Kristian Göransson
- Curator/Alumnus
- Museum of Mediterranean and Near Eastern Antiquities, Stockholm, Sweden
- E-mail: kristian.goransson@medelhavsmuseet.se
About Myself:
Born 1973 in Kristianstad, educated at Lund University and Edinburgh University. BA (Lund) 1996 in Classical Archaeology & Ancient History, MA (Lund) 1998 in Classical Archaeology & Ancient History, PhD (Lund) 2007 in Classical Archaeology & Ancient History.
I have extensive excavation experience from several parts of the Mediterranean and the Middle East, mainly Jordan, Sicily and Greece. In Sicily I co-directed an excavation for four months in 1999-2000. Besides my present job as curator in the Medelhavsmuseet in Stockholm, I have previously (1998-2001) worked as a museum assistant in this museum and in the National Museums of Scotland, Edinburgh.
In 2001 I went to Libya for the first time to commence the study of the amphorae from the excavations of the ancient Greek city of Euesperides (in modern Benghazi). In 2002 I started working on my doctoral thesis based on this archaeological material which was studied during yearly field trips to Libya until 2006. In March 2007 I defended the thesis “The transport amphorae from Euesperides. The maritime trade of a Cyrenaican city 400-250 BC”. In April 2007 I went back to Libya for further study of recently excavated material from the site not included in the thesis.
In May 2007 I took up a position as Curator in the department of Research and Development in the Medelhavsmuseet, Stockholm. Since the beginning of 2008 I am project manager of the museum’s new Gallery of Cypriote Antiquities, a new permanent exhibition on ancient Cyprus which opened in January 2009.
About the Project:
The ancient Greek city of Euesperides was excavated by the Society for Libyan Studies in co-operation with the Libyan Department of Antiquities between 1999-2007. The project is directed jointly by Paul Bennett of Canterbury Archaeological Trust, Prof. Andrew Wilson of the University of Oxford and Ahmed Buzaian of the University of Gar Younis, Benghazi. The site of Euesperides was settled from the 6th century BC until its abandonment in the middle of the 3rd century BC. The finds testify to an important Classical and Hellenistic city with a sheltered port and an extensive trading network.
After every season of excavation yearly preliminary reports have appeared in the journal Libyan Studies. The fieldwork is now finished and at present the project team is preparing the final publication of the finds and results. Furthermore, a conference on the preliminary results of the Euesperides project were held in Oxford in the beginning of 2009.
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