergraduate Course in the Archaeology & January, London) (13 May) Topography of Greece’, Athens/Peloponnese Prof. John Bennet (Director, BSA): ‘The work of Dr Lamprini Rori (Exeter/BSA Early Career (18 August–7 September) the School in 2018’ (5 February, London; 26 Fellow): ‘Low-intensity violence in crisis-ridden February, Thessaloniki; 28 February, Athens) Greece: evidence from the radical right and the Prof. Colin Renfrew & Dr Michael Boyd radical left’ (27 May) (Cambridge): ‘The sanctuary on Keros and the Dr Chryssanthi Papadopoulou (Assistant Director, Farewell settlement of Dhaskalio in the light of recent BSA): Title to be announced (28 May). research’ (5 February, London) The BSA notes with sadness the passing Prof. Roderick Beaton (KCL): ‘Ο Λόρδος Μπάιρον BSA/Research Centre for Greek Philosophy of of Professor Michael B. Walbank, Emeritus και η Ελληνική Επανάσταση: από τον θρύλο the Academy of Athens Seminar in Philosopy Professor at the University of Calgary, στην πολιτική πραγματικότητα’ (26 February, Prof. Sarah Broadie (University of St Andrews): Thessaloniki) ‘Titles to be confirmed’ (6 and 7 March) on 25 May 2018. Michael’s association Prof. Roderick Beaton (KCL): ‘1919: Venizelos’ with the BSA reaches back to 1971. He Asia Minor policy revisited’ (28 February, Conference contributed several articles to the Annual Athens) ‘Popular Music of the Greek World’ (17–18 May, of the BSA and, together with his wife, Dr Prof. Gonda Van Steen (KCL): ‘Adoption, memory, Athens) and Cold War Greece’ (Special Lecture; 3 April, Mary Hoskins Walbank, who survives him, Athens) Friends’ Lectures was a regular donor in support of the Prof. Glynis Jones (Sheffield): ‘The origin and Prof. Dimitris Plantzos (Athens): ‘Classical Library. On 12 November 2018, we learnt spread of agriculture: what do the plants have encounters: past and present in contemporary of the death at age 97 of Geoffrey Graham- to say?’ (Fitch Visiting Fellow Lecture; 6 May, Greece’ (23 January, Athens) Bell, member of our 1886 Society and Athens) Rosemary Jeffreys (Oxford): ‘Gilded wreaths from founder member of the Friends of the BSA Celeste Farge (British Museum): ‘The Society Phoinikas, Thessaloniki’ (27 January, London) of Dilettanti’s second Ionian mission: William in Athens. Geoffrey shared his memories Gell’s journals at the British School at Athens There will also be further lectures in the Fitch- of the British Council in Athens in the post- and the British Museum’ (Bader Archive Wiener Laboratories Seminar (in Athens) and war years at a BSA conference Between Lecture; 15 May, Athens) the Friends series (in the UK). For up-to-date Prof. George Boys-Stones (Durham): ‘The Two Worlds held in 2012. A memorial information on all our events, please go to: rationality of the Stoic god’ (Michael Frede service was held on 29 November at St https://www.bsa.ac.uk/events/. Memorial Lecture; 28 May, Athens) Paul’s Anglican Church in Athens.

‘Then and Now’! The photograph on the left shows Charles Bosanquet (b. 1903), first child of Ellen and Robert Carr Bosanquet (Director 1899–1906) in the Upper House garden in 1905; we believe he is the only child actually born in the building. On the right is a view of the Upper House garden in November 2018

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