Center of Mediterranean Archeology of the University of Warsaw
Since 1965,
Executive:
Kazimierz Michałowski (1965–1970), Wiktor Andrzej Daszewski (1971–2007), Henryk Meyza (2008–2019), Ewdoksia Papuci-Władyka (od 2019)
Cooperating institutions:
Institute of Mediterranean and Oriental Cultures of the Polish Academy of Sciences (formerly the Department of Mediterranean Archeology of the Polish Academy of Sciences)
Department of Antiquities of Cyprus
Institute of Archeology of the University of Warsaw
Institute of Archeology of the Jagiellonian University
Faculty of Architecture, Wrocław University of Technology
The most interesting discoveries:
- buildings with magnificent figural mosaics: a mosaic of Theseus in the labyrinth, Achilles, Poseidon and Amphitrite baths, with a triclinium in the House of Aion, armed Aphrodite, three Horai, i.e. seasons
- paintings from the House of Aion depicting Apollo and the Muses
- marble sculptures: Aphrodite armed with a sword and the head of Isis, as well as small-scale sculptures: Aphrodite’s double, Asclepius with an egg (Glycon?)
- limestone sculpture: a bust of Dioscuro (?)
- treasure of silver coins of Alexander the Great and Philip Arridayos (Arrhidaeus)
- casting molds for coin blanks
- gemma of the Legion XV Apollinaris
- a bone ring with a portrait of a Ptolemaic queen
- a group of terracotta votive offerings found at the base of the altar
- colonnade of the courtyard of the 1st “Hellenistic” House
tetrastyle atrium of the Western “Hellenistic” House
Department of Classical Archeology of the Institute of Archeology of the Jagiellonian University in Krakow
Since 2011
Executive:
Ewdoksia Papuci-Władyka
Cooperating institutions:
Center of Mediterranean Archeology of the University of Warsaw
University of Hamburg
Faculty of Mining Surveying and Environmental Engineering of the AGH University of Science and Technology in Krakow
Faculty of Geodesy and Cartography, Warsaw University of Technology
Department of Geomorphology and Geoarchaeology, Jan Kochanowski University in Kielce
Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw
Intercollegiate Institute of Conservation and Restoration of Works of Art
The most interesting discoveries:
- unveiling of the Hellenistic buildings of the Agora and postponing the date of its creation to the 2nd century BCE
- verification of Agora’s size. In the light of current findings, it is one of the largest squares of this type in the eastern part of the Mediterranean
- reconnaissance of the buildings of the Eastern Portico of the Agora
- the so-called Surgeon’s office, a room in which glass vessels, medical utensils, and a treasure of coins have been preserved in their entirety
- weight with the name of the agoranomos Seleucus
- palindrome amulet
- a sword in the Ringknaufschwert type
