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the Academy of Athens, the National From the Director Hellenic Research Foundation, the Benaki Museum, the Athens School of Fine Arts and the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, and of the 17 other foreign The Director with schools and institutes with bases in the his @LegoClassicists alter ego protevousa (‘the capital’, as Athens is known in Greece). The wall around our premises is a highly porous membrane, through which many pass to make use of our Library, or to attend various events, or simply to meet and discuss topics of mutual academic interest. A December newsletter affords a Janus-like view, not only of events past, but also of those scheduled, both in the UK and in Greece, for the next six months. We are raising awareness in the UK about the inspiring work It is a great pleasure to wish everyone the staff of the Ministry of Culture and being facilitated by the School a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Sports, both in Athens and the regions through an increasing number of UK Year with this second issue of our in which we carry out this work; we are events and hope that many of you newsletter. Here those who share most grateful for that cooperation. will be able to attend these. Since our passion for the humanities and This partnership is, however, only we know that most cannot attend social sciences in Greece and its wider one of many that are facilitated and events in Athens, we make most of geographical context will find up to enabled by our location in Athens. With the lectures we sponsor here avail­a­ date news of our activities. our neighbours, the American School ble on our YouTube channel (https:// This issue focuses on the courses of Classical Studies at Athens, we share www.youtube.com/channel/UCJLq- that we run for postgraduate and a ‘campus’ and cooperate on library d0Q3Upn28hO5UWptmw/videos). undergraduate students and BSA- resources, including a unified catalogue, We hope you find this newsletter sponsored archaeo­logical field­work Ambrosia. But our intellectual life is more informative and enjoyable. Please do programmes over the past year. Field­ generally enriched through the willing feed back reactions and suggestions work and study programmes are only collaboration of such other institutions to [email protected]. possible thanks to the cooperation of as the Archaeological Society of Athens, John Bennet

BSA Fieldwork 2017 Antiquity features regularly in our Upper We are most grateful to Dr Maria wide range of bodies, including: the House seminar series, as will be apparent Andreadaki-Vlazaki, Secretary General of Institute for Aegean Prehistory, the from the list of past and future events at the Ministry of Culture and Sport and Dr National Geographic Society, the Jackman the end of this newsletter; we also this year Eleni Korka, Director General of Antiquities, Foundation, the Loeb Classical Library enjoyed lectures at Knossos in June and as well as to the numerous colleagues in Foundation, the Faculty of Classics July on Prehistoric and Byzantine Crete, the Ministry who make our archaeological Cambridge University, the University of a memorable lecture on Pella in London work possible. In particular, we thank those Michigan, Brown University, Cambridge and a workshop in Athens focused on in charge of the Ephorates of Antiquities Humanities Research Grants, the Gerda ceramics in memory of Christopher Mee, in which our major fieldwork took place Henkel Stiftung, the McDonald Institute former Assistant Director and Professor — Dr Dimitris Athanasoulis (Cyclades), Dr Cambridge, UCL, the British Academy, at Liverpool, at which Christa Mee spoke Alexandra Charami (Boeotia), Mr Ioannis the Rust Family Foundation, the Cyprus movingly of their time at the BSA. Kanonidis (Chalkidike & Mount Athos), Institute, the Piraeus Bank Foundation, Fieldwork continued at Olynthos, Dr Konstantinos Kissas (Corinthia), Dr All Souls College Oxford, Sidney Sussex Keros, Knossos and Koutroulou, while we Efthymia Karantzali (Fthiotis & Evrytania), College Cambridge, Marie Skłodowska- initiated a new collaborative project at Dr Vassiliki Sythiakaki (Herakleion), Dr Curie Actions, plus many private donations. Prosilio and we returned, for one season Alkistis Papadimitriou (Argolid), Dr Pari Further information on these projects only, to the island of Kythera. There were Kalamara (Euboea), Mrs Evangelia Pantou will appear in Archaeology in Greece also study seasons for the Kenchreai (Laconia), Mrs Chryssa Sofianou (Lasithi), Online (http://chronique.efa.gr) and Arch­ Quarries Project, Knossos (both KULP and Dr Stella Chrysoulaki (Western Attica, aeological Reports, and we will report and Gypsades), Lefkandi and Palaikastro Piraeus & the Islands). again on archaeological activities in the (PALAP and previous excavations), as well In addition we recognise the generous Fitch Laboratory and the Knossos Research as for Kouphovouno and Mycenae. financial support for projects from a Centre next June. The British School at Athens 2017 – December

Kythera-Paliokastro Survey Project 2017 From 1998 to 2001 the Kythera Island Project (KIP, co-directed by Cyprian Broodbank and Evangelia Kiriatzi) con­ ducted diachronic intensive field survey over a 101 km2 area of central-southern Kythera. A 2.5 km2 portion of this region, around the inland urban centre of ancient Kythera, known as Paliokastro, was not available to KIP. Excavations by Yannis Petrocheilos documented the existence of a town there from at least later Geometric times until Early Roman and a major acropolis sanctuary (epigraphically attributed to Athena) dating from the 8th century BC to Hellenistic times. In 2017 the opportunity arose to reinforce and extend our understanding of the Paliokastro and Cyprian Broodbank (Cam­bridge), Evangelia Kiriatzi (BSA- Fitch), Andrew Bevan (UCL) and Yiannis Petrocheilos (Ioannina) report on intensive Fieldwork, showing (a) a survey team in action in one of the kinder parts of the Paliokastro fieldwalking, geophysics and Unmanned landscape, (b) ‘drone’ survey, (c) ground-penetrating radar, (d) artefact study Aerial Vehicle (‘drone’) survey. The main objectives were to investigate the entirety of the Paliokastro urban zone to refine and collected 2,800 feature sherds and three new examples in 2017. One rock-cut our understanding of the main timelines over 200 other finds. cavity was recorded, probably a Minoan of human activity, to characterise better Preliminary results afford an initial single-chamber tomb, associated with a the changing spatial footprint of these picture of the history of this small, but nearby farmstead-size scatter. activities, and to situate this key area more significant part of Kythera. Diagnostic Paliokastro follows a wider pattern, systematically within wider island and Final Neolithic–Early Bronze 1 material particularly clear on Crete and the regional research agendas set by KIP, the comes mostly from the top of the hill, Cyclades, of very late Late Bronze Age Antikythera Survey Project (ASP) and the but definite Early Bronze 2 (EB2) through refuge sites following abandonment Petrocheilos excavations and others. to Minoan material is strikingly absent or decline of lowland centres and likely Surface survey involved two teams of there, suggesting that it was neither used seaborne raiding. There is probable five surveyors walking 15m apart and as a peak sanctuary similar to nearby con­tinuity of slow settlement growth counting all pottery, tile and other finds Agios Georgios, nor as a habitation. This from perhaps 1200–1000 BC through and collecting all ‘feature’ potsherds/tiles, apparent gap of perhaps two millennia on the Geometric–Archaic, expansion and lithics, groundstone, slag/metal, glass the hill top also contrasts with lower areas growth during the Classical–Hellenistic, and architectural items. In this intensive in the valleys on all sides, which produced and stability or decline afterwards until manner 2.0 km2 were surveyed. Surveyors many small EB2–Second Palace scatters as late as 50–100 AD. The earlier pottery counted 26,600 sherds and 21,300 tiles, (probably farmsteads) including at least associated with this scenario continues

