Explore the Antioch Recovery Project
A Classics Research Lab
The Antioch Recovery Project is an ongoing research lab dedicated to the study of mosaics from the city of Antioch-on-the-Orontes and its surroundings. Led by principal investigator Jennifer Stager, this site houses the ongoing research of lab members, who are students at Hopkins from first-years to graduate students. ARP works in collaboration with a number of experts at Hopkins and in the Baltimore area, as well as with the global community of Antioch researchers. Meet our team here.
The Antioch Recovery Project (ARP) investigates mosaics from the ancient city of Antioch (modern Antakya, Turkey, near the border with Syria). Our initial focus has been those mosaics now in the collection of the Baltimore Museum of Art.
Excavated by an international team of archaeologists in the 1930s, hundreds of ancient mosaics from the cosmopolitan city were subsequently dispersed to museums and institutions across the globe, with over thirty mosaics entering the collection of the Baltimore Museum of Art.
Phase I of the Antioch Recovery Project ran in Spring 2020 and returned two years later in Fall 2021 as Phase II. Both
focused on three chronological groups: Ancient Antioch, The Excavations, and Museum Afterlives.
All images and photographs are taken by members of the lab or come from the Princeton Antioch Visual Resources Collection