Research Directors Emeriti and Former IHR Researchers
Yiannis E. Meimaris, Research Director Emer. (Fmr Head of Program (1980-2008))
Garth Fowden (1985-2013), Director of Research, Head of Program  (2009-2013)
Apostolos Bousdroukis, Assistant Researcher (2009-2010)

Post-Doctoral Researchers
Giorgos Bourogiannis, Postdoctoral Research Fellow (2018-)
Michael Iliakis, Postdoctoral External Scientific Collaborator (2017-)
Seyedabazar Shobairi, Postdoctoral Research Fellow (2018-)

Former Collaborators
Helen Athanassiou, Research Collaborator (2014-2015)
Constantine Ananiades, Postgraduate Research Collaborator (2006-2008),
Demetrios Gerothanassis, Research Collaborator (2014-2015)
Myrto Malouta, Postdoctoral Research Fellow (2010)
Kyriaki Mavrommataki, External Scientific Collaborator (2006-2008)
Polyxeni Bougia, External Research Collaborator (1987-1991)
Giorgos Bourogiannis, Postdoctoral Researcher (2014-2015)
Pagona Papadopoulou, Postdoctoral Researcher (2014)
Vassiliki Psilakakou, Research Collaborator (2014-2015)
Elizabeth Key Fowden, Research Collaborator (until 2012)
Seyedabazar Shobairi, Postgraduate Research Collaborator (2014-2015)

Ongoing research projects

Epigraphy, History and Archaeology of the Roman Provinces of Palestine and Arabia (present-day south Syria, Jordan, Israel, Palestinian Authority, Sinai Peninsula) (K. Kritikakou-Nikolaropoulou)

• Supplement to the epigraphic corpus of the city of Zoora in Palaestina Tertia (within the frame of the H.F.R.I. project “Zoara/Zughar in the Ghor es-Safi, Jordan”)
• The communities of Zoora (4th-7th c. AD): Nabatean, Jewish and Graeco-Roman characteristics and practices
• Dating in the Graeco-Roman world: local chronological systems of the provinces of Palestine and Arabia
• Diffusion of iconographic themes in the eastern Mediterranean (4th-8th c. AD): the testimony of mosaic floors from the provinces of Palestine and Arabia

 

Cyprus and the Achaemenid Empire (A. Zournatzi)
Political/administrative, cultural and economic relations of the Cypriot city-kingdoms with the Achaemenid world (6th-4th c. BC)

Ancient Cyprus: Economic Policy and Numismatics (E. Markou)

• Collection and study of coin-dies of the silver coinages of the kings of Cyprus (Archaic, Classical and early Hellenistic periods)
• Application of non-destructive analysis for the determination of the chemical composition of the gold and silver coinages of the kings of Cyprus (in collaboration with the Archaeological Research Unit of the University of Cyprus)
• Research on the history of the Cypriot city-kingdoms via primary (philological, numismatic, archaeological and epigraphic) sources
• Study and publication of the legends (mainly in Cypriot syllabic script) of the coinages of the ancient kings of Cyprus

Protection of the Cultural Heritage of Ancient Cyprus (E. Markou)
Collaboration with the Department of Antiquities of Cyprus and Interpol, with a special focus on coins

Inscriptions of Roman Palaipaphos (Ch. Kokkinia)
Autopsy, dating, historical commentary, revised edition of 70 epigraphic texts (in collaboration with the University of Zurich)

 

Institutions and Society of the Eastern Provinces of the Roman Empire (Ch. Kokkinia)

• Organization of local societies
• Rhetoric of power and provincial administration
• Inscriptions and worldview of the ruling class
• Large epigraphic dossiers as a means of promoting values

 

Relations Between the Ancient Greek and Iranian Worlds (A. Zournatzi)

• Greek-Persian relations in the eastern Mediterranean (6th-4th c. BC)
• Greek presence and Iranian-Greek interactions within the territory of the modern state of Iran from the Achaemenid to the Sasanian period: digital recording (Mapping Ancient Cultural Encounters: Greeks in Iran ca. 550 BC - ca. AD 650) and synthesis of archaeological, epigraphic and numismatic evidence
• Interconnections between the early Greek and Achaemenid/Near Eastern historiographic traditions

