Eleftheria Pappa
Postdoc
- Name
- Dr. E. Pappa
- Telephone
- 071 5272727
- e.pappa@hum.leidenuniv.nl
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0002-3693-4652
Postdoc
- Faculty of Humanities
- Leiden Institute for Area Studies
- Pappa E. (2025), Reading the South-Western Script of Iron Age Iberia in a Mass-Migration Context: a New Framework for the Deciphering of the Script with Case-Studies (University of Münster). [working paper].
- Pappa E. (2025), Weaponizing the Middle Eastern cultural heritage: archaeology, violence and amnesia – then, now and suggestions for a different future, Revista de Antropologia 68: 1-60.
- Pappa E. (2025), Review of: Kilani M. (2019), Byblos in the Late Bronze Age. Interactions between the Levantine and Egyptian Worlds. Studies in the Archaeology and History of the Levant no. 9. Leiden; Boston: Brill. Bibliotheca Orientalis 81(3-4): 340-346.
- Pappa E. (2025), Geld für Söldner. In: Lichtenberger A., Martin K. & Steil T. (Eds.), Geldstücke: Münzen im Archäologischen Museum der Universität Münster. Oppenheim: Nünnerich-Asmus. 58-59.
- Pappa E., Geld für Söldner. Münze des Monats: Universität Münster. [web article].
- Pappa E. (2025), From myth to history. Phoenicians in Iberia and Tartessos, Ancient History Magazine 53: 28-35.
- Pappa E. (2024), Fraud or Fiasco? Philo’s nine books of Φοινικικά (‘Phoenician Affairs’) vis-à-vis Mediterranean archaeology and beyond: a reappraisal long overdue, Revista do Museu de Arqueologia e Etnoloogia 42: 69-142.
- Pappa E., Tavira: colonie phénicienne au Portugal. Contribution à la plateforme d’études phéniciennes. Beirut (Université Saint-Joseph de Beyrouth).
- Pappa E. (2023), Picking up letters quite quickly: the first literacy in western Europe during the early 1st millennium BC vis-à-vis the international setting of its origins and its local uses. In: Borba Florenzano M.B. (Ed.), Ocupação territorial e definição de fronteiras no Mediterrâneo antigo . São Paulo: Intermeios. 137-198.
- Pappa E. (2022), Herakles and the Gorgon in Athenian black-figure vase-painting: burlesque or civic theology?, Acta Classica. Proceedings of the Classical Association of South Africa 65: 157-194.
- Pappa E. (2022), Divination and Necromancy from the Near East to Andalusia: Religious Transmutations on the Move. In: Sossau V. & Riehle K. (Eds.), Mistaken Identities: Identities as resources in the central Mediterranean no. 19. Tübingen: Tübingen University Press. 151-178.
- Pappa E. (2020), Tropicalismo in classics: contemporary Brazilian approaches to the value of classical antiquity in research and education, Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies 18(2): 358-408.
- Pappa E. (2020), Greek magic on the Atlantic?: Homeric potions and mystic cults beyond the Pillars of Herakles, Romanitas – Revista de Estudos Grecolatinos 15: 32-74.
- Pappa E. (2020), Invited comment on: "Encountering Novelty Object, Assemblage, and Mixed Material Culture" by Robin. A. Beck, Current Anthropology 61(5): 622-647.
- Pappa E. (2019), The poster boys of antiquity’s ‘capitalism’ shunning money? : The spread of the alphabet in the Mediterranean as a function of a credit-based, maritime trade, Revista do Museu de Arqueologia e Etnologia 33: 91-138.
- Pappa E. (2019), The metrological system of the Final Bronze Age balance weights and the pre-Roman coinage of Atlantic Iberia: a shared Syrian standard?, Journal of Ancient History and Archaeology 6(1): 60-80.
- Pappa E. (2019), Recent discoveries in Iberia and the application of post-colonial concepts: the modern making of a state, Tartessos, Athens Journal of History 3(5): 189-208.
- Pappa E (2019), Near eastern colonies and cultural influences from Morocco to Algeria before the Carthaginian expansion: a survey of the archaeological evidence, Hélade 5(2): 57-82.
- Pappa E. (2019), The Far Western Mediterranean. In: Lemos I.S. & Kotsonas A. (Eds.), Companion to Early Greece and the Mediterranean. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- Pappa E. (2018), Depoliticizing archaeology for constructing pasts and presents: cultural heritage, war and the west, Radical History Review 130: 9-43.
- Pappa E. (2018), Review of: Tal O. & Z. Weiss (2017), Expressions of Cult in the Southern Levant in the Greco-Roman Period. Manifestations in Text and Material Culture. Contextualising the Sacred no. 6. Turnhout: Brepols. Bibliotheca Orientalis 74(1-2): 177-183.
- Pappa E. (2017), A mere addition to someone else’s genealogy? : Perceptions of ancient cultural heritage, public policy and collective memory in Portugal, Journal of Eastern Mediterranean Archaeology and Heritage Studies 5(3-4): 287-310.
- Pappa E. (2017), “You give me letters instead of money?” Commercial transactions in the Near East and the western Mediterranean ca. 1100-600 BCE: social innovation and institutional inhibition of Phoenician commerce, Revista do Museu de Arqueologia e Etnologia 28: 1-30.
