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Investigating Elaeus

Thomas Lebée

Résumé

The necropolis of Elaeus, at the tip of the Thracian Chersonese, was fortuitously excavated by French troops under fire during the 1915 Gallipoli campaign. Despite these peculiar premises, qualified archaeologists were affected to the improvised dig, while operating along military actions and with the minimal amount of resource. Finds were sent by the army to Paris and despite the publicity of the excavations, their subsequent thorough reports and a few campaigns in the following years, the Elaeus material draw little attention afterwards. During the next stage of their life, as museum pieces, these artefacts were exposed to the risk of invisibilization inside a tremendous collection, but digital tools used for collections management contribute currently to their analysis and ultimately to their dissemination among both scholars and the general public. Moreover, the study of unpublished documentation sheds new lights on this corpus excavated in extraordinary circumstances. A publication will soon make available these additional insights to the public, benefiting from the result of years of documentary work and previously unknown materials. The intended communication aims to use this project in order to illustrate the variety of data that can be gathered from archives, but also the difficulties to identify a documentation scattered beyond ordinary sources for Antiquity scholarship. It will also address how such first-hand documentation, now objects of study in their own rights, may enhance further study on archaeological materials and their lost immediate context.
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hal-04696225 , version 1 (12-09-2024)

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Alexandra Kardianou, Thomas Lebée. Investigating Elaeus. 30th Annual Meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists, European Association of Archaeologists, Aug 2024, Rome, Italy. ⟨hal-04696225⟩
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