Funded research projects

“Achaemenid and Achaemenid-Influenced Objects from the Mainland and Island Greek Territory (ca. 510-330 BC)” [MIS 5033021], February 2020-September 2022 (Principal Investigator: S.A. Shobairi, Postdoctoral Researcher/NHRF). Action “Support of Postdoctoral Researchers - 2nd Cycle” of the Hellenic State Scholarships Foundation (ΙΚΥ), Operational Program “Human Resources Development, Education and Lifelong Learning”, NSRF 2014- 2020

 

"Zoara/Zughar in the Ghor es-Safi, Jordan: Interdisciplinary Research and Study of the Discoveries of an Early Byzantine and Medieval Islamic Commercial City in Palaestina Tertia – Southern Bilad ash-Sham” [ZGSJ], October 2019-October 2022 (Principal Investigator: K.D. Politis, Postdoctoral Researcher/Ionian University). 1st Call for the Support of Postdoctoral Researchers of the Hellenic Foundation for Research and Innovation (HFRI), Hellenic General Secretariat for Research and Technology
Study and publication of recently discovered funerary inscriptions from Ghor es-Safi (Κ. Kritikakou-Nikolaropoulou)

 

“People in Motion: Entangled Histories of Displacement across the Mediterranean (1492-1923)” [PIMo], April 2019-April 2023 (Action Chair: Giovanni Tarantino/Università degli Studi di Firenze). Action CA18140 – COST (European Cooperation in Science and Technology)
Participation in Work Group 2 “Ideas in Motion” and the Management Committee (A. Zournatzi)
Project website

 

The Getty Research Institute’s Scholars Program 2018/2019
“The Classical World in Context: Persia” Participation in the program, April-June 2019 (Α. Zournatzi).
Preliminary presentation of research
Publications: Zournatzi, A. “Persia in Cyprus.” In Persia: Ancient Iran and the Classical World, eds. J. Spier, T. Potts, and S.E. Cole. Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Trust, 2022; Zournatzi, A. “The King’s peoples: was there ever an Achaemenid Persian tradition of ethnography?” In Ancient Iran and the Classical World, ed. M.R. Shayegan. Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Trust, forthcoming

 

“Cypriot Connectivity in the Mediterranean from the Late Bronze Age to the End of the Classical Period” [CyCoMed], October 2018-September 2022
(Principal Investigator: G. Bourogiannis, Postdoctoral Researcher/NHRF; Collaborator: E. Markou/NHRF). 1st Call for the Support of Postdoctoral Researchers of the Hellenic Foundation for Research and Innovation (HFRI), Hellenic General Secretariat for Research & Technology
Project website

 

“Material Entanglements in the Ancient Mediterranean and Beyond”, August 2017-June 2020 (Project Directors: M. Feldman/Johns Hopkins University, Α. Zournatzi/NHRF). Connecting Art Histories initiative of the Getty Foundation
The research project brought together an international group of 24 specialists in different aspects of material culture/artistic production with the goal to explore interconnections across a broad swath of the ancient Mediterranean and Near Eastern world from the Middle Bronze Age to the Sasanian period (c. 2000 BCE - c. 650 CE), scrutinize theoretical frameworks, and foster dialogue among different disciplinary/intellectual perspectives. Read more
Individual contributions by members of “The Hellenic World and the East” Program dealt with the following subjects:

• “Achaemenid and Scythian symbiosis in Central Asia” (Μ. Iliakis)
• “Personifications of notions of time in Greek and Palestinian mosaics of late antiquity” (invited talk, Κ. Kritikakou-Nikolaropoulou)
• “Irrigation and hydraulic structures in the Near East during the 1st millennium BC” (S.A. Shobairi)
• “Craftsmen and worldviews in dialogue: perspectives from Seleucid-Parthian Iran” (Α. Zournatzi). See more

 

