Company

Cyprus Mines Corporation

United States

Company. 5 people in the register connected with it.

History

1916
Private funds from Charles G. Gunther, owner of the Skouriotissa mine, enabled Markides to excavate at Polis (October-November 1916, again May 1918); about sixty tombs opened, mostly unpublished.
PolisCharles Godfrey Gunther Menelaos Markides Childs et al. 2012
1931
The Corporation analysed more weapons and tools from Dikaios's Vounous excavation, reporting essentially copper.
Porphyrios Dikaios Dikaios 1940
1937
J. L. Bruce, resident director of the Corporation, published a paper on antiquities found inside the mines and mining regions (Bruce 1937), including the Skouriotissa slag heap that he thought Roman, and the Mavrovouni and Mathiatis mines.
SkouriotissaJ. L. Bruce Late Roman copper smelting…, p. 2
1938–1939
Late Bronze Age ceramics found by the Corporation led to limited excavations at Apliki-Karamallos under Joan du Plat Taylor on behalf of the Department of Antiquities.
AplikiJoan du Plat Taylor Kling 1997
1971–1972
The AEI's first preliminary report thanks the Corporation (and the Hellenic Mining Company) for unpublished chemical analyses of ancient slags, used in a catalogue of slag analyses.
Stager et al. 1974

5 people

Charles Godfrey Guntherowner (from 1916) · leading figure; Metcalf says 'eventually' ownerChilds et al. 2012 Metcalf 2009, p. 1161916
J. L. Bruceofficial (1929–1937) · officialStanley-Price 20251929
Albert Howard Pedlerstaff
Kleanthisstaff · company representative; owner of the general store where workers bought on credit and were paidGjerstad 1980, pp. 160-161

2 pages

1.Nicholas Stanley-Price (2025). “Illicit excavation and the sale of 'duplicate' antiquities: Rupert Gunnis and the Cyprus Museum, 1926-1932”. Cahiers du Centre d'Études Chypriotes 55, 269-301. Online
2.Lawrence E. Stager (ed.), Anne M. Walker (ed.) (1989). American Expedition to Idalion, Cyprus, 1973-1980. Chicago, Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago.
3.L. E. Stager (ed.), A. Walker (ed.), G. E. Wright (ed.) (1974). American Expedition to Idalion, Cyprus: First Preliminary Report, Seasons of 1971 and 1972. American Schools of Oriental Research.
4.Barbara Kling (1997). “Apliki-Karamallos”. The Oxford Encyclopedia of Archaeology in the Near East.
5.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.
6.D. M. Metcalf (2009). Byzantine Cyprus 491-1191. Nicosia, Cyprus Research Centre.
7.P. Dikaios (1940). “The Excavations at Vounous-Bellapais in Cyprus, 1931-2”. Archaeologia 88, 1-174.
8.D. Lavender (1962). The Story of Cyprus Mines Corporation. San Marino, California, Huntington Library.
9.“Late Roman copper smelting in Polis Chrysochous”.
10.E. Gjerstad (1980). Ages and Days in Cyprus.