Doro Levi

Doro Levi (actually Teodoro Levi, born June 1, 1898 in Trieste, † July 3, 1991 in Rome ) was an Italian classical archaeologist.

Levi studied at the University of Florence and in 1920 received his doctorate. From 1921 to 1926 he was a member of the Scuola Italiana di Atene Archaeological. 1926 Levi inspector at the Superintendence was all antichità d' Etruria in Florence, in 1935 its director. In 1935 he became Professor of Classical Archaeology at the University of Cagliari and at the same Soprintendente of Sardinia. Due to the Italian racial laws, he had to emigrate as a Jew and spent the years from 1938 to 1945 as a member of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton; Here he wrote the basic monograph on the mosaics of Antioch. After the war he returned to Italy and founded in 1946 in Rome, the " Direzione dell'Ufficio per le relazioni culturali presso il Ministero della Public Education ". From 1947 to the end of 1976 he was director of the Scuola Italiana di Atene Archaeological.

He became known primarily as excavators of Phaistos. In 1960 he also began the excavations in Caria Iasos.