Left: map of the 1998–2001 KIP survey area, showing the 2017 survey outlined in red (D. Nenova); right: prehistoric sherd and lithic distribution (D. Nenova)

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Above: gradiometer survey of two adjacent areas on the south side of Paliokastro Above right: Post Palatial–Geometric–Archaic sherd distribution (D. Nenova); right: Hellenistic–Early Roman sherd and distribution and other finds (D. Nenova) the Second and Third Palace potting finds of rosso antico, Parian marble, pebble- capitals. The early 19th-century discovery traditions, but at some point within the mosaic floors, and fine ware pottery nearby of a marble dedication stela of Archaic period a new tradition emerged, mostly of Hellenistic–early Roman date), c. 300 BC showing the twins Castor and marking the abandonment of micaceous and very reduced evidence for settlement­ Pollux and the number of spolia, suggest pottery production. Pottery, including on the top ridge running south–east from a possible temple on the same site. pithoi and larger and smaller plain vessels, the acropolis’ Athena temple. Wider comparative opportunities will were made with Neogene clays, most Geophysical data are still being pro­ emerge as the Paliokastro evidence is potentially at workshops near Paliokastro. cessed, but already confirm and develop refined and juxtaposed both with previous Historical sources document Kythera’s previous suggestions, by Petrocheilos and KIP data and results from the Antikythera importance and refer to the city’s walls. Tsaravopoulos and colleagues, of an area Survey (ASP). Already different patterns Exploration in 2017 suggests it is possible of large public buildings very close to the are emerging and the Paliokastro survey that the southern area — clearly part surface on the southern side of the hill. project offers an exciting, unusually of the city in Classical, Hellenistic and Gradiometer survey in Area 4 detected detailed perspective on the Greek city; it Roman times — lay outside the Archaic a substantial rectangular building or can now also participate in an informative settlement proper given the presence enclosure (at least 30m × 15m). wider regional dialogue. of 7th-century BC burials (which one On another large terrace (Area 6), 50m might expect to be extra-mural). At some to the west, a series of substantial positive point during the Classical period, there linear anomalies of substantial thickness is a possible reinforcing of the north- was detected; it seems likely that these western part of the hill. Here, and on represent robbed-out wall footings. The the far southeast side of the town, the scale and arrangement of the anomalies fortifications are well preserved. Also of suggest a building complex on a different interest is a possible ancient, terraced alignment from that of the present terraces. roadway skirting the northern side of the Survey also provided evidence hill at its base heading towards the port complementing the architectural history at Skandeia. of the churches in our survey area. Agios Different areas of the Classical town Georgios, on the summit, shows extensive exhibit a different character in their evidence for the re-use of material and a surface assemblages. The main changes doorway blocked and shifted to the side are the increased evidence for investment wall. Agios Kosmas, to the southeast, in higher status buildings on the lower incorporates much earlier building Above: Cyprian Broodbank and southern slopes of the hill (evidenced by material including 6th-century Doric Evangelia Kiriatzi

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Keros-Naxos Seaways 2017

Colin Renfrew and Michael Boyd (Cam­ bridge) report on a third season of Right: view of Dhaskalio fieldwork undertaken as part of the Keros- from the northeast Naxos Seaways research programme, which seeks to extend our understanding Below right: map showing Dhaskalio and Polygons 2 of the Early Bronze Age settlement and 4 on Keros indicating hierarchy from Keros to the neighbouring (red dots) the location of zones of southeast Naxos and Kato excavation Kouphonisi, to investigate the nature of Early Bronze Age settlement on Keros, and to investigate in detail the settlement on Dhaskalio. Excavation on Keros focused on of marble from Naxos pre-dated Phase B. Polygon 4, just north of Kavos, a A tiny schematic figurine was found here. location of potential metalworking, Trench E nearby investigated the complementing that already noted on substantial entranceway through Wall A. Kavos promontory. Background traces of Excavation is incomplete, but already the lead and copper were much lower than on form of the entrance is clear. Elsewhere the promontory, or on Dhaskalio, leading in the trench, a bone seal ring bears to the expectation that any metalworking a sophisticated design with an exact traces would be quite concentrated or parallel at Lefkandi (CMS V 423); a small isolated. Pottery is compatible with Early schematic figurine was also found. Bronze Age fabrics, with no clear traces Excavation continued in Trench A, the of later material. Copper spills were largest on the island (25m × 9m) and now found in several trenches, and in one divided into three zones. That to the north trench (7) a tuyère was found, indicating includes large walls built around bedrock some metalworking activity. None of forming part of the system of walls of the the trenches yielded direct evidence for north end of the island (also investigated smelting or casting. in Trenches B and C). The middle zone that the area west of the wall was filled On Dhaskalio excavation continued in seems to be a passageway or street. South with rough stone packing from bedrock five trenches opened last year and three of this, a block of buildings constructed on to the existing top of the wall. Samples new trenches. Two of these new trenches several terraces includes an area of burnt were taken for radiocarbon analysis. (E and N) were placed in areas that might destruction and metalworking activity. The Excavation in 2017 confirmed that a reveal contexts of Dhaskalio Phase A close Trench dates so far entirely to Phase B and central construction was placed at a later to the surface. Most successful is Trench N, offers a unique opportunity to understand stage, after the area had begun to be used from which no pottery indicative of either differing patterns of occupation in a single as a metallurgical workshop. Phases B or C has yet been recovered, phase over a large area. A marble bowl Much lower on the northeast part of although further excavation is required to fragment found here is of a type not found the island, Trench H last year revealed confirm this. The trench is divided in two in the Cycladic cemeteries. an entranceway to the site from the by a substantial terrace wall. On the upper To the south Trench L was placed in causeway to Kavos with a stairway and terrace a massive structure forms a large 2016 across the northern end of the drain. The drain was excavated this year platform or perhaps tower. On the lower massive terrace Wall A mentioned above and samples taken for palaeoparasitology terrace a fine wall of imported Naxos in relation to Trench E. This year a slot to determine whether it was intended for marble is potentially significant, since excavated through Wall A to determine sewage or clean water. In the two rooms there is no clear evidence that the import the construction techniques used showed to the south of the drain multiple floor levels have been carefully excavated: the northernmost room has four floor levels and, some 30cm deeper, a new series of floors. The southernmost room had three pithoi and one smaller storage jar in situ on the floor, bedded in an earlier floor level. On the basis of macroscopic fabric study from the previous excavation, it Map of is likely that two of the pithoi in a blue Dhaskalio schist fabric come from Amorgos, one in a showing micaceous schist fabric probably from Ios, trenches and the storage jar from Melos. Abundant archaeobotanical remains include a variety of plant remains in carbonised form, predominantly pulses and fruits such as grape, olives, figs and almonds. These results represent a striking difference from previous excavation seasons, where areas with

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including fine wares) and Trenches B and E (with a more limited shape repertoire, predominantly consisting of storage jars) Above left: schematic figurine from Trench N; suggests functional differences. above: marble bowl fragment from Trench A; above right: view of room 1 in Trench H with Completion of the excavation in pithoi in situ 2018 in the remaining trenches, along with the survey programme on Kato Left: bone seal ring from Trench E; below: unique Kouphonisi, offer the prospect of real one-handled cup from Trench F advances in understanding regional dynamics in the mid-third millennium BC Cyclades, and in understanding the organic remains were scarce and all dated Preliminary study of the pottery has founding and development of a regional to Phase C, perhaps suggesting differing confirmed that the other trenches can centre of congregation and proto-urban use of the site between Phases B and C. be dated to Phase B, although variability settlement of fundamental importance At present, only Trench N indicates in repertoire between Trenches A and for the understanding of the prehistory of a Phase A assemblage, based on the C (containing a wide range of shapes, the central Aegean. absence of pottery belonging to the Kastri assemblage, in combination with the dominance of coarse open shapes. Tuyères and crucibles were also found implying that metallurgical activities took place here. Material in Trench F, on the other hand, can be dated to Phase C. Of particular interest is a one handled cup belonging to the Kastri assemblage with an elaborate impressed and incised decorative motif that, at present, does not find any regional parallels.