“ANAVATHMIS. Development of Historical Research: Studies and Digital Applications” [MIS 5002357], June 2017-May 2020 (collective project IHR/NHRF). Action for the Strategic Development of the Research and Technological Sector, Operational Program “Competitiveness, Entrepreneurship and Innovation”, NSRF 2014-2020, co-funded by Greece and the European Union (European Regional Development Fund)
“Coinages of the kings of Cyprus in the Collection of the American Numismatic Society (New York)” (Ε. Markou)
Project website

 

“Advanced VR, iMmersive serious games and Augmented REality as tools to raise awareness and access to European underwater CULTURal heritagE”, June 2017-January 2018 (Principal Investigator: S. Demesticha/University of Cyprus). H2020-SC6-CULT-COOP-2016-2017
Scientific collaboration in the development of “The Seafarers”, an educational game on maritime trade and exchanges in antiquity (E. Markou)
Publication: Poullis, C., M. Kersten-Oertel, J.P. Benjamin, O. Philbin-Briscoe, B. Simon, D. Perissiou, S. Demesticha, Ε. Markou, E. Frentzos, P. Kyriakidis, D. Skarlatos, and S. Rizvic. “Evaluation of ‘The Seafarers’: a serious game on seaborne trade in the Mediterranean sea during the Classical period.” Digital Applications in Archaeology and Cultural Heritage 12 (2019)
Project website | Game website

 

“The Silver Coinage of the Kings of Cyprus: Numismatics and History in the Archaic and Classical Periods (6th to 4th c. BC)" [SilCoinCy], January 2014-October 2015 (Principal Investigator: Ε. Markou/NHRF). Hellenic General Secretariat for Research and Technology, Action Excellence ΙΙ, NSRF 2007-2013
Project website

 

“Κyrtou Plegmata. Economic Networks and Networks of Power and Knowledge in Greece from the Prehistoric Times to Modern Age: Documentation – Mapping – Synthetic Approaches” [447995], June 2013-December 2015 (collective project IHR/NHRF). Action KREPIS, Strategic Development of the Research and Technological Sector, Operational Program “Competitiveness, Entrepreneurship and Innovation”, NSRF 2007-2013, co-funded by Greece and the European Union (European Regional Development Fund)
The Program’s specialized researches on regions of Hellenic activity in the wider eastern world contributed to this IHR project with the following studies in electronic format:

• “Networks of diffusion of Greek culture in the East: cross-cultural encounters and interactions in Iranian territory” (Α. Zournatzi)
• “Army as a means of networking: veterans’ installation in Thrace in Roman times” (Ch. Kokkinia, in collaboration with M.-G. Parissaki [team leader] and F. Camia)
• “Networks of mobility of artisans and iconographic themes in the eastern Mediterranean in late antiquity: the case of the mosaicists of the provinces of Palestine and Arabia” (Κ. Kritikakou-Nikolaropoulou)
• “Numismatic circulation and economic/commercial networks in the eastern Mediterranean before the Christian Era” (Ε. Markou, in collaboration with Ch. Papageorgiadou)

Project website

 

“Excavation of Zone, RU Hebros", 2007-2017 (Director: P. Tsatsopoulou-Kaloudi/Ephorate of Antiquities of Evros). Ministry of Culture, NSRF 2007-2017
Collaboration in the study of epigraphic finds from the archaeological site of Zone (A. Zournatzi)
Publication: Tsatsopoulou-Kaloudi, P., Cl. Brixhe, Ch. Pardalidou, S. Iliopoulou, K. Kaloudis, M. Galani-Krikou, A. Zournatzi, P. Tselekas, R. Veropoulidou, and D. Nikolaidou. Αρχαία Ζώνη Ι: Το Ιερό του Απόλλωνα [Ancient Zone I: The Sanctuary of Apollo]. Komotini: Hellenic Ministry of Culture and Sports, Ephorate of Antiquities of Evros – Region of Eastern Macedonia-Thrace, 2015 [2017]

 

“Excellence in Research Centers/Institutes”, 2nd Cycle, December 2005-February 2008 (collective project KERA/NHRF). Greek Ministry of Development, General Secretariat for Research and Technology / 3rd Community Support Framework (CSF) of the European Union
Indicative of the Program’s contributions are the following monographs and activities:

• Key Fowden, E., and G. Fowden. Contextualizing Late Greek Philosophy. ΜΕΛΕΤΗΜΑΤΑ 54. Athens: Research Centre for Greek and Roman Antiquity of the National Hellenic Research Foundation, 2008
• Kokkinia, Ch. Boubon. The Inscriptions and Archaeological Remains: A Survey 2004-2006. ΜΕΛΕΤΗΜΑΤΑ 60. Athens: Research Centre for Greek and Roman Antiquity of the National Hellenic Research Foundation, 2008
• Meimaris, Y.E., and K.I. Kritikakou-Nikolaropoulou. Inscriptions from Palaestina Tertia, vol. Ib: The Greek Inscriptions from Ghor es-Safi (Byzantine Zoora) (Supplement), Khirbet Qazone and Feinan. ΜΕΛΕΤΗΜΑΤΑ 57. Αthens: Research Centre for Greek and Roman Antiquity of the National Hellenic Research Foundation, 2008
• Field survey at Boubon (Cibyratis, northern Lycia), 2005-2006 (Project Lead: Ch. Kokkinia, collaboration with Heidelberg University): digital publication “Survey results in Boubon (Cibyratis, northern Lycia) / 2004-2006”, and contribution to Hülden, O., et al. Bubon und sein Umland. Eine Nachlese. Einzelstudien des Kibyratis-Projekts 1. 2021

 

“Excellence in Research Centers/Institutes”, 1st Cycle, March 2002-February 2005 (collective project KERA/NHRF). Greek Ministry of Development, General Secretariat for Research and Technology / 3rd Community Support Framework (CSF) of the European Union
Indicative of the Program’s contributions are the following monographs:

• Meimaris, Y.E., and K.I. Kritikakou-Nikolaropoulou. Inscriptions from Palaestina Tertia, vol. Ia: The Greek Inscriptions from Ghor es-Safi (Byzantine Zoora). ΜΕΛΕΤΗΜΑΤΑ 41. Athens: Research Centre for Greek and Roman Antiquity of the National Hellenic Research Foundation, 2005
• Fowden, G., and E. Key-Fowden. Studies on Hellenism, Christianity and the Umayyads. ΜΕΛΕΤΗΜΑΤΑ 37. Athens: Research Centre for Greek and Roman Antiquity of the National Hellenic Research Foundation, 2004
• Zournatzi, A. Persian Rule in Cyprus. Sources, Problems, Perspectives. ΜΕΛΕΤΗΜΑΤΑ 44. Athens: Research Centre for Greek and Roman Antiquity of the National Hellenic Research Foundation, 2005

 

Sponsors

The research activities of the Program “The Hellenic World and the East” have benefited at different times from the generous support of state and private institutions, such as the Hellenic Parliament, the Hellenic Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Hellenic Ministry of Culture, the Greek National Tourism Organization, the Academy of Athens, the Archaeological Society at Athens, the University of Zurich / Schweizer Nationalfonds, the Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem, the Archbishopric of Mount Sinai, the Alexander S. Onassis Public Benefit Foundation, the A.G. Leventis Foundation and Navarino Resorts.

Scientific meetings

Research Seminars of the Section of Greek and Roman Antiquity/IHR, 2009 -  
Coordinators: S. Zoumbaki, A. Zournatzi (2009-2017) / V. Antoniadis, E. Markou, M.-G. Parissaki (2018- )

International Workshop “Thinking the Mediterranean. Communities and Identities”, Athens, NHRF, March 17, 2022
Organized within the frame of WG2 "Ideas in Motion” of the international research program ‘“People in Motion”, 2019-2023, funded by COST (European Cooperation in Science and Technology)
Coordinators: Ch. Gasparis (IHR/NHRF), L. Simonutti (Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Milanο), A. Zournatzi (IHR/NHRF)
Workshop program

