University

Brock University

St Catharines, Canada

University in St Catharines. 6 people in the register connected with it.

The Cypriot collection

The Brock University Collection of Cypriote Antiquities, catalogued by Laura F. Robertson as Corpus of Cypriote Antiquities 11 (SIMA 20:11, Gothenburg 1986); size not established here (1986)

Csornay-Caprez 2000 Dissinger 2017

History

October 1971
Brock hosted the first international colloquium on ancient Cyprus, with about thirty-five scholars, to pay tribute to Vassos Karageorghis, Director of the Department of Antiquities; ten papers and Karageorghis' address were printed in 1975, edited by Noel Robertson, Chairman of Classics.
St CatharinesVassos Karageorghis Noel Robertson Robertson 1975
1975
Papers of the 1971 colloquium published as 'The Archaeology of Cyprus: Recent Developments' (edited by Noel Robertson).
Noel Robertson Robertson 1975
21 March 1986 – 22 March 1986
Symposium 'Western Cyprus: Connections' held at Brock, edited by D. W. Rupp (SIMA 77, Gothenburg 1987).
St CatharinesDavid W. Rupp Stewart et al. 2014 Childs et al. 2012
1986
Laura F. Robertson, The Brock University Collection of Cypriote Antiquities (CCA 11 / SIMA 20:11); a 1986 catalogue; an object from it (statuette with ram horns, Inv. S-75-1) is cited in Buchholz 1991.
Dissinger 2017 Proceedings of the XI… 2007, p. 223
1991
CPSP fieldwork completed: systematic surface collection at 17 previously found sites identified as dating to the early 'PR' period (abbreviation as in the source).
Paphos districtDavid W. Rupp Steel 1997-1998
1992
The Western Cyprus Project (WCP) of Brock formed as successor to CPSP, to investigate occupation and resource use in western Cyprus, mainly the Dhiarizos drainage, c. 4200-2200 BC; trial excavations in 1992, expanded in 1993, near the ruined monastery of Ayios Savvas tis Karonos, Prastio.
Prastio, PaphosDavid W. Rupp Herscher 1995

People

6 people

Staff and members · 6

Noel Robertsonother (1971–1975) · Chairman, Department of ClassicsRobertson 19751971
Vassos Karageorghisother (1971–1971)Robertson 19751971
David W. Ruppfield-director (1977–1995) · director of the Canadian Palaipaphos Survey Project (1979-1991) and its successor the Western Cyprus Project (from 1992) · worked for itHerscher 1995 Steel 1997-19981977–1995
Laura F. Robertsoncurator (1986–1986)Dissinger 20171986
Danielle A. Parksstaff (2003–2003) · Department of ClassicsParks 20032003
Laura F. Robertsoncurator (by 1986)Dissinger 2017

Objects

Statuette with ram horns and cornucopia, from Cyprus
S-75-1Proceedings of the XI… 2007, p. 223

Sources

1.N. Robertson (ed.) (1975). The Archaeology of Cyprus: Recent Developments. Park Ridge, N.J., Noyes Press.
2.Ellen Herscher (1995). “Archaeology in Cyprus”. American Journal of Archaeology 99, 257-294.
3.Louise Steel (1997-1998). “Archaeology in Cyprus 1987-1997”. Archaeological Reports 44, 137-149.
4.V. Karageorghis (1978). “Chronique des fouilles et découvertes archéologiques à Chypre en 1977”. Bulletin de correspondance hellénique 102.
5.Alicia Marie Dissinger (2017). “Cypro-Archaic Bird Iconography: Types, Uses, and Meanings”. University of Virginia.
6.Boldizsár Csornay-Caprez (2000). Cypriote Antiquities. Rome, L'Erma di Bretschneider.
7.C. A. Stewart (ed.), T. W. Davis (ed.), A. Weyl Carr (ed.) (2014). Cyprus and the Balance of Empires: Art and Archaeology from Justinian I to the Coeur de Lion. CAARI / ASOR.
8.W. A. P. Childs (ed.), J. S. Smith (ed.), J. M. Padgett (ed.) (2012). City of Gold: The Archaeology of Polis Chrysochous, Cyprus. Princeton, Princeton University Art Museum.
9. (2007). Proceedings of the XI Symposium on Mediterranean Archaeology (Istanbul, 2007).
10.Danielle A. Parks (2003). “Review of Karageorghis, Ancient Cypriote Art in the Severis Collection (1999); Brehme et al., Ancient Cypriote Art in Berlin; Bernhard-Walcher et al., Die Sammlung zyprischer Antiken im Kunsthistorischen Museum”. American Journal of Archaeology 107, 128-130. Online