Daniel Stewart (Leicester) and Jennifer soil conditions pertaining. The 2017 Non-destructive Baird (Birkbeck) report on a third season season therefore focused exclusively on investigation of the Roman of geophysics at Knossos with the overall GPR prospection and GPS mapping. city of Knossos 2017 goal of providing a spatial framework into The GPR used was a GSSI UtilityScan which excavated material from Roman DF, with two digital antennas: the high- Knossos can be situated. The major aims resolution antenna (800 mhz) provides were to deploy Ground Penetrating Radar a detailed snapshot down to 1m depth, (GPR) in areas which had already revealed the low-resolution antenna (300 mhz) promising results, to use GPR in targeted coarser data down to 5m depth. A Leica areas inaccessible to other techniques and ICON 60 GPS base station with a GS08plus to test various GPR collection methods Rover was used both to record grid in order to develop future best practice layouts for the geophysical survey and to within landscapes with small, irregular record significant structural features in agricultural plots. In addition systematic the landscape. GPS mapping of known standing remains GPR bounces radio signals off north of the Palace and west of the river materials and measures the speed of the was completed. By associating surviving reflection. Voids, changes in geology, or standing remains the potential date of buried features all alter the reflection archaeological features evident in the of the signals in comparison with the geophysical data can be established. surrounding matrix. These data are Magnetometry was not used and recorded along individual transects, resistivity trials demonstrated that the providing a depth profile. Within an area GPR in the Villa Dionysos technique was inappropriate in the dry all the neighbouring depth profiles are

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data, but already rectilinear features are evident, usually in the 1.5–2.5m depth range, and there may also be evidence of activity areas, roads, and some terracing. Area 2017.21 is the parking area for the cemetery church in the northwest of the overall survey area. It was chosen because Areas covered by of its location at the foot of the Acropolis GPR in 2017 (red), hill and its inaccessibility to other methods magnetometry of prospection. The overall plot shows 10- in 2016 (blue), and 2015 (green), cm time slices, to be read from top left like showing those areas a page of text; the shallowest readings discussed in the text are in the top left, the deepest in bottom right. Archaeological features begin to appear in the image second from right in the second row, just over 1m depth, with the four rightmost images in the next row showing the clearest results, down to 1.6m depth. The interpreted detail of image a13 shows two large rectilinear features, perhaps with a road separating them and internal features, probably walls within a structure. Interestingly these two stitched together and processed through data storage requirements are significant, structures do not seem to share the same software to produce a series of ‘time slices’ especially after processing. The team alignment, suggesting that this may be an in plan, rather like a deck of cards. covered 1.5 ha with GPR, less than in area where different city grids intersect. The team experimented with a variety previous seasons, but recorded data down Area 2017.13 south of the Strati­ of grids to test the efficacy of GPR in to 5m in some areas (as opposed to c. 1m graphical Museum ran along the different conditions: paved and unpaved for magnetometry data). The total area southern wall of the Knossos estate and car parks and roads, olive groves and covered so far by the survey is around 17 the open excavation area of the Little building interiors. Despite varying grid ha, as opposed to estimates of up to 70 ha Palace. Results here were promising: three sizes, the collection method was kept for the overall size of the Roman city. distinct features appeared at different as consistent as possible, utilising 0.5m Because fieldwork finished in Sept­ depths. Rectilinear features first appear at transects in a zig-zag pattern. Although ember only a sample of preliminarily 0.5–0.7m depth, then new features begin GPR has great potential, it is more time- processed data are available. Much work to appear around 1.2m (extending to consuming than magnetometry and the remains to process and refine all the 2017 1.9m), while a large north–south feature appears at 1.5m. Interpretation of these show structures appearing at 0.5m depth and it would be interesting to see if these images relate to the Little Palace to the north. The deepest images probably represent traces of the terracing evident in the open excavation, and the structures built against those terraces.

Left: time slices for Area 2017.21, to a depth of 2.2m. East is at the top

Above: detail of a13, with interpretation

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Left: detail of Area 2017.13: lst2–5 (0.4–0.6m), lst2–16 (1.4–1.5m), and lst2–19 (1.6–1.8m), with interpretation. West is at the bottom

Above: detail of Area 2017.18 a11 (depth 1m). North is at the top

Immediately in front of the Strati­ Experience in 2017 allowed the team of magnetometry already carried out). graphical Museum, Area 2017.18 9m × to refine its collection methodology and Remains revealed below 1.5m in depth 24m showed clear evidence of walls and afforded a new set of targets for 2018. may well be pre-Roman, suggesting GPR a probable floor at around the 1m depth Although considerable processing remains may allow access to elements of the pre- mark, with possible evidence of walls or to be completed, the results revealed by Roman city, although great caution needs an alley slightly above and to the south. GPR at more shallow depths (1–1.5m) to be exercised in assigning relative dates The strong response suggests a well- should correspond with the uppermost to geophysical results. preserved floor or collapsed ceiling. levels of the Roman city (and the results

Olynthos 2017

Bettina Tsigarida (Ephorate of Antiquities of Pella), Zosia Archibald (Liverpool) and Lisa Nevett (Michigan) report on the Olynthos fourth season of this collaborative project, 2017 team whose aim is to recover a uniquely photograph detailed picture of Greek households as social and economic units, within their broader neighbourhood, urban and regional settings. On the North Hill the goals in 2017 were to continue investigation of house B ix 6, working towards its complete excavation Gridded surface collection in the floor or subfloor matrix. Beneath lay a by the end of the 2018 season and to eastern central section of the North Hill destruction deposit characterised by tiles explore settlement organisation and the revealed large quantities of ceramics and lying flat. The central section of the pastas distribution of activities across the hill. tile suggesting dense occupation of a and its boundary with the courtyard were On the South Hill, the project aimed to largely residential character of Classical revealed including two cut-stone bases explore the extent of the urban grid and date. Collection also took place in the on which wooden columns or posts its potential date of establishment and to ‘saddle’, sloping down to the east towards probably rested to support the roof. One study the nature of domestic organisation the Lower City. Greater quantities were of these may have been incorporated into in the final phase of occupation. Finally, located in the grids going down the slope, a north–south wall which appears to have aims for the wider study area were while, towards the bottom of the slope divided the pastas. continued investigation of the character quantities decreased. Geophysical survey Flotation analysis produced a range and density of settlement in different reinforced this pattern. of plant remains: olive, legume, wheat, areas, including evidence for non- Continued excavation of House B barley, almond and grape; weed seeds also residential activity (industrial, mortuary, ix 6 showed that its poorly preserved present offered the possibility of analysing religious, etc.) and exploration of the southeast corner had two occupation crop processing procedures. Geochemical extent of the settlement and the nature of phases, the later consisting of a cobbled analysis of soil samples collected in 2015 the boundary between the urban centre floor surface close to the eastern suggests that processing of cereals and of and its hinterland. boundary wall with a pebble and gravel fish may have been carried out in different

