Category: excavations-and-research
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From the Vantage of the Victory: The Performative Heart of the Sanctuary of the Great Gods on Samothrace
Project Description: The Victory (Nike) of Samothrace in the Louvre has long captured the imagination of the world, but it becomes all the more powerful when reunited with its spatial, material, historical, religious, and aesthetic environment in the ancient Greek Sanctuary of the Great Gods on Samothrace. From the Nike’s vantage over the performative heart…
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2020 Virtual Field Season
Senior team members: Carmen Arnold-Buicchi, Vincent Baillet, Arya Basu, Susan Blevins, Ian Burr, Kevin Clinton, Giulia Coppola, Nora Dimitrova, Brittany Dinneen, Andrew Farinholt Ward, Laura Gadbery, Madeleine Glennon, Samuel Holzman, Nicholas Hudson, Philip Katz, Amy Sowder Koch, Fotini Kondyli, Alexandros Laftsidis, Ludovic Laugier, Caleb Lightfoot, Dimitris Matsas, Michael Morris, Joanna Mundy, Jessica Paga, Michael C.…
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North Aegean Architectural Networks: Thasos and Samothrace in the Formation of Hellenistic and Roman Design
This collaboration between the Art History Department of Emory University and Département d’Histoire de l’art et archéologie, Université Bordeaux Montaigne
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Geology and Geomorphology in the Sanctuary of the Great Gods
Project description: All who come to the Sanctuary of the Great Gods are intuitively aware of the interaction of geologic and human forces in crafting the sacred space. In 2013 we reoriented our archaeological investigation to encompass the geologic factor more fully. With the support of the Malcolm Hewitt Wiener Foundation and matching donors, we…
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Passage and Perception in the Sanctuary of the Great Gods, Samothrace: Visualization and Animation
In the Sanctuary of the Great Gods on Samothrace, we have mined the innovative potential of three-dimensional digital modeling to document, analyze, and communicate the complex spatial relationships that bind place, architecture, and ritual in this famous yet elusive mystery cult.
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Emory Undergraduate Projects
2007-2008 Desi Gonzales: Website Design A researcher, writer, educator, and media maker, Desi Gonzalez uses digital media to encourage meaningful engagement with the arts. She is currently the manager of digital engagement at the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh, PA. Previously, Desi has worked as a designer developing educational tools at La Victoria Lab in…
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South Nekropolis Plan
Elsbeth Dusenbery devoted her research career to the excavation and publication of the nekropoleis near the Sanctuary of the Great Gods on Samothrace. Her work appeared in Samothrace. Excavations Conducted by the Institute of Fine Arts of New York University, volume 11, The Nekropoleis, published in 1998 by Princeton University Press.
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Excavations
Click the ▼ to view the reports for the Samothrace project. 2020 Virtual Field Season Senior team members: Carmen Arnold-Buicchi, Vincent Baillet, Arya Basu, Susan Blevins, Ian Burr, Kevin Clinton, Giulia Coppola, Nora Dimitrova, Brittany Dinneen, Andrew Farinholt Ward, Laura Gadbery, Madeleine Glennon, Samuel Holzman, Nicholas Hudson, Philip Katz, Amy Sowder Koch, Fotini Kondyli, Alexandros Laftsidis, Ludovic…