Archaeological Museum of Thessaloniki
Fieldtrip to northern Greece, 2018Photo A.S. Shobairi
Hellenic National Archaeological Museum
Athens, 2018Photo A. Zournatzi
Hellenic National Archaeological Museum
Athens, 2018Photo A.S. Shobairi
Acropolis of Athens
Athens, 2018Photo A. Zournatzi
Acropolis Museum
Athens, 2018Photo A. Zournatzi
Workshop dinner
Athens, 2018Photo A.S. Shobairi
Archaeological site of the Palace of Aigai-Vergina
Fieldtrip to northern Greece, 2018Photo A.S. Shobairi
Aigai – Vergina, archaeological site and Museum of the Royal Tombs
Fieldtrip to northern Greece, 2018Photo A. Zournatzi
Archaeological site of Pella
Fieldtrip to northern Greece, 2018Photo A. Zournatzi
Archaeological site of Pella
Fieldtrip to northern Greece, 2018Photo S.A. Shobairi
Archaeological site of Dion
Fieldtrip to northern Greece, 2018Photo M.H. Feldman
Archaeological site of Dion – Mount Olympus
Fieldtrip to northern Greece, 2018Photo A. Zournatzi
Orthodox Academy of Crete (Kolymvari)
2nd Workshop, Crete, 2019Photo A. Zournatzi
Orthodox Academy of Crete (Kolymvari)
2nd Workshop, Crete, 2019Photo S.A. Shobairi
Archaeological Museum of Chania
Fieldtrip to Crete, 2019Photo M.H. Feldman
Sfinari
Fieldtrip to Crete, 2019Photo A. Zournatzi
Heraklion Archaeological Museum
Fieldtrip to Crete, 2019Photo S.A. Shobairi
Archaeological site of Knossos
Fieldtrip to Crete, 2019Photo M.H. Feldman
Archaeological Museum of Heraklion
Fieldtrip to Crete, 2019Photo A. Zournatzi
Archaeological Museum of Heraklion
Fieldtrip to Crete, 2019Photo A. Zournatzi
Archaeological Site of Gournia
Fieldtrip to Crete, 2019Photo A. Zournatzi
Archaeological Museum of Sitia
Fieldtrip to Crete, 2019Photo M.H. Feldman
Archaeological site of Palaikastro
Fieldtrip to Crete, 2019Photo M.H. Feldman
Holy Monastery of Toplou
Fieldtrip to Crete, 2019Photo M.H. Feldman
Toplou winery
Fieldtrip to Crete, 2019Photo A. Zournatzi
Archaeological site of Gortyn
Fieldtrip to Crete, 2019Photo M.H. Feldman
Archaeological Site of Phaistos
Fieldtrip to Crete, 2019Photo M.H. Feldman
Workshop dinner
Athens, 2018Photo A.S. Shobairi
Credits
The international research project Material Entanglements in the Ancient Mediterranean and Beyond, supported by Getty as part of its Connecting Art Histories initiative from August 2017 – February 2020, benefited from the collaboration and support of numerous colleagues and institutions.
Invitations to and interactions with specialists outside of the project team were an important part of our program. Dr. Hélène Cassimatis, Chercheur honoraire au CNRS ( Paris), and Dr. Olga Palagia, Professor of Classical Archaeology emerita at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, kindly accepted our invitation to join the activities of our program and act as respondents to papers presented and discussed in the first workshop held at the National Hellenic Research Foundation in Athens in 2018. During the second cycle of our project, held in Crete in 2019, we benefited from the participation of five more invited specialists. Dr. Despina Ignatiadou, Head Curator of the Department of Sculpture of the National Archaeological Museum (Athens), Dr. Pavlina Karanastasi, Professor of Classical Archaeology at the University of Crete, (†) Ms. Kalliope Kritikakou-Nikolaropoulou, Functional Senior Researcher of the Institute of Historical Research at the National Hellenic Research Foundation, and Dr. Clairy Palyvou, Professor emerita in the School of Architecture, Faculty of Engineering, at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, each gave a lecture on special topics related to the themes of our program during workshop sessions. The fifth invited specialist, Dr. Antonios Vasilakis, Ephor of Antiquities emeritus, offered us the benefit of on-site lectures on the archaeology of Gortyn, Hagia Triada and Phaistos.
Archaeological site visits and museum tours provided exceptional opportunities to engage deeply with our workshop locales and, again, we are most grateful for on-site and gallery talks by local experts. Our visits to locales of archaeological and museological interest in Athens were led by the museum staff (Acropolis Museum); Dr. Eleni Konstantinidi-Syvridi, Curator in the Department of Prehistoric, Egyptian, Cypriot and Near Eastern Antiquities, and Dr. Chrysanthi Tsouli, Curator in the Department of Sculpture (National Archaeological Museum); Dr. Nikos Tsoniotis, Archaeologist in the Ephorate of Antiquities of the City of Athens (Acropolis of Athens).
