We were saddened to learn of the death of Prof. Zsolt Kiss. As a graduate of Mediterranean archaeology at the University of Warsaw, he was a student of Prof. Kazimierz Michałowski.
His scientific interests focused mainly on the iconography of the Greco-Roman period in Egypt. He pursued them during his many years of work at the Center for Mediterranean Cultures (later the Institute of Mediterranean and Oriental Cultures) of the Polish Academy of Sciences, where he served as deputy director and later as head of the Department of Classical Mediterranean Cultures.
Since 1966/67, he participated in the excavations of the Polish Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology, the University of Warsaw. He also took part in excavations at Palmyra, but was most closely associated with Alexandria, where in the 1970s and 1980s he took part in many research seasons of excavations at Kom el-Dikka, which he headed in the seasons of 1986 and 1987.