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From the Director

went into full lockdown, with involves some cost savings, as well as movement restricted, between 23 some draw-down of reserves, which March and 4 May. All BSA residents, of course exist precisely to assist except Debi and myself, the Assistant in such unpredictable situations. Director and the Library Research That said, if ever there were ever a Assistant, had left by 21 March. moment for our supporters to reach Lockdown at the BSA, with plenty of a little more deeply into their pockets open garden space, was much easier it is now. than for many in Greece and elsewhere. There are, however, numerous The response in Greece was impressive: ‘reasons to be cheerful’, many restaurants switched overnight from highlighted in this newsletter which table service to take-out or delivery and, looks back over the full BSA year, at least in our nearby supermarket, toilet foregrounding our people and our paper never ran short! Greece is now broad range of activities. Virtual The Director — with lockdown haircut — in a easing out of lockdown: archaeological and digital offerings have increased scene from the BSA Hidden Histories series sites and museums are now open, as are exponentially. Our new Librarian restaurants, cafes and most businesses. started on time. We have been A year ago I found myself wishing The situation here is assuming the planning for the new year, selecting everyone an ‘enjoyably productive appearance of normality, but it is a our Visiting and Early Career Fellows or relaxing – ideally both – summer’. ‘new normality’, with masks and gloves and Students. The most recent What a difference a year makes! In in evidence and people keeping their optimistic news is that our Arts Bursary January we had no idea how our world distance and certainly not greeting with holder, Syma Tariq, managed to arrive would be transformed. Rumours kisses on both cheeks as was customary on 11 June, after a 14-day quarantine. were circulating of a new virus in the ‘old normality’. We all hope that The new year will undoubtedly be emerging in China and on my flights the resumption of tourism does not different from previous years, but the to and from the UK for our February produce a new wave! BSA will adapt to embrace the ‘new AGM, some people were wearing The pandemic has of course affected normality’ and continue its mission masks. The BSA then went into its the BSA: no researchers reached us to study Greece in all time periods February schedule: Annual Meetings between late March and this week, our and across all disciplines, a mission for in Athens and Thessaloniki, followed Library was closed, no on-site events which we know you share our passion. by a book launch on 24 February. were possible, and we had to postpone In these challenging times we trust As it happened, that was the last all our courses. This has had an impact that we can count on your continued event held in person. Our Carnival on our finances, but I am very pleased support that we value so much. Party, scheduled for 29 February, was (and proud) as Director that we have As always, please feed back cancelled on government advice, neither furloughed staff, nor let anyone reactions and suggestions to gatherings were prohibited and, go. We have a plan to take us through [email protected]. as cases began to increase, Greece the current financial year; that plan John Bennet

BSA People

From earthquake to pandemic Twelve months ago, as I was in less than 12 months just taking up my post, I could never have guessed how the year Michael Loy (Assistant Director) “would be rounding out reflects on his first year … the Life Goddess restaurant: a little bit of “My first twelve months at the BSA have Athens away from Athens. It ”was great to been quite a whirlwind — but (mostly) in reminisce and catch up, but also to talk a good way! about ways to get back to the BSA. On “Although our courses take place in the the one hand, rather pleasingly, I was in spring and summer months, our students contact after the event with no fewer than are part of the BSA community all year eight students to explore opportunities round. For this reason in February we and funding calls for returning to Athens hosted our first Undergraduate Course in 2020; on the other, current travel alumni event in London, inviting the 2019 restrictions demand this nostos wait The 2019 Summer Course cohort’s reunion cohort to an evening of Greek meze in another year. at The British School at Athens 2020 – June

“Our Athens-based students are equally dedicated, and I have been very lucky to have had four excellent interns and volunteers this year. This small team (ably assisted by Debi Harlan) has been working with our BSA collections: inventorying, cataloguing and processing digital data ready to be uploaded to our new browser platform Digital Collections. My wholehearted thanks to Katerina Argyraki, Antonis Chaliakopoulos, Eleni Krikona and Ermioni Vereketi for all their efforts. “‘On the ground’ the Athens team has been busy setting the wheels in motion for Left: BSA interns in December (L–R): Antonis Chaliakopoulos, Alexandros Eouenta (Archive) and Ermioni Vereketi; Right: the Assistant Director presenting one of our Hidden Histories episodes some larger initiatives covering different aspects of BSA life. The ‘Green Group’ and digital data management working group to our speakers throughout the year: Bela d’études anatoliennes was cancelled with held inaugural meetings: the latter to Dimova, Chris Hale, Anne Duray, Nicholas mere days’ notice as international travel clean up and future-proof our internal Salmon, Mark Letteney and Stefano restrictions came in to force. It has been digital databases, the former to clean Frullini, the last three in virtual format. a period to adapt and work on new up and future-proof the BSA premises “My own programme of research projects. You will see elsewhere in this concerning all things environmental. continues. I presented my work at both newsletter the work we have invested in And for something completely different, the Université Libre de Bruxelles and the various digital channels, something which Eric Driscoll (Assistant Director, ASCSA) University of Nottingham, and work is has presented a steep learning curve but and I established an informal seminar ongoing for my monograph, provisionally which has been vital to stay connected group for Postdoc and PhD scholars titled Connecting Communities: Economic with our vast international community of as a venue to present working papers, and Political Networks in Archaic Greece. members and supporters. known by the acronym AthENIS (‘Athens As is the same for everybody and their “Twelve months ago, as I was just taking Early-career Network of International dog, the last few months have necessarily up my post, I could never have guessed Scholars’ — Eric charged me with creating been thrown off schedule — not least of how the year would be rounding out. Let a suitable acronym, as apparently that is all, our Neolithic Seafaring workshop us just hope that the whirlwind passes a ‘very British thing’ to do). Many thanks co-organised with L’Institut français soon, and that clearer skies lie ahead!”

for textile manufacture and also shed Bela Dimova light on the traditions and movements Being based at the BSA (AG Leventis Fellow in Hellenic of ancient weavers. Since the shape has provided essential Studies) of the loom weights is often a matter resources for my research of cultural preference, certain shapes “ “This year I have worked on several are common in certain regions. When and opened opportunities aspects of textile production in Greece weavers move, they can take their tools for contact and collaboration and the south Balkans during the Classical along and these allow us to trace their beyond my main project and Hellenistic period. Being based at the movements. Sites in the north Aegean BSA has provided essential resources for have unusually diverse assemblages from historical sources can be coupled my research and opened opportunities of loom weights, which points to with insights from weaving experiments,” for contact and collaboration beyond my the mobility of textile workers there. to assess the quantities of labour and main project. Examining the distribution of certain resources needed to equip navies. “Fieldwork took me to several sites in shapes, it emerges that cities in the Based on these calculations, my work northern Greece and Bulgaria to study north Aegean maintained some of the explores what challenges this posed in collections of weaving and spinning textile traditions of their metropoleis terms of organisation of production and tools. These provide direct evidence and combined them with traditions procurement of raw materials, and how from the mainland and other cities these challenges were met. near and far. I shared preliminary “Another ‘strand’ of my research was a results of this research at several literature survey of archaeological textiles conferences, including a stimulating from Macedonia and Thrace. With its interdisciplinary workshop organised rich collection of Balkan archaeology by BSA colleagues on Craftspeople literature, the BSA library is the perfect Mobility combining ethnographic and home base to pursue this research. archaeological approaches. While conditions in Greece are generally “One question leading my research unfavourable for the preservation of during this year has been how the growth organic materials, over 30 textiles, dating of navies and commercial fleets, and from the Geometric to the Roman period, the resulting demand for sails affected have been noted in reports and other textile production during the Classical publications from just the Greek parts of Bela sampling textiles in the laboratory and Hellenistic periods. Information Thrace and Macedonia.”

