---
title: "Nikolas Zarkantzas"
type: "entity"
entity_kind: "person"
status: "hub"
canonical_name: "Nikolas Zarkantzas"
aliases: []
first_seen: "2026-08-29T00:00:00.000Z"
connects_to: ["Sinai Palimpsests Project","Early Manuscripts Electronic Library (EMEL)","Michael B. Phelps","St. Catherine's Monastery"]
writer_model: "claude-sonnet-5"
tags: ["sinai","palimpsest","manuscripts","digital-humanities"]
seek_code_commit: "7d6d9ed"
---


Nikolas Zarkantzas was the Associate Director of the Sinai Palimpsests Project
(2011–2016), who died on 15 August 2016 at age 53, shortly before the project
concluded. He matters to this vault as a named casualty of the project's own
history: its director, [[entity-michael-b-phelps|Michael B. Phelps]], credits him
in a 2023 retrospective as essential to the project happening at all — a
biographical thread not otherwise covered in the vault's manuscript-recovery
cluster.

## References

- [[claim-sinai-palimpsests-multispectral-imaging-recovered-erased-texts]] —
  the project he helped direct.