OLGA KARAGIORGOU

Ηome: 64 Psiloritou St., GR-173 42, Athens

Office: Academy of Athens
Centre for the Study of Byzantine and Postbyzantine Art
Anagnostopoulou 14, GR-10673, Athens

olga.karagiorgou@gmx.net
karagiorgou@academyofathens.gr

Current Position

Since August 2004: Researcher in the Centre for the Study of Byzantine and Postbyzantine Art, Academy of Athens.

Previous Appointments

  • May - June 2004: Visiting Lecturer in Byzantine Sigillography, University of Oxford.
  • December 2001 - July 2002 & April - June 2003: Research assistant on Byzantine Lead Seals for the British Academy Project The Prosopography of the Byzantine World, Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College, London.
  • September 1999 – October 1999: Supervisor of excavations on the island of Alonnesos (Aegean Sea, Greece), 7th Department of Byzantine Antiquities, Larisa.
  • September 1997 - June 1998: Research assistant to Dr. Marlia Mango, University of Oxford.
  • March 1996 - June 1996: Assistant to Dr. E. Kofos (former Counsellor and Balkan Analyst at the Greek Ministry for Foreign Affairs), while on a Visiting Fellowship at Brasenose College, University of Oxford.
  • September 1992 - August 1993: Full-time supervisor of the excavations at the Monastiraki Square, Athens, prior to the construction of the Athens subway (Metro excavations), 1st Department of Byzantine Antiquities, Athens.
  • March 1991 - October 1992: Teacher at the Centre of Educational Programmes, Greek Ministry of Culture, Athens.

Education

Scholarships and Academic Awards

  • 2003-2004: Scholarship by the Greek State Scholarships' Foundation (I.K.Y.) for postdoctoral research entitled ‘The sigillographic collection of the Benaki Museum, Athens'.
  • 2001: Summer Fellowship at Dumbarton Oaks, Washington, D.C.
  • 2001: Shortlisted (interviewed) for the ‘Democracy 2500' Fellowship in Aegean Studies, St. Peter's College, University of Oxford.
  • 1999: Grants by A. G. Leventis Foundation (Paris) and S. J. Costopoulos Foundation (Athens).
  • 1995 - 1998: Alexandros S. Onassis Foundation Scholarship.
  • 1995 - 1996: British Academy Scholarship.
  • 1993 - 1995: Greek Archaeological Committee, UK, Scholarship.
  • 1991: Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst (DAAD) Scholarship.
  • 1989: Award for highest mark during the third year of graduate studies (300 participants) by the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens.

Chronological List of Publications

  • Olga Karagiorgou, “Die sigillographische Sammlung des Benaki Museums, Athen“, Studies in Byzantine Sigillography 9 (eds. Prof. J.-Claude Cheynet and Dr. Claudia Sode) (forthcoming).
  • Olga Karagiorgou, “Marble fragments from the Bathhouse“, in C. S. Lightfoot, O. Karagiorgou, O. Koçyigit, H. Yaman, P. Linscheid and J. Foley, “The Amorion Project: Excavation and Research in 2003“, Dumbarton Oaks Papers (forthcoming).
  • Olga Karagiorgou, “The Quarry at Omorphochori near Larisa (Thessaly) and its Contribution to Byzantine Art”, in the volume Archaeological evidence on manufacturing installations during the Byzantine period (5 th -15 th c.) [= Proceedings of the 22 nd Symposium of Byzantine and Postbyzantine Archaeology and Art, Athens ], Athens 2004, 183-219 & 385-386 (in Greek with Greek and English summaries).
  • Michael Jeffreys and Olga Karagiorgou, Web-page on seals for the Prosopography of the Byzantine World , first formal edition, October 2003 (King's College, London ), cf. http://www.kcl.ac.uk/cch/pbe/seals
  • Olga Karagiorgou, “The Late Roman 2 amphora: a container for the military annona on the Danubian border?”, in Economy and Exchange in the East Mediterranean during Late Antiquity, (eds. Sean Kingsley and Michael Decker), Oxford : Oxbow 2001, 129-166.
  • Olga Karagiorgou, “Demetrias and Thebes : the fortunes and misfortunes of two Thessalian port-cities in Late Antiquity”, in Recent Research in Late-Antique Urbanism (ed. Luke Lavan), Journal of Roman Archaeology (Supplementary Series No. 42) 2001, 182-215.
  • Chris Lightfoot and Olga Karagiorgou, “Byzantine Amorion: a provincial capital in Asia Minor ”, Archaiologia 69 (December 1998), 92-96 and repr. Archaiologia 70 (March 1999), 87-88 (in Greek with English summary)

Publications in preparation

  • Olga Karagiorgou, “The Architecture and Sculptural Decoration of the Byzantine basilica of Kalambaka in Thessaly” (revised version of my M. Phil. thesis, Oxford 1995).
  • Olga Karagiorgou, “The Byzantine lead seals discovered at Amorion”.
  • Olga Karagiorgou and Alexandra Wassiliou, “The Byzantine lead seals of the Benaki Museum, Athens”.

Research Papers presented at Recent Conferences (2002-2005)

  • 2005, 14 May (Athens): ‘Excavation data, observations and desiderata in the re-examination of the building history of the basilica of the Dormition of the Virgin at Kalambaka' (in Greek), at the 25th Symposium of the Christian Archaeological Society.
  • 2005, 26 February (Munich): 'Amphoren und Handel im spätantiken Mittelmeerraum', at the 21. Tagung der Deutschen Arbeitsgemeinschaft zur Förderung Byzantinischer Studien.
  • 2004, 27 March (Oxford): ‘Mapping trade by the amphora', at the 38th Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies.
  • 2003, 3 October (Berlin): ‘Die sigillographische Sammlung des Benaki Museums, Athen', at the 8. Internationales Symposion für Sigillographie, Berlin.
  • 2003, 28 February (Volos, Greece): 'St. Achilleios of Larisa and the importance of his hagiographic tradition for the history of Larisa during Late Antiquity' (in Greek), at the 1st Symposium on the Archaeological Work in Thessaly and Sterea Hellas.
  • 2002, 18 May (Athens): “Indications for the exploitation of the verde antico quarries during the Middle Byzantine period” (in Greek), at the 22nd Symposium of the Christian Archaeological Society.

Participation in Excavations

  • 2002 (December) and 2001 (September): Al-Andarin, Syria - University of Oxford.
  • 2002, 1997, 1996 (July): Amorion, Turkey - British School of Archaeology at Ankara.
  • 1999 (September): Agios Demetrios on Alonnesos, Greece - 7th Department of Byzantine Antiquities, Larisa.
  • 1994 (December): Kalambaka, Greece - 7th Department of Byzantine Antiquities, Larisa.
  • 1989 - 1992 (July): Pantanassa Philippiadas, Greece - Archaeological Society of Athens.
  • 1987 - 1989 (August): Kardamena on Kos, Greece - National and Kapodistrian University of Athens.

Membership in Scientific Organisations

  • Association for the Study of Marbles and Other Stones in Antiquity (ASMOSIA)
  • Society for the Promotion of Byzantine Studies (London)
  • Christian Archaeological Society (Athens)