Spantidaki Stella

Degree in History and Archaeology, University of Crete, awarded second-class honours (2004); Master’s in Archaeology (DEA), Sorbonne University, Paris (Paris IV) (2005); Special Diploma in Museology, École du Louvre (2006); PhD in Archaeology, entitled “L’activité textile en Attique (V^e et IV^e siècles avant notre ère”), under the co-tutelage of the Sorbonne University, Paris (Paris IV) and the Ruprecht-Karls University, Heidelberg (2013). Director of the Hellenic Centre for Research and Conservation of Archaeological Textiles (ARTEX) since 2015. Has taught Classical Archaeology at the University of the Aegean (2018-2021). Currently PI in the research project FAROS, The Fabric of Kings: Funerary Textile Remains from Mycenae and the early Mycenaean Textile Production, University of the Peloponnese (H.F.R.I. project no 7354) (2023-2025).

SELECTION OF PUBLICATIONS

C. Margariti, S. Spantidaki, A. Iancu (eds.) Purpureae Vestes VIII. Tradition and Innovation in Textile Production in the Mediterranean World and Beyond. Proccedings of the international conference Purpureae Vestes VIII, held in Athens, 19-22 October 2022. Athens (in print).

F. Coletti, V. Forte, C. Margariti, S. Spantidaki (eds.) 2024 Multidisciplinary approaches for the Investigation of Textiles and Fibres in the archaeological field. Springer.

Margariti C. and Spantidaki S. 2023 Bronze Age weaves from Thebes. A carbonized textile story. In H. Frielinghaus, J. Stroszeck, A. Sieverling (eds.) Textilien im antiken Griechenland. Ein Beitrag zur Potential-Evaluierung. Beiträge zur Archäologie Griechenlands 8. Bibliopolis / Möhnesee, 21-30.

Margariti C. and S Spantidaki S. 2020 Revisiting the Lefkandi Warrior. In Purpureae Vestes VII. Proceedings of the VIIth International Symposium on Textiles and Dyes in the Ancient Mediterranean World (Granada Spain 2-4 October 2019).

Spantidaki S. and Margariti C. 2017 Archaeological textiles excavated in Greece, Archaeological Reports 63, 49-62.

Spantidaki S. 2016 Textile Production in Classical Athens. Oxbow Books.

LABORATORIES

Director of ARTEX (Hellenic Centre for Research and Conservation of Archaeological Textiles)
www.artextiles.org

MAIN PROJECTS

Principal Investigator (PI) in the project entitled The Fabric of Kings: Funerary Textile Remains from Mycenae and the early Mycenaean Textile Production (FAROS), hosted at the Department of History, Archaeology and Cultural Resources Management, University of the Peloponnese and funded by the Hellenic Foundation for Research and Innovation (H.F.R.I) (project no 7354) (2023-2025).