K. Zeman-Wiśniewska, 2016. Dancing with the Goddess: Some Remarks on Different Ways to Interpret “Goddesses with Upraised Arms”, in: A. Jacobs and P. Cosyns (eds.), Cypriot material culture studies from picrolite carving to Proskynitaria analysis. Brussels: Academic and Scientific Publications (original) (raw)
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The conference presented a wide variety of research topics related to Cypriot material culture. Young scholars presented twenty papers and two posters in sessions arranged by topic in order to enhance the discussion between the participants who are frequently confronted with similar methodological questions. All papers were of a very high standard and demonstrated that there is a new generation of young scholars keen to challenge long- held assumptions and to raise new questions. Some papers dealt with archaeometric data and interdisciplinary research which allowed to re-evaluate assemblages. Other papers departed from new-collected archaeological data and presented original contributions. Moreover, some papers clearly sought to understand how Cyprus interacted with its neighbours in different time periods. The first session set the tone of the POCA 2008 conference by presenting a variety of research topics from different periods: we started with a review on cultural heritage in Cyprus during the period of 1963-1974. Next, we went back until Chalcolitic times to examine the health status from the cemetery at Souskiou-Laona. A re-assessment of Middle Bronze Age evidence illustrated the need to consider this period preliminary to the opening of the Late Cypriot period, while the fourth paper concentrated on regional exchange in southeast Cyprus in that period. The second session grouped papers that presented long distance relations between Cyprus and other areas within the eastern Mediterranean: two papers dealt with the connectivity with Levantine areas in the Bronze and Iron Age —respectively Anatolia and Syria— whereas, a third paper concentrated on Cypro-Archaic and Cypro-Classical relations between Marion and Athens. In the third session, figurine traditions were put in retrospect: the technology of picrolite figurines was explained in order to better appreciate a very specific section within the Chalcolithic material culture. Bronze Age anthropomorphic and zoomorphic figurines were" "considered to shed light on how the social and political structure, tradition connections, expressions of individual and group identity changed over time. Specifically, the last paper sought to understand how to interpret the “goddesses with upraised arms” which bear strong similarities to the Cretan examples. The fourth session continued to explore the previous theme by examining Hathoric figures from Amathous and how this “Egyptian deity” was perceived in the Archaic city of Amathous. Statues of Roman emperors, their inscriptions and context were viewed in order to understand the roles that statues played in the imperial cult and imperial representation. Two more papers contributed by considering sculptural and architectural types of material culture: both the early Christian marble tables and Islamic Proskynitaria are significant for their time period. Pottery was the central theme of the fifth session: four papers dealt with archaeometric data in order to answer larger questions on ceramic production, technology and provenance determination. In addition, a few Cypriot finds from Carthage were presented. The sixth session grouped inscriptions, linguistic and epigraphical evidence from different periods in order to reconsider some of the long held views on the people and their society. The last session included the search of the Gymnasium of Nea Paphos, whose existence is corroborated by inscriptions. The last paper also concentrated on architecture, more specifically, on the political motivations of water control through a number of public works and aqueducts.
Cover: Cypro-archaic head of a bearded male, Museum August Kestner, Hannover, photo by Chr. Tepper; design: J.M. Henke, Bärbel Morstadt, Constance von Rüden VORWORT DER HERAUSGEBER Die Reihe "Universitätsforschungen zur prähistorischen Archäologie" trägt dem Bedürfnis Rechnung, Examensarbeiten und andere Forschungsleistungen in die Öffentlichkeit zu tragen. Thematisch findet darin die ganze Breite des Faches vom Paläolithikum bis zur Archäologie der Neuzeit ihren Platz. Ursprünglich hatten sich fünf Universitätsinstitute in Deutschland zur Herausgabe der Reihe zusammengefunden, der Kreis ist inzwischen deutlich größer geworden. Alle interessierten Professoren und Dozenten sind eingeladen, als Mitherausgeber tätig zu werden und Arbeiten aus ihrem Bereich der Reihe zukommen zu lassen. Für die einzelnen Bände zeichnen jeweils die Autoren und Institute ihrer Herkunft, die im Titel deutlich gekennzeichnet sind, verantwortlich. Sie erstellen eine druckfertig gestaltete Datei (PDF). Bei gleicher Anordnung des Umschlages haben die verschiedenen beteiligten Universitäten jeweils eine spezifische Farbe. Finanzierung und Druck erfolgen entweder durch sie selbst oder durch den Verlag Dr. Rudolf Habelt GmbH, der in jedem Fall den Vertrieb der Bände sichert. Herausgeber sind derzeit: Kurt Alt (Mainz) François Bertemes (Halle) Nikolaus Boroffka (Berlin) Peter Breunig (Frankfurt am Main)