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Left: map showing the locations of activity between spring 2014 and summer 2016, in relation to the trenches excavated by David Robinson, 1928–38 (Hannah Pethen)

Right: map showing locations of the trenches excavated on the South Hill in 2017 (TT23, TT24 and TT25) in relation to the locations of those excavated in 2016 (TT18, TT19 and TT20) (David Stone)

spaces north of, and at the east end of, the construction of roads and buildings in this any so far encountered on the site, with pastas respectively. district. The excellent state of preservation massive stones forming a thick outer wall On the South Hill further electrical of some of the material belonging to the laid to slope inwards towards the centre resistance survey suggested that the final phase of occupation is attested by of the socle. urban grid identified in 2016 continued a rich destruction horizon overlying a In the hinterland, field walkers covered across almost the whole of the surveyable cobbled street where many artefacts had an area of 1.19 km2 in 2017. Collection part of the hill with the exception of its fallen, perhaps due to the collapse of an focused on the area to the north of the extreme south. Further survey of a limited upper storey or of a timber structure built North Hill. Field survey around the city portion of the southern part of the hill against the façade of the neighbouring revealed an area of dense occupation to with ground penetrating radar suggests building (whose traces were located in the east of the South Hill, a limited area that in that area, at least, anomalies the form of a series of four post-holes). southeast of the South Hill yielding high apparently representing road surfaces In addition to ceramics and a few metal concentrations of material (comprising can be detected in the earliest cultural finds, material from this area also included Late Roman and Byzantine as well as the levels, at a possible depth of up to 1.5m. quantities of animal bone. The wall socles usual Classical pottery). The northern Three new 4 × 4m trenches here began belonging to a second building (Trenches edge of the study area showed more to reveal the level of preservation and TT24 and TT25) demonstrated the use of limited and less dense evidence. some of the techniques used for the a different construction technique from Magnetometry survey west of the northern part of the North Hill, where field walking in 2016 had yielded ceramic debris and a human tooth, located a group of small, strong anomalies. These appear to represent graves, possibly a continuation of Robinson’s ‘Riverside Cemetery’, sug­gesting that this area lies beyond the boundary of the ancient city. Magnetic and electromagnetic survey outside the fenced archaeological site, to the east of the South Hill, suggested that settlement here was much less dense than on the two hills, and does not appear to follow the kind of grid envisaged by Robinson. Preliminary study of the ceramics from both the North and South Hills suggests Above left: map showing locations of the fields walked by survey teams in summer 2017 that the majority of the fine pottery (David Stone) (black-slipped and red-figured wares) was manufactured in the Chalkidiki, although Above right: orthophotograph of C23009 showing the destruction deposit overlying the Attic imports are also present. The most cobbled street surface in the north of the trench (Filippos Stefanou) frequent forms are various cup shapes, but

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other serving vessels are represented. Also notable are numerous fine ware cosmetic vessels, and local varieties of lekythoi. The majority of the vessels found on both hills date to the first half (often the second Sectors of study quarter) of the fourth century BC; no vessels area in which (on current ceramic chronologies) seem to geophysical survey post-date the supposed destruction of the was undertaken city in 348 BC. in spring 2017 (Apostolos Sarris, Nikos Papadopoulos, Jamieson Donati) For a first multi-authored presentation of the project’s work see the 2017 issue of the Annual of the British School at Athens just published

Training the Next Generation — BSA Courses 2017 Each year the BSA offers opportunities Postgraduate courses this year started off, as it has been continuously for the to around 80 students and professionals in April at Knossos with the course in past 45 years, with the Undergraduate to participate in a range of courses Prehistoric, Greek and Roman Pottery, Summer Course in the Archaeology & that offer first-hand experience of followed by three more based in Athens: Topography of Greece. For information materials and places that cannot be Introduction to Ceramic Petrology, Greek about upcoming courses and other offered elsewhere in a conventional Epigraphy and Linear B & Mycenaean opportunities offered by the BSA, seminar or lecture format in the UK. Greek. The BSA’s summer was rounded please go to: www.bsa.ac.uk.

Undergraduate Course in the Archaeology and The knowledge and perspectives I gained Topography of Greece whilst on the course … were a vital catalyst in my passion for the subject This course remains popular with “ undergraduates eager to learn more Peter Thompson (Oxford) about the landscapes and physical ” remains of Greece. From an ever- Heraia and the Olympic games, the victors We are extremely grateful to several increasing applicant pool we selected 27 crowned with olive wreaths. Apart from organisations that provide much needed students pursuing a range of degrees in the experience gained, the course offers financial assistance to keep the course relevant subjects from 14 UK universities. students an opportunity to interact with fees low and allow us to offer 14 The three-week course began in Athens academics in informal settings and to bursaries: the Craven Committee Oxford, on 20 August with a series of lectures on exchange ideas with peers. the Classics Faculty Cambridge, the Greek religion and sanctuaries, the types The course is the responsibility of Gilbert Murray Trust, the Society for the of sources employed in interpreting the the Assistant Director, Dr Chryssanthi Promotion of Hellenic Studies and the past and science-based archaeology Papadopoulou, assisted by Dr Estelle Classical Association. sessions in the Fitch Laboratory. After Strazdins (Oxford) and Dr Matthew Skuse The course next runs from 26 August to site and museum tours in Athens and (BSA), with guest talks by Vasso Manidaki 15 September 2018. Attica, students toured the Peloponnese (on restoration of the Parthenon), Robert for nine days, performing Aristophanes Pitt (in the Epigraphic Museum), Nikolas Participants at the site of Methoni in the in the theatre in Epidauros, visiting the Papadimitriou (in the Cycladic Museum) southwestern Peloponnese new Corinth and Messenia Museums, and Konstantinos Papadopoulos (on exploring the Mycenaean palaces of restoration of the temple of Apollo Mycenae, Tiryns and Pylos, discussing the Epikourios at Bassae). Nick Brown, course principles of Byzantine art in Mystras and manager, looked after the group’s well- finishing at the Panhellenic Sanctuary being and taught in the Delphi and at Olympia with re-enactments of the Olympia Museums.