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demes, and other areas and buildings, Mike Edwards are well known, there are plenty whose (Visiting Fellow 2019–20) location remains doubtful. “Often, a speaker’s argument is “I arrived at the BSA on 20 January to closely connected with the places he is begin a project on Places in the Attic describing. Thus, Demosthenes’ client Orators. It is always a pleasure to come to Ariston describes the build-up to a the BSA, and I was excited by the delicious brawl with Conon and his sons, when prospect of living for three months in the he was walking ‘by the Leocorion, near Fellow’s flat and so dangerously close to Pythodorus’ shops’ (Dem. 54.7), and he the 24-hour library. This would be an ideal also mentions the temple of Persephone. way of launching the project, which is a We do not know the precise location thrilling new venture for me. of either the Leocorion or the temple, “After devoting much of my research let alone the shops, but Ariston clearly career to studying the speeches of the expected members of the jury to know Attic orators (5th–4th century BC), I had the places he was describing, and it is the idea of compiling a topographical important for our evaluation of the likely Mike next to the bust of Themistocles near the Moschato Metro station, Neo Faliro dictionary of the places mentioned in them, which involves researching all manner of texts, including epigraphical of time and became the focal point of my ones, and site visits. Hundreds of It was a pleasure and fieldwork, which involved climbing up to locations in Athens, Attica and further privilege to be the BSA’s the fort at Fyli. I had numerous interesting afield are mentioned in the speeches, Visiting Fellow, and I can’t discussions almost on a daily basis, and and while the sites of many of the Attic “ hopefully my advice to the excellent wait to get back soon BSA Students was helpful. I myself learned a great deal about epigraphy from Stephen Lambert, which helped veracity of his narrative that” we have a tremendously when studying some clear idea of the general area and the tantalising inscriptions on gravestones distances involved. The aim of my project, and boundary markers. then, is to catalogue the sites, with a view “But like all good things my stay at the to providing a commentary on them that BSA had to come to an end — though will be of use to students and scholars rather abruptly and a month prematurely reading these and other texts. I am a firm because of an unexpected ‘bad thing’. I believer in autopsy, and what better base should like to pay tribute to the Director could a scholar have for investigating and Assistant Director for the calm and Athens than the BSA? I discovered that professional way in which they coped the Library, too, is an excellent resource with the extremely difficult situation for topographical study. arising from the Coronavirus pandemic. “All progressed nicely for two months. It was a sad day for me when I left the I read the speeches of the two earliest dwindling band of brothers and sisters at orators, Antiphon and Andocides, and the BSA, but I was delighted a month and those of Demosthenes’ teacher Isaeus, a half later to deliver my Visiting Fellow’s, as well as ten speeches by Demosthenes and the BSA’s first Virtual, Lecture. It was himself. Locating Holargos (the ancient a pleasure and privilege to be the BSA’s deme was not the same place as the Visiting Fellow, and I can’t wait to get Mike at the fort of Fyli in western Attica modern municipality) took up a good deal back soon.”

“I intend to research the ideas, work and Syma Tariq lived context of Constantinos A. Doxiadis, (Arts Bursary Holder a Greek master planner who spearheaded 2019–20) development in Pakistan at a time when it was a poster-child for global development. Athens is the first of three locations relevant The BSA is delighted that Syma Tariq, to my audio project which will be presented a doctoral researcher in the Centre at the end of the year. Research trips will for Research into Sound Arts Practice follow to Korangi Town, Doxiadis’ purpose- (CRiSAP, UAL), managed to make her way built town for refugees north of Karachi, to Athens, somewhat behind schedule, and Islamabad, Pakistan’s current capital despite the current restrictions. Syma will city designed from scratch according to offer a fuller presentation of her project in Doxiadis’ approach of ‘ekistics’. My main the December newsletter, but meanwhile academic interest is in oral archives and here is a brief summary of her plans while the role of sound in the contested histories at the BSA. following the 1947 Partition of India.”

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products of meaningful choices made Tulsi Parikh by ancient worshippers to shape, define (Richard Bradford McConnell Student and understand their gods. I reassess 2019–20) current methods of categorising votives by object type and material and propose “As a final-year PhD student at the alternative ways of categorisation based University of Cambridge, I arrived at on how objects came to be used as the BSA in October 2019 to complete gifts for the gods, thus shifting focus to my thesis The Material of Polytheism in the role of votives, first and foremost, Archaic Greece, which investigates based as divine objects. I demonstrate how, on material evidence how the many through the choices made, the means Greek gods were understood in relation by which communication with the to one another and as part of the same divine was achieved varied from god to religion. I compare votive assemblages god, sanctuary to sanctuary, and place at over 20 archaic sanctuaries (in Attica, to place. I argue that we can use votives Central Greece, the Peloponnese, and both to learn more about the practice of on the islands) in order to determine gift-giving in religious contexts, and also patterns of dedicatory practice, and then how people understood the diversities of use these patterns as a window into the polytheism in ancient Greece through the Tulsi out and about in the Cyclades mindset of ancient worshippers. material they used for worship. “The BSA has enriched my doctoral research beyond measure, both in 2018 conversations with other scholars who Athens is a wonderful, when I spent part of my second year have worked on the material. The Finlay vibrant, ever-changing city; collecting data in Greece, and this year Common Room was the setting for there has been no better place to as a BSA Student writing up my PhD. such thought-provoking discussions, “write my PhD The Library is a world-class resource, providing opportunity for networking with niche publications in English and and collaboration. It was also the setting “Votives, ranging from everyday items Greek difficult to access elsewhere, 24- for many gin nights, Pilates classes and of jewellery and tools” of the trade to hour access, and expert staff. Even in cups of tea! extravagant statues and monuments, lockdown in the UK, I am able to obtain “Athens is a wonderful, vibrant, ever- were dedicated by worshippers in scans of certain pages. As two of the changing city; there has been no better gratitude for divine favour. I argue that sites examined in my PhD — Perachora place to write my PhD. Whatever the we should see votives not only as tangible and Emporio — were excavated by the next stage of my career brings, I hope my mementos of this reciprocal relationship, BSA, I was able to consult the rich archive ties with the BSA, and with Greece, will but also — and more importantly — as resources and enjoy a number of fruitful remain strong.”

Leverhulme Study Abroad awards at the BSA

The BSA has been lucky to host two researchers with Leverhulme Study Abroad awards: Nefeli Pirée Iliou spent last academic year conducting research for her Oxford DPhil, while Ellen Finn joined us in February as postdoctoral researcher. They each write about their research and experiences below.

