The Canadian Institute in Greece
Bulletin
de l’Institut canadien en Grèce
Spring 2010, No. 25
printemps 2010, nª 25
President’s Message
A plain letter arrived from Industry Canada dated
February 23, 2010 with four lines of text. The last
line read, “The amendments have received
Ministerial approval as of May 1, 2010.” With that,
many hours of work by the By-laws Committee,
including Elaine Godwin, Mark Lawall and Mac
Wallace as Chair, came to fruition. Fourteen
amendments were approved to make the Institute’s
governance more efficient, including the use of
email and teleconference communication.
This legacy from Prof. Wallace complemented
the arrival of a second legacy, the initial
distribution of funds from Mac’s estate bequest to
the Institute. At a meeting of the Board on March
20, provisions were made to divide this new income
three ways. One part will go towards strengthening
the capital in the Alföldi-Rosenbaum Fellowship
Fund, a second part will strengthen the capital in
the Dorothy and Homer Thompson Fellowship
Fund, and a third part will increase the Institute’s
Operating Endowment Fund. It is hoped now that
all three of the Institute’s graduate fellowships can
be increased in value by 33%.
As of September 2011, there will be 9-month
graduate fellowship available at CIG in Athens
open to Canadian graduate students, and this will
now be offered annually, rather than biennially. The
schedule at present calls for the first Franz and
Neda Leipen Fellowship to be offered in September
2011, followed the next year by the Elizabeth
Rosenbaum Alfoldi Fellowship, then the Leipen
again in 2013, followed by the Homer and Dorothy
Fellowship in 2014. This will then continue in a
four year cycle. It is expected also that these
fellowships will rise in value from their current
$6,000 stipend plus a room at CIG, to
$8,000 stipend plus a room for the 9-month
duration of the fellowship.
At the same time, a second distribution arrived
from the estate of Neda Leipen, and at its March
meeting, the Board voted to use this additional
money to increase its ownership of the third floor
hostel in Athens by 30%, bringing it up to a full
75%. The improved financial situation also allowed
the Board to make one other important decision,
and that is, to increase the working hours of its
Assistant Director, Dr. Jonathan Tomlinson.
It is difficult to emphasize enough just how
significant these various measures are. Through
prudent management of the Institute’s resources
and patient establishment of the Institute’s services,
more and more Canadians are coming to learn
about the Institute’s valuable mission. As a sign of
this, close to 125 Canadian undergraduates just
finished applying for student membership in CIG as
part of 6 university groups traveling around Greece
this spring and summer with help from the Institute.
Greece will soon open its welcoming arms to all of
them.
Gerry Schaus
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incorporated in Canada and dedicated to promoting Greek-related archaeology and
scholarly research. It has legal and financial responsibility for the Canadian
Institute in Greece, the body, active since 1976, through which the Greek
government awards permits to Canadian scholars for field work. CIG maintains
premises in Athens that include a research library, meeting rooms and a small
hostel. In both Greece and Canada it supports public activities that promote
understanding of the history and culture of the Greek peninsula and islands.
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locaux à Athènes dont une bibliothèque, des salles de réunion et une petite
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From the Editor
Thanks entirely to the
generosity of our members
and the dedication of our
personnel, the Canadian
Institute is thriving, so
much so that we are
increasing both the hours
that our Assistant Director
can work on our behalf in
Greece as well as the
number and value of our
student Fellowships. This
good
fortune
clearly
contrasts
with
the
economic situation not
only in Greece generally
but also among some of
our
foreign
school
colleagues, who are having
to prioritize painful cutbacks in staffing.
Further, the Institute
is not only publishing its
Bulletin electronically but
is now on Facebook, where
we have attracted more
recipient adherents than we
have
actual
formal
Members!
While thinking of the
upcoming generation, your
editor could not resist the
opportunity of asking one
of our Thompson Fellows
to contribute an article on
the Greek version of
vampires.
Finally, although we
were disappointed to learn
of the resignation of our
Treaurer Gary Hendin, we
thank him for his efforts on
behalf of the Institute, and
as a result we are
advertising again for a
volunteer to serve as
Treasurer.
Ian Begg
Editor
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Assistant Director's
Report
Since my last report, written in mid
November, the Institute has hosted
five lectures and the screening of a
Canadian movie. Applications were
delivered to the Hellenic Ministry of
Culture for permission to carry out
three fieldwork projects in 2010, and
we have hosted two Fellows and an
intern. Progress in the Institute's
library has been continued, with the
purchase of new volumes, and the
cataloguing of books and slides. The
arrival of a very significant number
of books - a gift from Fred Winter and the hosting of the Institute's
annual Open Meeting are imminent.
On 25 November the second
lecture in CIG's 2009-2010 series
took place in the Institute's library.
Dr Maria Liston of the University of
Waterloo gave a fascinating presentation entitled “How Hoplites Died in
Battle: Skeletons from the Lion
Monument at Chaironeia”. With
around sixty people in attendance,
this was standing room only, and the
Institute's best-attended lecture so far.
Jonathan Tomlinson and Maria Liston
Our first lecture of 2010 took
place on 17 February, when Dr Ann
Killebrew of Penn State University
spoke on “The Philistines in Context:
The Transmission and Appropriation
of Aegean-style Culture in the Levant
and Southeastern Coastal Anatolia”.
David Rupp and Ann Killebrew
Our final lecture before the
Easter break, on 17 March, was given
by one of this year's two Thompson
Fellows, Martin Perron, who gave a
talk entitled, “Montre-moi ta main et
je te dirai d'où tu viens: styles
régionaux
et
circulation
des
céramiques à bandes en Macédoine
au VIe siècle av. J. C.” All lectures
were well attended and well received.
David Rupp, Martin Perron, Matt Maher
A lecture by our other
Thompson Fellow, Matthew Maher,
was due to follow on 28 April, but
unfortunately had to be cancelled at
the last minute due to lack of power not only in the Institute's building,
but for several city blocks - due to
works of some sort in the immediate
neighbourhood. The lecture, entitled
“Chasing Lesvian Vampires: Modern
Greek
Folklore
and
the
Archaeological Pursuit of the
Vrykolaka” has been rescheduled for
2 June. In the meantime, the
Institute's annual Open Meeting will
take place on 11 May in the
auditorium of the Danish Institute, as
usual. Following the Director's report
on the Institute's activities over the
past year, Dr Gerald Schaus (Wilfrid
Laurier University, and President of
the Institute's Board of Directors)
will give a lecture entitled "Arkadian
Aniconic Pillars and Eileithyia at
Stymphalos.
