Archaeologist · Excavator · Scholar
Doro Levi
fl. 1931–1972
Archaeologist and excavator, active 1931–1972.
Life and work
- 1935Published the bronze statue of Septimius Severus in the Cyprus Museum, Nicosia (1935); he also excavated and published at Phaistos and on Crete and dated the Antioch mosaics.
- 1935Published in Bullettino del Museo dell'Impero Romano (1935) an article on a bronze statue of Septimius Severus in the Museum at Nicosia, Cyprus.
- 1947Excavated and published finds from Phaistos and Axos in Crete and dated an Antioch mosaic (1947).
Christine Kondoleon, Domestic and Divine: Roman Mosaics in the House of Dionysos (1994), p. 56
- 1950In the Kourion expedition papers of 1950: «Kindly shown to me by Professor Doro Levi»
Penn Museum Archives, Kourion Expedition records (PU-Mu 1050), Box 4, folder 10, p. 9
- 1954Reported the discovery of the Tomba della strada at Phaistos during road works and the 1954 sporadic vessels in Cronaca d'arte.
- 1961–1962Published the Phaistos-area dancing men and goddess-in-shrine finds in ASAtene 1961–1962.
- 1964Wrote the 1964 Lund volume on the recent excavations at Phaistos in Crete, summarising the Italian excavators' results.
- 1972mycenaeologist not attending in Claude Schaeffer's papers (Collège de France), 1 document, 1972.
- UndatedWrote an abstract on Cretan pottery and published a study of a Cretan bronze mitra from Axos bearing an incised Zeus, Apollo, Athena scene; no Cypriot tie beyond bibliography.
- UndatedDated the Antioch mosaics of the Ménandre and Table garnie houses, which are compared with the Anazarbe border, to the late period 235–315.
La mosaïque antique au Proche-Orient I. Des origines à la Tétrarchie (1981), p. 407
- UndatedCited for his discussion of the Axos helmet and related material on page 57 of his Axos volume.
- UndatedPublished the Phrati necropolis in Crete (1931), comparing its pottery and bronzes with Rhodian and Cypriot styles, and wrote the 1964 summary of the recent excavations at Phaistos.
The Illustrated London News 1931-12-26: Vol 179 Iss 4836 (1931)
Mentioned in
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- Greek Archaeology in Western Asia Minor
1965
directed excavation at Iasus
Cook & Blackman 1965
- Mysteries of the Snake Goddess: Art, Desire and the Forging of History
2002
reported on the production of Cretan statuettes
Lapatin 2002
- "Sein Zum Tode..." Untersuchungen zu den gesellschaftlichen Strukturen anhand der Nekropolen und Gräber der protogeometrischen und geometrischen Epoche aus Mittel-und Ostkreta
Rizzotto 2015
- Domestic and Divine: Roman Mosaics in the House of Dionysos
Kondoleon 1995
- La mosaïque antique au Proche-Orient I. Des origines à la Tétrarchie
1981
- The Ayia Triadha Sarcophagus: A Study of Late Minoan and Mycenaean Funerary Practices and Beliefs
Long 1974
Sources
- 1.L'Année Philologique 1936: Vol 11 (1936).
- 2.Art Index 1948: Vol 6.
- 3.The Antiquaries Journal 1937-04: Vol 17 Iss 2 (1937).
- 4.Laura-Concetta Rizzotto, "Sein Zum Tode..." Untersuchungen zu den gesellschaftlichen Strukturen anhand der Nekropolen und Gräber der protogeometrischen und geometrischen Epoche aus Mitt (2015).
- 5.La mosaïque antique au Proche-Orient I. Des origines à la Tétrarchie (1981).
- 6.Christine Kondoleon, Domestic and Divine: Roman Mosaics in the House of Dionysos (1994).
- 7.Lauren Adams, Orientalizing Sculpture in Soft Limestone from Crete and Mainland Greece (1978).
- 8.Charlotte R. Long, The Ayia Triadha Sarcophagus: A Study of Late Minoan and Mycenaean Funerary Practices and Beliefs (1974).
- 9.The Illustrated London News 1931-12-26: Vol 179 Iss 4836 (1931).
- 10.Niki C. Scoufopoulos, Mycenaean Citadels (1971).
- 11.Penn Museum Archives, Kourion Expedition records (PU-Mu 1050), Box 4, folder 10.
- 12.Collège de France, Paris, Fonds Claude Schaeffer (34 CDF), 34 CDF art. 169, «[Réponse de Schaeffer à la lettre de Karageorghis du 24 janvier 1972]», 1 February 1972of 6. Online
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