Nefeli Pirée Iliou I am thankful to the (Oxford/Leverhulme Study Abroad BSA for offering me a Student 2018–19) “supportive and conducive “I came to the BSA to research the Roman working environment rural estates of Epirus (NW Greece), institutes, I conducted successive trips to which included but were not limited private and public archives and museums to Roman villas and form the topic of in Epirus. Working in close collaboration” my doctoral thesis funded by the AHRC with archaeologists of the Ephorates and supervised by Prof. Andrew Wilson. of Antiquities of Epirus, we have been The BSA was my home and base for investigating the material culture of extensive fieldwork conducted in Athens different forms of rural settlement, and and in Epirus, collecting archival and through case-studies the forms and archaeological material to clarify the agricultural production of villas and nature of Roman villas and other forms their chronology. My project combines of rural estates, such as fortified estates, fieldwork with desk-based research on wealthy dispersed villages and hilltop Nefeli in the Epirote landscape near Igoumenitsa the wave of publications in the last five settlements associated with them. These years by scholars working on Epirote rural diverse Roman estates developed in the dwellings and production units are only estates. I am very grateful to the people varied micro-regions of Epirus from the recently beginning to be understood. of NW Greece — from archaeologists to 1st century BCE to the 4th century CE. “After a period researching local museum guards and taxi drivers — for Their functions and aesthetics as rural publications at the BSA and other Athenian their assistance in my work.”

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Ellen Finn Bronze Age Aegean’. Although I am only beginning my research at the BSA, its role Although only beginning (Leverhulme Study Abroad as a constructive space for the discussion, my research at the BSA, its Postdoctoral Research Fellow debate and communication of ideas role as a constructive space 2020–22) has already become apparent. Multiple “ people have asked me since my arrival at for the discussion, debate and “I began postdoctoral research at the the BSA what a ‘manuport’ is, a question communication of ideas has BSA in February 2020, shortly after at the core of my postdoctoral research completing a PhD at Trinity College and one to which I continually return. Very already become apparent Dublin, on ‘Moving, making, meaning: briefly, a ‘manuport’, as currently defined in emphasise their importance as items manuports in the archaeology of the archaeology, is ‘an artefact or natural object that were socially and symbolically that is transported, but not necessarily produced. Drawing on a range” of modified, and deposited by humans’. It interdisciplinary approaches — from is thus ‘made’ by human action, yet not anthropological theory to digital through the processes of manufacture or mapping — my project will investigate physical modification we usually associate the potential journeys which led to the with production. Rather, it is changed manuports’ deposition at these sites, through its conscious movement from one both in terms of geographical distance, place to another, a process which in turn route, and points of origin, and in enacts a conceptual transition between relation to embodied experience and (our) categories of ‘natural’ and ‘artificial’. repeated, communal action. Through “My research focuses on multiple exploring the moving, making and case studies of manuports from across meaning of manuports, my research the Bronze Age Aegean, where they are will thus identify broader patterns present at a range of sites including tombs, of deposition in the archaeological sanctuaries, shrines, residential areas and record, whilst simultaneously raising ‘palatial’ complexes. Through cataloguing, questions related to our perceptions contextualisation, and interpretative of the ‘natural’ versus the ‘artificial’ discussion of manuports from across and their influence on archaeological Ellen enjoying some Cretan ceramics the Aegean world, my research will terminology, theory and practice.”

In landscapes where most citizen and Carrie Sawtell non-citizen commemoration looks the (Macmillan-Rodewald Student) same, at least in iconographic terms, epigraphic evidence, epitaphs and “I came to the BSA after completing my dedicatory inscriptions, were essential in PhD on ‘Non-citizen commemoration determining the status of the deceased in fifth- and fourth-century BC Attica,’ or dedicator. in which I explored metics’ (free foreign “For my current project, I am continuing residents), slaves’ and foreigners’ to explore non-citizen commemoration, contributions to, and representations shifting my focus from iconography to within, two types of commemorative epigraphy, specifically epitaphs. There landscapes across Attica — cemeteries are various indicators of a deceased’s and sanctuaries. My thesis had a non-citizen status, including onomastic primarily iconographic focus, looking at evidence, ethnics, and occupations, how non-citizens were represented and but I am considering the use of the represented themselves, and explored terms χρηστóς and χρηστή — variously Carrie out and about in Athens the interplay between citizens and non- translated as ‘excellent, useful, good, or citizens in these spaces. While there worthy’ — which in 4th-century BC Attic are only a limited number of motifs in epitaphs are associated almost exclusively previous research on slaves and epitaphs, Attic funerary and votive iconography, with slaves. The aim of my research is to and compose my own thoughts and ideas. and there are no defining differences collect all attestations of these terms Beyond the library and enhancing my between citizen and non-citizen imagery in Classical and Hellenistic Greece and own research skills post-PhD, the BSA is a on their memorials and dedications, consider: how consistently the adjective great place to network and socialise with there was evidently a capacity for choice. denoted slaves in 4th-century BC Attic likeminded people and make connections. Citizens and non-citizens alike could epitaphs; where — and when — outside The skills I have enhanced and experiences choose the motifs that suited them of 4th-century BC Attic epitaphs, if I have had will enrich my career whatever and their purposes best, and for a few anywhere, did the adjective also have happens next. that meant the choice to be different. servile connotations; was the adjective “The Covid-19 pandemic finds me used more of males or females and were continuing my research back in the UK, they more likely to be slave or free? but able to continue to analyse and write the BSA is a great place to “Being able to continue my postdoctoral up data collected at the BSA. Thanks to network and socialise with research at the BSA has been wonderful. I the support of BSA staff, I have also been likeminded people and make have had everything I need in the library able to acquire images of grave stelae I “connections to collect my epigraphic data, explore could not see in person.” ” www.bsa.ac.uk 5 at The British School at Athens 2020 – June

Penny Wilson (Librarian 1976–2020)

Farewell and Thank You The Penrose Room today “I think what most characterises the BSA library during the 44 years I have worked there could be summed up as ‘change in a familiar setting’. The library world has seen more changes in this period than at any other time. It has been was followed by a new basement, the a challenging and rewarding experience A. Kollakis wing, which now houses the introducing those changes into the expanded Modern Greece and Balkans BSA library without altering its unique collections. This has enabled the total research environment. collection to grow during my period in the library from 23,000 volumes (excluding periodical journals) to over 70,000. “The biggest change came with the computerisation of the catalogue. In 1995 then IT officer Michael Boyd, created an in-house software programme for accessing and cataloguing books, journals and pamphlets. With this simple step we moved from typewritten or handwritten cards into the world of digital management. There have been many steps since. Starting with a co-operative effort with many of the Athens based A tour of the library in 2003 for the BSA’s archaeological research libraries, in 2003 patron HRH The Prince of Wales, seen here with Penny and Penrose (first Director, after whom we combined with the American School Penny and HE Sir Michael Llewellyn Smith, UK the main room of the Library is named of Classical Studies at Athens to create a Ambassador to Greece

