Adamantia Vasilogamvrou (Greek: Αδαμαντία Βασιλογάμβρου) is a Greek archaeologist. She studied at the universities of
Athens
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and the
Sorbonne and worked as an archaeologist for the
Greek Ministry of Culture and Sports for 35 years. She is Honorary Ephor of Antiquities in the Ephorate of
Laconia
Laconia or Lakonia (, , ) is a historical and Administrative regions of Greece, administrative region of Greece located on the southeastern part of the Peloponnese peninsula. Its administrative capital is Sparti (municipality), Sparta. The word ...
and director of the archaeological excavations and surveys at the site of
Agios Vasileios, a
Mycenaean palace discovered near
Sparta
Sparta was a prominent city-state in Laconia in ancient Greece. In antiquity, the city-state was known as Lacedaemon (), while the name Sparta referred to its main settlement in the Evrotas Valley, valley of Evrotas (river), Evrotas rive ...
in 2009. Her work at Ayios Vasileios has been featured in the Greek media and the palace's discovery was chosen as one of the 10 most important archaeological discoveries worldwide by the 2013 Shanghai Archaeology Forum.
Publications
* Voutsaki, S., Wiersma, C., De Neef, W., & Vasilogamvrou, A. (2019).
The Ayios Vasileios survey project (Laconia, Greece) : questions, aims and methods. ''JOURNAL OF GREEK ARCHAEOLOGY'', ''4'', 67–95
* Voutsaki, S., Moutafi, I., Vasilogamvrou, A., & Kondyli, D. (2020),
ΤΟ ΒΟΡΕΙΟ ΝΕΚΡΟΤΑΦΕΙΟ ΣΤΟΝ ΑΓΙΟ ΒΑΣΙΛΕΙΟ ΛΑΚΩΝΙΑΣ ΚΑΙ Η ΕΞΕΛΙΞΗ ΤΩΝ ΤΑΦΙΚΩΝ ΕΘΙΜΩΝ ΣΤΗΝ ΑΡΧΗ ΤΗΣ ΜΥΚΗΝΑΪΚΗΣ ΠΕΡΙΟΔΟΥ (The North Cemetery at Ayios Basileios in Laconia and the development of burial customs at the beginning of the Mycenaean period'), in ΖΥΜΗ, Ε., ΚΑΡΑΠΑΝΑΓΙΩΤΟΥ Α-Β., ΞΑΝΘΟΠΟΥΛΟΥ, Μ. (eds), ΤΟ ΑΡΧΑΙΟΛΟΓΙΚΟ ΕΡΓΟ ΣΤΗΝ ΠΕΛΟΠΟΝΝΗΣΟ (ΑΕΠΕΛ 1). Πρακτικά του Διεθνούς Συνεδρίου, Τρίπολη 7-11 Νοεμβρίου 2012. (pp.91-99).
* Aravantinos, Vassilis L., and Vasilogamvrou, Adamantia (2012), ‘The first Linear B documents from Ayios Vasileios (Laconia)’, in Carlier, Pierre, de Lamberterie, Charles, Egetmeyer, Markus, Guilleux, Nicole, Rougemont, Françoise, and Zurbach, Julien (eds) ''Études mycéniennes 2010. Actes du XIII
e colloque international sur les textes égéens. Sèvres, Paris, Nanterre, 20-23 septembre 2010'', Biblioteca di "Pasiphae" 10 (Pisa/Roma: Fabrizio Serra), 41-54
References
Greek archaeologists
Greek women archaeologists
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
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