During our field trip to northern Greece, Dr. Angeliki Kottaridi, Director of the Ephorate of Antiquities of Imathia, received our team and introduced us to the site and Museum of the Royal Tombs at Aigai, the Palace of Aigai, and the exhibit, then in preparation, at the Polycentric Museum of Aigai-Vergina. Archaeologist Eleni Benaki, a long-time collaborator of (†) Prof. Dimitrios Pantermalis in the excavations at Dion, guided our visit to this archaeological site and its museum. MA Archaeologist-Tourist Guide, Konstantinos Papastathis, indefatigably led a rich itinerary of visits to ancient and byzantine monuments and the Archaeological Museum of Thessaloniki and the Museum of Byzantine Culture, as well as the archaeological site and Museum of Pella.
During our field trips in Crete, the Right Reverend Abbot Philotheos Spanoudakis welcomed us at the Holy Monastery of Toplou, and offered us an opportunity of a guided tour of this important 14th century monastery’s architectural setting, and its treasures of icons and manuscripts. We had the good fortune to be introduced to the collections of the Heraklion Archaeological Museum by Dr. Giorgos Rethemiotakis, Director emeritus of the Herakleion Archaeological Museum. Ms. Victoria Kountouri, PhD candidate in Classical Archaeology at the University of Crete, guided us through the archaeological site of Eleutherna Orthi Petra and the Museum of Ancient Eleutherna, on the behalf of the excavation and museum’s Director Prof. Nikolaos Chr. Stampolidis of the University of Crete. MSc Archaeologist Elisavet Kavoulaki, Supervising Archaeologist of the Palace of Knossos of the Ephorate of Antiquities of Heraklion, guided us through the antiquities of Knossos. Dr. Thomas M. Brogan, Director of the INSTAP Study Center for East Crete, kindly agreed to introduce us to the archaeological site at Gournia. Ms. Holly Parton undertook to familiarize us, on the behalf of the excavation’s Directors Dr. Alexander MacGillivray, Prof. Jan Driessen and (†) Hugh Sackett, with the progress of archaeological exploration at Palaikastro.
Permissions for free entry to the archaeological sites and museums encompassed in the two cycles of our traveling research seminars in Athens and northern Greece in 2018 and Crete in 2019 were graciously granted by Dr. Polyxeni Adam-Veleni, Director General of the General Directorate of Antiquities and Cultural Heritage of the Hellenic Ministry of Culture.
For facilitating our site visits and museum tours, we would equally like to record our debt to: Dr. Eleni Banou, Director of the Ephorate of Antiquities of the City of Athens; Dr. Christos Gatzolis, Director of the Ephorate of Antiquities of Pieria; Dr. Angeliki Kottaridi, Director of the Ephorate of Antiquities of Imathia; Dr. Maria Lagogianni-Georgakarakos, Director of the National Archaeological Museum (Athens); Dr. Asterios Lioutas, Head of the Department of Prehistoric and Classical Antiquities and Museums of the Ephorate of Antiquities of Thessaloniki City; Dr. Stella Mandalaki, Director of the Archaeological Museum of Heraklion; Ms. Georgia Moschovi, Head of the Department of Byzantine and Post-Byzantine Antiquities and Museums of the Ephorate of Antiquities of Lasithi; (†) Prof. Dimitrios Pantermalis, President of the Board of Directors of the Acropolis Museum; Dr. Eleni Papadopoulou, Director of the Ephorate of Antiquities of Chania; Dr. Maria Pappa, Head of the Department of Prehistoric and Classical Antiquities and Museums of the Ephorate of Antiquities of Thessaloniki Region; Dr. Georgios Skiadaresis, Acting Director of the Ephorate of Antiquities of Thessaloniki City; Dr. Vasiliki Sithiakaki, Director of the Ephorate of Antiquities of Heraklion; Dr. Chrysa Sofianou , Director emerita of the Ephorate of Antiquities of Lasithi; Dr. Nikolaos Chr. Stampolidis, Professor of Classical Archaeology in the Department of History and Archaeology at the University of Crete and Director of the University of Crete excavations at Eleutherna Orthi Petra and the Museum of Ancient Eleutherna; (†) Dr. Evangelia Stefani, Director of the Archaeological Museum of Thessaloniki; Dr. Maria Tsiapali, Director of the Ephorate of Antiquities of Thessaloniki Region; Dr. Elisavet Tsigarida, Director of the Ephorate of Antiquities of Pella; Dr. Agathoniki Tsilipakou, General Director of the Museum of Byzantine Culture (Thessaloniki); Dr. Anastasia Tzigounaki, Director of the Ephorate of Antiquities of Rethymno.
To all the above colleagues we wish to express our deepest appreciation for greatly enhancing the success of our program.
We further owe special thanks to Dr. Konstantinos V. Zormpas, General Director, and Ms. Emmanuela Larentzaki, Conference Manager, of the Orthodox Academy of Crete for the provision of accommodations and conference facilities for our 2nd workshop held at Kolymvari (Crete).
Last, but not least, we wish to acknowledge the support of the Department of the History of Art, especially Senior Academic Administrator Ashley Costello, and the Sponsored Projects Office of Johns Hopkins University, and the Institute of Historical Research and the Central Administration, especially Administrative Director Ioanna Petrohilou, of the National Hellenic Research Foundation for facilitating practical matters at every step of the project.
Above all, we feel grateful to the Getty Foundation staff for their constant guidance and support on organizational matters and to Getty’s Connecting Art Histories initiative for the opportunity to be involved in such an intellectually stimulating and personally gratifying endeavor.