Dr Archaeologist
Department of Sculpture Collection
eleka@culture.gr

Evridiki Leka graduated from the University of Athens, and acquired her Master and PhD in Classical Archaeology from the University of Paris I (PANTHEON – SORBONNE) thanks to a scholarship from the Hellenic National Scholarships Foundation. Since 2005 she has been working at the Hellenic Ministry of Culture, initially at the Ephorate of Antiquities of Mytilene and today at the National Archaeological Museum. She has specialized in the research of ancient Greek sculpture and her publications concern Archaic and Roman sculpture, marble quarrying and carving, and sculpture preservation and restoration in antiquity. 2012 was awarded by the Academy of Athens for her unpublished PhD thesis titled “Maintenance and repair of marble sculpture in antiquity: the case of Archaic sculpture”.