- Pappa E. (2017), Social histories of the early Greek presence in the 'Far West': commodities, traders and their impact. In: Mazarakis Ainian A., Alexandridou A. & Charalambidou X. (Eds.), Regional Stories Towards a New Perception of the Early Greek World,: Acts of an International Symposium in honour of Professor Jan Bouzek, Volos 18–21 June 2015. Volos: University of Thessaly Press. 597-604.
- Pappa E. (2016), Endangered humanities at a time of crisis in the EU and beyond: shrinking, downsize and the itinerant academic, Fast Capitalism 13(1): 67-96.
- Pappa E. (2015), The Phoenician sanctuary of Palácio da Galeria in Tavira (Portugal): overview, selected contexts and their assemblages from the excavations of the Campo Arqueológico de Tavira no. 23. Barcelona: Bellaterra.
- Pappa E. (2015), Phoenicians in Sicily. In: Burdersdijk D., Calis R., Kelder J., Sofroniew A., van Beek R & Tusa S. (Eds.), Sicily and the Sea. Zwolle: W Books. 32-37.
- Pappa E. (2015), Who’s the Phoenician on the Atlantic? Disentangling seafaring from colonisation in western Iberia and Morocco. In: , On Sea and Ocean: New Research in Phoenician Seafaring. Marburger Beiträge zur Archäologie no. 2. Marburg: Eigenverlag des Archäologischen Seminars der Philipps-Universität Marburg. 71-94.
- Pappa E. (2015), Representation of Phoenician eschatology: funerary art, ritual and the belief in an after-life. In: Theodoropoulou-Polychroniades Z. & Evely D. (Eds.), Aegis: Essays in Mediterranean Archaeology presented to Matti Egon by scholars of the Greek Archaeological Committee UK. Oxford: Archaeopress. 117-130.
- Pappa E. (2015), Oriental gods but domestic elites? Religious symbolism and economic functions of Phoenician-period cult loci in south Iberia. In: Kistler E., Öhlinger B., Mohr M. & Hoernes M. (Eds.), Sanctuaries and the Power of Consumption. Networking and the formation of Elites in the Archaic Western Mediterranean World: Proceedings of the International Conference in Innsbruck, 20th–23rd March 2012 . Philippika - Altertumswissenschaftliche Abhandlungen no. 92. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag. 43-62.
- Pappa E. (2015), Changing responses to changing environments: Documenting socio-cultural change and demographic evolution through the built environment in Phoenician-period Iberia, ca. 900–600 BC. In: Parr B.E., di Castro A.A. & Hope C.A. (Eds.), Housing and Habitat in the Ancient Mediterranean. Cultural and Environmental Responses. BABESCH Supplements no. 26. Leuven: Peeters. 15-30.
- Pappa E. (2013), Early Iron Age Exchange in the West: Phoenicians in the Mediterranean and the Atlantic. Leuven: Peeters.
- Pappa E. (2013), Post-colonial baggage at the end of the road: how to put the genie back into its bottle and where to go from here, Archaeological Review from Cambridge 28(1): 28-49.
- Pappa E. (2013), Looking out to the sea and away from it: multi-cultural maritime communities of the coast and inland isolationism in Early Iron Age Atlantic Iberia. In: Daire M.Y., Dupont C., Baudry A., Billard C., Large J.M., Lespez L., Normand E. & Scarre C. (Eds.), Ancient Maritime Communities and the Relationship between People and Environment along the European Atlantic Coasts: HOMER 2011, Vannes, 28 septembre-1er octobre 2011 : BAR International Series. 349-359.
- Pappa E. (2012), Framing some aspects of the Early Iron Age ‘chronological mess’: Aegean synchronisms with the west and their significance for the Greek Geometric series, Kubaba 3: 2-38.
- Pappa E. (2012), Review of: Mark Woolmer (2011), Ancient Phoenicia: An Introduction. Classical World Series. London: Bristol Classical Press. Bryn Mawr Classical Review (BMCR 2012.02.42).
- Pappa E. (2012), Retracting the divisions? : Fresh perspectives on Phoenician settlement in Iberia from Tavira, Portugal, Tijdschrift voor Mediterrane Archeologie 47: 7-13.
- Pappa E. (2011), Review of: David J. Mattingly (2010), The Archaeology of Fazzān. Volume 3, Excavations of C. M. Daniels. Society for Libyan Studies Monograph no. 8. Tripoli; London: Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahariya, Department of Antiquities. Bryn Mawr Classical Review (2011.09.52).
- Pappa E. (2011), From sea-faring men to travelling images: the Phoenician commercial expansion in south-eastern Spain as a stimulus for artistic interactions in Iberia. In: Duistermaat k., Regulski I., Jennes G. & Weiss L. (Eds.), Intercultural Contacts in the Ancient Mediterranean: Proceedings of the International Congress at The Netherlands-Flemish Institute in Cairo, 25th to 29th October 2008. Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta no. 202. Leuven: Peeters. 161-178.
- Pappa E. (2009), Reflections on the earliest Phoenician presence in north-west Africa, Talanta: Proceedings of the Dutch Archaeological and Historical Society 40-41: 53-72.
- Pappa E. (2009), Phoenicians in the West: remarks on some western Phoenician ceramic assemblages from Atlantic Iberia. In: Ministry of Culture of Lebanon (Ed.), Interconnections in the Eastern Mediterranean – Lebanon in the Bronze and Iron Ages. Bulletin d’ Archeologie et d’Architecture Libanaises Hors-Série no. 6. Beirut: Ministère de la Culture, Direction Géneral des Antiquitès. 489-498.