International Cyprological Conference “Beyond Cyprus: Investigating Cypriot Connectivity in the Mediterranean from the Late Bronze Age to the End of the Classical Period", Athens, NHRF, December 8-11, 2020
Organized within the frame of the project “Cypriot Connectivity in the Mediterranean from the Late Bronze Age to the End of the Classical Period” [CyCoMed], 2018-2022, funded through the 1st Call for the Support of Postdoctoral Researchers of the Hellenic Foundation for Research and Innovation (HFRI)
Coordinator: G. Bourogiannis (HFRI Postdoctoral Researcher, IHR/NHRF)
Conference program, video recordings of talks and volume of proceedings

International Research Workshops “Material Entanglements in the Ancient Mediterranean and Beyond”, Athens, NHRF, October 2-9, 2018 / Kolymvari (Crete), Orthodox Academy of Crete, September 28 - October 3, 2019
Organized within the frame of the international research project “Material Entanglements in the Ancient Mediterranean and Beyond”, 2017-2020, funded through the Connecting Art Histories initiative of the Getty Foundation
Coordinators: M. Feldman (Johns Hopkins University), A. Zournatzi (IHR/NHRF)
1st Workshop program | 2nd Workshop program

Greek-Iranian Symposium “Homer and Ferdowsi”, Athens, NHRF, January 19-20, 2007
Coordinators: S.M.R. Darbandi (Cultural Center of the Embassy of the Islamic Republic of Iran in Greece), A. Esmailpour (Research Institute of the Iranian Cultural Heritage Organization, Tehran), Α. Ζournatzi (IHR/NHRF)

International Conference “Ancient Greece and Ancient Iran: Cross-Cultural Encounters”, Athens, NHRF, November 11-14, 2006
Organization: NHRF – Hellenic National Commission for UNESCO – Cultural Center of the Embassy of the Islamic Republic of Iran in Greece / Research Institute of the Iranian Cultural Heritage Organization
Coordinators: S.M.R. Darbandi (Cultural Center of the Embassy of the Islamic Republic of Iran in Greece), Α. Ζournatzi (KERA/NHRF)
Conference website

 

Public events

Lecture Series “Ancient Cyprus and the Mediterranean: A Long History of Cultural Contacts”, NHRF Program “Society of Science”, Athens, NHRF, January 14 - February 4, 2020
Organized within the frame of the educational events series “Society of Science” of NHRF and the project “Cypriot Connectivity in the Mediterranean from the Late Bronze Age to the End of the Classical Period” [CyCoMed], 2018-2022, funded through the 1st Call for the Support of Postdoctoral Researchers of the Hellenic Foundation for Research and Innovation (HFRI)
Coordinators: E. Markou (IHR/NHRF), G. Bourogiannis (HFRI Postdoctoral Researcher, IHR/NHRF)
Program of lectures

Public Event of the International Research Project “Material Entanglements in the Ancient Mediterranean and Beyond”, funded through the Connecting Art Histories initiative of the Getty Foundation, Athens, NHRF, October 8, 2018
Coordinators: M. Feldman (Johns Hopkins University), A. Zournatzi (IHR/NHRF)
Event poster

Educational Workshops on Ancient Numismatics for primary school students, Athens, NCSR “Demokritos”, September 28, 2018 / Athens, NHRF, September 20, 2019
Organized within the frame of “European Researchers’ Night”, funded through the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Action
H2020-MSCA-NIGHT-2018/2019
Researcher-in-charge: E. Markou (IHR/NHRF)
European Researchers’ Night 2018 | European Researchers’ Night 2019

Educational Workshops on Ancient Epigraphy and Numismatics for primary and secondary school students, Athens, NCSR “Demokritos”, September 30, 2016 / Athens, NHRF, September 22, 2017
Organized within the frame of “European Researchers’ Night”, funded through the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Action H2020-MSCA-NIGHT-2016/2017
Researchers-in-charge: Ancient epigraphy, Ch. Kokkinia (IHR/NHRF) – Ancient numismatics, E. Markou (IHR/NHRF)
European Researchers’ Night 2016 | European Researchers’ Night 2017