Our second Thompson Fellow,
Martin Perron, has been with us from
1 January 2010, and apart from
continuing research towards his
doctoral thesis at the Université de
Montréal, Histoire économique et
artisanale en Macédoine orientale
aux VIe et Ve siècles av. J.-C. :
Caractérisation et détermination de
provenance
des
céramiques
utilitaires de style à bandes mises au
jour à Argilos, has been working on
the Institute's website, correcting the
French pages, updating the content,
and carrying out some page
reorganization. Also on the Internet,
the Institute has recently launched a
page on Facebook, which is able to
provide rather more immediacy in
announcements and feedback. The
page has already attracted nearly 400
subscribers, and is thus proving an
excellent means of attracting new
interest (especially amongst students)
in the Institute and its activities.
From mid January to mid April
we were joined by an intern from the
University of Waterloo. Valerie
Broadbent
is
a
final
year
undergraduate in Classical Studies,
and her main duty during the threemonth internship was to digitize the
Institute's slide collection and
cleaning and updating the database
The Institute's other Thompson
Fellow, Matt Maher, has continued
his good work in the library,
accessioning and cataloguing the new
acquisitions. Apart from the volumes
received regularly as gifts or
exchange from other institutions, we
have continued purchasing volumes
in the area of field archaeology
theory and practice, and more
recently purchased a number of
volumes from a sale held by the
Athens Archaeological Society. We
are also awaiting the imminent arrival
of books offered to the Institute's
library by long-time supporter and
Board member, Fred Winter. I would
like to take this opportunity to thank
Fred most warmly on behalf of the
Institute and its future library users.
As usual in late spring-early
summer, student groups from various
Canadian Universities arrive for tours
of Greece's archaeological sites and
museums, led by their professors.
This year a group from Mount
Allison came in February, but groups
from Brock, Concordia, Carleton and
Winnipeg, Alberta, and Université de
Québec à Montréal are exploring
Greece's heritage in May. The
Institute obtains from the Hellenic
Ministry of Culture passes allowing
free entry to sites and museums for
the students and faculty, as well as
permits allowing the students'
professors to guide them at sites and
museums. It has been interesting to
learn this year that the New
Acropolis Museum has a quite
autonomous status in this regard,
such that the passes and permits
issued by the Ministry are not valid
there. Rather, separate applications
must be submitted directly to the
Museum itself.
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Canadian faculty and students
are also arriving to take part in CIGsponsored fieldwork, as attention
switches from the myriad events of
the international archaeological and
cultural community in Athens to
work in the field. The Institute's
projects in Eastern Boeotia and at
Kalamianos having now finished, just
three applications for fieldwork in
2010 were submitted to the Ministry:
for
excavation
at
Argilos
(Macedonia) and at Kallithea Kastro
(Thessaly), and for field survey at
Lefkos (Karpathos). Fieldwork at
these locations will be ongoing
during June and July.
Finally, I have been asked by the
editor to provide some thoughts on
the current social unrest in Greece
and how it may affect Canadian
visitors. At the time of writing, the
General Strike of 5 May, and the
tragic loss of life in an Athens bank,
is fresh in our minds. However, as is
usual in Athens, any protests,
marches, and subsequent violence,
are very localised; generally from the
Polytechnic, via Omonoia Square up
to Syntagma Square and the Greek
Parliament. The Canadian Institute is
just a fifteen-minute walk from
Syntagma, yet one would be
blissfully unaware of anything
untoward in the city, even at this
proximity. So, provided one knows
that there will be marches, one can
easily avoid potential trouble.
Visits by our members are more
likely to be disrupted by stoppages in
public transport, or strikes by civil
servants leading to the closure of
archaeological sites and museums on
a particular day. A General Strike
usually includes the participation of
air traffic controllers, meaning no
flights in or out of Greek airspace for
24 hours (as was the case on 5 May).
So if you hear of a General Strike
announced for the date of your arrival
in Greece, check your flight status
with the airline. Otherwise, local
transport stoppages (such as Athens
buses, trolley buses, the metro and
trams) are more likely to be just for
certain hours during the day. Greece's
English newspapers, the Athens News
(http://www.athensnews.gr/)
and
(http://www.ekathimerini.com/) for
Athens Plus are useful sources for
information on Greece in general,
and a good way to keep up-to-date
with any possible disruptions. The
Athens News page on Facebook
(http://www.facebook.com/AthensNe
ws) is an excellent way to receive
breaking news.
Jonathan E. Tomlinson
Thompson Fellows
Reports
Matt Maher
During my first undergraduate degree
at the University of Western Ontario,
I participated in several local
archaeological projects in London
Ontario over the years, and knew
almost immediately that it was a
discipline I wished to continue in.
After completing an Honours in
2002, I decided to take a second
Honours BA at UWO in Classical
Studies, which I received in the
spring of 2005. My decision to focus
on Classical Studies and the
archaeology of the ancient Mediterranean, however, was largely the result
of my participation in the 2001 and
2003 archeological summer seasons
at Stymphalos in Arkadia, Greece. In
2005 I returned to Stymphalos to take
part in the summer project where I
supervised the excavation of the West
Wall Artillery Tower. In 2007 I
completed my MA in Classical
Archaeology at the University of
British Columbia (UBC). I have
returned to work several times at
Stymphalos, as well as at UBC’s
other project in Greece, Mytilene on
the island of Lesvos. Since 2006 I
have been a member of the staff of
the Sikyon Survey Project, working
both in the field and in the lab,
looking at the collected Roman
fineware and imported ceramics. Last
autumn I completed the prerequisites
for entry into full candidacy in the
PhD program at UBC (under the
supervision of Dr. Hector Williams),
and have begun conducting research
for my dissertation.
These years spent in Greece not
only provided invaluable field
experience,
but
facilitated
a
narrowing of my research interests
into a specific theme with specific
objectives. Thinking back, I believe
ultimately it was the 2005 excavation
of the artillery tower at Stymphalos
which really gave rise to my interest
in Greek military architecture; an
interest encouraged by my advisor’s
own considerable knowledge and
interest in the subject. Furthermore, it
was my summers studying at
Stymphalos, which also encouraged a
growing interest in the poleis, history,
and geography of ancient Arkadia
itself. But the 2005 Stymphalos
season will always remain the most
important one for me: not only was I
introduced then to a subject of great
scholarly
interest,
but
more
importantly, I was also introduced to
young scholar named Me-Linh Le,
who four years later became my wife.
