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The 2010 campaign will take place from June 15th to July 23rd Click for our first preliminary report Click for a visit by Archaeology Magazine during the 2009 campaign: Click for a press communiqué on the 2009 campaign We received the 2009 Prize of the Compagnie du Bois Sauvage: http://www.uclouvain.be/cps/ucl/doc/fondationlouvain/documents/FL12.pdf We now also have a new partnership with Couderé Geo Services who have put a Trimble VX at our disposition: http://www.couderefr.be/ned/nieuwsDetail.asp?ID=79 ----------------- According to Greek legend, Crete was ruled by three mythical brothers, Minos, Sarpedon and Rhadamanthus. Sarpedon is said to have had dominion over the eastern part of the island until he was exiled by his brother Minos. We have adopted him as a symbol for a new interdisciplinary and multi-partner archaeological project focused on the Kefali hill and its environs, located near the modern village of Sissi in east Crete. The Sissi Archaeological Project (S.Ar.P.edon) is a collaboration of the French and Dutch speaking universities of Louvain/Leuven and operates in Greece under the auspices of the Belgian School of Athens (EBSA). This is perhaps the only pan-Belgian excavation abroad and the first time a site on Crete is excavated by the EBSA.
We sincerely thank the head of the KD’ Ephoreia (http://www.yppo.gr/1/g1540.jsp?obj_id=2719), Mrs. V. Apostolakou, for graciously allowing us to do this work, as well as the epimelete, Mrs. V. Zografaki, for a fine collaboration. Ms. S. Michou represented the KD’ Ephoreia during the 2007 campaign, Ms. L. Manoussogiannaki during the 2008 and 2009 campaigns. We would also like to thank the Ecole française d’Athènes and its director, D. Mulliez, for putting at our disposal the apothikes of the dig house at Malia. INSTAPEC and its director, T. Brogan, are thanked for putting site sieves and their photographer at our disposal. Mr. Panos Iossif, secretary of the Belgian School at Athens kindly took care of permits, IKA and other logistic issues, greatly facilitating our work. We now share an apothiki with the Irish Excavations of Priniatikos Pirgos (Dr. Barry Molly) in Ayios Nikolaos. We are also grateful to the following inhabitants of Sissi and Vrachasi for their help and Cretan hospitality: Christos Mameloukos, Eleni and Kostas Kivernitakis, Anna and Manolis Moulara, the mayor of the kinotita Vrachasiou Mr. Giorgios Sfirakis, Mrs. Ismini Ierapetraki, Mr. Giorgios Markakis, the Zouraris family, Angistri restaurant, Zacharias Pension, Panorama Pension, Mia Hara Hotel (Mr. N. Terzakis) and Mr. Vasilis Prineas and Michalis Mameloukos for making site work more agreeable. Check out http://vrahassi.gr/ and http://taneatouvrachassiou.blogspot.com/ for Vrachasi news. We also want to thank the Kalimera Kriti Hotel (Mr. Pelikanakis) for the use of the facilities, the Vasia Hotel (Mr. Chondrakis) for putting a truck at our disposal and the Minos Imperial Hotel (Mr. Gennetakis) for hosting the Belgian Ambassador.
We also thank our local workers from Vrachasi especially Giorgios Metaxarakis (2007-2009), Kristian Jacobson (2007-2009), Iannis Milidakis (2009), Iannis Milathianakis (2009), Michalis Tzannakis (2008), Manolis Tzannakis (2007-2009), Giorgios Kiriakakis (2007), Vassilis Stefanakis (2007), Manolis Mandelenis (2008), Dimitris Vlachakis (2008), Phlippas Petzepakis (2008), Saimir Cami (2008), Nikolin Gkika (2008), Nezha Kremar (2008), Saimi Besik (2008), Luan Bellova (2008).
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