Based on their research interests the members of The Hellenic World and the East Program collaborate in various ways within Greece with the University of Athens, Ionian University, University of the Aegean, Epigraphic Museum and the Ephorate of Antiquities of Evros. As part of their international scholarly exchanges, the Program members have also developed significant collaborations with, among others, the following local archaeological authorities and academic and research institutions: Cyprus Department of Antiquities, Cultural Foundation of the Bank of Cyprus, Palaipaphos Museum, Department of Antiquities of Jordan (Excavation of Ghor es-Safi), Hellenic Society for Near Eastern Studies, Oriental Institute of the University of Oxford, University of Zurich, Yeshiva University of New York, Johns Hopkins University, National Museum of Iran, Iranian Cultural Heritage Organization, Cultural Center of the Embassy of I.R. Iran, Hellenic National Commission for UNESCO and J.P. Getty Foundation.

The initial archive of inscriptions from Palestine brought to the Program by founding researcher Yiannis Meimaris has been expanded over the years into a substantial epigraphic collection (some 500 squeezes), supplemented with a photographic and bibliographic archive and a digital database of dated Greek inscriptions of Roman-Early Byzantine Palestine and Arabia.

More recent endeavors for the development of resources include the following initiatives for the open access dissemination of sound historical knowledge through the World Wide Web for the benefit of the scientific community and the wider public:

Online Publication of Epigraphic Materials from the City of Boubon in Cibyratis (Northern Lycia), Asia Minor
The website presents all known epigraphic finds from a city in the ancient Cibyratis, in southwestern Asia Minor (region of modern Ibecik in the Turkish district of Burdur), which was called Boubon in antiquity. It includes texts, commentaries and photographs of the inscriptions, as well as maps and plans of the major archaeological finds from the same site.
Website address: http://boubonkera.eie.gr/

Kyprios Character
A constantly updated website about the history, archaeology and numismatics of ancient Cyprus. Included so far are a numismatic database with approximately 1000 coins, more than 30 original scientific papers on aspects of the ancient history of Cyprus by various authors, and a complete, searchable bibliography of Cypriot numismatics from 1836 to 2014 with more than 600 entries.
Website address: http://kyprioscharacter.eie.gr/en/

CyCoMed           
Website of the research project “Cypriot Connectivity in the Mediterranean from the Late Bronze Age to the End of the Classical period” (Researcher-in-charge: G. Bourogiannis, HFRI Postdoctoral Researcher, IHR/NHRF). It includes a description of the project, a series of specialist articles, an extensive bibliography on the subject, video recordings of the papers presented in the International Cyprological Conference “Beyond Cyprus: Investigating Cypriot Connectivity in the Mediterranean from the Late Bronze Age to the End of the Classical Period”, and links to websites of interest. 
Website address: https://cycomedproject.eie.gr/?lang=en

Mapping Ancient Cultural Encounters: Greeks in Iran ca. 550 BC - ca. AD 650
Repository of archaeological, epigraphic, and numismatic documents that relate to the Greek presence and to Greek-Iranian encounters within the territory of the modern state of Iran in antiquity. In its initial, pilot version it includes a general overview of the progress of Greek-Iranian cultural phenomena in Iran, of key questions that arise from the available documentation and of the progress of modern research on the subject, as well as 25 items (edifices and architectural elements, inscriptions on stone, metal and ceramics, works of sculpture and coins) from 18 sites, which span the four major historical periods under study. Complementary information about the local Iranian contexts from which the various vestiges were recovered is provided by place entries in a Gazetteer. The presentation is enriched with links to relevant ancient texts, images, and scholarly presentations, publications and websites of interest.
Website address: http://iranohellenica.eie.gr/

Election of Ch. Kokkinia as Corresponding Member of the German Archaeological Institute (Berlin), 2020-

Selection of A. Zournatzi as a 2018/2019 Getty Scholar at the Getty Research Institute – Getty Villa Museum

Election of Ch. Kokkinia as member of the Committee of the Association Internationale d'Épigraphie Grecque et Latine (AIEGL)), 2013-2019