Thus, with an interest in both
fortifications and in Arkadia, a
dissertation topic naturally presented
itself:
my
objective
is
a
comprehensive and detailed study of
the historical development of Greek
military architecture and defensive
planning specifically in Arkadia from
the late Classical and Hellenistic
periods to the Roman arrival in
Greece. Beyond the obvious practical
chronological
and
defensive
considerations, I am also interested in
fortifications as a reflection of civic
autonomy, communal unity, and
perhaps even of ethnic identity. A
reading of the literature on the
subject demonstrates that, although a
small handful of sites have received
proper scholarly attention, the fact
remains that there is much room for
an updated regional Arkadian focus
concerning fortifications.
On a scholarly level, the Homer
and Dorothy Thompson Fellowship
has provided me with the time and
opportunity in Greece to access the
important library collections of the
CIG and the other foreign schools; to
develop a clear methodological
outline for my research; and to visit
the sites in question and gather
information first-hand - a necessity
for a topic of this scope. Furthermore,
I discovered fascinating subsidiary
subjects of interest not directly
related to the ancient world or my
dissertation
work
specifically,
including travel accounts of early
modern Greece and the place of
vampires in modern Greek folklore.
On a more personal level, my time in
Greece afforded by the Fellowship
has allowed me to forge relationships
with other young scholars in the field,
from all over of the world, a
relationship which began merely
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between
colleagues
and
has
developed into one between friends.
As alluded to above, my time in
Greece has been devoted to both
using the remarkable collections
housed in the different foreign
schools and to traveling to the
different Arkadian sites to gather
information about the fortifications
first-hand. I have largely concluded
my library work in Athens and have
begun the fieldwork component of
my research. Currently, I have visited
some dozen of these sites, with a
couple dozen more to go before
leaving Greece and returning to
Canada. Next September I will be
starting the fourth year of my
doctoral program, in which I will
begin to write and generally make
sense of the data that I have
collected.
Matthew Maher
dirigées sous la supervision des
Professeurs Jacques Y. Perreault et
Roland Étienne, portent sur l’étude
d’un corpus de céramiques utilitaires
produites en Macédoine orientale au
cours des VIe et Ve s. av. J.-C. et
abondamment représentées sur le site
d’Argilos2
(fouilles
sous
la
responsabilité de l’Institut canadien).
La mission archéologique grécocanadienne est une « synergasia »
aux termes de la loi grecque sur la
recherche archéologique en Grèce.
Elle est sous la direction du
Professeur Jacques Y. Perreault
(Université de Montréal) et de Zisis
Bonias (18e Éphorie des Antiquités
Préhistoriques et Classiques de
Kavala). Connus sous le nom de
« céramiques à bandes », ces
récipients apparaissent subitement
vers le troisième quart du VIe siècle
et affichent des formes et des décors
fortement inspirés du répertoire
gréco-oriental.
Leur
production
marque une rupture flagrante avec les
céramiques thraces et d’influence
cycladique jusqu’alors fabriquées sur
le territoire.
Matt Maher at Stymphalos
Martin Perron
Parcours académique
Passionné de la Grèce antique depuis
le collège, j’ai effectué mon
Baccalauréat (2001) et ma Maîtrise
(2006) en histoire, en anthropologie
et en études classiques à l’Université
de Montréal. Depuis l’automne 2006,
je m’affaire à la rédaction d’une thèse
en archéologie du monde grec menée
conjointement à l’Université de
Montréal et à l’École doctorale
d’archéologie de l’Université de Paris
I Panthéon-Sorbonne. L’intitulé exact
de ma thèse est Histoire économique
et artisanale en Macédoine orientale
aux VIe et Ve siècles av. J.-C. :
Caractérisation et détermination de
provenance
des
céramiques
utilitaires de style à bandes mises au
jour à Argilos Mes recherches,
Martin Perron at Greek-Canadian
excavations at Argilos 2006 Study Season
Mes recherches visent à
documenter l'artisanat et les réseaux
d’échanges existant en Macédoine
durant la période archaïque en
identifiant les centres de production
et les lieux de consommation de ces
céramiques. Il cherche en outre à
saisir
la
structure
et
le
fonctionnement des ateliers et les
habitudes de consommation de cités
grecques à l’endroit de ces
productions. Pour y arriver, 350
échantillons de céramiques provenant
d’Argilos et de cinq sites régionaux
ont fait l’objet d’une caractérisation
par spectrométrie de fluorescence par
rayons X3, une méthode d’analyse
permettant de déterminer leur
composition chimique. Les analyses
ont été réalisées au laboratoire du
Cultural and Educational Technology
Institute de Xanthi (Grèce). Des
échantillons
d’argiles
locales,
provenant de chaque site étudié, ont
ensuite été comparés aux résultats
d’analyses afin d’en connaître le
coefficient de correspondance. Les
résultats sont très intéressants et
pointent en direction de l’existence
d’un atelier de production dans le
voisinage immédiat de la cité
d’Argilos.
Par le biais de l’étude des
sources archéologiques et littéraires
disponibles pour la Macédoine et
l’Asie Mineure au VIe siècle av. J.C., mes recherches se proposent
également d’examiner le rôle du
commerce et des mouvements
migratoires
comme
principaux
vecteurs du transfert de la culture
micrasiatique vers le nord de l’Égée
durant la seconde moitié de ce siècle.
Elles visent en outre l’identification
des transformations sociales et
artisanales ayant pu favoriser
l’emprunt culturel et la mise en place
d’une koinè ionisante en Macédoine.
