Bronze Production in Northern Greece

On Wednesday 20 March the Institute will host its fifth event of the 2023-2024 academic year. This will be an in-person lecture in the auditorium of the Institute’s premises at Orminiou 3A, Ilisia. [Metro: Megaro Mousikis or Evangelismos]

Starting at 19.00, Justine Lefebvre (Boursière Neda et Franz Leipen de l’Institut canadien en Grèce et doctorante en histoire à l’Université de Montréal) will deliver a paper entitled, “Bronze Production in Northern Greece: Metallographic Study of Bronze Objects from Argilos".

"This presentation will provide an overview of the research conducted by the author during her term as the Neda & Franz Leipen Fellow at the CIG in Athens."

"The focus will be research on northern Greek bronze metallurgy in the Archaic and Classical periods through the case study of the city of Ancient Argilos. Adopting a multidisciplinary approach, this project relies on the metallographic and chemical analyses of bronze samples selected from the extensive collection of bronze artifacts unearthed at Argilos since the start of excavations in 1992. Its primary objective is to contribute to our knowledge of metallurgy in northern Greece with new data from hitherto unstudied material."

"The lecture will present a discussion of the metallographic analyses that have been carried out on a sample of 140 artifacts, together with a preliminary interpretation of the newly-acquired data."

We look forward to welcoming you to the Institute for what promises to be a very interesting lecture.

Jonathan Tomlinson  
Assistant Director