Doro Levi

Doro Levi (actually Teodoro Levi , born June 1, 1898 in Trieste , † July 3, 1991 in Rome ) was an Italian classical archaeologist .

Levi studied at the University of Florence and received his doctorate in 1920. From 1921 to 1926 he was a member of the Scuola Archeologica Italiana di Atene . In 1926 Levi became inspector at the Soprintendenza alle antichità d'Etruria in Florence, and in 1935 its director. In 1935 he became Professor of Classical Archeology at the University of Cagliari and at the same time Soprintendente of Sardinia. Due to the Italian race laws , he had to emigrate as a Jew and spent the years 1938 to 1945 as a member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton; here he wrote the basic monograph on the mosaics of Antioch . After the war he returned to Italy and in 1946 founded the “Direzione dell'Ufficio per le relazioni culturali presso il Ministero della Pubblica Istruzione” in Rome. From 1947 to the end of 1976 he was director of the Scuola Archeologica Italiana di Atene.

He is best known as the excavator of Phaistos . In 1960 he also began digging in Carian Iasos .

literature

• Vincenzo La Rosa:  Levi, Teodoro (detto Doro). In: Mario Caravale (ed.): Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (DBI). Volume 64:  Latilla – Levi Montalcini. Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, Rome 2005.
• Vincenzo La Rosa: La direzione di Doro Levi. In: Annuario della Scuola Archeologica di Atene e delle Missioni Italiane in Oriente. Volume 87, 2009, pp. 105-115