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The Newest String: A Middle Bronze Age Cypriot Faience Necklace
A string of faience beads, their striking turquoise glaze gone matte and clouded with buff, hung on...
The Judge, the Escape, and a Chocolate Box of Six-Thousand-Year-Old Sherds
A wooden Droste chocolate box, five Stone Age potsherds clipped into wire, and the Supreme Court...
Smoking Strictly Prohibited: How the Cyprus Museum Sold Antiquities Across a Counter
For decades the Cyprus Museum kept a saleroom in its courtyard, selling pots it judged to be...
Cypriot Plank Figures: Three Necks, or One Neck and Two Locks of Hair
Two Cypriot plank figures from Cyprus, with no recorded find-spot and fifty-three years in the...
Licence No. 7070: How Cypriot Antiquities Left the Island Legally
Between 1935 and 1978 the Cyprus government signed something like seven thousand licences to export...
Under a Kilogram
Everything metal that Chalcolithic Cyprus left behind weighs less than a bag of sugar, though the...
The Savant of Larnaca
Demetrios Pierides assembled the oldest private collection of antiquities on Cyprus to keep the...
Two Figures and a Tree
A hand-sized clay group from Iron Age Cyprus shows two figures turned to face each other across a...