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The Koutroulou Magoula Archaeology & Archaeological Ethnography Project 2017

Nina Kiparissi-Apostolika (Director Emerita, Ephorate of Palaeoanthropology and Plan of Speleology­­­ of Southern Greece) and the main Yannis Hamilakis (Brown) report on the excavated 2017 season of this collaborative project area at the end of the in and around the tell of Koutroulou season Magoula. In 2017 the project sought to understand the nature of human settlement and habitation, architecture, use of space and social practices in the areas north of Building 1, as well as to explore for the first time the slope of the tell and to investigate the character of the surrounding ditches. A further aim was to examine a large, rectangular geophysical natures, as well as features such as pits of soil were detected, recalling a pattern signature identified in 2012 at the tell’s where large quantities of artefacts and found in 2015. periphery. The team also continued its ecofacts had accumulated. To add to this A new area of excavation (Trench Ξ15) long-term ethnographic study in the local complicated picture, the area had been was opened on the eastern slope of the area through a systematic archaeological disturbed by various anthropogenic and mound where geophysics had indicated ethnography project and community arch­ non-anthropogenic processes, including the possible existence of a burnt structure. aeology­ activities and projects, including a a clearance cairn and extensive burrowing While no walls were found, it is clear that theatre-archaeology initiative. by rodents and larger mammals. this was an area of rich and extensive To meet these goals the team employed A series of post-holes was noted in the activity. stratigraphic excavation and recording, southeast part of the trench, apparently In addition to complete pottery vessels following the single context system, indicating a light apsidal structure. More (rare on the site) other portable finds and a range of analytical methods from of the underfloor deposit of a building include a concentration of quern stones, topographic and pedestrian survey revealed in 2015 in the northwest edge of found elsewhere in association with to geo­physical survey, to a systematic Z2 was uncovered in 2017. In exploring the hearths in unroofed spaces between program of archaeoenvironmental analy­ deeper strata in this area, other features buildings. One such hearth structure was tical sampling. In 2017 a project of mud- were revealed, including a possible found in the south part of the trench: a brick analysis was initiated to test diversity apsidal alignment of small flat stones small, roughly rectangular compartment (c. in recipes and in architectural practices in which may define a platform/working 0.45m square) defined by clay boundaries general across the site. area and, further to the south and slightly and filled with stones. In the north and Excavation resumed on top of the deeper, a concentration of small, rounded northwest part of the trench fallen plaster mound in trench Z2 (opened in 2015) stones which may indicate an under- (of whitish, limestone material) indicates and confirmed that this is an area of floor deposit from another building. In that at least some walls were plastered. rich building and other activity in the addition, in the southwest area of this At the season’s end a horse-shoe shaped Neolithic, including at different times trench several layers of what appear to be structure, c. 1m square, was revealed, roofed and open spaces of various successive clay floors interrupted by fills its walls comprising upright clay slabs

Left: location of trenches superimposed on results of the 2011–12 geophysical investigations

Right: excavation of Trench Ξ15

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Left: hearth filled with stones in Trench Ξ15

Right: Trench X16 from the south, showing evidence of the ditch and re-cutting

pos­sibly curving at their upper ends. Excavation next season will confirm its nature, but an initial working hypothesis is 3D-printed that this may be a (ceramic?) kiln, a rare find sculptures by Jiaju in the Middle Neolithic, although pottery Ma, inspired by the kilns were recently found at the nearby figurines found at the site Middle Neolithic site of Imvrou Pigadi. Trench Ψ21 was opened to investigate a large rectangular geophysical signature in the southeast corner of the tell. Although in the ditch. Stratigraphic and artefactual The project’s programme of archaeo­ limited archaeological materials were data thus confirm the existence of ditches, logical ethnography continued and found, neither signs of a structure nor of although the exact depth and width of this another theatre/archaeology per­formance its negative imprint were identified. ditch are still to be determined. Excavation was staged. The performance this year — Trench X16 was opened southeast of also offered evidence of the maintenance ‘28 Days’ — was based on student journals the tell to explore the nature, dimensions of the ditch in the form of a recut (c. 1m narrating their experience in Greece and and character of the surrounding ditches wide and c. 0.45m deep). their reactions to the process of excavation indicated by geophysics in 2011–12. The northern section was sampled and to village life. After initial deposits of topsoil and for soil micromorophological study Additional activities included the colluvium, from 1.00m–1.20m in depth to provide further information on the production of a series of ethnographic/ layers of homogenous silt loam appeared nature of deposition. Archaeological creative photos, which will form the basis containing eroded pottery, chipped confirmation of the existence of large of a photo essay for submission to the stone, and figurine fragments, in sufficient perimeter ditches and their maintenance journal Cultural Anthropology. Finally, quantity to indicate the interior of the ditch. allows us to discuss the role and social Jiaju Ma, an artist with the Rhode Island The archaeological materials, however, significance of community-wide projects School of Art and Design, was inspired by appear to be secondary, not primary in the Neolithic which may have served the site’s Neolithic figurines to produce a deposits deliberately discarded and buried both practical and symbolic purposes. series of composite, interactive sculptures.

BSA Postgraduate I’ve had the opportunity of testing what I already Training Course in Linear knew while incorporating many new perspectives B and Mycenaean Greek to my knowledge and considering new topics for my “research. It has been a rewarding intellectual and This course ran for the first time from late June 2017. Based on lectures, personal experience that I’ll never forget! seminars, practical classes, and site Claudia Alonso (Madrid) visits, it introduced students to the Linear B script of the Late Bronze Age workings of the administrative system the Twelve” postgraduate students Aegean and its value in enriching script supported and gained insights into partici­pated from universities in the interpretation of this period largely what information the documents offer UK, USA, Canada, Spain and Italy. The known through archaeology. Students about Mycenaean economy, society and course leader was the Director, assisted developed basic skills in reading and material production in combination with by Dr Chryssanthi Papadopoulou, who writing Linear B (on clay), explored the archaeological data. Highlights included lectured in the National Museum and visits to the Mycenaean palaces at the palaces of Tiryns and Mycenae. of Mycenae, Tiryns and Pylos, a Professor Jack Davis kindly showed class in the National Museum’s participants around the palace of Mycenaean collection and the Nestor in Pylos and spoke about recent making and subsequent firing of excavations there, including the tomb of Linear B tablets created by the the ‘Griffin warrior’. The Fitch Laboratory participants. — in particular Dr John Gait — assisted with materials needed to create tablets Firing Linear B tablets created by (clay, replica styli, etc.). course participants on the Catling Based on its initial success, this course Terrace at the BSA will next run in 2019.

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Mt Akontion. Prosilio village is visible towards the left and Orchomenos is at the tip of Mt Akontion, on the far right (Y. Galanakis)

