Vassilis L. Aravantinos

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Vassilis L. Aravantinos , Greek Βασίλης or Βασίλειος Λ. Αραβαντινός (* 1950 ) is a Greek classical archaeologist and Mycenaeologist .

Life

Aravantinos studied Classical Archeology at the University of Athens . After graduation (πτυχίο) he was involved in excavations in Argos , Epidaurus , Mycenae and Nauplion . He then did a doctorate at the Istituto per gli Studi Micenei ed Egeo-Anatolici of the Italian Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche under Anna Sacconi .

He then held various positions in the Greek Ministry of Culture before he became Ephoros for Classical Antiquities in Boeotia (Έφορος Αρχαιοτήτων Βοιωτίας) and director of the Thebes Archaeological Museum in 1993 . In this role he led the excavations in Thebes , especially in the area of ​​the largely unexcavated palace, the so-called Kadmeia . From 2007 to 2011 he was co-director of the Eastern Boeotia Archaeological Project of the Canadian Institute in Greece .

Various research stays took him to the University of Wisconsin (with Emmett Leslie Bennett ), the Institute of Classical Studies (with John Nicolas Coldstream ) and the Archaeological Institute of the University of Rome . He was visiting professor at the universities of Chieti , Urbino and Naples . The University of Naples awarded him an honorary professorship. In 2011 he retired.

Research priorities

From 1993 to 1995 about 250 Linear B tablets were discovered by Aravantinos in the course of a rescue excavation in Pelopidou Street and the Arsenal in Thebes . They make up about 5% of the entire Linear B text corpus of all sites. In 1996, a few more tablets were discovered in a museum among the finds from an excavation from 1963–1964. Three of the four originally planned volumes on the new texts were published by Aravantinos in collaboration with Louis Godart and Anna Sacconi and other collaborators from 2001 to 2005.

In 2011, Aravantinos received the Athens Academy Prize for his book on the Thebes Archaeological Museum .

Fonts (selection)

Monographs

  • with Louis Godart, Anna Sacconi: Thèbes. Fouilles de la Cadmèe. I: Les tablettes en line B de la Odos Pelopidou. Edition et commentaire. Istituti editoriali e poligrafici internazionali, Rome 2001 (Biblioteca di "Pasiphae", vol. 1).
  • with Eleni Andrikou, Louis Godart, Anna Sacconi, Joanita Vroom: Thèbes. Fouilles de la Cadmèe. II.2: Les tablettes en linear B de la Odos Pelopidou. Le contexte archéologique, La céramique de la Odos Pelopidou et la chronologie du linéaire B. Istituti editoriali e poligrafici internazionali, Rome 2006 (Biblioteca di "Pasiphae", vol. 2.2).
  • with Louis Godart, Anna Sacconi: Thèbes. Fouilles de la Cadmèe. III: Corpus des documents d'archives en linéaire B de Thèbes (1–433). Istituti editoriali e poligrafici internazionali, Rome 2002 (Biblioteca di "Pasiphae", vol. 3).
  • with Maurizio Del Freo , Louis Godart: Thèbes. Fouilles de la Cadmèe. IV: Les textes de Thèbes (1-433). Translitération et tableaux des scribes. Istituti editoriali e poligrafici internazionali, Rome 2005 (Biblioteca di "Pasiphae", vol. 4).
  • (Ed.): Δ΄ Διεθνές Συνέδριο Βοιωτικών Μελετών. Λιβαδειά 9–12 Σεπτεμβρίου 2000. In: Επετηρίς της Εταιρείας Βοιωτικών Μελετών , Athens 2008 [2009] (2 vol.), Table of contents .
  • Το Αρχαιολογικό Μουσείο Θηβών. Έκδοση Κοινωφελούς Ιδρύματος Ιωάννη Σ. Λάτση, Athens 2010, (online) .
    • English translation: The Archaeological Museum of Thebes. Ibid, (online) .

items

  • Old and new evidence for the palatial society of Mcenaean Thebes: An Outline. In: Robert Laffineur , Wolf-Dietrich Niemeier (ed.): Politeia. Society and State in the Aegean Bronze Age. Proceedings of the 5th International Aegean Conference, University of Heidelberg, Archaeological Institute (April 10-13, 1994). Université de Liège, Histoire de l'art et archeologie de la Grèce antique, Liège 1995 (Aegaeum, 12), pp. 613-623, (online) (PDF).
  • New Evidence about the EH II period in Thebes: A New Architectural Complex and a Group Burial within the Kadmeia. In: Eva Alram-Stern (Ed.): The Aegean Early Time. The Early Bronze Age in Greece with the exception of Crete. 2nd series. Research report 1975–2002. Publishing house of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 2004, ISBN 978-3-7001-3268-4 , pp. 1255–1265.
  • with Louis Godart, Anna Sacconi: Commentaires aux nouveaux textes insérés dans le corpus de Thèbes. In: Sigrid Deger-Jalkotzy , Oswald Panagl (Ed.): The new Linear B texts from Thebes. Your illuminating value for the Mycenaean language and culture. Files from the international research colloquium at the Austrian Academy of Sciences on December 5 and 6, 2002. Verlag der Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 2006, pp. 1–10.

literature

  • Bryan Fire: Mycenaean Civilization. An Annotated Bibliography, through 2002. Revised edition. McFarland, Jefferson, North Carolina 2004, pp. 334-337 ( Regional and Site Reports: Thebes ) (online) .

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personal data
SURNAME Aravantinos, Vassilis L.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Αραβαντινός, Βασίλης Λ.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Greek classical archaeologist and mycenaeologist
DATE OF BIRTH 1950