Anna-Maria Kasdagli & Niki Zervou Ottoman Burial in the Town of Rhodes 1523-1917: the State of the Evidence
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The Island of Many Worlds: Layers of Belonging and Everyday PluralismAnna-Maria Kasdagli has been employed by the Hellenic Ministry of Culture as an archaeologist in Rhodes since 1986. Her duties have included collaboration in and supervision of public and private restoration projects, archaeological excavation, heritage educational activities and various administrative tasks related to the protection of antiquities. She has published two books in English (Stone Carving of the Hospitaller period in Rhodes. Displaced pieces and fragments, Oxford, Archaeopress 2016 and Coins in Rhodes from the monetary reform of Anastasius I until the Ottoman conquest (498-1522), Oxford, Archaeopress 2018) as well as several articles in Greek, English and French on medieval history and culture, funerary monuments, military architecture, heraldry and medieval coin finds. Anna-Maria Kasdagli has a BA in Archeology from the University of Birmingham and an MA and a PhD from the National Kapodistrian University of Athens.
Niki Zervou is a contract archaeologist in the Ephorate of Antiquities of the Dodecanese in the Hellenic Ministry of Culture. She has excavated an extensive section of the necropolis of ancient Rhodes (2022-2023 period, under the supervision of archaeologists E. Kaninia and N. Christodoulides), unearthing over a hundred interments of the 3rd to 1st century BC with numerous grave goods. She is currently engaged in the project of converting Fort St Nicholas in Rhodes into a visitor-friendly monument; in 2024 she updated the records of the funerary stelai from the Ottoman cemeteries that once surrounded the medieval town of Rhodes. She is also a graduate in German Literature of the University of Athens and a part-time teacher of that language. Niki Zervou has a BA in Archeology from the University of Ioannina and an MA from the Hellenic Open University. 259