“At first glance the main reading is the one aspect of my working life that room (the Penrose room) would be as It has been a challenging has not changed. At every stage of my familiar to students from 40 years ago as and rewarding experience career at the BSA I have benefitted from it is to today’s readers. The same tables, introducing those changes the guidance, support and ultimately bookshelves, the arrangement hasn’t “ friendship of so many different people changed, but gone are the light wells in into the BSA library without in so many different roles: Members and the ceiling that made the room lighter. altering its unique research Readers; Staff of the BSA (especially the These were replaced by a whole new environment many Assistant Directors); the Friends floor in 1987 that doubled the space in of the BSA; workmen; technicians; the library and made it possible to create union catalogue called AMBROSIA. The booksellers; binders; fellow librarians a separate Archive and Rare Book room, most recent step has” been the inclusion in Athens, Rome and London; interns; to protect collections precariously stored of the BSA catalogue data into a UK-based volunteers; the wonderful ‘library slaves’; elsewhere in the building. In 2007 this union catalogue of research libraries in ending with my dearest ‘partners in crime’ the UK, called the National Bibliographic for the last 20 years the Assistant Librarian, Knowledgebase. In addition to digital Sandra Pepelasis and Archivist, Amalia catalogues we have ensured access to Kakissis, not forgetting Bouboulina the a growing number of digital resources, library cat. Thank you all for making my e-books and journals, databases, 44 years at the BSA so happy and well photographs, maps. The purpose has spent. I hope together we have combined always been to provide our researchers the friendly comfortable research space I with a range of resources comparable to found 40 years ago with the less obvious those provided by their home institutions benefits of today’s research tools to make so they do not fall behind in their research the BSA library the haven for researchers while in Athens. that it has always been.” “Now to the most important aspect of my time at the BSA library — people. It

Left: Nikos Zarganis (architect) and Robert Pitt (Assistant Director) emerging from newly created stairs connecting the Kitchen basement to the Library to be called the A. Kollakis wing

Right: Amalia Kakissis, Penny and Sandra Pepelasis (L–R)

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As she celebrates the first decade of her nine lives, Bouboulina was too busy to provide an article for the newsletter, but submitted her CV and some images of her busy life!

CV – Felis Catus ‘Bouboulina’

Posts held: • Queen of the BSA Library • Head of the Feline Therapeutic Interaction Programme for Left: Giving orders; Above: undertaking shelf inspection Researchers and Staff • Destroyer of Vermin • BSA Perimeter Warden and Defence Education: • Undertaking surprise inspections (at Minister against Invasion by Others • BSA member 2010 all hours) of residencies under her • Feline Wellness Coach 2010–present jurisdiction Personal Details: • Terrorising potential feline usurpers • Age: 10 years Skills: • Gender: Female, neutered • Chair testing Salary preferences: treats, soft food, • Colouring: Brown tabby with gold • Conducting seasonal environmental dry biccies, catnip soft-toys highlights checks throughout the library (warmest/ • Type: Small, furry, feisty coolest) References available upon request: • Nationality: Greek, with UK Nationality • Keyboard supervision from a prone Maybe position • Training humans to interpret my calls • Posing for photographs • High jump athlete for bookshelf inspection

Duties: • Managing a staff of five busy library/ archive professionals while ensuring standards of cleanliness, comfort and meal production are kept consistent and timely • Controlling pests including rats, cockroaches, moths, spiders, and the occasional lizard, as gifts of birds not appreciated

Left: Guarding the premises; Right: in the library

The Library

The project to classify and catalogue the Richard and Mary Jo Clogg collection My time at the BSA has been an on Greek, Ottoman and Balkan history invaluable experience. The support of took priority this year. The shipment the Library staff and academics I’ve met was unpacked and divided into two “ subject areas: Greek history and society has given me the confidence to take the after Independence (1821– ) and Greek next step and develop my own research and Balkan history under the Ottomans interests (1453–1821). A new subject classification Kathy Donaldson, to cover the Ottoman period was created Library Research Assistant (2019–20) and library shelving re-organised to ” ensure there would be sufficient space English, and experience cataloguing the project to catalogue the remaining books for the full collection. Evgenia Villioti has collections of the Blegen and Gennadius in this wonderful collection. completed this stage of the classifying libraries made her a perfect match for our The unforeseen Covid-19 closure and cataloguing of the collection. needs. We are again very grateful to both offered an opportunity to consolidate Evgenia’s degrees in both Greek history the Athens and UK Friends of the BSA and organise the library’s administrative and library science, fluency in Greek and for their support in the final stage of this records — both print and digital — to be

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both archived and made accessible for the new Librarian. We would like to welcome Evi Charitoudi and wish her every success in her new post. In August 2019 the International Federation of Library Associations (IFLA) held its 85th World Library and Evgenia Villioti (L) Information Congress (WLIC) in Athens and Silvia Tiburzi on the theme of ‘Libraries: dialogue for change’. The BSA Library contributed a poster and a brochure describing the work of the library for those attending a hosted site visit at the close of the congress. We would like to thank Eliza Petrow (Durham), the 2018–19 Library in her own time for Members who had to work on condition reports of the Rare Research Assistant, for creating the poster leave earlier than planned. Book Collection. and brochure. We are also grateful to Silvia Tiburzi As always we are especially grateful We would especially like to thank this (Macerata), Erasmus+ internee who for the support that we receive through year’s Library Research Assistant, Katherine worked on a project to add Open donations. This year we would particularly Donaldson (St Andrews/Aberdeen), who Access publications to the AMBROSIA like to thank the Friends of the BSA (UK and ‘held the fort’ during the Covid-19 closure. catalogue and compiled and checked Athens), Dr Mary Walbank and Professor Kathy not only continued working on lists of outstanding orders. Hannah Fran O’Rourke, as well as those who library materials but undertook copying Blackmore also kindly volunteered to support the library with gifts of books.

Archive

A major recent achievement of the Cambridge Digital Library; the BSA’s Archive was a collaboration on a holdings are also directly accessible on digitisation project with Cambridge our Digital Collections website. University to unite virtually the Mycenae The newly revamped and upgraded excavation records held by both searchable interface for BSA Collections institutions to celebrate the centenary was launched in December 2019 (see also of the start of BSA excavations there IT). In addition to the Byzantine Research in 1920. The ‘Mycenae Archive’, whose Fund Archive, other collections available core collection is held in the Faculty online now include the BSA SPHS Image of Classics at Cambridge, together Collection (ongoing), the Mycenae and with the ‘Mycenae Excavation Records’ Kynosarges Excavation Records, and the and the Mycenae section of the ‘BSA- Personal Papers of Emily Penrose, Flinders SPHS Image Collection’, held in the BSA Petrie, Keppel Craven and William Gell. Archive together fully document the BSA Launched in parallel with the Digital excavations at Mycenae in 1920–23, 1939 Collections interface in July 2019, we and 1950–57 under the directorship of have seen a very enthusiastic response Thomas Lawton Prof. Alan Wace (1879–1957). Digitisation to ‘Archive Stories’, developed on the for this project was funded by the initiative of Deborah Harlan (Sheffield). across a range of the Archive Collections, Cambridge Classics Faculty. The unified This blog provides a public platform to including travel. Mycenae Archive can be viewed in the profile many wonderful hidden stories Two large collections were donated to the Archive. The Sparta Acropolis/Roman Stoa/Theatre Excavation Records (1988– 99) document projects at Sparta led by the late Prof. Geoffrey Waywell and Prof. John Wilkes, who donated the archive. The Peter Ucko Papers document a project carried out in the mid-1980s on modern Cretan potters, and was arranged by Prof. Todd Whitelaw. The Ucko Papers form part of the greater Peter Ucko Collection, which also includes pots associated with this project, received by the Fitch Laboratory. We hosted three interns this year. Thomas Lawton (Union College, NY, USA) Left: Watercolour drawing of an LH I pot from the 1920–23 BSA excavations at Mycenae, spent most of last summer cataloguing Khalkani Cemetery, Tomb 517 (MYC 3/1/31/2, Mycenae Excavation Records); Right: Screenshot the Mycenae Excavation Records in of the BSA ‘Archive Stories’ webpage preparation for their digitisation as

