• In Greece, ephor (Greek: έφορος, romanized: ephoros, lit. 'overseer') is a title given to the head of an archaeological ephorate (Greek: εφορεία, romanized: ephoria)...
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  • The ephors were a board of five magistrates in ancient Sparta. They had an extensive range of judicial, religious, legislative, and military powers, and...
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    Kyriakos Pittakis (category Ephors General of Greece)
    archaeologist. He was the first Greek to serve as Ephor General of Antiquities, the head of the Greek Archaeological Service, in which capacity he carried out...
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    harbor. From 1919 to 1922 the site was explored by Joseph Hazzidakis, the Ephor of Ancient Monuments of Crete, focusing on the Chrysolakkos Building. Finds...
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  • Panagiotis Kavvadias (category Ephors General of Greece)
    Athens, as well as archaeological discoveries on his native island of Kephallonia. As Ephor General (the head of the Greek Archaeological Service) from 1885...
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    Ludwig Ross (category Ephors General of Greece)
    an important figure in the early years of archaeology in the independent Kingdom of Greece, serving as Ephor General of Antiquities between 1834 and 1836...
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    Panagiotis Efstratiadis (category Ephors General of Greece)
    July] 1888) was a Greek archaeologist. He served as Ephor General of Antiquities, the head of the Greek Archaeological Service, between 1864 and 1884, succeeding...
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    and sold them for scrap metal in the port town of Candia (Iraklion). The ephor Iosif Hatzidakis, the first explorer of the central cave chamber of three...
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    1918-1920, 1924-1926), Secretary (1909-1911), Ephor of antiquities for the Society (1882) and the Archaeological Service (1883-1904), Professor at the faculty...
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    Ancient Kymissala (category Archaeological sites on Rhodes)
    Papachristodoulou, Archaeologist Ph.D., Honorary Ephor of Antiquities, Rhodes Melina Philemonos, Archaeologist Ph.D., Ephor, 22nd Ephoreate of Prehistoric and Classical...
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  • Adolf Weissenberg (category Archaeology of Greece)
    archaeologist. He was appointed by Otto of Greece as ephor of antiquities, overseeing all archaeology and archaeological sites in Greece, in 1833, but forced to resign...
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    museum by the Ephor of Antiquities, Dr. Theodoros Spyropoulos. The courtyard of the building was similarly adapted into an archaeological park. Anthene...
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    Mask of Agamemnon (category Archaeological discoveries in the Peloponnese)
    Greek Archaeological Society had taken a hand in supervising Schliemann's work (after the issues at Troy), sending Panagiotis Stamatakis as ephor, or director...
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    Chilon of Sparta (category Ephors)
    was an old man in the 52nd Olympiad (572 BC), and that he was elected an ephor (overseer) in Sparta in the 56th Olympiad (556/5 BC). Alcidamas states that...
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    to declare war and was accompanied in the field by two ephors. He was supplanted by the ephors also in the control of foreign policy. Over time, the kings...
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    was sent from the National Archaeological Museum of Athens to rearrange the collection, under the supervision of the ephor of Delphi, Ioanna Constantinou...
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    Abdera, Spain (category Archaeological sites in Andalusia)
    Graham (1992), p. 45. Strabo. Ptol., Geogr. Ephor. apud Steph. B. Sagona, Claudia (2015-08-25). The Archaeology of Malta. Cambridge University Press. p. 193...
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    Olympia. In the same year, Panagiotis Stamatakis, the Ephor General in charge of the Greek Archaeological Service, invited Tsountas to accompany him on a tour...
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  • while serving as deputy to Stefanos Xanthoudidis [el], the senior ephor (archaeological inspector) of eastern Crete. At Halle, he studied under Georg Karo...
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    Aineta aryballos (category 1852 archaeological discoveries)
    1852. In 1877, Panagiotis Efstratiadis, the Ephor General of Antiquities in charge of the Greek Archaeological Service, had Rhousopoulos fined for selling...
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    the office of Ephor of Antiquities of Thessaloniki was created, with George Oikonomou as ephor. He was also head of the Archaeological Service. Gradually...
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    Falasarna (category Ancient Greek archaeological sites in Crete)
    excavations at the cemetery of Falasarna began in 1966 directed by the Ephor of the Department of Classical Antiquities in Chania, Dr. Yannis Tzedakis...
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    Cycladic culture (category Archaeological cultures in Greece)
    of Mediterranean Archaeology 31, no. 1 (2018): 52–76. doi:10.1558/jma.36810. Chronology and Terminology of The Prehistoric Archaeology of the Aegean Archived...
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  • George E. Mylonas (category Presidents of the Archaeological Institute of America)
    Grave Circle B at Mycenae, which had been discovered that November by the ephor Seraphim Charitonidis during restoration of the nearby Tomb of Clytemnestra...
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    Issues of the Acropolis Archived 2020-02-18 at the Wayback Machine, Archaeology of the City of Athens; Retrieved 7 June 2012. "Athens, Pre-Parthenon...
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    Brasidas (category Ephors)
    Athenians (431 BC). During the following year he seems to have been eponymous ephor, and in 429 BC he was sent out as one of the three commissioners to advise...
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    Naxos (Sicily) (category Archaeological sites in Sicily)
    GmbH & Co, p 168 Hellanicus FGrH4 F82 Thucydides VI.3.1. Thucydides vi.3; Ephor. apud Strabo vi. p. 267; Scymn. Ch. 270-77; Diodorus Siculus xiv.88. Concerning...
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    conducted in 1917 by the then Ephor of Antiquities for the island of Evia (Euboea), Ι. Papadakis. In recent years, the Archaeological Service of the Ministry...
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    Aegean Bronze Age, Cambridge World Archaeology, Cambridge University Press. Driessen, Jan (1999). "The Archaeology of Aegean Warfare". In Laffineur, Robert...
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  • Chaironeia". American Journal of Archaeology. 62 (3): 307–311. doi:10.2307/501959. JSTOR 501959. S2CID 191378872. Archaeological Institute of America (1904)...
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