La conquête de l’Asie Mineure par
les Perses en 546-545 av. J.-C.
pourrait
avoir
provoqué
le
déplacement, forcé ou volontaire, de
plusieurs artisans, commerçants et
familles ayant généré la diffusion,
l’introduction et le maintien des
influences gréco-orientales sur le
territoire. Or, en raison de la vaste
distribution et de la grande quantité
des objets d’inspiration mis au jour
en Macédoine, il est légitime de
croire que les artisans locaux ont
aussi participé à la production de ces
biens. La réceptivité de la culture
gréco-orientale dans l’artisanat de
Macédoine
et
l’abandon
des
traditions ancestrales du haut
archaïsme semblent s’expliquer par le
désir de combler un besoin
fonctionnel engendré par une
combinaison
de
facteurs
économiques, démographiques et
sociaux ayant soudainement généré
de
nouvelles
habitudes
de
consommation dans la région. En
somme, ce projet vise à peaufiner
l'histoire économique, artisanale,
politique et sociale des cités grecques
de la Macédoine archaïque par
l’étude d’une catégorie de matériel
encore inédite : les céramiques de
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style à bandes.
En parallèle à mes recherches, je
m’intéresse à l’histoire de la Thrace
et de la Macédoine aux périodes
archaïque
et
classique;
aux
entreprises de colonisation grecques
en Méditerranée; à l’artisanat et au
commerce
des
céramiques
archaïques; aux guerres médiques; et
aux phénomènes de transferts
culturels et d’imitations. En tant
qu’archéologue de terrain, je porte
aussi un vif intérêt aux méthodes et
aux techniques de fouilles ainsi
qu’aux diverses stratégies utilisées en
prospection.
Expérience sur le terrain
Mon premier séjour en Grèce
remonte à 1999. Je participais alors à
mon tout premier stage de fouilles à
Argilos en Macédoine. J’ai eu le
plaisir de participer à huit saisons sur
le
terrain
(comme
étudiant,
superviseur de tranchée, responsable
de secteur) en plus d’agir en tant
qu’assistant au cours de quelques
campagnes d’étude au musée
d’Amphipolis. J’ai également pris
part à d’autres missions en Grèce
notamment à Halai avec l’Université
Cornell (2000, 2001) et à Thasos
(2008-2009) avec l’École française
d’Athènes (EfA). Mon expérience et
ma curiosité m’ont également amené
à travailler en Syrie (sur le site de
Ras-el-Bassit, Université de Montréal
(2000-2002)), en Tunisie (sur le site
de Carthage, Université du Québec à
Trois-Rivières (2001)), et en Italie
(Sur les sites de Monte Polizzo,
Université Stanford (2004-2008) et
de Poggio Colla, Southern Methodist
University of Dallas (2007)). Entre
2002 et 2007, j’ai également participé
à une douzaine de fouilles
programmées et d’urgence sur divers
chantiers préhistoriques et historiques
du Québec pour le compte de firmes
privées (Archéotec inc. Ethnoscop
inc., Archéo-08) sous-traitantes pour
le ministère de la Culture et des
Communications du Québec. Cet été,
je fouillerai à Thasos et à Délos sous
la direction d’équipes affiliées à
l’EfA.
Martin Perron extracting Early Roman
funerary bas-relief stele at French
excavations on Thasos 2008
La vie en Grèce
Depuis l’automne 2007, je vis et
poursuis mes études à temps plein en
Grèce. J’ai eu la chance d’obtenir
successivement un soutien financier
de la Fondation A. S. Onassis et du
Fond
à
la
recherche
du
gouvernement de la République
hellénique (IKY). Je parle, écris et lis
couramment le grec moderne et
m’intéresse à plusieurs aspects de la
vie culturelle comme la musique, le
théâtre et l’histoire contemporaine.
Ma conjointe et moi aimons
d’ailleurs tellement la Grèce que nous
avons décidé de nous y marier en
novembre 2009! Au cours de mon
séjour, j’ai eu le plaisir de partager
l’avancement de mes travaux par le
biais de quelques conférences
présentées à l’Université d’Athènes
(2009), au musée archéologique de
Thessalonique (2009) et bien
évidemment à l’Institut canadien en
Grèce (2008, 2010). Mes travaux ont
en outre fait l’objet d’une
publication7 qui paraîtra sous peu au
mois de juin 2010: Koinè ionisante
et/ou mobilité artisanale? Regard sur
les influences de la Grèce orientale
en Macédoine aux VIe et Ve siècles
av. J.-C. », in P. Rouillard (dir.),
Portraits de migrants, portraits de
colons II. Actes du 6e colloque
International de la Maison RenéGinouvès, Nanterre, 10-13 juin 2009,
Colloques de la MAE 6, Paris, De
Boccard, p. 13-50.
Martin Perron and Frédérique Laurier at
Delphi, 2008
L’Institut canadien en Grèce
Mon travail en tant que Fellow à
l’ICG consiste essentiellement à
effectuer la mise à jour du site
Internet
de
l’Institut
(plus
particulièrement de sa version
française). En plus de l’information
de base concernant les activités et les
projets de l’Institut, de nouvelles
pages concernant la vie, le travail et
les voyages en Grèce ont été ajoutées
afin de faciliter les recherches et
l’acquisition des connaissances de
nos membres sur ces thématiques.
J’apporte aussi un soutien logistique
à la direction pour tout ce qui a trait à
la planification et à l’organisation des
événements mensuels de l’Institut.
Remerciements
Je
tiens
à
remercier
chaleureusement
le
comité de
direction et en particulier son
Président, Monsieur Gérald P.
Schaus, pour avoir rendu ce séjour
possible. Je tiens aussi à remercier
Messieurs Jonathan Tomlinson et
David Rupp pour leur compagnie et
leurs judicieux conseils. Ce séjour
m’aura permis d’accéder à la
bibliothèque de l’Institut et à celles
des
autres
grandes
écoles
d’archéologie à Athènes en plus
d’avoir accès de façon continue au
matériel de plusieurs sites thracomacédoniens nécessaire à mes
travaux.
Ces
quelques
mois
supplémentaires en Grèce m’auront
aussi permis de cristalliser davantage
les efforts que je déploie depuis 1999
pour tisser des liens étroits avec les
milieux académiques grec, français et
britannique. Cette troisième année
complète en Grèce a donc été une
expérience
très
réussie
et
enrichissante.
Martin Perron
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Individual Research
Permits
The Canadian Institute in Greece has
been a crucial aspect of my research
from my arrival in Crete in 1993. It
provided support for the fieldwork of
the Sphakia Survey Project and
thereafter access to the pottery for
study. This research established a
very congenial working relationship
between the west Cretan Ephoreia
(KE’) and the Institute, both in its
earlier incarnation as CAIA and now
as CIG. It offers opportunities not
only for scholars working on largescale projects like surveys and
excavations, but also to obtain
permits for smaller teams working on
one- to two-year projects, thus
enabling
small-scale
research
programs to come to fruition and
forwarding research that is not
necessarily tied to larger projects.