A return to Boeotia — Prosilio 2017 The BSA returned to Boeotia, an area in which we had worked early in the 20th century (at Rhitsona and Haliartos) and the 1980s (Cambridge Bradford Boeotia Archaeological and Geographical Expedition). Alexandra Charami (Ephorate of Antiquities of Boeotia) and Yannis Galanakis (Cambridge) report on the first season of a 5-year collaborative project to explore the Mycenaean chamber tomb cemetery at Prosilio on the slopes of Mt Akontion near Orchomenos. Research in 2017 focused on the excavation of tomb 2, a monumental Mycenaean chamber tomb, constructed in the middle of the 14th century BC (Late Ioanna Moutafi and Christina Koureta Helladic IIIA), first identified and partially document the skull of the individual buried in explored in 2014. The tomb is one of the tomb 2 (Y. Galanakis); right: the façade and largest of its kind discovered in Greece. A stomion of chamber of tomb 2 (Y. Galanakis) 20-m long key-hole shaped passageway (dromos) leads to a monumental façade construction of the dromos of another 5.40m in height. The façade gives chamber tomb over the northeast corner access through a doorway (stomion) to of tomb 2 may be responsible for this a rectangular burial chamber, 42m2 in first episode of collapse). This rockfall area, the ninth largest of around 4,000 disturbed the burial and its furnishings, the tomb unsafe for further burials and Mycenaean chamber tombs excavated but also helped to seal the burial layer. abandoned its use. Burials by this group in Greece in the last 150 years. A rock-cut Cultural deposits only began to appear may have continued in another, nearby bench (0.60–0.65m high), enhanced by in the lowest 15–20cm of deposit in the chamber tomb yet to be investigated. It the addition of mud plaster, was carved chamber, suggesting that no further is likely that the roof collapse prevented­ on all four sides of the chamber. Mud burials took place after this roof collapse. looting when robbers at some point plaster also covered cracks on the walls of It appears that the tomb was re-entered before the Hellenistic / Roman period the entrance and chamber. in the Mycenaean period (perhaps to entered through the upper part of the The chamber’s roof was originally prepare the ground for a new burial, or sealed stomion. gabled, with a height of around 3.50m, but as part of a ritual, or because the tomb- Such a scenario would explain why, on it appears that the original roof started to using group was worried about a possible the chamber floor, the team discovered crumble already in Mycenaean times (the rockfall) and those responsible deemed only the burial of a single, male individual,

Left: excavation in progress around the dromos of tomb 2 (Y. Galanakis)

Right: pair of bronze horse bits (Y. Galanakis)

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40–50 years old, accompanied by a Orchomenos, whose later — 13th century Not surprisingly the results of the number­ of objects. These included BC — remains are extensive. excavation were much covered by the ‘tinned’ clay vessels of various shapes, a Discovery of this burial and its Greek press and the Times in the UK. pair of bronze horse bits, bronze arrows associated finds will help us to understand We hope that the high-resolution data and bronze pins, bronze elements possibly better funeral practices in the region in collected in 2017 will shed additional from a bow, jewellery of various types the Mycenaean period. First examination light on Mycenaean burial practices in and materials, including gold, glass and of the finds suggests a conscious selection the 14th c. BC, help us further clarify the faience, bone combs, an agate sealstone of the objects interred with the body by position of Orchomenos in the region and and a gold signet ring. Broken kylikes (un­ the tomb-using group responsible for start anew the debate concerning the role tinned) were found in front of and among the burial’s preparation. The placement of death (and the rituals associated with the blocking stones of the entrance. of different forms and types of jewellery it) in Mycenaean life during the palatial The presence of a single burial with with a male burial contests the, until now period. A better understanding of the important finds is an extraordinary widely-held, belief that jewellery is mostly extent and density of the Prosilio chamber discovery: tombs of this type are normally associated with female burials. With the tomb cemetery should emerge through used for many burials, making it difficult exception of two painted stirrup jars, geophysical study (using Electrical to associate particular objects with commonly used to store aromatic oils, Resistivity Tomography) scheduled for late individual burials, while their prominence no painted pottery was discovered in the November–early December 2017. Next made them targets for looting from tomb, a feature otherwise widely attested year the team will process data from the antiquity to this day. Tomb 2 is probably in tombs of this period. There is also reason geophysical investigations, as well as soil associated with ancient Orchomenos, to believe that the stirrup jars and a coarse micromorphological samples collected 3.5km away, which supervised and scuttle (the only coarseware ceramic from in 2017, and study the human remains controlled the partial drainage of Lake the chamber) may be associated with the and artefacts, with a view to refining Kopaïs in the 14th and 13th centuries attempt to re-enter the tomb within the methodologies before the resumption of BC. Its date is thus important, filling Mycenaean period rather than with the excavation of further tombs in 2019. in a relatively little known period at original burial.

pool. The itinerary followed the pattern of BSA Postgraduate Course recent years, with a series of introductions on Greek Epigraphy to the field and practical sessions on how to read and record inscriptions, lectures The Greek Epigraphy course was held for on thematic issues, and a number of the sixth time in June, led by Robert Pitt site visits around Athens as well as a day (College Year in Athens), with additional trip to Delphi. The first week concluded seminars by Professors Sophia Aneziri and with group seminars, in which students Selene Psoma (Athens), Danielle Kellogg presented research on given thematic (CUNY) and Edward Harris (Durham/ subjects, before moving on in the second Edinburgh). Dr Andronike Makres also week to the Epigraphic Museum, where worked with the students during their each student was assigned an inscription time at the Epigraphic Museum. from which they produced a full edition, Twelve postgraduate students (6 from translation, and commentary, delivered as Participants discuss inscriptions the UK, others from the USA, Germany and presentations to the group on the final day. on the Athenian Acropolis with Italy) were accepted from a large applicant The course will next run in 2019. course leader Robert Pitt

The BSA’s Development Programme These are exciting times for the BSA as and present, for our events, courses and Dr Bettina Tsigarida’s fascinating talk on we implement our fundraising plans monthly updates. If you are not already the history of Pella from the Bronze Age and our recently formed Development on the School’s mailing list and would like to Roman times. Looking ahead, the Ghika, Committee has been a great source to be added, please contact our London Craxton and Leigh Fermor exhibition at of support since I joined the BSA as Secretary, Kate Smith ([email protected]). the British Museum will be a major fixture Development Officer in September. Our As we forge new collaborations and in next year’s programme, including initial efforts have focused on the core expand existing partnerships in Greece private guided tours with exhibition building blocks for effective fundraising, and the UK, there will be many more curators, Sir Michael Llewellyn-Smith including simplifying the School’s opportunities to engage with the School and Evita Arapoglou, and a lecture on membership structure, about which over the coming months. A regular John Craxton by Ian Collins at the British the Chairman will update members at programme of two lectures per term at Academy. More collaborative events with the AGM on 6 February 2018. Thanks the British Academy began this Autumn institutions across London and beyond to the hard work of Abigail Adams and with Professor Paul Cartledge who set are being planned, so please do keep an Laurena Young, our student interns in the standard for this series. Unfortunately, eye out for these in your in-box or on the London this summer, the School has a due to a security alert, Natalie Haynes’ School’s website and social media. dedicated and well-populated supporter lecture on 24 November 2017 had to be We are immensely grateful to all database, e-Tapestry. This has been a cancelled at the last moment but has now those who support the School during tremendous help in communicating with been rescheduled. We are grateful to the this important period in its 130-year those engaged with the School, past Institute of Classical Studies for co-hosting history. Your contributions enable us to

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maintain the margin of excellence of our activities from research to teaching Right: the Director, and publications. Your support also Carol Bell (Chair contributes to maintaining the School’s of Council) and estate in Athens, where the exterior of Malcolm Schofield (former Chair of the Upper House received an extensive Council) inspect the restoration this summer (funded by an recently-renovated anonymous donor), and to our fieldwork, Upper House thanks to Richard Heyhoe’s generous donation of a ‘drone’, used for the first Left: the BSA ‘drone’ time this year on Kythera. We are also being flown for the first time by grateful for several large donations over new IT Officer recent months, including those from Chavdar Tzochev Helen Hughes-Brock, George Cornelius, during fieldwork on Dr Oliver Dickinson, Dr Alistar H. Jackson, Kythera in 2017 and Sir Michael Llewellyn-Smith. The Friends of the British School at Athens, both in Greece and the UK, continue to some of the BSA’s most generous and with me. Your thoughts are invaluable support our work generously. We are valued supporters in Greece. Last, but by input to formulating the School’s also indebted to Her Excellency Kate no means least, I would like to thank all Development content. Smith for hosting a memorable dinner who have given valuable time to discuss Nicholas Salmon in Athens in November, attended by their personal experience of the BSA