	Award of the “Prix Delepierre” of the Association pour L'Encouragement des Études Grecques en France (2012) to E. Markou for the monograph L'or des rois de Chypre. Numismatique et histoire à l'époque classique (MEΛETHMATA 64, Athènes 2011)   Award of the “Prix Allier de Hauteroche" of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres (2013) to E. Markou for the monograph L'or des rois de Chypre. Numismatique et histoire à l'époque classique (MEΛETHMATA 64, Athènes 2011)
	Award of a “World Prize for the Book of the Year of the Islamic Republic of Iran” of the Iranian Ministry of Culture (2010) to S.M.R. Darbandi and A. Zournatzi for the organization and publication of the proceedings of the 1st Ιnternational Conference Ancient Greece and Ancient Iran: Cross-Cultural Encounters, Athens, 11-13 November 2006 (Athens: National Hellenic Research Foundation – Hellenic National Commission for UNESCO – Cultural Center of the Embassy of the Islamic Republic of Iran in Greece, 2008) Download the publication [6.75 MB | pdf]
	Award of a “Prize of the Academy of Athens in Letters and Fine Arts” (2006) to Y.E. Meimaris and K.I. Kritikakou-Nikolaropoulou for the epigraphic corpus Inscriptions from Palaestina Tertia, vol. Ia: The Greek Inscriptions from Ghor es-Safi (Byzantine Zoora) (MEΛETHMATA 41, Athens 2005)

 

Program members are regular contributors to international scientific journals, collective scientific volumes, and international conference proceedings (see, indicatively, individual member CVs). The fruits of our work so far also include corpora of inscriptions from Third Palestine and the city of Boubon in Asia Minor, synthetic studies in the form of monographs about the history, culture and coinage of antique Syria, Palestine and Arabia, Cyprus and Aegean Thrace, as well as the proceedings of the first international scientific conference on ancient Greek-Iranian relations that was jointly organized by Greeks and Iranians.