Jane Francis at Aptera
My research focuses on the
archaeology of Greek and Roman
Crete, and in particular the manner in
which the ancient landscape was
exploited. As a member of the
Sphakia Survey Project (directed by
Lucia Nixon and Jennifer Moody),
under a CAIA permit, I studied the
Greek and Roman pottery and
learned macroscopic fabric analysis
from Jennifer Moody, which formed
the basis for much of my later
research. This process allows clays
exhibiting the same make-up and/or
manufacturing techniques to be
grouped together and assessed for a
potentially common source. I have
applied this technique to pottery from
other projects on Crete: the Skoteino
Cave excavations (directed by Loeta
Tyree, British School at Athens
permit, funded by INSTAP) and the
Moni Odiyitria Survey (directed by
Keith
Branigan
and
Antonis
Vasilakis, British School at Athens
permit). A new project was initiated
with a separate CIG permit in 2008,
directed by J. Francis and J. Moody,
with the participation of Eleni
Nodarou of the INSTAP Center in
east Crete. This research was made
possible by the work of the Sphakia
Survey under a CIG permit in the
1980s and 1990s, and funded in part
by Concordia University. We tested
100 Greek and Roman sherds from
Sphakia (finewares and amphoras)
with
macroscopic
and
then
petrographic analysis in order to
identify groups of related fabrics and
also to separate imitations, both
Cretan and imported, from authentic
ceramic products. It is hoped that
these results will help to characterize,
in particular, Cretan Classical and
Hellenistic black-glazed ceramics,
about which little is known. The
imitations of Roman red glazed wares
can be tied to recent research on these
wares occurring elsewhere in the
Mediterranean, to determine the
source not only of Sphakia’s
authentic red wares but also their
imitations or products of secondary
manufacturing centers.
Another project focuses on the
fabrics of Roman Cretan amphoras,
which have been studied only for
their shapes; this project too was
undertaken in 2009 with a CIG
permit and is directed by myself, with
the participation of J. Moody and G.
Harrison. Many of these vessels have
been found at kiln sites with wasters
and other pottery. Knowledge of their
fabrics can help to define the
products of a specific workshop and
pinpoint more precisely the origins of
a Cretan amphora found outside the
island. In 2009, amphoras from
Nopighia-Drapanias and Palaiochora
were examined; the 2010 season will
investigate vessels from a kiln site in
Chania, with the assistance of two
students from Concordia University.
Cretan Amphora
Amphora Fabric
The importance of macroscopic
fabric analysis is now well known,
and I have received invitations to
analyze ceramics from several Greek
Ministry of Culture excavations. In
2009, I and my team (Jennifer
Moody, George Harrison) analyzed
pottery from several areas of the
Roman city of Aptera, at the
invitation of Vanna Niniou-Kindeli,
KE’ Ephoreia, Chania). This research
enabled us to establish local fabrics
and identify several changes in clay
choices and manufacturing sites from
the early Iron Age through the
Roman era.
I am also part of a new project
based on the Greek excavations at the
ancient harbour site of Phalasarna, in
west Crete. Excavations at the site,
from the mid-1980s (directed by
Elpida Hadjidakis), have revealed
much of the architecture associated
with the harbour, but the pottery and
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other remains have not been properly
studied. Study of these ceramics is
part of the Phalasarna Local
Economy Project (J. Francis, J.
Moody, E. Hadjidaki, A. Sarpaki, O.
Rackham), which reconstructs the
subsistence and domestic life of this
legendary port. The 2010 season will
entail ongoing ceramic analysis and
database entry, but also a search for
local clay sources that might have
been exploited in antiquity, as well as
analyses of charcoal, botanical
material, and faunal remains, if
possible.
of the belief in vampires. This was
essentially the stimulus behind my
interest in the Greek vampire which
ultimately encouraged me to delve
deeper into the subject.
Jane Francis
Chasing Lesvian
Vampires:
Modern Greek Folklore and the
Archaeological Pursuit of the
Vrykolaka.
Vampires and modern Greek
folklore,
although
fascinating
subjects, are not actually my primary
areas of study. In fact, they could
hardly be further removed from my
dissertation research on military
architecture in Arkadia. Although
there were many disparate factors
involved, how I got interested in such
a subject is straight forward enough. I
guess it began in 2005, when I picked
up John Tomkinson’s Haunted
Greece in a tourist shop in the Plaka
in Athens. This book is a collection
of folktales and recorded testimonies
concerning Greek exotika; that is, the
various shades or non-human beings
believed to haunt the landscape of
Greece (e.g., vampires). These tales
of exotika combined an existing
interest in folklore and ethnography
(encouraged by my Anthropology
degree) and my love of all things
Greek.
It was not until I began working
at Mytilene in the summer of 2007
that I discovered Hector and Caroline
Williams (UBC) had actually
excavated a suspected vampire grave
some twenty years earlier in a
nineteenth century Moslem cemetery.
The middle-aged man was found
nailed to his coffin with iron spikes
driven into his neck, groin, and
ankles. The folktales I had read
became for me a reality: here was
archaeological proof of the existence
Mytilene vrykolaka (courtesy of Hector
Williams)
Having never done any primary
archaeological work on vampire
burials, my work was confined to the
library. I was immediately surprised
to find a considerable amount of
literature on the subject, both
scholarly and popular. Perhaps
unsatisfactorily, the literature can be
broadly
grouped
into
works
concerning
modern
European
folklore (from which snippets
pertaining to vampirism in Greece
can be mined) and those dealing with
the science underlying such beliefs
(including
the
handful
of
archaeologically attested examples).
Of the former, especially noteworthy
are accounts by early travelers,
ethnographers, and historians; while
the latter range from excavation
reports to concise bioarchaeological
studies aimed at examining the
scientific or ‘rational’ factors which
contributed to the formation of the
belief in vampires.