Welcomes & a Farewell Since our last issue, Philippa Waller, London Secretary since 2011, has moved on to a post at Sir John Soane’s Museum. We thank her warmly for all her work for the BSA and wish her the very best for the future. Conversely, we welcome to the BSA Kate Smith, as Philippa’s replacement, and Nicholas Salmon as Development Officer. In Athens we are very pleased to welcome Dr Chavdar Tzochev as our new IT Officer, replacing Jean-Sébastien Gros. We also note with pleasure that Dr Matthew Skuse, former Macmillan-Rodewald Student, has been appointed as a Teaching Fellow at Above left: Kate Smith, London Secretary, and Nicholas Salmon, Development Officer in the BSA’s London office; above right: IT Officer Chavdar Tzochev the University of Edinburgh.

of the main rock-forming minerals, the reconstruct provenance and technology. Introduction to Ceramic use and interpretation of geological maps Once again this year the course Petrology and the analysis of ceramic thin sections to emphasised experimental potting, from clay paste preparation to firing, to provide In May 2017 the Fitch Laboratory hosted participants with some experience in the its training course on the application of Well organised, well practicalities involved in potters’ choices, ceramic petrology to the archaeological executed, fun and useful. It reflected in the fabrics they will be study of ceramics for the eighth time. analysing and interpreting. A field class From a large number of applicants, “answered all my expectations on Aegina provided hands-on training twelve participants were selected in prospection for, and sampling of, including five doctoral students, raw materials, as well as observation five postdoctoral researchers (of ” of contemporary potting practices which four were Marie Curie fellows, in a traditional pottery workshop. 2 based in Cambridge) and two Each participant had an opportunity academics. The varied academic to test their newly acquired and cultural backgrounds of the knowledge in an individual ceramic participants, created again a very petrology project using a small set of vibrant and stimulating environment individually assigned archaeological both for those teaching and being and geological samples. Highlights taught. The two-week course in­ of the course were participants’ volved 60 contact hours, including presentations of their project and daily lectures and practicals in the communal firing of their pots at a laboratory, during which participants farewell barbeque in the BSA garden were introduced to optical polarising on the final day. Scenes from the course from the laboratory to the field light microscopy, the identification The course will next run in 2019.

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and made for a stimulating environment for Prehistoric, Greek and students and instructors. Ver y well organized, Roman Pottery Course The course was coordinated by the planned and executed. It was BSA Knossos Curator, Dr Kostis Christakis, This course was held at Knossos for and taught by Todd Whitelaw (UCL), Colin “interesting to participate the fifth consecutive year in April Macdonald (BSA), Conor Trainor (University on a course where the with 16 postgraduate students and of Warwick), Antonio Bianco (University of academics from 15 institutions in the Crete), John Gait (BSA Fitch Laboratory), organizers genuinely cared UK and elsewhere. The varied academic with guest lecturers, Emmanuela Aposto­ about the overall experience backgrounds created a close-knit group laki (University of Athens), Georgia Flouda, Eirini Galli and Giorgos Rethemiotakis of participants (Hellenic Ministry of Culture and Sports) and Mimika Giannopoulou (University of Crete / Mediterranean Archaeological and consumption, methodo” ­logical issues Society). The recently renovated instal­lations in the analysis of pottery assemblages of the Knossos Research Centre provided a from surveys versus excavations and field comfortable environment for study com­ classes on important Bronze Αge and mented on favourably by all participants. Greek-Roman archaeological sites. George The course had two main components: Dalamvelas and Michalis Ploumakis, hands-on sessions using chronologically traditional craftsmen from the potting specific assemblages of pottery from the villages of Margarites and Thrapsano Neolithic to the late Roman period, drawn respectively, engaged the participants from the rich collections of the Knossos in many aspects of potting technology. Stratigraphical Museum and workshops Students were also introduced to many focussing on key skills such as macroscopic aspects of Cretan nature and culture. fabric analysis, forming techniques and Once again we are grateful for financial Participants gain practical experience of pot- drawing. Lectures included theoretical support from the Classical Association. making at Thrapsano aspects of pottery production, distribution The course next runs 3–15 April 2018.

Events Past (June–December 2017)

Public Lectures του Κλάους Πατρών: τα κατάλοιπα ενός Sariel Shalev (Zinman Institute, Haifa): ‘Why Maria Andreadaki-Vlazaki (Secretary General, λαμπρού κόσμου στο τέλος εποχής’ are scientists afraid of portable XRF in Hellenic Ministry of Culture & Sports): Margarita Gleba (University of Cambridge): archaeology?’ ‘Τελετουργική θυσία στο ΥΜ ΙΙΙΒ ανακτορικό ‘Unravelling the fabric of the past: Mediter­ κέντρο της Κυδωνίας (αρχές του 13ου αι. ranean textile cultures in the First Millenium Workshops π.Χ.)’ (Knossos Summer Lecture) BCE’. ‘The wider island of Pelops: a workshop in Vassiliki Sythiakaki (Director, Ephorate of Anna Lucia D’Agata (Consiglio Nationale honour of Professor Chris Mee’ Antiquities of Heraklion): ‘Από την πόλη στο delle Ricerche, Rome): ‘Iron Age Cilicia and ‘Cyprus, female voice and memory. Literature, κάστρο: Οικιστικές μεταβολές στην Κρήτη the Greek connection (10th–8th centuries arts and history in the works of Niki κατά τους μεταβατικούς χρόνους (7ος – 9ος BC): cultural hegemonies, material Marangou’ αι. μ.Χ.)’ (Knossos Summer Lecture) entanglements and local identities’. Paul Cartledge (Emeritus A.G. Leventis Kostis Christakis (BSA): ‘Οι αποθήκες του Friends’ Lectures Professor, University of Cambridge): ‘Spartan άνακτα: storage and socio-political Eleni Konstantinidi-Syvridi (National Archaeolo­­­ ­ Race-ism: an Other view’ (London) changes at Late Bronze Age Knossos’ gical Museum) & Akis Goumas (Goldsmith): Bettina Tsigarida (Director, Ephorate of Antiqui­ Roderick Bailey (University of Oxford): ‘The ‘Reviving the art of the Mycenaean ties of Pella): ‘Pella: the great capital of the Ma­ British experience of the Great Fire of goldsmith’ (Athens) ce­donian kingdom’ (BSA-ICS Lecture, London) Thessaloniki of 1917’ Paul Halstead (University of Sheffield): Angie Hobbs (University of Sheffield): ‘Indigenous cattle, bristly pigs, wild goats ‘Democracy, demagoguery and Plato’ (BSA- Fitch-Wiener Laboratories Seminar and immortal sheep: traditional and ICS-NHRF Autumn Lecture, Athens) Series ancient animal husbandry in Greece’ Myrsini Gouma (Free University of Am­ster­­­ (London) Upper House Seminars dam): ‘Living on the lake: a geoarchaeo­ Richard Buxton (University of Bristol): ‘Cyclops: Kostas Paschalidis (National Archaeological logical study on the lake dwelling a portrait of an ogre from Antiquity until Museum): ‘Το μυκηναϊκό νεκροταφείο settlement of Dispilio today’ (London)

