Topic
Collecting
The collectors, dealers and excavators who assembled Cypriot antiquities from the nineteenth century onward, and how their collections formed and dispersed.
10 entries in 3 sections
Pottery
4 entriesSection overview
Greek Pottery in CyprusGreek painted and black-gloss pottery reached Cyprus from the late tenth century BCE, rising from a few Euboean and Attic cups to a flood of Attic ware by the fifth century.Cypro-GeometricCypro-ArchaicCypro-Classical
Medieval Glazed Sgraffito WareWheel-made red-clay tableware coated in white slip, incised through the slip and lead-glazed, made in Cypriot workshops from the 13th to the 16th century AD.
Complex VesselsComposite, multiple and ring vessels built by multiplying or joining ordinary shapes, mostly Bronze Age tomb pieces, plus figure vases, arm-vessels, incense burners, stands and miniatures.ChalcolithicEarly Bronze AgeMiddle Bronze AgeLate Bronze AgeCypro-GeometricCypro-ArchaicCypro-ClassicalHellenistic
LampsA small hand-held vessel that burned oil or fat on a wick, made in Cyprus as an open saucer from the Late Bronze Age and as a closed lamp from the Hellenistic period.Late Bronze AgeCypro-GeometricCypro-ArchaicCypro-ClassicalHellenisticRoman
Statues
2 entriesSection overview
How Cypriot Figurines Are ClassifiedThe overlapping systems that classify Cypriot figurines and statues, from Winkelmann's N and C numbers to Karageorghis's Coroplastic Art and Gjerstad's styles.NeolithicChalcolithicEarly Bronze AgeMiddle Bronze AgeLate Bronze AgeCypro-GeometricCypro-Archaic
Stone Plank FiguresA rare class of about fourteen Bronze Age Cypriot plank figures carved in gypsum, chalk or limestone, most of them without a recorded find-spot.Early Bronze AgeMiddle Bronze Age
Antiquities Trade
4 entriesSection overview
Collecting Cypriot Antiquities Today: Law, Provenance and Due DiligenceThe law, provenance checks and market that govern owning and buying Cypriot antiquities outside Cyprus as of 2026.
Looting in Occupied Northern Cyprus after 1974The removal of icons, frescoes, mosaics and antiquities from the occupied north of Cyprus after the Turkish invasion of 1974, and the recoveries that followed.
The Antiquities Trade and CyprusSectionHow Cypriot antiquities left the island lawfully under successive export regimes, what changed with the 1974 occupation, and what collectors can own today.
The Legal Export of Cypriot AntiquitiesThe succession of Ottoman, colonial and Republic laws under which Cypriot antiquities lawfully left the island until licensed export ended in 1996.