Curriculum Vitae

Dr. Antigoni Zournatzi
Historian/Archaeologist, Senior Researcher, KERA/NHRF

Address
Institute for Greek and Roman Antiquity (KERA)
National Hellenic Research Foundation (NHRF)
48 Vassileos Constantinou Avenue, Athens 11635, Greece
Tel. +30 210-7273679
Fax +30 210-7234145
email: azourna

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Antigoni Zournatzi, a graduate of the Experimental Elementary School and Anatolia College in Thessaloniki, obtained a BA Degree in Classics/Classical Archaeology from Harvard-Radcliffe Colleges, and MA and PhD Degrees in Near Eastern Archaeology and Near Eastern Studies, respectively, from the University of California, Berkeley. Prior to her appointment at KERA in 1996, she pursued research on Achaemenid, Cypriot and Phoenician topics as a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Department of Near Eastern Studies of UC Berkeley, as a Senior Fellow of the National Endowment of the Humanities in the Cyprus American Archaeological Research Institute in Nicosia, and as a researcher in the Institut Fernand Courby, Maison de l'Orient mediterraneen in Lyon. She taught ancient history, Greek art and archaeology, and numismatics in the Universities of Lyon (II) and Thessaly. She is affiliated with the Athienou Archaeological Project in Cyprus and is responsible for the scientific collaboration of the NHRF with the Iranian Cultural Heritage, Handicrafts, and Tourism Organization.

Research Interests
Issues of historiography, archaeology, topography, epigraphy, and numismatics. Her specialist fields of study are the history of ancient Cyprus and the complex interactions of the ancient Greek world with ancient Iran.

Current projects
- Achaemenid Persia and the West: views from Cyprus
- Persian imperialist approaches to the history of Asia in Herodotus' eastern logoi

Publications
Monographs
- ΕπιγραφέςτηςΘράκηςτουΑιγαίου (Athens 2005) [with L. Loukopoulou, M.-G. Parisaki and S. Psoma]
- PersianruleinCyprus: Sources, Problems, Perspectives(Athens 2005)

Editing of Collective Volume
- Ancient Greece and Ancient Iran: Cross-Cultural Encounters. 1st Ιnternational Conference (Athens, 11-13 November 2006) (Athens 2008) [with Seyed Mohammad Reza Darbandi], see http://www.eie.gr/greece-iran-conference/proceedingsSoftcover.pdf and http://www.ibna.ir/vdciqraq.t1arz2lict.html

Selected articles
- "A limestone figure wearing the κάνδυς from Cyprus", Report of the Department of Antiquities, Cyprus (1989) 127-134
- "Cyrus II.  The tomb of Cyrus", in E. Yarshater, ed., Encyclopaedia Iranica, vol. VI, 522-524 (Costa Mesa, Ca, 1993. Repr.  New York 2002)
- "Evagoras I and Athens in the Helen of Euripides?", in Transeuphratene 6: Actes du IIeme Colloque International sur la Syrie-Palestine a l'epoque perse: continuites et ruptures a la lumiere des periodes assyro-babylonienne et hellenistique (Paris, 3-5 Octobre 1991), 103-118 (Paris 1993)
- "Cypriot Kingship:  perspectives in the Classical period", ΤΕΚΜΗΡΙΑ 2 (1996[1997]) 154-181
- "Inscribed silver vessels of the Odrysian kings: gifts, tribute and the diffusion of the forms of 'Achaemenid' metalware in Thrace", American Journal of Archaeology 104 (2000) 683-706
- "The processing of gold and silver tax in the Achaemenid empire: Herodotus 3.96.2 and the archaeological realities", Studia Iranica 29 (2000) 141-171
- "Odrysian and Achaemenid tribute: some new perspectives", in Proceedings of the Eighth International Congress of Thracology: Thrace and the Aegean (Sofia-Yambol, 25-29 September 2000), vol. I, 333-343 (Sofia 2002) [with David Stronach]
- "A goldsmith's dedication: new evidence for the cult of Asclepius at Trajanopolis", Ancient West & East 2.2 (2003) 325-347
- "The Apadana coin hoards, Darius I, and the West", American Journal of Numismatics 15 (2003[2004]) 1-28
- Review of "Pierre Briant, Remy Boucharlat, L'archeologie de l'empire achemenide: nouvelles recherches. Actes du colloque organise au College de France par le 'Reseau international d'etudes et de recherches achemenides' (GDR 2538 CNRS), 21-22 novembre 2003. Persika 6 (Chaire d'histoire et civilisation du monde achemenide et de l'empire d'Alexandre, College de France). Paris: Editions de Boccard, 2005 (Pp. 355)", in Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2006.09.34, online http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/bmcr/2006/2006-09-34.html
- "Cultural interconnections in the Achaemenid West: a few reflections on the testimony of the Cypriot archaeological record", in S. M. R. Darbandi and A. Zournatzi, eds., Ancient Greece and Ancient Iran: Cross-Cultural Encounters. 1st Ιnternational Conference (Athens, 11-13 November 2006), 239-255 (Athens 2008)
- "Egypt in Cyprus. A Pharaonic perspective in Herodotus 2.182.2?", in Proceedings of the Fourth International Cyprological Congress, Nicosia 2008 (Nicosia in press)
- "The Vouni Treasure and monetary practices in Cyprus in the Persian period", in Κ. Liampi and D. Plantzos, eds., Proceedings of the Conference "Coinage/Jewellery. Uses-Interactions-Symbolisms, from Antiquity to the Present"(Ios, 26-28 June 2009) (Athens in press), pre-publication http://www.achemenet.com/document/ZOURNATZI_Vouni_Treasure_31-7-2010.pdf)
- "The Greek inscriptions on stone from the sanctuary of Apollo at Zoni (Aegean Thrace)" (in Greek), in P. Tsatsopoulou, ed., Zoni, vol. I, The Sanctuary of Apollo (Komotini forthcoming)
- "Coinage, Near East", in R. Bagnall, K. Brodersen, C. Champion, A. Erskine and S. Huebner, eds., Wiley-Blackwell's Encyclopedia of Ancient History, to appear online November 2011
- "Cyprus, island of (in the Achaemenid period)", in E. Yarshater, ed., Encyclopaedia Iranica (New York 2011), online http://www.iranica.com/articles/cyprus-achaemenid
- "Early cross-cultural political encounters along the paths of the Silk Road: Cyrus the Great as a 'king of the city of Anshan'", in D. Akbarzadeh, ed., Proceedings of the First International Conference "Iran and the Silk Road" (Tehran, 11-14 February 2011) (Tehran in press), also online http://www.achemenet.com/document/ZOURNATZI_Cyrus_of_ Anshan.pdf)