Research Seminar

09 February 2023, 17.00, at the Swedish Institute of Classical Studies in Rome and on ZOOM

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Therese Emanuelsson-Paulson
”Polygonal columns in the Apennine peninsula and Sicily”

Polygonal column shafts have a multi-faceted shape, with many flat sides of equal widths called facets. Polygonal columns have been used at least from the 2000 BC to 2000 AD, where I have mainly studied their use in Greek architecture 800-100 BC and how that use have influenced other cultures around the Mediterranean. They seem to mainly be used around the Eastern Mediterranean in all periods of time. Currently, I am therefore exploring the use of polygonal columns in the Pre-Roman Italy.

Therese Emanuelsson-Paulson’s  field of research concerns Greek architecture, digital documentation and architectural reconstruction, mainly from recent fieldwork. She is a permanent member of The Melitaia Research Program and the Kalaureia Research Program, where she is responsible of the architectural material.She has also worked in Kyllene Harbour Project,  with architectural documentation at Midea in Greece and as survey team leader at Castelporziano, Italy.
After the PhD, she had a two-year postdoc scholarship from Ahlström and Terserus foundation (2021-2022) for the project Local usage of polygonal columns in Greek architecture – a stylistic, economic or political style? discussing when and why in a political and social context the local styles of polygonal columns were used.