A folkloric analysis of the Greek
vampire (vrykolaka), supported by
the antiquity of the phenomenon and
the abundance of literary and
ethnographic
evidence,
clearly
indicates a pervasive, and very real
fear of the vrykolaka in Eastern
Europe. In Greece, the traditional
belief in the vrykolaka is longstanding, considerably widespread,
and is well-attested at least until the
end of the 20th century. Furthermore,
although the causes and behaviour of
the vrykolaka can vary greatly across
Greece, every recorded case of
vampirism has at its roots, the belief
that the dead body has been withheld
from the normal process of
decomposition.
Orthodox burial
custom has certainly played a key
role in propagating this belief;
specifically, the practice that entails
exhuming the deceased three years
after death, and the idea that it is
possible to determine the fate of the
deceased by the condition of the
remains.
From a purely bioarchaeological
approach, there are a number of more
‘rational’ and scientific reasons why,
upon exhumation, a corpse may
remain
uncorrupted,
and
consequently
identified
as
a
vrykolaka. In fact, Anastasia Tsaliki,
an expert in unusual burials, proposes
that most, if not all, of the beliefs
surrounding the vampire can be
explained
in
terms
of
the
misunderstanding of what happens to
a corpse after death. On the other
hand, as a purely social mechanism,
the believed causes of vampirism are
directly related to ensuring the one
does not violate societal norms. For
example, in some parts of Greece, it
was believed that those who had
committed great crimes, were
sinners, drunkards, thieves, or those
who died under a ban of
excommunication would rise again as
vrykolakas. Ultimately, the vrykolaka
appears to have stood as a scapegoat
for the many things that people have
feared or misunderstood. Thus,
vampires were held responsible for a
wide-range
of
unfortunate
occurrences:
from
disease
to
mischievous domestic pollution, and
from a gradual decline in health and
vitality to a sudden death.
During his travels in northern
Greece nearly 200 years ago, Martin
William Leake predicted that, “As
education
extends…this
absurd
custom, which is already ridiculous
among the higher class will gradually
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cease…” (Leake, Northern Greece,
Vol. 4, 1835:216). Perhaps. Leake
was certainly right to some extent, as
most testimonies suggest a vanishing
belief in the Greek vampire. More
accurately, it is not that vrykolakas do
not exist, it is believed that they no
longer exist, having disappeared with
the increase in urbanism in the later
20th century; that is, they, along with
the other exotika, have disappeared
from Greece.
If all the vampires have left
Greece, in other parts of Europe they
are still an all too tangible and
terrifying reality. As recently as
2004, newspapers across Romania
reported the desecration of the corpse
of Petre Toma, by six members of his
family. Claiming that Toma had
“transformed himself into vampire”
and “sucked blood from them during
the night,” his relatives exhumed the
corpse, tore out his heart, burned it,
and mixed the ashes with water in
order to drink it.
Further Reading Suggestions:
Barber, P. 1990. Vampires, Burial,
and Death
Blum, R. and Blum, E. 1970. The
Dangerous Hour. The Lore of Crisis
and Mystery in Rural Greece.
Hartnup, K. 2004. On the Beliefs of
the Greeks: Leo Allatios and Popular
Orthodoxy.
Stewart, C. 1991. Demons and the
Devil. Moral imagination in Modern
Greek Culture.
Tsaliki, A. 2001. “Vampires Beyond
Legend:
a
Bioarchaeological
Approach,” in Proceedings of the
XIII European Meeting of the
Paleopathology Association, Chieti,
Italy, 18-23 Sept. 2000. M. La
Verghetta and L. Capasso. Teramo
(eds), 295-300.
Matt Mahet
Newest CIG Board
Member
Dr. Spencer Pope is a classical
archaeologist specializing in the
ancient Greek world and is presently
assistant professor (from 2006) in the
department of Classics at McMaster
University. His research interests
include Greek colonization and the
interactions between Greeks and
other
populations
of
the
Mediterranean. Dr. Pope has
excavated at numerous sites in Sicily
and is presently examining patterns
of urban planning on the island in the
archaic and classical periods.
Spencer Pope on site
Dr. Pope’s interest in Sicily
began when he was an undergraduate
at Middlebury College (Middlebury,
Vermont) and spent two summers
excavating on the island. A Classical
Studies major who studied Latin and
Ancient Greek, he became fascinated
with archaeology as another means to
come to understand the ancient
world. With this preparation, he
undertook a Ph. D. at the Institute for
Archaeology and the Ancient World
at Brown University (Providence,
Rhode Island), during which time he
continued excavations on the island
at both prehistoric and classical
period sites. Working in this area, his
research interests were shaped by the
particular questions presented in the
Western Mediterranean, namely how
the Greek world expanded through
colonization and how the Greeks
interacted
with
indigenous
populations on both a political and
cultural level.
From 2000 to 2005, Dr. Pope
led excavations at the settlement area
at Palike, an indigenous site in
eastern Sicily. This site, which
originally developed as a chthonic
sanctuary (a sanctuary devoted to the
Greek underworld), occupies a
strategic position on the margin of
Greek
territory.
Despite
its
associations with native gods, both
the settlement and the sanctuary
adopted aspects of Greek architecture
and urban planning. The settlement
was arranged on a grid pattern with
side streets (stenopoi) intersecting a
principal street (plateia) at right
angles, an arrangement that was
typical for Greek colonies, but less
common for native towns. Noting
this unusual configuration, Dr. Pope
conducted a survey of the urban grid
in Sicily to determine the frequency
with which it was employed in nonGreek sites, with the intent of
pinpointing both its diachronic and
geographic distribution. The rigid,
regular, urban grid uncovered at
Palike is among only a few examples
at inland sites and is so
uncharacteristic of native settlements
that its presence is now attributed to a
greater
Greek
influence
than
previously considered.
Following his work at Palike,
which formed the basis of his
dissertation completed in May 2006,
Dr. Pope undertook excavations at
Sicilian Naxos, a Greek city located
on the eastern coast of the island.
Naxos was the first Greek colony of
Sicily (founded in 734 BC) and
remained an important city until its
destruction in 403 BC. Excavations
again focused on the urban
arrangement, and here revealed a
precocious development of the
planned city. It appears that one of
the primary concerns of the colonists
was to divide the area of the new city
into equal size lots, which eventually
would develop into city blocks. The
earlier date provided by the pottery
that was discovered in the
excavations reinforces the hypothesis
that the division of space and nascent
trends in Greek urbanism were
guided by principles of egalitarianism
and that political arrangements
providing
broad-based
enfranchisement were already in
place by the end of the 8th c. BC.