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part of the Mycenae Archive 2020 collaborative project. Bader Archive Lecture Alexander Eouenta (University of West This year’s lecture was delivered to over 200 participants as a BSA Virtual Lecture Attica/ATLAS) inventoried the newly by Prof. Antonis Kotsonas (ISAW, New York University), whose recent research has arrived Peter Ucko Papers and continued centred on the history of archaeology. He presented the results of his investigations the inventory of the Corporate Records in into the history of excavations at December to March. He also catalogued Lyktos, Crete: ‘Politics, research the Achmetaga Series of the Noel- agendas, and the history of Baker Family Papers which documents archaeology in Crete: an archival activities pertaining to the Achmetaga perspective on the exploration of estate from the 1920s to the 1980s and ancient Lyktos (c. 1880–1940)’. includes correspondence between the Noel-Bakers and Argyris Balatsos, the estate bailiff for many decades, and A screenshot from the Lecture photographs from the work of the North

Euboean Foundation (NEF) set up in the mid-1960s to help the people of the area with a variety of public programmes. Between January and June 2020 Camila Ortega (University of West Attica/ ERASMUS) continued inventorying the Corporate Records, prepared various collections for digitisation, curated digital data in EMu for the Mycenae Archive 2020 project, and prepared further item level descriptions of the photographs in the Winifred Lamb Personal Papers. Above: School children being immunised against Polio by an NEF midwife at the village In addition Kathy Donaldson (Library clinic as part of its Medical and Nutrition Research Assistant) helped inventory Programme (Achmetaga Series, Noel-Baker the newly arrived Waywell-Wilkes Sparta Family Papers); Right: Camila Ortega Acropolis/Roman Stoa/Theatre Collection.

IT During the past years we have put a great our collections. Currently the platform suspiciously isolated, consuming almost effort into digitising the BSA archival, provides open access to over 6,400 records exclusively local, Chalkidicean products. museum, and excavation records, and and 4,600 images, and the numbers are Last September, Chavdar participated organising them within a database growing fast. in the second year of the The Many Lives system, with the aim of eventually making Parallel to this, Chavdar continued of Ancient Monuments Traveling Seminar, these resources available to researchers his research reported last year on the sponsored by the Getty Foundation, which and the general public. In December 2019 4th-century BC tomb at Starosel in unites archaeologists and art historians we took a decisive step towards this goal Bulgaria. In August he conducted a from Bulgaria, Greece and Turkey. The by launching BSA Digital Collections, small-scale excavation of the retaining seminar focuses on the long survival an online platform that offers access wall encompassing the burial mound, in of buildings and monuments into later to our database, in combination with order to clarify details of its construction. periods, and on the ways in which they various research tools. You can find it at This fieldwork is part of an ongoing project were maintained, repaired, and sometimes digital.bsa.ac.uk. The website is a PHP/ to study and reconstruct this endangered adapted, forming a crucial part of the JavaScript application drawing data from monument. He also continued his study evolving visual culture of ancient cities. the BSA EMu database. It was developed of transport amphoras as part of the This year’s seminar took place in southeast inhouse by our IT Officer Chavdar Tzochev, Olynthus and the Abdera and Xanthi Turkey, starting in the area of Mersin and allowing it to be customised to meet the (ΑΠΑΞ) projects. These projects provide continuing east through Cilicia, all the way needs of our visitors and the potential of a valuable comparative perspective to Nemrut Dağı. on two major North Aegean cities and their territories. The preliminary results show that Abdera and Olynthos differed significantly in terms of amphora trade and consumption. While Abdera was remarkably well connected, importing a variety of both regional and long- distance commodities, Olynthos appears

Left: Screenshot of the BSA Digital Collections website; Right: Chavdar documents the retaining wall of the tomb at Starosel

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Fitch Laboratory

a unique facility CONFERENCES/WORKSHOPS for ceramic studies worldwide, with great The Fitch has hosted a number of “potential for further international meetings over the past year. In September, in collaboration with the development Hellenic Folklore Research Centre of the This year marked the tenth anniversary Academy of Athens, an international of the establishment of the Laboratory’s group came together for a workshop on ” Craftspeople Mobility in Archaeological, new Analytical Chemistry Unit, with state-of-the-art equipment (including Historical and Ethnographic Record — a Wavelength Dispersive X-Ray A Comparative Perspective from the Fluorescence Spectrometer) and the post Aegean. The workshop marked the end of Bartek Lis’ Marie Skłodowska Curie of Scientific Research Officer, who sets up Individual fellowship and brought and runs the unit, ensuring high quality together archaeologists, historians, social analytical data and research outcomes. anthropologists, specialists in the history This in-house facility for chemical analysis, of art and in folklore to discuss and combined with the laboratory’s resources exchange views — often quite vividly — and expertise in ceramic petrology, has on similar phenomena in the past and the The four organisers of the workshop: established the Fitch as a unique facility present seen from different points of view (L–R) Bartek Lis, Paris Potiropoulos, Evangelia for ceramic studies worldwide, with great and through different approaches. Kiriatzi and Vangelis Karamanes potential for further development. None

of this would have been possible without the generous and long-term support Left: The Fitch team welcomes of Dr Charles K. Williams II. In order to 2020! honour the Laboratory’s great benefactor, Dr Evangelia Kiriatzi was invited to give Below left: Fitch Lab Director, a lecture at the BSA’s London AGM Evangelia Kiriatzi, delivering in February on ‘The Work of the Fitch her lecture to the BSA AGM Laboratory 2009–2019: Linking Britain Below: Stay home, stay with the Mediterranean’. Appropriate to safe! Fitch researchers meet the occasion, the session was chaired virtually over a drink by Prof. Martin Jones, George Pitt-Rivers Professor Emeritus of Archaeological Science in the University of Cambridge.

Mara L. Schumacher (PhD candidate, Newcastle; Olynthos project) spent a month in early 2020 analysing archaeological sediments from Olynthos, one of Greece’s best preserved Classical settlements. Mara combines data at different scales by integrating field observations with those obtained from the microscale, through soil micromorphology and geochemistry. Through analyses of sediment samples from an Olynthian house using the Fitch’s WD-XRF spectrometer Mara aims to identify characteristic signals in the elemental composition of archaeological deposits that may be linked to human activities (e.g. floor surfaces). This is one of the first instances where domestic space in a Classical site has been investigated through an interdisciplinary geoarchaeological approach; it promises new insights into ancient domestic life.

