Archaeological Society of Athens
The Archaeological Society of Athens is an independent learned society. Also termed the Greek Archaeological Society, it was founded in 1837 by Konstantinos Bellios, just a few years after the establishment of the modern Greek State, with the aim of encouraging archaeological excavations, maintenance, care and exhibition of antiquities in Greece.
Facade (front door) of the Archaeological Society of Athens
Konstantinos Bellios, Founder of the Archaeological Society of Athens
Sanctuary of Demeter and Kore and the Telesterion (Initiation Hall), center for the Eleusinian Mysteries
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Kyriakos S. Pittakis was a Greek archaeologist. He was the first Greek to serve as Ephor General of Antiquities, the head of the Greek Archaeological Service, in which capacity he carried out the conservation and restoration of several monuments on the Acropolis of Athens. He has been described as a "dominant figure in Greek archaeology for 27 years", and as "one of the most important epigraphers of the nineteenth century".
A painting of the 1821–1822 siege of the Acropolis, in which Pittakis participated, by Panagiotis Zographos
Portrait of Odysseas Androutsos, drawn in 1887
The grave stele of Phainippe (c. 400 – c. 390 BCE), found by Pittakis on Aegina in early 1829
The reception of the new king Otto in Athens on 23 May [O.S. 11 May] 1833, painted by Peter von Hess in 1839