• Bourogiannis, G. (ed.). Beyond Cyprus: Investigating Cypriot Connectivity in the Mediterranean from the Late Bronze Age to the End of the Classical Period. AURA Supplement 9. Athens: Department of History and Archaeology of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, 2022.
• Tsatsopoulou-Kaloudi, P., Cl. Brixhe, Ch. Pardalidou, S. Iliopoulou, K. Kaloudis, M. Galani-Krikou, A. Zournatzi, P. Tselekas, R. Veropoulidou, and D. Nikolaidou. ΑρχαίαΖώνη Ι: ΤοΙερότουΑπόλλωνα [Ancient Zone I: The Sanctuary of Apollo]. Komotini: Hellenic Ministry of Culture and Sports, Ephorate of Antiquities of Evros – Region of Eastern Macedonia-Thrace, 2015 [2017]
• Meimaris, Y.E., and K.I. Kritikakou-Nikolaropoulou. Inscriptions from Palaestina Tertia, vol. Ic: The Jewish Aramaic Inscriptions from Ghor es-Safi (Byzantine Zoora). ΜΕΛΕΤΗΜΑΤΑ 73. Αthens: Section of Greek and Roman Antiquity/Institute of Historical Research of the National Hellenic Research Foundation, 2016
• Markou, E. Coinage and History. The Case of Cyprus During the Archaic and Classical Periods / Νομισματική και ιστορία. Η περίπτωση της Κύπρου κατά τους αρχαϊκούς και κλασικούς χρόνους. Lectures on the History of Numismatics / Διαλέξεις για την Ιστορία της Νομισματοκοπίας 6. Nicosia: Bank of Cyprus Cultural Foundation, 2015
• Fowden, G. Before and After Muhammad. The First Millennium Refocused. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2013
• Markou, Ε. L'or des rois de Chypre. Numismatique et histoire à l'époque classique. ΜΕΛΕΤΗΜΑΤΑ 64. Athens: Research Centre for Greek and Roman Antiquity of the National Hellenic Research Foundation, 2011 (“Prix Delepierre” of the Association pour L'Encouragement des Études Grecques en France [2012], and “Prix Allier de Hauteroche” of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres [2013])
• Kokkinia, Ch. Boubon. The Inscriptions and Archaeological Remains: A Survey 2004-2006. MEΛΕΤΗΜΑΤΑ 60. Research Centre for Greek and Roman Antiquity of the National Hellenic Research Foundation, 2008
• Darbandi, S.M.R., and A. Zournatzi (eds.). Ancient Greece and Ancient Iran: Cross-Cultural Encounters, 1st Ιnternational Conference, Athens, 11-13 November 2006. Athens: National Hellenic Research Foundation – Cultural Center of the Embassy of the Islamic Republic of Iran in Athens – Hellenic National Commission for UNESCO, 2008 (“World Prize for the Book of the Year of the Islamic Republic of Iran” of the Iranian Ministry of Culture [2010])
• Meimaris, Y.E., and K.I. Kritikakou-Nikolaropoulou. Inscriptions from Palaestina Tertia, vol. Ib: The Greek Inscriptions from Ghor es-Safi (Byzantine Zoora) (Supplement), Khirbet Qazone and Feinan. MEΛΕΤΗΜΑΤΑ 57. Αthens: Research Centre for Greek and Roman Antiquity of the National Hellenic Research Foundation, 2008
• Key Fowden, E., and G. Fowden. Contextualizing Late Greek Philosophy. ΜΕΛΕΤΗΜΑΤΑ 54. Αthens: Research Centre for Greek and Roman Antiquity of the National Hellenic Research Foundation, 2008
• Meimaris, Ι.Ε., in collaboration with N. Makrygianni. Ἔρνος κύδιμον Παλαιστινῆς Γαίης. Ἀνθολογία ἑλληνικῶν ἐπιγραφῶν Παλαιστίνης καὶ Ἀραβίας. Αthens: Research Centre for Greek and Roman Antiquity of the National Hellenic Research Foundation, 2008
• Zournatzi, A. Persian Rule in Cyprus. Sources, Problems, Perspectives. MEΛETHMATA 44. Αthens: Research Centre for Greek and Roman Antiquity of the National Hellenic Research Foundation, 2005
• Meimaris, Y.E., and Κ.Ι. Kritikakou-Nikolaropoulou. Inscriptions from Palaestina Tertia, vol. Ia: The Greek Inscriptions from Ghor es-Safi (Byzantine Zoora). MEΛΕΤΗΜΑΤΑ 41. Αthens: Research Centre for Greek and Roman Antiquity of the National Hellenic Research Foundation, 2005 (“Prize of the Academy of Athens in Letters and Fine Arts” [2006])
• Fowden, G. Qusayr 'Amra. Art and the Umayyad Elite in Late Antique Syria. The Transformation of the Classical Heritage 36. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2004
• Fowden G., and E. Key-Fowden. Studies on Hellenism, Christianity and the Umayyads. ΜΕΛΕΤΗΜΑΤΑ 37. Αthens: Research Centre for Greek and Roman Antiquity of the National Hellenic Research Foundation, 2004
• Fowden, G. Empire to Commonwealth. Consequences of Monotheism in Late Antiquity. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1993 (Italian transl., Rome 1997)
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• Meimaris, Υ. The Monastery of Saint Euthymios the Great at Khan el-Ahmar, in the Wilderness of Judaea. Rescue Excavations and Basic Protection Measures, 1976-1979: Preliminary Report. Athens, 1989
• Meimaris, Y.E. Sacred Names, Saints, Martyrs and Church Οfficials in the Greek Inscriptions and Papyri Pertaining to the Christian Church of Palestine. ΜΕΛΕΤΗΜΑΤΑ 2. Αthens: Research Centre for Greek and Roman Antiquity of the National Hellenic Research Foundation, 1986
• Meimaris, Ι.Ε. Κατάλογος τῶν νέων ἀραβικῶν χειρογράφων τῆς Ἱερᾶς Μονῆς Ἁγίας Αἰκατερίνης τοῦ Ὄρους Σινᾶ [in Greek and Arabic]. Athens: Holy Monastery of Saint Catherine – National Hellenic Research Foundation, 1985

The Program’s researchers support the publishing activity of the Section of Greek and Roman Antiquity as regular members of the editorial committees of the monograph series ΜΕΛΕΤΗΜΑΤΑ and the journal Τεκμήρια.