Dr Michael Loy
British School at Athens
52 Souedias Street
Athens, 10676
+30 211 1022 804
Assistant Director
As Assistant Director, I co-ordinate the BSA courses and teaching for both undergraduate and graduate students, and I manage the security and maintenance of the Athens hostel. I serve as Curator of the BSA museum, and I also contribute to the Archaeology in Greece Online project.
My research follows two main tracks. First, I am investigating networking between Archaic and Classical period city-states, using GIS and quantitative analysis to learn more about ancient communities’ political and economic interactions. This work builds on the PhD thesis that I completed at the University of Cambridge. Second, I use tools from the Digital Humanities on large or archival archaeological datasets, looking for new patterns of historical interest in old material.
I currently participate in the Palace of Nestor Excavations (Pylos) as a GIS and 3d visualisation specialist. Furthermore, in collaboration with Anastasia Christophilopoulou, Naoíse Mac Sweeney and Jana Mokrišová, we are currently investigating the west area of Samos in a BSA sponsored field project.
Publications
- Loy, M. (in preparation). Connecting Communities. Economic and Political Networks in Archaic Greece.
- Loy, M., Salmon N., Smith, K. (eds) (in preparation). The Archaeology and Topography of Greece. Fifty years of the British School at Athens Undergraduate Course.
- Loy, M. (forthcoming). ‘Travelling to the temple of Poseidon at Sounion. Land routes and sea routes’, in Angliker, E., and Tae Jensen, J. (eds), Traveling and Cult Practices in the Ancient Mediterranean.
- Loy, M. and Slawisch, A. 2021. ‘Shedding light on the matter: evaluating changing patterns of object dedication in Ionian sanctuaries (seventh/sixth – fifth/fourth centuries BC) with lexicometrical analysis’, Journal of Greek Archaeology 6.
- Loy, M., Stocker, S.R. and Davis, J.L. 2021. ‘From Archive to GIS: Recovering Spatial Information for Tholos IV at Pylos from the Notebooks of Lord William Taylour’, Internet Archaeology 56. https://doi.org/10.11141/ia.56.5
- Loy, M. 2021. ‘The export of marble in the sixth century BC: Paros and its networks’, in Katsonopoulou, D. (ed), Paros V. Paros through the ages. From Prehistoric times to the 16th Century AD. Proceedings of the fifth International conference on the Archaeology of Paros and the Cyclades. Paroikia, Paros, 21-24 June 2019 (Athens)
- Loy, M. 2020. ‘The islands of the Saronic Gulf: connections and cultural histories’, Archaeological Reports 66, 161–72.
- Loy, M. 2020. ‘Descent with modification? Survey methodologies and scholarly networks’, in Wilkinson, T.C. and Slawisch, A. (eds), The Fieldwalker.org
- Loy, M. 2020. ‘Review of Katja Sporn, Alexandra Kankeleit, Die Abteilung Athen des DAI und die Aktivitäten deutscher Archäologen in Griechenland 1874-1933.’, Bryn Mawr Classical Review 7.47.
- Loy, M. 2019. ‘Early modern travellers in the Aegean: routes and networks’, BSA 114, 369–98.
- Loy, M. and Mullen, A. 2019. ‘A Greek inscription with rider iconography from South Shields, Britain’, ZPE 209, 140–4.