Ancient Cyprus today:
Museum Collections and new Research
Approaches to the Archaeology of Cyprus
S t o c k h o l m 2 5 - 2 7 o f A p r i l 2 0 1 5
Day 1, SaturDay april 25
Östasiatiska Museet, Tyghusplan, Skeppsholmen
11.00-12.00 Registration
12.00-12.30 A welcome from the organizers
Session 1A
Chairing: Sanne Houby Nielsen
12.30 Thomas Kiely (The British Museum, London).
Beyond the Metropolis: Regional collections of
Cypriot antiquities in the United Kingdom
12.45 Despina Pilides (Department of Antiquities,
Cyprus). Contextualizing the collections of the
Cyprus Museum: Recent projects
13.00 Catherine Olien (Northwestern University,
Chicago). The Collection, Restoration, and
Display of the Cypriot Fragment at the
Metropolitan Museum in the Late Nineteenth
Century
13.15 Discussion
13.30-14.00 Coffee Break
Session 1B
Chairing: Caroline Sauvage
14.00 Evangeline Markou (National Hellenic Research
Foundation (NHRF), Institute of Historical
Research (IHR), Section of Greek and Roman
Antiquity). Incorporating numismatics into
historical and archaeological studies. The case
of Cyprus
14.15 Charalambos Paraskeva (University of
Edinburgh). CARMA: An Integrated System for
High-Resolution Archaeological Information
Recording, Introduction and First Results
14.30 Paolo Mauriello (Istituto per le Tecnologie
Applicate ai Beni Culturali - CNR). The research
commitment of ITAB-CNR in Cyprus in
Archaeometry and field Archaeology
14.45 Discussion
Session 1C
Chairing: Eustathios Raptou
15.00 Giorgos Papantoniou (Trinity College, Dublin),
Rethinking the portrait-like sculpture of
Hellenistic Cyprus
15.15 Alexia Miltiadous Johansson (Cardiff University)
Reconstructing social behavior and interactions
in domestic settings in Roman Cyprus
15.30 Craig Barker (Sydney University Museums),
Recent research on Hellenistic and Roman
Urbanisation in the Theatre precinct of Nea
Paphos
15.45 Kamila Nocon (Jagiellonian University, Kraków),
Hellenistic Kitchen ware from the Paphos Agora
Project
16.00 Discussion
16.15-18.00 Reception
Day 2, SunDay april 26
Medelhavsmuseet, Fredsgatan 2
Session 2A
Chairing: Lina Kassianidou
09.00 Anastasia Leriou (Archaeological Society at
Athens). Locating identities in ancient Cyprus:
a view from the 21st century
09.15 Peter Fischer (University of Gothenburg).
The New Swedish Cyprus Expedition 2010-14:
Excavations at Hala Sultan Tekke.
09.30 Teresa Bürge (Austrian Academy of Sciences).
Recently Discovered Cylinder Seals from Hala
Sultan Tekke
09.45 Bettina Stolle (Stockholm University). The reuse
of a well as a deposit for seven individuals at Hala
Sultan Tekke
10.00 Adam Lindqvist (Uppsala University),
Fishing on Cyprus during the Late Bronze Age
10.15 Discussion
10.30-11.00 Coffee break
Session 2B
Chairing: Peter Fischer
11.00 Kevin Fisher (The University of British Columbia).
The Kalavasos and Maroni Built Environments
(KAMBE) Project: Investigating Late Bronze Age
Urban Landscapes in south-central Cyprus
11.15 Giorgos Papasavvas (University of Cyprus).
Processes of abandonment at Enkomi; The
sanctuary of the Horned God
11.30 Lina Kassianidou (University of Cyprus).
Metallurgy and metalwork in Enkomi – Revisiting
Porphyrios Dikaios’ excavations
11.45 Jennifer Webb (La Trobe University, Melbourne).
Lapithos revisted: a fresh look at a key Middle
Bronze Age site in Cyprus.
