The third volume of the electronic series Grifos by the Finnish Institute at Athens has been published!
In the year 1882, the German scholar and epigraphist Habbo Gerhard Lolling visited the ancient city of Melitaia in Thessaly and made a remarkably detailed plan of its visible architectural remains. Lolling’s account was never published and remained forgotten among his notebooks after his untimely death in 1894. In Robin Rönnlund’s article “Habbo G. Lolling at Melitaia: The Antiquities of an Ancient City through the Lens of Two 1882 Notebooks” the site of ancient Melitaia is presented through a combination of Lolling’s notes and a recent LiDAR survey, providing a rare historical perspective on the ancient city of Melitaia, where the Finnish Institute at Athens has been conducting archaeological research since 2022.
You can read the new volume here
Grifos is an open-access, peer-reviewed, fully electronic publication series of the Finnish Institute at Athens. Established in 2022, Grifos welcomes studies from all fields of the scholarly scope of the institute, written in Finnish, Swedish, English, and Greek. The publication warmly encourages contributions!