Dr. Pope is presently conducting
research for a comprehensive
evaluation of urban planning in
Western Greece that presents the
urban grid as a phenomenon of the
colonial experience, one that is born
with the “clean slate” of a new
foundation. From its colonial origins,
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the rigid, regular, urban grid is slow
to spread to non-Greek populations
and therefore may be seen among the
strongest indicators of acculturation.
While many indigenous populations
that came into contact with the
Greeks readily adopted Greek pottery
and other Greek goods, it appears that
large-scale urban planning – as
developed in the western Greek
world -- was employed in the context
of close political alignment rather
than through cultural interaction
alone.
Spencer Pope and students at Agrigento
Before arriving at McMaster,
Dr. Pope spent time in Greece as a
member of the American School of
Classical Studies at Athens. While
there he participated in excavations at
Corinth of a late Roman villa in the
area known as Panagia Field. Also
while in Greece, he undertook an
epigraphic study of the building
accounts of the Periklean Acropolis
based on inscriptions housed in the
National Epigraphical Museum and
in the Acropolis Museum. As a
numismatist interested in the study of
trade, value and exchange across the
Greek world, he examined the
relationship between financing and
design in the Parthenon on the
Athenian Acropolis, and concluded
that the funding of the Parthenon had
a greater, and less controversial, role
in the adornment of the building than
had previously been considered.
Following this work, he is presently
proposing that the doors to the inner
building of the Parthenon were
adorned with ivory as well as gold, a
conclusion deduced from a close
reading of extant accounts. Along the
way he worked with student groups
from Davidson
College, The
University of Texas at Austin and the
University of California at Davis
traveling in Greece and Italy.
Closer to home, Dr. Pope enjoys
teaching classical archaeology for the
same reasons that he was originally
drawn to the field. Drawing upon
literary,
art
historical,
and
anthropological
resources,
the
archaeologist has vast and disparate
categories of evidence to consider,
and must objectively evaluate all of
them in order to arrive at a valid
conclusion. He appreciates being able
to bring these elements together into
one lesson, and then challenge the
students to carefully evaluate the
evidence in order to draw out a wellsupported
argument.
In
the
classroom, determining, for example,
why a piece of pottery is dated to 480
BC is just as important as knowing
the date itself. Enabling students with
the diagnostic tools to critically
analyze ancient art creates a skill set
that can be applied outside of the
classroom and to other sectors of the
academic and professional lives.
This, in turn, imbues a greater value
on the subject matter and the class,
and places it squarely within the
tradition of the Liberal Arts.
Dr. Pope is pleased to join the
Board of the Canadian Institute in
Greece and looks forward to working
more closely with the Institute and
other members of the CIG
community.
Spencer Pope
Athens Association of
Friends
On 9 December we were treated to an
evening of rebetica with Dr Martti
Leiwo, Director of the Finnish
Institute in Athens. Martti delivered a
lecture entitled “Rebetica - songs
from the city”, and then, with the aid
of some mulled wine and seasonal
fare, Martti (on bouzouki,
accompanied by Antti Kaski on
guitar) entertained us with a live
performance.
Martti Leiwo and Antti Kaski (both
Finnish Institute)
On 3 March former Institute
intern Laura Surtees, now a PhD
candidate at Bryn Mawr College,
presented a lecture entitled, “Life in a
Hellenistic Thessalian City: Urban
Organization at Kastro Kallithea”.
Bronwen Wickkiser (Vanderbilt), Laura
Surtees (Bryn Mawr) and Stefanie
Kennell
After the Easter break, our first
event was the screening on 14 April
of “Continental, un film sans fusil”, a
bittersweet black comedy by debut
director Stephane Lafleur about four
characters battling alienation in a
Montreal suburb.
Ottawa Friends
A lecture entitled “The Archaeology
of Food in Crete during the Roman
Period” was presented by Jane E.
Francis,
Concordia
University,
Montreal, Quebec, on November 9
2009, at the Auditorium, Library and
Archives Canada. The lecture was
organized by the CIG in Ottawa and
was co-sponsored by the Canadian
Institute for Mediterranean Studies
and the Parnassos Hellenic Cultural
Society. The island of Crete is known
from ancient literary documents as a
source of exceptional food and drink.
The island produced and exported
sweet wine, its honey was deemed
superior, and it contained numerous
herbs, many of which were noted for
their medicinal properties. On Crete
itself, fish formed a major part of the
diet, and fruit like quince was also
well known. The lecture by the
charismatic Prof. Francis, examined
the archaeological evidence for the
diet and production/consumption of
food on the island of Crete in the
Roman period. The economic
advances of surplus production and
the export of Cretan commodities
around the Mediterranean was also
presented and discussed at length.
A second lecture entitled “Lost
Wonders: Pheidias’ Zeus Olympios
and Athena Parthenos” was presented
by Ken Lapatin, Associate Curator,
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Getty Museum, Los Angeles, on
March 16, 2010, at the Auditorium,
Library and Archives Canada. This
lecture was sponsored by the
Archaeological Institute of America Ottawa Society, in collaboration with
the Canadian Institute in Greece Ottawa Chapter, the Canadian
Institute for Mediterranean Studies,
and the Parnassos Hellenic Cultural
Society. According to documented
evidence the Athenian sculptor
Pheidias was the most celebrated
artist of classical antiquity. Greek and
Latin authors praised his work, in
particular his monumental gold and
ivory statues of Zeus at Olympia and
Athena in the Parthenon on the
Akropolis. During his informative
lecture Prof. Lapatin presented some
of the evidence for the reconstruction
of these lost masterpieces and
discussed
the
revolutionary
techniques of their production, as
well as their widespread religious,
political, and artistic impact, both in
antiquity and afterwards.
significantly to the shaping and reshaping of the structural and cultural
phases of ancient Kourion. The
Bronze Age era received special
attention.
