On July 21, at the age of 98, Professor Francisco Rodríguez Adrados, one of the most prestigious and internationally renowned Spanish Hellenists, died in Madrid. He was Professor of Greek Philology at the University of Barcelona and the Complutense of Madrid, member of the Real Academia Española, the Real Academia de la Historia and...
The International Association for Research on Pottery of the Hellenistic Period (IARPotHP) has announced the celebration of the “5th Conference: From East to West and back again: societies, economies and ceramics in the Hellenistic World” to be held from June 22-25, 2021 in Sevilla. The conference is structured in five topics: Long-distance Trade Networks...
Recently, the monograph Analyse et exploitation des timbres amphoriques grecs has appeared, edited by Nathan Badoud and Antigone Marangou (Presses Universitaires de Rennes, Rennes, 2019). The book covers the proceedings of the International Colloquium held in Athens, on 3-5 February 2010, on the different stamps that appear on Greek amphorae from the Archaic period...
On May 18, on the occasion of the celebration of International Museum Day, the Museu d’Arqueologia de Catalunya (MAC) presented its new Blog (http://arqueoblog.cat) with the aim of being a channel of digital dissemination of their activities. The Blog is structured in six sections: “News”, “Museum stories”, “Museum inside”, “Open to the public”, “From...
On April 23, International Book Day, the Fundación Pública Andaluza Rodríguez-Acosta presented the book Cerámica Griega de la Fundación Rodríguez-Acosta, where are studied 29 Greek vases, dated between the 8th and 3rd centuries BC and some of them coming from the Tutugi necropolis (Galera, Granada). These vases were part of the collections of the...
Throughout this month of April, the situation caused by coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) has continued to alter the daily activities of our society. From the Iberia Graeca Centre, thanks to telematic work, we have been able to increase the Document Database of this website with the preparation and introduction of 206 new record cards of Greek...
Since we are quarantined because of the pandemic caused by coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) and although this publication does not refer to the Greek Archaeology of the Iberian Peninsula, we would like to highlight this article, published last year, by Dr. María del Pino Carreño, titled “War and plague in Athens. Review of the possible origin...
Last November, the Volume 4 of the Journal of Greek Archaeology (JGA) corresponding to the year 2019 was published. This anual publication was born in 2016, on the initiative of the Publisher Archaeopress (Oxford) and under the direction of Professor John Bintliff of Leiden University. It is a journal specialized in Greek archaeology with...
As every year, the Greek Community of Catalonia has celebrated the Feast of the Vasilopita on the occasion of the beginning of the new year. The party took place in Barcelona on February 16 and had a large participation of the members of the Community. The Iberia Graeca Centre has participated in the Feast...
Doctor Arturo Ruiz, Professor of Archeology at the University of Jaén and member of the Scientific Council of the Iberia Graeca Centre, has been awarded the Medal of Merit in the Fine Arts, in his gold category, given by the Ministry of Culture and Sport in its 2019 edition (Real Decreto 742/2019 of December...
