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Constantinos Kourouniotis (1872-1945)
Constantinos Kourouniotis was born in Chios island. He studied at the University of Athens and continued his graduate and post-graduate studies in Germany, in Jena and Munich in particular. Upon his return to Greece he became a member of the Archaeological Society at Athens. He served as director of the National Archaeological Museum. He also led several important excavations throughout Greece: in Milos, Antikythera, Olympia etc. His excavation at the site of Epikourios Apollo at Bassae, in the beginning of the 1900s was particularly interesting. He revealed, among other finds, two sanctuaries, which he attributed to the cult of Aphrodite and Artemis Orthosia respectively. His most important excavation, however, was that at Eleusis, which he carried out  since 1917, as successor of  major archaeologists such as D. Philios and A. Skias. The excavations at Eleusis were organised under the auspices of the Archaeological Society at Athens, yet it was an additional funding by the Rockfeller Foundation from 1930 onwards, which allowed large-scale excavational work to take place and reveal the sanctuary of Demeter. The team of Kourouniotis included, among others, J. Travlos, who succeeded him in the direction of the excavations. Kourouniotis was elected member of the Academy of Athens in 1929. He died in 1945.

Published Work
Le musée d'Olympie: catalogue illustré, Athenes 1909

Κατάλογος του Μουσείου Λυκοσούρας, Εν Αθήναις 1911

Die Hauptstuecke vom Giebel des eretrischen Tempel des Apollo Daphnephoros, Berlin 1914-15

Ελληνικαί Ανασκαφαί εν Μικρά Ασία : Ανασκαφαί εν Νύση τη επί Μαιάνδρω 1921, Αθήναι 1922

Οδηγός της Ελευσίνος εικονογραφημένος, Αθήναι 1924

Η ανασκαφή των αρχαίων Αθηνών, Αθήναι 1926

Το ιερόν του Απόλλωνος του Ζωστήρος, Αθήναι 1927-1928

Ελευσίς, Οδηγός των αναασκαφών και του Μουσείου, Αθήναι 1933

Συμβολή εις την οικοδομικήν ιστορίαν του ελευσινιακού τελεστηρίου, Αθήναι 1935-36 (συνεργασία με τον Ι.Τραυλό)

Συμβολή εις την ιστορίαν της Ελευσινιακής λατρείας, Αθήναι 1940

Ανασκαφή Ιεράς Οδού, Αθήναι 1940 (συνεργασία με τον Ι.Τραυλό)