The Many Face(t)s of Cyprus. 14th Meeting of Postgraduate Cypriote Archaeology, 2019
Cover: Cypro-archaic head of a bearded male, Museum August Kestner, Hannover, photo by Chr. Tepper; design: J.M. Henke, Bärbel Morstadt, Constance von Rüden VORWORT DER HERAUSGEBER Die Reihe "Universitätsforschungen zur prähistorischen Archäologie" trägt dem Bedürfnis Rechnung, Examensarbeiten und andere Forschungsleistungen in die Öffentlichkeit zu tragen. Thematisch findet darin die ganze Breite des Faches vom Paläolithikum bis zur Archäologie der Neuzeit ihren Platz. Ursprünglich hatten sich fünf Universitätsinstitute in Deutschland zur Herausgabe der Reihe zusammengefunden, der Kreis ist inzwischen deutlich größer geworden. Alle interessierten Professoren und Dozenten sind eingeladen, als Mitherausgeber tätig zu werden und Arbeiten aus ihrem Bereich der Reihe zukommen zu lassen. Für die einzelnen Bände zeichnen jeweils die Autoren und Institute ihrer Herkunft, die im Titel deutlich gekennzeichnet sind, verantwortlich. Sie erstellen eine druckfertig gestaltete Datei (PDF). Bei gleicher Anordnung des Umschlages haben die verschiedenen beteiligten Universitäten jeweils eine spezifische Farbe. Finanzierung und Druck erfolgen entweder durch sie selbst oder durch den Verlag Dr. Rudolf Habelt GmbH, der in jedem Fall den Vertrieb der Bände sichert. Herausgeber sind derzeit: Kurt Alt (Mainz) François Bertemes (Halle) Nikolaus Boroffka (Berlin) Peter Breunig (Frankfurt am Main)
18th Meeting on Postgraduate Cypriot Archaeology
2021
Meeting on Postgraduate Cypriot Archaeology: «20 years of PoCA (2001–2021)». The Institute for Classical Archaeology at the Department of Ancient Civilizations of the University of Basel is pleased to announce the 18th meeting of Postgraduate Cypriot Archaeology (PoCA). The meeting will take place from the 9th to the 11th of December 2021 in Basel.
Cypriot archaeology, pre-modern material culture, and cultural heritage in the UK
2019
This is a conference for researchers and museum curators in the UK with an interest in Cypriot ancient history and archaeology, and cultural heritage to present their work in a one-day symposium that will take place at UCL Institute of Archaeology. The symposium will consist of fifteen-minute presentations followed by discussion, primarily on UK-based projects related to pre-modern Cypriot archaeology, ancient history with an emphasis on material culture, and cultural heritage, including museum collections. This event will provide a platform to meet, network, present research and explore possibilities for future research collaborations. While this event is organised primarily for researchers and heritage professionals working in the UK, scholars from other institutions, especially in Cyprus, are also welcome.
Bryn Mawr Classical Review , 2023
The volume Classical Cyprus collects the proceedings of a conference held at the University of Graz in September 2017, and is part of the series Κυπριακά, Studies on ancient Cyprus (vol. 5; Wien), to which other crucial volumes on Cypriot archaeology belong. It is subdivided into 26 articles, with the relevant bibliography and, in most cases, images and photos of the finds analysed following each of them. The articles offer preliminary studies of recently excavated materials, propose new methodologies for the conservation of Cypriot artefacts held in museums all over Europe, and review early excavation reports by comparing them with recent archaeological data. The topics tackled may be traced back to two main subjects: the Phoenician/Levantine presence in Cyprus in the late Archaic and Classical periods, and the increasing Hellenisation of Cypriot customs in the 5 th and 4 th centuries BC. Stephan Schmid and Caroline Huguenot, as an example of the first main subject, show that a significant Phoenician/Levantine influence affected Cypriot building technologies in specific areas of the island. They study the Idalian burial monuments, 12 chamber tombs excavated by Max Ohnefalsch-Richter (1850-1917) and described in a notebook on Tamassos and Idalion that was never fully published. Through a