Labraunda
The Team
Lars Karlsson is the Director of the Swedish Labraunda project since 2004.
In 1992, he defended his PhD dissertation about ancient fortifications and architecture in Sicily, Fortification Towers and Masonry Techniques in the Hegemony of Syracuse, 405-211 B.C. (published by the Swedish Institute in Rome, 1992). He has written extensively on Greek and Roman fortification techniques. Karlsson has also directed excavations in the Etruscan city of San Giovenale in Italy and has published a major volume on the excavations at this Etruscan site: San Giovenale. Area F East. Huts and Houses on the Acropolis (published by the Swedish Institute in Rome, 2006). Karlsson is now preparing a volume on The Forts and Fortifications of Labraunda. He is Professor of Classical Archaeology at Uppsala University in Sweden.
email: Lars.Karlsson@antiken.uu.se
Jesper Blid, M.A. in Classical Archaeology and Art History at Uppsala University.
Since November 2007, Blid has a Ph.D. position at the department of Classical Archaeology at Stockholm University. Jesper Blid’s research includes a complete documentation and analysis of the sanctuary of Zeus Labraundos at Carian Labraunda during Late Antiquity, c. 200-500 AD. Within a rather confined area, the sanctuary includes two churches, one tetraconchos (most probably a baptistery) and two large Roman baths, one of which might have been built as late as in the fourth century. On the site, considerable alterations of earlier Classical buildings were made during the late Roman as well as in the Byzantine period, and those reconstructions are also the focal point of the study. These building structures, along with the excavated pottery, glass, coins and other objects from the campaigns of 1951, 1953, 1960 and 2005, will be examined.
email: jesper.blid@antiken.su.se
Pontus Hellström is Emeritus Professor of Classical Archaeology and Ancient History at Uppsala University.
He was formerly Director of the Swedish Archaeological Institute at Athens (1972-1976), Head of the Graeco-Roman Department at the Museum for Mediterranean Antiquities in Stockholm (1976-1990) and Director of the Swedish Research Institute in Istanbul (1990-1992), before coming to Uppsala. He obtained his PhD in 1972 at Lund, has excavated in Sudanese Nubia, Italy, Greece and Turkey, and was the Director of field-work at Labraunda 1979-2003. He is the author of several books and numerous articles. His first book on Labraunda was Pottery of Classical and Later Date, Terracotta Lamps and Glass (1965); The Temple of Zeus came in 1982 (with Thomas Thieme) and Labraunda: A Guide to the Karian Sanctuary of Zeus Labraundos in 2007. He is currently preparing the Andrones publication. (For a full bibliography to 2004 see Opuscula Atheniensia 29 (2004) and for later publications see http://opus.uu.se.)
Olivier Henry is a historian and an archaeologist.
In 2005, he defended his PhD on Karian tombs/Tombs of Karia, contribution of the funerary architecture to the history of the population in Karia during the Classical and Hellenistic times (University of Bordeaux, France). He is involved in archaeological fieldwork in Karia since 1998. He has worked on different sites including Harpasa, Orthosia, Hyllarima, Iasos, Latmos-Herakleia. His work at Labraunda focuses on the large necropolis lying around the sanctuary (particularly the numerous rock-cut sarcophagi). The process, which began in 2007, includes a systematic survey of the necropolis, excavation of the tombs and a study of their architecture, topography and associated material. The results will be published as a new volume of the Excavations and Researches at Labraunda.
email: ohenry@ku.edu.tr
Thomas Thieme is an architect.
He has been educated at Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg (1965). He received a Ph D. at the Department of Theory and History of Architecture at Chalmers in 1973 and was appointed Ass. Prof. (Docent) in 1978. He was the Director of the County Museums at Varberg and Halmstad 1992-1998 and was the Director of the Gothenburg Maritime Museum until his retirement in 2003.
He is the author of books and articles in the field of Greek, Medieval and Baroque architecture and as the architect of the Labraunda campaigns from 1979 to 2004 he published The Temple of Zeus in 1982 (with Pontus Hellström); among his articles can be mentioned Metrology and planning in Hekatomnid Labraunda (1989) and The architectural remains of Archaic Labraunda (1993). He is currently preparing the Andrones publication (with P. Hellström); another current research topic is ancient metrology.
e-mail: thomas.thieme@telia.com
Abdulkadir Baran is an Asst. Prof. at the University of Mugla.
He is a classical archaeologist from Ankara University and defended his PhD in 2006 on Karian architecture before the Hekatomnids. He has participated in excavations at Sagalassos, Kaunos, Pedasa and Labraunda for last six years. He also conducted surveys in Karia especially focusing on the architecture of Archaic and Classical periods. His publication work on the Sacred Way and the spring houses of Labraunda is going on and will be published in the Labraunda series. He also published an article about the Archaic Temple of Zeus Labraundos (Baran, A., “The Archaic Temple Of Zeus Labraundos” Anadolu/Anatolia 30 2006 (Ankara 2008), 1-46).
email: kadirbaran@yahoo.com
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