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Other highlights in the Fitch’s year include an unprecedented number of In November the Ceramic dissemination and outreach events, Petrology Group’s annual meeting was hosted in either organised by the Fitch team or Greece for the first time in which they have participated, plus at the Fitch. Twenty-two the launching of three new projects, papers were presented two of which have secured funding. (oral and posters) by New projects are combined with the early-career and more completion of old ones and — not without experienced scholars from a tinge of sadness — the departure of institutions across Europe researchers who had become an integral and North America, part of the Laboratory’s life. Leandro promoting much discussion Fantuzzi, Bartek Lis and Maria Duggan, on current issues in ceramic having completed their postdoctoral studies, both in the saloni fellowships at the Fitch, returned to of the UH and in the Fitch their home institutions in Cadiz, Warsaw Photomosaic of participants in the 2019 meeting of the itself, where a microscope Ceramic Petrology Group and Newcastle respectively. The strong session was also organised. links they established with the team — professional and personal — were nurtured over the months of lockdown Within the first six months of the affiliated researchers alone at the 15th through virtual meetings to discuss academic year, before Covid-19 struck European Meeting on Ancient Ceramics research and prepare publications, but and all conference and research travel held in Barcelona last September. also strengthen personal bonds. was put on hold, the Fitch team had The first new project focuses on the already participated in more than twelve question of whether pottery was produced conferences or workshops, hosting four on the sacred island of Delos. Dr Edyta at the BSA. Seventeen verbal and poster Marzec, who first came to the BSA as an Sergios Menelaou contributions were presented by Fitch- Erasmus student in 2010, returned in (PhD, Sheffield) 2014 as a PhD student and subsequently collaborated on numerous projects has spent many years investigating pottery production and supply at as a postdoctoral researcher, will now Early Bronze Age Samos and in its investigate the question of local pottery wider region through the integration production on Delos in the context of traditional approaches (pottery of a new three-year project: INSIDE – typology and style) and scientific Interdisciplinary Studies of Hellenistic analysis. During his 3-month stay he Pottery from the Island of Delos, funded by expanded his research both into earlier the Polish National Science Centre and (Final Neolithic–Chalcolithic) and later hosted by the Institute of Mediterranean periods (Middle Bronze Age) with study and Oriental Cultures, Polish Academy of of additional samples from the sites Sciences, and the Fitch. The project involves of the Heraion and Kastro-Tigani. For the interdisciplinary and comparative the earlier period, combining ceramic study of pottery recovered in contexts petrology and elemental analysis dating to the Hellenistic period from the through WD-XRF, and using our French School at Athens’ excavations. In extensive reference collection, he was order to contribute new evidence to the able to examine the changing relations ongoing debate on pottery production and technological dialectics of the on the island, the research focuses on Edyta Marzec potting communities of these two sites pottery categories considered to be locally in their wider East Aegean context.

Also in November the 2nd international workshop Pottery Production at Eretria (Euboea) from Late Neolithic to Hellenistic Times, co-organised by the Swiss School of Archaeology in Greece (ESAG) and Archéorient (CNRS-Lyon), came to the Fitch, in order to discuss and contextualise the results of a long-term collaborative project on the diachronic study of pottery production and supply at Eretria on Euboea. Based Participants in the Eretria workshop on 12 oral presentations and much discussion, plans are in place for the publication of a volume to present the results of this research collaboration between the Fitch and the ESAG.

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Left: The team selecting pottery samples in ANKÜSAM’s new laboratory space at Urla

Right: Zoe Zgouleta, Evangelia Kiriatzi and Georgia Kordatzaki (L–R) visit the top of Mt Lykaion during the 2015–16 pilot study

manufactured — such as lamps, relief Preliminary results were presented in a bowls and cooking pottery. Questions of poster at the 15th EMAC in Barcelona. local production and patterns of regional This collaborative effort builds upon supply to the island in the Hellenistic the vision of Professor Hayat Erkanal, period will be addressed by analysis of founder of the Centre and pioneer in selected ceramic materials through the bringing together scholarly communities integration of traditional macroscopic and from both sides of the Aegean, who scientific techniques, including elemental sadly passed away last July, during the characterisation (WD-XRF) and thin- project’s study season. section petrography, combined with re- Lastly, following a successful application firing tests. to the National Science Foundation (NSF- Zerrin Mutlu Following a 2018 pilot study on the USA), based on an already published (MA student, Boğaziçi pottery from Çeşme – Bağlararası to pilot study led by the Fitch, Prof. Mary University) assess the potential for an interregional Voyatzis (Arizona) will shortly launch a spent a month in early 2020 introducing investigation of technological traditions, two-year collaborative project. This study herself to ceramic petrology. She learning and transfer across western aims to provide insights into the origins examined thin sections of Cypro- Anatolia and the Aegean, a collaborative of interregional sanctuaries in ancient Cilician painted pottery from Tarsus- project was launched last summer Greece, using the sanctuary of Zeus on Gözlükule (from both settlement and between the Fitch and Ankara University’s Mt Lykaion as a case study. A pioneering kiln contexts) in order to investigate Mustafa V. Koç Research Centre for methodology has been designed for both local production and potential Maritime Archaeology (ANKÜSAM). The this palaeomobility study, focusing import of this pottery that is part of an Centre’s director Professor Vasıf Şahoğlu on systematic excavation of the altar Eastern Mediterranean koine during the and Evangelia Kiriatzi were joined by Drs supported by soil micromorphology and Iron Age. Maria Choleva (ceramicist) and Myrto multiple sampling for C-14 dates, followed Georgakopoulou (archaeometallurgist) by investigation of the provenance in the systematic study and sampling of of finds (petrographic and elemental ceramic and metallurgical assemblages analysis of ceramic vessels and strontium from the sites of Çeşme and Liman Tepe. isotope analysis of animal bone).

Finally, Dr Maria Duggan’s year- long stay at the BSA to carry out her British Academy postdoctoral project ‘Tintagel: Trans-European Connections in the Post-Roman World’, in collaboration with Newcastle University, occasioned a half-day symposium entitled Distant seas, connected worlds: Tintagel, Britain and Greece in Late Antiquity in late January. The meeting brought British scholars to Greece, giving them the opportunity to present the results of new excavations at Tintagel and discuss with experts in the Here, I’ve experienced material culture and maritime how ceramic petrology is trade of this period in the Aegean and East Mediterranean. A blog “conducted and I understood Participants in the Distant Seas, Connected Worlds post on the event can be found on that I want to pursue this in symposium our website. my future academic career

