Curriculum Vitae

Kalliope I. Kritikakou-Nikolaropoulou
Research Associate

Address
National Hellenic Research Foundation (N.H.R.F.)
Institute for Greek and Roman Antiquity (K.E.R.A.)
48 Vassileos Constantinou Ave., GR-116 35 Athens, Greece
Tel.:  + 30 210-7273680
Fax:  + 30 210-7234145
email: pkritik

Kalliope I. Kritikakou was born in Athens, Greece,  in 1959. She studied  History and Archaeology at the University of Athens (1982) and specialized in the Greek epigraphy of Late Antiquity at the National Hellenic Research Foundation. She has worked as archaeologist at the Blegen Library of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens (1982-1984) and as the author of historical and archaeological articles for the encyclopaedia Papyros-Larousse-Britannica (1984-1987). She has also participated in excavations and surveys at the temple of Zeus at Nemea (Univ. of Berkeley) and at various sites on the island of Kea (Univ. of Athens). In 1985 she joined K.E.R.A. as scientific collaborator and from 1994 onwards as research associate of the Palestine Programme (in 2000 it was geographically extended and renamed the Greek East Programme) which mainly aims at the systematic collection, study and publication of the Greek inscriptions of Roman-Byzantine Palestine and Arabia. In carrying out this project she collaborates with scholars from Israel, Jordan and Egypt. Her current work focuses on the study of epigraphic material from the province of Third Palestine.
Languages: Greek, English, French, Italian, German, Hebrew.

Research interests
History, epigraphy, society, religion of Late Antique Palestine and Arabia. Cultural and religious interaction among Greek, Jewish and Arabic populations of these provinces. Chronological systems used in inscriptions and papyri of Late Antique Palestine, Arabia and adjacent regions (Syria, Phoenicia).

Major ongoing projects

• Corpus of the Jewish-Aramaic inscriptions discovered at Zoora, a Byzantine city of Third Palestine located southeast of the Dead Sea (in collaboration with Dr. Y.E. Meimaris/K.E.R.A. and Prof. Sebastian Brock/Oxford University).
• Study of the Early Byzantine community of Zoora in the light of the recently discovered epigraphic and archaeological evidence.
• Publication of Greek inscriptions from the province of Third Palestine (area of Southern Transjordan).

Publications
Monographs
- Chronological Systems in Roman-Byzantine Palestine and Arabia: The Evidence of the Dated Greek Inscriptions [in collaboration with Y.E. Meimaris and P. Bougia](Athens 1992, 432 pp.).
- Inscriptions from Palaestina Tertia, vol. Ia: The Greek Inscriptions from Ghor es-Safi (Byzantine Zoora) [with Y.E. Meimaris] (Athens 2005, 442 pp.). Award of the Academy of Athens 2006.
- Inscriptions from Palaestina Tertia, vol. Ib: The Greek Inscriptions from Ghor es-Safi (Byzantine Zoora) (Supplement), Khirbet Qazone and Feinan [with Y.E. Meimaris](Athens 2008, 177 pp.)

Selected articles
- ''Epigraphical evidence for professions and crafts related to building activities in Roman and Early Christian Palestine and Arabia'' (in Greek with a summary in English),  in ΜΕΛΕΤΗΜΑΤΑ10 (Athens 1990) 373-395.
- ''The Greek Inscriptions in the Mu'tah University Museum Collection'' [with Y.E. Meimaris and H.M. Mahasneh], Liber Annuus of the Studium Biblicum Franciscanum  57 (2007) 527-562.
- ''The Inscriptions A. Greek'' [with Y.E. Meimaris], Chapter V.11 in K.D. Politis (ed.), Excavations at the Sanctuary of Saint Lot at Deir 'Ain 'Abata, Jordan, 1988-2003 (European Center of Byzantine and Post-Byzantine Monuments, Thessaloniki 2009) [in the press].