Helen Tryphonas, Ph.D.,
President, Ottawa Friends of CIG
CIG Board Member
Maria Papaioannou
wins AIA award
Stuart Swiny at Ottawa
Hassan Eltaher, Helen Tryphonas, Stuart
Swiny, Andreas Vikis, Elias Psarras,
Yannos Roussos, Margaret Zafiriou and
Bill Zafiriou
Helen Tryphonas, Wnndy Wynn-Jones,
Ken Lapatin, Heather Loube, Andreas
Vikis
A third lecture entitled “Ancient
Kourion” was presented by Stuart
Swiny, Director, Institute of Cypriot
Studies,
Department
of
Anthropology, New York State
University, Albany, New York, on
May 2, 2010, at the Hellenic
Community Auditorium. The lecture
was organized by the Parnassos
Hellenic Cultural Society of Ottawa
and the Canadian Institute in Greece Ottawa Chapter. Prof. Swiny’s amply
informative presentation guided the
audience through the remarkable
events that shaped one of the most
impressive ancient cites in Cyprus,
that of the kingdom of Kourion and
the surrounding sites. A series of long
and uninterrupted sequence of human
occupations including the Argiles,
Mycenaeans, Romans and others,
followed by a series of distractive
earthquakes
have
contributed
Don Wiles, Professor Emeritus,
Carleton University, scheduled for
October 19, 2010, 7:30 p.m., Library
and Archives Canada, and “The
Humble Dead: Mortuary Ritual in the
Mycenaean Hinterland” by Angus K.
Smith, Brock University, scheduled
for November 16, 2010, 7:30 p.m.,
Library and Archives Canada.
Ottawa Friends at Stuart Swiny’s lecture
May 2, 2010
All three lectures were an
overwhelming success! Our sincere
thanks to the members and friends of
the CIG whose presence at the
lectures and continuous support
contributed greatly to the success of
these events, to the Embassy of
Greece and the Embassy of Cyprus
for financing the receptions that
followed each lecture, and to the
Library and Archives Canada and the
Hellenic Community of Ottawa for
making their respective auditoriums
available to us free of charge.
Please note that two additional
lectures are already planned for fall
2010. These are: “Radiochemical
Dating Methods in Archaeology –
The Shroud of Turin and More” by
The recipient of the 2010 AIA
Publication Preparation Grant is
Maria
Papaioannou,
Associate
Professor in the Department of
Classics and Ancient History at the
University of New Brunswick.
Papioannou
will
study
the
architectural remains and small finds
of a Roman peristyle house from
ancient Abdera, excavated over 50
years ago by the Greek archaeologist
Demetrios Lazaridis but never
published. The $5,000 grant will be
used to examine field notes and film
archives of the 1950-52 and -54
excavations, to travel to Abdera to
correct plans, and to communicate
with local and foreign archaeologists
regarding
chronology
and
identification of objects. This project,
“A Roman Peristyle House at
Abdera,” will address the ongoing
concerns and problems associated
with unpublished excavations and
will contribute to our knowledge of
housing and town planning during the
Roman period at Abdera and Greece
in general. The results of this
research project will be included in
her upcoming publications The
Domestic Architectural Remains of
Roman Abdera and Housing and
Households of Roman Greece. A
final manuscript is expected by the
beginning of 2012.
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Donors to CIG
Spring 2010
Lifetime Benefactors
Ian Begg, Jane Bracken, Sheila
Campbell, John and Ellen Desmarais,
John Foreman, Hubert Giroux, John
Humphrey, Gerald and Pamela
Schaus, Michael and Mary Walbank,
Frederick and Joan Winter
Benefactors
David W. Rupp
Patrons
Argos Carpets Ltd., Robert and Helen
Buck, Margaret Curry, Elaine
Godwin, High Mason, Hans
VanderLeest, Zographia Welch
Fellows
George and Janet Allan, Beryl
Anderson, Elaine Cawadias, James
Doherty, George L. Evans, Russell
Farris, Roderick J.O. Millar, John
Tamm, Robert Weir, Ismene Wood,
Mark and Alexis Young
Sustaining Members
Ed and Jocelyn Badovinac,
W.Thomas Delworth, Susan Downie,
Craig Hardiman, Leonidas E. Hill,
Harriet and Andrew Lyons, Maria
Papaioannou, Glenna Roberts,
Stymphorien Van de Maele
Institutional Members
Category A
Brock University, Classical
Association of Canada, Embassy of
Canada in Greece, University of
Alberta, University of British
Columbia, University of Manitoba,
University of New Brunswick,
University of Ottawa, University of
Toronto, University of Victoria,
University of Waterloo, Wilfrid
Laurier University Category B
Langara College, McGill University,
University of Calgary
Category C
McMaster University, Trent
University
Treasurer Position
The Institute is inviting applications
for the position of volunteer
Treasurer. This is a volunteer
position, requiring an average of 2 to
5 hours per week, experience in
accounting/record keeping using
Excel or Quick Books, regular timely
correspondence
with
members,
familiarity
with
charitable
organizations
and the
Canada
Revenue Agency, budget building,
investment management, and a
willingness to work with a Board of
Directors and Executive. The
Canadian Institute is an important
liaison
between
Canadian
scholars/students and Greek cultural
institutions, providing resources and
facilities in Greece to promote
Canadian research and education in
Hellenic history, archaeology and
philology.
THE CANADIAN INSTITUTE IN GREECE/L’INSTITUT CANADIEN EN GRÈCE
Application / Renewal / Donation Form Formule D’adhésion / Renouvellement / Don
Membership donation categories/Catégories de don:
Senior/Ainé(e) ($20)
Student/Étudiant(e) ($20)
Regular/Régulier(ière) ($30)
Sustaining/Soutenant/ ($60)
Fellow/Associé(e) ($100)
Patron ($500)
Benefactor/Bienfaiteur/Bienfaitrice ($1,000)
I would also like to donate to:/Je voudrais faire aussi un don de: Rosenbaum-Alfoldi Fund
Desmarais-Foreman Library
Fund
; Homer and Dorothy Thompson Fund
; Endowment Fund
; Building Fund
;
AMOUNT/SOMME $
Name/Nom
Address/Adresse
City/Ville
Postal Code/Code Postal
Telephone/Téléphone (
New/Nouvelle
)
Renewal/Renouvellement
Email/Courriel
Date
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Please make cheque payable to The Canadian Institute in Greece Rendez s.v.p. le chèque fait au nom de l’Institut canadien
en Grèce.
Mail to/Envoyez à: Treasurer, CIG/Trésorier, ICG 445 Lakeshore Road SARNIA ON N7V 2S4 Canada
A charitable institution under paragraph 149.1 (1) of the Income Tax Act. Une institution de charité d’après le paragraphe 149.1 (1) de la Loi sur l’Im
4394 RR0001
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