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Knossos Research Centre

event was co-organised with the Knossos Cultural Association. ‘Earth-Water-Fire’ followed in July — a four-day series of events on Cretan pottery, organised by the KRC, the Thrapsano Cultural Association and the Centre for the Study of Modern Pottery — G. Psaropoulos Foundation, with support from the Region of Crete and participation by the Herakleion Ephorate of Antiquities and the potters of Thrapsano. In addition to lectures on Cretan pottery from prehistory The Knossos Curator has kept up to the present, and guided tours of the momentum on plans for rebuilding the palatial centre of Galatas and the Byzantine Knossos Stratigraphical Museum (KSM) church of St Panteleimon at Bitzariano, and these are now on track for final an exhibition of photographs by Roland approval within 2020, provided there are Hampe and Adam Winter was particularly no Covid-19-related delays. The overall striking. A most moving moment was project has now been rebranded as when many of those portrayed in the Knossos 2025. The KRC hosted a range photographs shared their memories and of UK-based (including Myrtos Pyrgos, emotions 50 years on. Other components Gypsades, Roman Knossos Geophysics of the event were a discussion with Earth-Water-Fire poster and Knossos Neolithic) and international itinerant pithos-makers, a talk on Cretan projects, while considerable progress diet by author and journalist Nikos pieces for trumpet (Despina Skandalaki) was achieved on the Curatorial Project to Psilakis, and dishes inspired by Minoan and piano (Dionysis Mallouhos) were digitise the collections of the KSM with food prepared by archaeologist Jerolyn accompanied by readings from Greek and the help of trained interns and volunteers. Morrison (Minoan Tastes). An exhibition international literature, including pieces The Curator has actively promoted of traditional pottery, open-air workshops by Kazantzakis, Seferis, Ritsos, Kornaros, the KRC through a series of cultural by the potters of Thrapsano and concerts Karyotakis, Vagenas, Borges, Baudelaire events aimed at a wider public by taking accompanied the other events. and Shakespeare read by Zoi Papadaki. the audience on a journey through The KRC celebrated the August full Inspired by Evans’ legacy at Knossos, Cretan history and culture while also moon with a concert Amica Silentia artist Teresa Valavani has created a collage highlighting the BSA’s legacy. The first Lunae co-organised with the Herakleion collection entitled Dancing with the Bull: such event was a presentation by Prof. Ephorate of Antiquities and the Friends of Sir Arthur Evans and the palace of Knossos. Marina Detoraki (University of Crete) the ‘Savvas Petrakis’ Viannos Art Gallery, The collection was presented in an on Erotokritos, Vincenzo Cornaros’ 17th- under the auspices of the Ministry of exhibition inaugurated in October in the century romance, followed by a concert Culture and Sports. Classical and modern garden of the KRC. of classical music by Giorgos Mastorakis (guitar) and Lena Chatzigeorgiou, Maria Alexaki and Pelagia Mourouzi (song). The

People from Thrapsano relive memories in photographs from Hampe and Winter

Right: Performers at Amica Silentia Lunae (L–R): Dionysis Mallouhos, the Knossos Curator, Zoi Papadaki, Despina Skandalaki, the Director

Left: Collage by Teresa Valavani inspired by Sir Arthur Evans and Knossos

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The BSA’s Development Programme

We are immensely grateful to all those who support the BSA at this Left: The BSA Director’s “ Dinner 2020 important time in our

130-year history Below: BSA Richard Bringing together our thriving Bradford McConnell community is a focus of the BSA’s Student (2016–17) Lucy Development programme” and that Lawrence with her poster at the BM event sentiment is more important than ever in a time of crisis. We hope that our friends and partners in the UK, Greece and beyond have been brought closer through our online content, including virtual lectures and social media initiatives, making our activities readily by James Petre (organised in collaboration accessible wherever you live. with SPBS) and Susan Mossman were This year began with two exclusive postponed due to Covid-19 restrictions. events in London. At the end of January We hope to reschedule these events we enjoyed a private view of the Troy: soon. Elsewhere, the BSA collaborated Myth and Reality exhibition at the British with the Centre of Hellenic Studies, King’s Museum, kindly organised by the College London, in hosting in January Department of Greece and Rome. With a diptych of panel discussions on the over 300 objects on display, ranging from theme of ‘Migration and Diaspora’ at the Bronze Age pottery to contemporary BSA Upper House and at KCL. We were art, there was something for everyone. also pleased to invite recent BSA award Our annual Director’s Dinner took place holders Anna Moles, Lucy Lawrence, and at the Life Goddess in Bloomsbury on Lorrice Douglas to display posters of their 3 February. research projects at the ‘Great Women of The BSA Friends lecture series continued the Classical World’ event at the British at Senate House in February with Museum on 6 March. Professor George Huxley’s well-attended It will come as no surprise that the presentation on ‘Achaeans, Hittites, and BSA has moved its lecture series online the Tale of Troy’, providing further insight as we continue to adapt to current into the narrative explored in the Troy circumstances. Most recently, HE Kate a fascinating lecture on ‘Gennadios exhibition. More recent Friends lectures Smith, UK Ambassador to Greece, gave in London’, which explored Ioannis Gennadios’ life between London and Greece. Looking ahead, we hope that We were delighted to collaborate many of you will join us for Prof. Roderick with National Geographic in Beaton’s lecture ‘From the Europe hosting the screening of Keros: The of empires to the Europe of nation- Mystery of the Broken Figurines at states: the Greek Revolution of 1821 in the Soho Hotel on 4 March. The international context, 200 years on’ on event provided an opportunity to 12 November, currently scheduled at the showcase the documentary co- produced by National Geographic British Academy. The lecture is intended Greece and Cosmote TV, as well as as a foretaste of events organised to hear Colin Renfrew, Michael Boyd, celebrate the 200th anniversary of the and Evi Margaritis reflect on the Greek Revolution in 1821. Keros Project, which completed its We are thrilled to announce author final season of excavations in 2018. Victoria Hislop as the Patron of the Guests at the screening included the Knossos 2025 Project, our campaign to Cypriot Consul General, Theodore renew the Knossos Research Centre to Gotsis, and artists Ben Okri and offer world-class facilities for international Rosemary Clunie, among others. researchers and attract new generations The event was implemented with of academics and others. More details will the generous support of National be forthcoming as we move forward on Geographic and Cosmote TV. this ambitious project. Finally, although it was not possible to A full house enjoying the screening; host our annual garden parties in London Michael Boyd, Colin Renfrew and Evi and Athens this year, we were very Margaritis (L–R) in animated discussion pleased to offer our supporters and close friends the opportunity to watch a

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special Summer Virtual Lecture by Prof. research to publications and teaching. Michael Scott entitled ‘The View from We are especially grateful for several the Aegean: Greek perspectives on a large donations over recent months, global ancient world’ on 24 June. Michael including those from Mr Pantelis Twitter is a long-standing friend of the BSA and Kollakis and those who wish to remain announcement we could not think of anyone better anonymous. We also warmly thank of Michael to give a lecture in place of our regular those who have joined the Director’s Scott’s Summer summer celebrations. and Pendlebury Circles or renewed their Virtual Lecture We are immensely grateful to all those support in these tiers. You can find out who support the BSA at this important more about becoming a supporter of time in our 130-year history. Your the BSA here: https://www.bsa.ac.uk/join- contributions maintain the margin us-2/become-a-supporter/. of excellence of our activities, from Nicholas Salmon

