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Artemis Papatheodorou
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Ottoman & Mediterranean history / History of archaeology

Marie Sklodowska Curie Global Fellow; Research project: Modern Mediterranean Archaeological Regimes in a Global Context (MMARe)

Co-editor: Bulletin of the History of Archaeology
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Coming up on December 8! Panel discussion on the Ottoman Aegean and antiquities @britschoolathens.bsky.social covering local communities, Ottoman officials, foreign diplomats & so much more: www.bsa.ac.uk/events/archa...
Happy to have been part of this project!
#MMARe #MSCA #HistoryOfArchaeology
William Barlett, Rhodes, with the channel between the Islands and Asia Minor (1836), Wikimedia Commons From the BSA announcement: https://www.bsa.ac.uk/events/archaeology-in-the-ottoman-aegean-consuls-culture-commerce/?fbclid=IwY2xjawOb_NdleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETE3SzlyTVVFMEJudG54dE5tc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQQMjIyMDM5MTc4ODIwMDg5MgABHrZSGVcsU0mDwsf5R221XlAHJtoBfDGGGFkkuGJb1ZaXsHZRbVgMvhnzFUdc_aem_xK4IlV-OWH1eVH7V3b2AKA
December 4, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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Just made OA, the rich photo collection of Fahreddin (Türkkan) Pasha (1868-1948) also offers a glimpse into monuments protected under the Ottoman legislation on antiquities. Here, the Comnenian fortification walls in Trebizond/Trabzon/Trapezounta. #MMARe #MSCA #HistoryOfArchaeology #ircica
French text on photograph: Salut de Trébizonde. Murailles des Comnènes. Editeur: Théodore Stylianides. English translation: Greetings from Trebizonde. Walls of the Comnenes. Editor: Theodore Stylianides. Source: https://openaccess.ircica.org/items/21274ed8-5428-4377-ad09-78f19e9a7905 For the Fahreddin (Türkan) Pasha photographic collection more broadly, see: https://openaccess.ircica.org/communities/73322694-d203-46e2-accf-0e94f437bf81
December 2, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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#Thanksgiving: Three months into my #MMARe #MSCA fellowship, I look back with gratitude to the people who made it possible over the years: my family, teachers, university professors, administrators, directors, supervisors, funders, colleagues... I’m grateful to all of them!
A pink rose in a vase standing on a festive table. Photo by Artemis Papatheodorou, Thanksgiving Day, 27 November 2025.
November 28, 2025 at 12:25 AM
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Smiley faces after our #HistoryOfArchaeology panel at the #MESA Annual Conference. With two of my co-panelists, Dr Ceren Abi (left) who works on WWI restitution & Dr Nilay Özlü (right) who presented on her cataloguing of Ottoman Archive docs from the Imperial Museum. Two great projects! #MMARe #MSCA
In the corridors of the Middle East Studies Association Annual Conference following our successful panel on the history of Ottoman archaeology. With Dr Ceren Abi (left) and Dr Nilay Özlü (right).
November 26, 2025 at 7:51 PM
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On the occasion of the #GEM opening… Did you know that the Principality of Samos could boast of a 200-odd collection of Egyptian antiquities donated to its museum by the Gizah Museum in 1898? #MMARe looks into this fascinating story of an inter-Mediterranean export. #MSCA #HistoryOfArchaeology
The Egyptian collection of Abbas Hilmi at the Old Museum in the Pythagoreion Highschool, Principality of Samos. Photograph taken in 1900. Source: Αρχαιολογικόν Δελτίον 27 (1972)
November 18, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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In 1859, when Prince Gkikas smuggled precious antiquities from the Principality of Samos to Moldavia & Wallachia, the islanders mobilized to get them back. And they did! #MMARe tries to shed light to this case. #InternationalDayAgainstIllicitTraffickinginCulturalProperty #MSCA #HistoryOfArchaeology
Excerpt from a meeting by the General Assembly of the Samians where they discussed the smuggling of antiquities from the island by Prince Gkikas. The original to be found at the Samos branch of the Greek General State Archives (20 [illegible month] 1859, 1α).
November 14, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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On this #InternationalArchaeologyDay (oops, it was yesterday), I glance at these Fayoum portraits and feel as if they are inviting us to tell their story from their Egyptian necropolis to the display case of the RISD Museum. #MMARe helps us understand such journeys from a legal viewpoint! #MSCA
Three Fayoum portraits on the foreground and a mummy case on the background from the collections of the RISD Museum in Providence, RI (USA).
October 19, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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Roaming the halls of archives and libraries in Athens these days for the fruits of research. Here at the Library of the Archaeological Society at Athens for the reports of the Greek archaeologists who conducted excavations in the Smyrna Zone between 1919 and 1922.
#MMARe #MSCA #HistoryOfArchaeology
The 1924 volume of the Archaeologikon Deltion found at the Library of the Archaeological Society at Athens.
October 1, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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Day #1: I'm excited to be participating in Turkologentag 2025 at Mainz, Germany. My presentation today focused on aspects of the Ottoman antiquities laws. I look forward to many interesting contributions in Europe's largest conference on Ottoman studies!
Photo credit: Aliosha Bielenberg
#MMARe #MSCA
September 18, 2025 at 9:18 PM
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I'm excited to share that I just started my new position as Marie Sklodowska Curie Global Fellow at Columbia University/Ca' Foscari University. This new postdoc research project (MMARe) focuses on the laws on antiquities in the Mediterranean (1789-1945). Stay tuned for more! #MMARe #MSCA
September 5, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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CfA - Heritage Making in the Eastern Mediterranean
Society of Architectural Historians 2026 Conference
Panel organised by Professor Belgin Turan Ozkaya and Professor Nilay Ozlu
May 27, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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Coming up soon! Want to find out more? Check out here: www.metmuseum.org/events/progr...
April 21, 2025 at 8:15 PM