12.00 Discussion
12.15-13.30 Lunch break
Session 2C
Chairing: Giorgos Papasavvas
13.30 Constantinos S. Constantinou (University of East
Anglia). Late Neolithic Eastern Mediterranean:
identifying and comparing social and economic
organisation in Cyprus and northern Levant
13.45 Bernard Knapp (Cyprus American Archaeological
Research Institute (CAARI)), Maritime Transport
Containers and Bronze Age Cyprus
14.00 Silvana Di Paolo (Istituto di
; Studi sul Mediterraneo
Antico (ISMA) Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche
(CNR)). Patterns of interaction on the south coast
of Cyprus: a view from the Early Bronze Age
Pottery assemblage
14.15 Maria Dikomitou-Eliadou and Athanasios K. Vionis
(University of Cyprus). Silent artefacts revealing
their story: The analytical paradigm of Bronze Age
Cooking pottery
14.30 Discussion
14.45 Coffee break
Session 2D
Chairing: Jennifer Webb
15.00 Caroline Sauvage and Joanna Smith (Loyola
Merimount University, Los Angeles and University
of Pennsylvania) Local and Regional Patterns of
Textile production in Late Bronze Age Cyprus
15.15 Hedvig Landenius Enegren and Ina Vanden Berghe
(University of Copenhagen and Royal Institute of
Cultural Heritage Brussels ((KIK-IRPA)). Two “re-
discovered” textile fragments from Paleoskoutella
15.30 Maria Rosaria Belgiorno (Istituto per le Tecnologie
Applicate ai Beni Culturali - CNR). Cosmetic
production in Cyprus in Early-Middle Bronze Age
15.45 Zuzana Chovanec (University at Albany). Making
Sense of Ancient Scents: Documenting the Use of
Perfumed Substances in Ancient Cyprus
16.00 Walter Crist (Arizona State University). Playing
Spaces: Changing Gaming practices in Bronze
Age Cyprus
16.15-16.30 Discussion
Day 3 MonDay, april 27
Medelhavsmuseet, Fredsgatan 2
Session 3A
Chairing: Thomas Kiely
09.00 Sanne Houby-Nielsen (Nordiska Museet).
The phantom stratigraphy at Ayia Irini: new
investigations in the Swedish excavations at the
sanctuary at Ayia Irini, 1929
09.15 Giorgos Bourogiannis (Medelhavsmuseet). The
unpublished pottery from Ayia Irini: Setting the
stage for a ceramic reconsideration
09.30 Christian Mühlenbock (Medelhavsmuseet).
Terracotta figurines from Ayia Irini, results from
extended provenance studies.
09.45 Alessandra Colosimo (Stockholm University).
Animals and cult practices at Ayia Irini, Cyprus,
between Late Cypriot III and Cypro-Archaic II
10.00 Adriano Orsingher (Università degli Studi di Roma
“La Sapienza”). Reconsidering the necropolis of
Ayia Irini: a glimpse of the Iron Age evidence
10.15 Discussion
10.30 Coffee Break
Session 3B
Chairing: Despina Pilides
11.00 Matthias Recke (Justus-Liebig-Universität,
Giessen). Tamassos-Phrangissa: The rising of a
lost sanctuary and its furnishing
11.15 Demetra Aristotelous (Department of Antiquities,
Cyprus), Kato Platres-Kampos tou Koulourou: an
extra-urban sanctuary site in the Troodos
mountain range?”
11.30 Stella Diakou (Trinity College, Dublin), Histories
of pots and people: re-discovering the archaeology
of Cypro-Geometric Lapithos
11.45 Anastasia Christophilopolou (The Fitzwilliam
Museum): Re-examining the history of Cypriot
Antiquities in the Fitzwilliam Museum: A closer
look at the collection’s past and future
12.00 Discussion
Session 3C
Chairing: Maria Rosaria Belgiorno
12.15 Christina Ioannou (UMR8167 Orient et
Méditerranée). The Political situation in the Near
East during the Archaic period and its impact on
Cyprus
12.30 Barbara Porter and Joseph Greene (The Harvard
Semitic Museum). The Puzzling Case of the
Assyrian King Sargon II’s Stele from Cyprus
Archaeological Evidence, Image, and Texts.
12.45 Christian Vonhoff (Friedrich-Alexander-University
Erlangen-Nuremberg). Phoenician Bronzes from
Cyprus Reconsidered – Intercultural Exchange
in Early Iron Age Cyprus against the Background of
a Pan-Mediterranean Perspective
13.00 Lunch
Session 3D
Chairing: Bernard Knapp
14.15 Ludovic Thély (École française d’Athènes).
Topography in the Lower City of Amathus:
Towards new multidisciplinary research in Cyprus’
archaeology
14.30 Anna Cannavò (École française d’Athènes).
Mapping ancient Amathus
14.45 Sabine Fourrier (HiSoMA, Maison de l’Orient et de
la Méditerranée – Jean Pouilloux, Lyon). The
Iron Age city of Kition: State of research
; 85 years
after the Swedish Cyprus Expedition
15.00 Discussion
Session 3E
Chairing: Christian Mühlenbock
15.15 Katarzyna Zeman-Wiśniewska (Cardinal Stefan
Wyszynski University, Warsaw). Figuring out
figurines, on an example of multiple origins of the
Cypriot Early Iron Age anthropomorphic
terracottas.
15.30 Eustathios Raptou (Department of Antiquities,
Cyprus). Exchange of Terracottas between Cyprus
and the Aegean during the 6th and 5th c. B.C.
15.45 Niki Eriksson (University of Gothenburg). Image,
confusion and syncretism: In search of Dionysus in
Kition
16.00 Discussion
16.15 Coffee Break
16.30-17.00 Final discussion, future perspectives
and collaborations: Sabine Fourrier
Medelhavsmuseet
Fredsgatan 2,
Stockholm
Östasiatiska museet
Tyghusplan, Skeppsholmen,
Stockholm
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