Events Past (January–June 2020) Dr Christina Margariti (Ministry of Culture Public Lectures Giampaolo Salice (Cagliari), Prof. Gonda Van Steen (KCL), Dr Effie Pedaliu (LSE) & Sports): ‘The Potential of Instrumental Prof. John Bennet (BSA): ‘The Work of the BSA Analysis of Excavated Textiles’ (19 February) in 2019’ (4 February, London; 13 February, and Dr Emmanouil Pratsinakis (Oxford), Moderator: Dr Dionysis Stathakopoulos (27 Justin Holcomb (Boston): ‘Finding the Athens; 18 February, Thessaloniki) first Hominins in the Aegean Basin: Dr Zosia Archibald (Liverpool): ‘New January, London) ‘Great Women of the Classical World’, geoarchaeology at Stelida, Naxos, Greece’ Dimensions of an Ancient City: the (4 March) Olynthos Project (2014–2019)’ (13 February, panellists: Bettany Hughes, Natalie Haynes Athens) and Prof. Edith Hall (including poster Book Launch Dr Bettina Tsigarida (Ephorate of Antiquities presentations by BSA award holders) (6 of Pella): ‘New Dimensions of an Ancient March, British Museum London) Dr George Liakopoulos, The Early Ottoman City: the Olynthos Project (2014–2019)’ [in Peloponnese – a study in the light of an Greek] (18 February, Thessaloniki) Upper House Seminars annotated editio princeps of the TT10- Prof. Mike Edwards (Roehampton): ‘Places Dr Emily Kneebone (Nottingham): ‘Imagined 1/14662 Ottoman Taxation Register (24 in the Attic Orators: a Philologist and his Landscapes in Imperial Greek Epic Poetry’ February, Athens) Topography’ (Visiting Fellow Lecture; 27 (4 May, Athens) – postponed April, VIRTUAL) Dr Carrie Sawtell (BSA Macmillan-Rodewald Ambassador Series Prof. Thilo Rehren (UCL): ‘Glass for the Pharaoh’ Student): ‘Χρηστòς / χρηστή in 4th and 3rd Dr Lamprini Rori (Exeter): ‘The Landscape of (Fitch Visiting Fellow Lecture; 27 April, century BC Attic Epitaphs’ (8 June, VIRTUAL) Political Violence in Crisis-Ridden Greece’ Athens) – postponed Tulsi Parikh (Cambridge/BSA Bradford- (18 March, Newcastle) – postponed Professor Antonis Kotsonas (New York): McConnell Student): ‘The Material of Dr Anna Moles (IIHS Athens): ‘The Impact ‘Politics, Research Agendas, and the Polytheism in Archaic Greece’ (27 May, of Urbanism on Human Health and Diet History of Archaeology in Crete: an archival Athens) – postponed at Knossos from the Hellenistic to Late perspective on the exploration of Ancient Antique Periods’ (4 March, Warwick) – Lyktos (c. 1880–1940)’ (Bader Archive BSA/Research Centre for Greek postponed Lecture; 18 May, VIRTUAL) Philosophy of the Academy of Athens Dr Charlotte Van Regenmortel (Groningen): Prof. Charles Brittain (Cornell): ‘Protagorean Seminar in Philosophy A Great Transformation? Military Labour Hermeneutics’ (Michael Frede Memorial and the Hellenistic Economies (19 May, Lecture; 25 May, Athens) – postponed Prof. Voula Tsouna (UC Santa Barbara): ‘The Sheffield) – postponed HE Kate Smith (UK Ambassador to Greece): Analogy between Virtue and the Technai in Plato’s Charmides and the Republic’ (31 ‘Gennadios in London’ (4 June, VIRTUAL) Friends’ Lectures Prof. Michael Scott (Warwick): ‘The View March and 1 April, Athens) – postponed Gian Piero Milani (Oxford): ‘The Collection from the Aegean: global perspectives on of Allied Aerial Photographs of the British a global ancient world’(24 June, VIRTUAL) Conferences School at Athens’ (27 January, Athens) ‘The Greek Language after Antiquity’ (8–9 Prof. George Huxley: ‘Achaeans, Hittites, and Panel Discussions May, Athens) – postponed the Tale of Troy’ (18 February, London) ‘Migration and Diaspora’, panellists: Dr Eirini Dr James Petre: ‘The Fortifications of Avramopoulou (Panteion U), Dr Vassiliki Fitch-Wiener Laboratories Seminar Series Byzantine and Crusader Cyprus – some Chryssanthopoulou (Athens U), Dr Maria- Dr Alexandros Karakostis (Max Planck thoughts on origins, forms and functions’ Christina Hadjiioannou (National Hellenic Institute): ’Setting a Bridge between (SPBS-BSA Spring Lecture; 31 March, Research Foundation) and Dr Giorgos Biological and Cultural Remains: novel London) – postponed Tsimouris (Panteion U), Moderator: Prof. methods for the reconstruction of physical Dr Susan Mossman (Science Museum): Title John Bennet (20 January, Athens); and Dr activity in the past’ (27 January) TBC (7 April, London) – postponed

Future Events (July–December 2020)

Public Lectures BSA Courses In the current circumstances our forward Prof. Paul Cartledge (Cambridge): ‘Thebes: We regret that the Covid-19 situation has event schedule is unclear, so please visit the (nearly) lost city of Ancient Greece’ (22 forced us to postpone our courses this our website for up-to-date information: July, VIRTUAL) Spring and Summer through an abundance https://www.bsa.ac.uk/events/. To be sure Prof. Roderick Beaton (KCL): ‘From the Europe of caution. We hope to run them at a you hear about our events, please join our of Empires to the Europe of Nation- suitable future date once this is possible, Mailing List: https://app.etapestry.com/ states: the Greek Revolution of 1821 in and we are in touch with all participants, onlineforms/TheBritishSchoolatAthens/ international context, 200 years on’ (12 whom we thank warmly for their patience mailinglistrequest.html. November, London) and understanding.

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Help us run the BSA

Each year the Supporters of the BSA nomination yourself for the next round of have the general duty of protecting all nominate someone to serve for four nominations in the Autumn to serve from the BSA’s property (BSA Statutes 7.1). years on the BSA’s Council; if there is 1 April 2021. This is an opportunity to take You can see the current membership more than one nominee, an election part in the running of the BSA: members of Council at: https://www.bsa.ac.uk/ is held. We invite you to nominate of Council are trustees of the BSA under wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Council- someone or to consider seeking Section 177 of the Charities Act 2011 and Committee-Membership-2020-2021.pdf.

Farewells & a warm welcome

We note with deep sadness the passing Annual of the BSA. Hugh will be sorely in April of Hugh Sackett, whose missed as a modest man of great skill and involvement with the BSA extends experience, who encouraged many in back six decades to his first visit as a their careers. Student in 1954–55. Hugh was Assistant Penny Wilson retires after 44 years as Director (1961–63) and co-directed the BSA’s Senior Librarian, while IT Officer several BSA fieldwork projects, notably Chavdar Tzochev will leave us at the end at Lefkandi, Palaikastro and Knossos. The of August in order to pursue his academic affection in which Hugh was held by a career. We wish them both well and hope large international community became they will continue to visit in the future. clear through the many notices that On 4 May we welcomed Evi Charitoudi, appeared in various publications, such former Librarian of the Nordic Library as the web­sites of Groton School, where in Athens, as Penny’s successor. Evi Hugh taught for over 60 years, and of studied Archive and Library Science the Archaeological Institute of America, in Corfu, Information Management in which awarded Hugh its Gold Medal for Manchester and Philosophy and Social Archaeological Achievement in 2014, Studies in Rethymnon. She brings 13 Evi Charitoudi as well as in The Daily Telegraph. Our years’ experience in academic and website hosted a short obituary, while a research libraries, including extensive digitisation projects. We welcome her fuller commemoration of Hugh’s life and work developing print and electronic most warmly and wish her all the very achievements will appear in this year’s collections in the Humanities and in best for her tenure of this important post.

‘Then and Now!’ 1920: Unidentified woman (possibly Winifred Lamb) standing in the tennis court shared by the British School and the American School of Classical Studies at Athens. The BSA Hostel and Lycabettus can been seen in the background (LAM 3/1/1/7, Winifred Lamb Personal Papers); 2020: Katherine Donaldson, BSA Library Research Assistant, standing in the tennis court shared by the British School and the American School of Classical Studies at Athens. The BSA Hostel and Lycabettus can been seen in the background

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