Anna Arvanitaki

Archaeologist
T: +30 2313 310243

She was born and raised in Thessaloniki.

She studied Archaeology and History of Art at the Aristoteleion University of Thessaloniki (AUTh). At the same University she received her master's degree in Classical Archaeology as well as her doctor's degree in Archaeology. Her thesis, under the title "The Hero and the Polis. The example of Herakles in the Archaic Iconography of Corinth", received the prize "Aurilia Komninou" by the Academy of Athens, and was published in 2006 with the financial aid of the Enyaleion Klirodotima of the AUTh.

She participated in numerous research programmes of the Department for Classical Archaeology at the AUTh and taught for two semesters at the University of Thessaly. Since 2005 she has been working as an archaeologist for the Ministry of Culture. She has worked at the Ephorates of Antiquities in Pieria and Thessaloniki as well as the Archaeological Institute for Macedonian and Thracian Studies. Since 2017 she is serving at the Archaeological Museum of Thessaloniki, in the Department of Ceramics, Wall-paintings and Mosaics.

Currently she is working on the programme for the publication of 112 attic vases from the Ceramics Collection of the AMTh in the international series Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum, in collaboration with E. Kefalidou, Assistant Professor of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens.

She has participated in scientific conferences and has published articles and papers that focus mainly in ancient pottery and vase-painting. Furthermore, she has edited various archaeological publications (monographs, proceedings, catalogues).

Her main scientific interest lies in pottery and vase-painting of the Geometric, Archaic and Classical period.

She speaks English, French, German and Italian.