Future Events (January–June 2018)

Public Lectures recent research’ (13 February, Thessaloniki; Ruth Macrides (University of Birmingham): Natalie Haynes (Author): ‘The Children of 15 February, Athens) ‘The Scottish connection in Byzantine Jocasta’ (18 January, London) Peter Frankopan (University of Oxford): ‘Re­ and Modern Greek Studies’ (Bader Archive John Bennet (Director, BSA): ‘The work of the storing the Byzantine Empire. Constanti­ Lecture, 9 May, Athens) School in 2017’ (6 February, London; 13 nople, Hellenism and the global middle Ian Collins (Art Historian): ‘John Craxton, title February, Thessaloniki; 15 February, Athens) ages’ (AGM Lecture, 6 February, London) to be confirmed’ (10 May, London) Colin Renfrew & Michael Boyd (University of Stephen Lambert (University of Cardiff): ‘Attic Ian Freestone (UCL): ‘The long Roman glass Cambridge): ‘The sanctuary on Keros and inscriptions online’ (Visiting Fellow Lecture, industry’ (Fitch Visiting Fellow Lecture, 14 the settlement of Dhaskalio in the light of 5 March, Athens) May, Athens)

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John Kittmer (Former UK Ambassador to Fitch-Wiener Laboratories Seminar Series in Europe. From an adventurous landing to Greece): ‘Title to be confirmed’ (May/June, (in Athens) precarious housing’ (27 February) London) Lente van Vrempt (Tel Aviv): ‘The production Dina Vaiou (National Technical University of David Sedley (University of Cambridge): Athens) / Camille Schmoll (Université Paris ‘Xenocrates and the invention of Platonism: and trade of Cypriot copper in the Late Bronze Age — from ore to ingot: unraveling VII): ‘Mi­gra­tion feminine en Europe du sud’ (8 a textual approach’ (Michael Frede Memorial March) Lecture, 5 June, Athens) the metallurgical chain (27 February) Alessandro Ceccarelli (University of Elisabeth Kirtsoglou (University of Durham) Cambridge): ‘The Potter’s Wheel in South / Giorgos Tsimouris (Panteion University): Upper House Seminars (in Athens) Asia: a Technological Re-examination of ‘Crisis, migration, neoliberalism: a post­ Anna Moles (Richard Bradford McConnell Bronze Age Craft Production in the Indus colonial criti­que of bordering the margins Student/UCL): ‘The impact of urbanism on Zone’ (30 May) of Europe’ (20 March) human health and diet at Knossos from Sarah Green (University of Helsinki) / Nayanika the Hellenistic to Late Antique periods’ (22 Artist in Residence Talk and Open Studio (in Mathur (University of Cambridge): ‘The January) Athens) perpetual crisis of managing animal Vassileia Manidaki (Acropolis Restoration Lorrice Douglas (Chelsea College of Arts): ‘The mobilities’ (27 March) Service): ‘Τα πρόσωπα των λίθων – νεώτερη value of fragments’ (16 May) Athena Athanasiou (Panteion University) / έρευνα για τους αποτετμημένους λίθους Isabell Lorey (EIPCP – European Institute for της Παρθενώνειας ζωφόρου’ (29 January) BSA/Research Centre for Greek Philosophy Progressive Cultural Studies): ‘Precarious Stacey Prickett (University of Roehampton): of the Academy of Athens Philosophy subjectivation, critical desubjugation: ‘Dancing nations at the Athens Festival: Seminars (in Athens) roadmaps for alternative imaginaries (4 cultural diplomacy during the Cold War’ (26 Christopher Gill (University of Exeter): ‘Stoic May) February). detachment — is this a myth?’ and ‘What Leticia Sabsay (LSE) / Karma Chavez (University Eirini Karamouzi (Early Career Fellow / does Stoic ethics have to contribute to of Texas Austin): ‘Anti-migrant affects and University of Sheffield): ‘Troublemaker or modern moral philosophy?’ (21 and 22 narratives in times of crisis’ (22 May) Peacemaker?­ Andreas Papandreou, the March). Banu Karca (Independent Researcher) / Elena policy of peace and the Cold War’ (12 March) Tzelepis (Columbia University): ‘Art, crisis Panagiotis Poulos (University of Athens): Mobilities in / of Crisis: Critical and mobility’ (29 May) ‘Musical topographies of late Ottoman Investigations (Joint Seminar Series with the Istanbul’ (19 March) École française d’ Athènes) (in Athens) Gallery Tours Ioanna Sitaridou (University of Cambridge): Lena Korma (EfA) / Katerina Gardika (Uni­ ‘Ghika, Craxton and Leigh Fermor: Charmed ‘Romeyka in Turkey: throwing new light versity of Athens): ‘Infectious diseases in- Lives in Greece’, British Museum (Spring) on the historical development of the Greek motion: the case of Greece from the Balkan language’ (26 March) wars until 1922’ (16 January) Friends’ Lectures Eirini Avramopoulou (A.G. Leventis Fellow Leyla Dakhli (Centre Marc Bloch, Berlin) / Monica Hughes (University of Newcastle): in Hellenic Studies): ‘Histories and Eugenia Palieraki (Université de Cergy- ‘The Little Metropolis in Athens and its geographies of displacement, trauma and Pontoise): ‘Some thoughts on exiles, roots Calendar Frieze’ (30 January, London) asylums in Leros island’ (16 April) and mobility in modern Arab revolutionary Further Friends UK lectures will be held in Huw Halstead (University of York / Macmillan- experiences’ (30 January) London on: 27 March 2018 (joint meeting Rodewald Student): ‘Reclaiming the land: Elena Chiti (LARHRA Lyon) / Efi Avdela (Uni­ with the Society for the Promotion of belonging, place, and environmental transfo­ versity of Cyprus): ‘No home, many houses: Byzantine Studies) and 15 May 2018 rmation in Kambos, Western Thessaly’ (7 May) women, mobility and crime in 1920 ‘Glasgow Greek Weekend’, organised by the Florence Liard (Williams Fellow in Ceramic Alexandria’ (13 February) Scottish Hellenic Society of Glasgow in Petrology): ‘Pottery trade and craftsmanship Sylvia Mugnano (University of Milano-Bicocca) collaboration with the Scottish Hellenic in late Byzantine to early Renaissance / Thomas Maloutas (Harokopio University): Societies and the Friends UK (19–20 May Greece: a petrological approach’ (21 May) ‘Italy, one of the main refugees’ frontlines 2018)

‘Then and Now’! In 1911–12 a series of enigmatic photographs was taken of BSA members on the Finlay balcony; in 2017 the Archivist recreated the series with more recent members. Left: Margaret Hasluck; right: Lucy Lawrence, Richard Bradford McConnell Student

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