Society

Deutsches Archäologisches Institut

Berlin, Germany

Society in Berlin. 8 people in the register connected with it.

History

January 1890
Wilhelm Dörpfeld, writing on DAI Athens notepaper, applied twice (25 and 27 Jan 1890) to Col. Warren for small excavations at Tamassos, Nea Paphos and Palaepaphos; both refused (multi-site permits not allowed under the Ottoman law still in force, and the Germans already held a permit for Dali). The Cyprus government treated the requests of the Berlin Museums and the DAI as separate matters.
Tamassos, Nea Paphos, PalaepaphosWilhelm Dörpfeld Falkland Warren Schmid 2025
1914–1966
Official German archaeological activity in Cyprus ceased with the First World War and resumed only in 1966 at Palaepaphos and 1970 at Tamassos, both led by the central office of the DAI in Berlin.
Schmid 2025
1966
First campaign of the German mission at Kouklia (Palaepaphos), sent under the auspices of the DAI and directed by F. G. Maier of the University of Konstanz (later Zurich): the Marcello hill siege works, the north-east gate, and a comprehensive study of ancient Paphos. Seasons continued each year (third 1968, fourth 1969, fifth 1970, sixth 1971) as the Swiss-German expedition.
KoukliaFranz Georg Maier Karageorghis 1967 Karageorghis 1970 Karageorghis 1972 Hermary 2014
1970
The DAI sent a mission under H.-G. Buchholz to Tamassos to re-study and publish the built tombs dug by Ohnefalsch-Richter in 1889 (unpublished despite his manuscript); first season 1970, second 1971 (Tomb IV dromos: bronze helmet, horse blinkers, lotus-decorated bronze plate; a warrior tomb compared with the Salamis royal tombs). The mission also found a sanctuary of Aphrodite (Archaic to Hellenistic).
TamassosHans-Günter Buchholz Max Ohnefalsch-Richter Karageorghis 1972 Nicolaou 1976
1980–2008
The Palaepaphos mission continued as a Swiss-German expedition on behalf of the DAI under Maier of the University of Zurich, with Marie-Louise von Wartburg (Kouklia-Stavros sugar refinery) in its later phase; Maier is dated to the DAI 1966-2008.
KoukliaFranz Georg Maier Marie-Louise von Wartburg Herscher 1995 Hermary 2014

People

8 people

Staff and members · 5

Alexander Conzesecretary (1887–1905) · Secretary General (later President), from 1887Schmid 20251887
Marie-Louise von Wartburgfield-director (1980–2008) · co-director of the most recent phase; excavator of the Kouklia-Stavros sugar refineryHerscher 19951980
E. Buchnerpresident (1981–1983) · PresidentKarageorghis 1983, p. ix1981
Terence Bruce Mitfordmember · corresponding memberMitford 1971
Wilhelm Dörpfeldspecialist (1890–1890)Schmid 2025

Fieldwork · 3

Max Ohnefalsch-Richterexcavator (1894–1894) · dug for itSchmid 20251894
Franz Georg Maierfield-director (1966–2008) · scholarship holder 1956; director of the Palaepaphos mission from 1966 · dug for it · worked for it · worked withHermary 20141956–2008
Hans-Günter Buchholzfield-director (1970–1980) · director of the Tamassos excavations · dug for it · worked for itRecke 20121970–1980

Sources

1.K. Nicolaou (1976). “Archaeology in Cyprus, 1969-76”. Archaeological Reports 22.
2.K. Nicolaou (1981). “Archaeology in Cyprus, 1976-80”. Archaeological Reports 27.
3.V. Karageorghis (1967). “Chronique des fouilles et découvertes archéologiques à Chypre en 1966”. Bulletin de correspondance hellénique 91.
4.V. Karageorghis (1970). “Chronique des fouilles et découvertes archéologiques à Chypre en 1969”. Bulletin de correspondance hellénique 94.
5.V. Karageorghis (1971). “Chronique des fouilles et découvertes archéologiques à Chypre en 1970”. Bulletin de correspondance hellénique 95.
6.V. Karageorghis (1972). “Chronique des fouilles et découvertes archéologiques à Chypre en 1971”. Bulletin de correspondance hellénique 96.
7.A. Hermary (2014). “In memoriam : Franz-Georg Maier (1926-2014)”. Cahiers du Centre d'Études Chypriotes 44, 11-16. Online
8.Ellen Herscher (1995). “Archaeology in Cyprus”. American Journal of Archaeology 99, 257-294.
9.V. Karageorghis (1983). Palaepaphos-Skales: An Iron Age Cemetery in Cyprus.
10.T. B. Mitford (1971). The Inscriptions of Kourion. Philadelphia, American Philosophical Society.
11.Matthias Recke (2012). “Deutschland und das antike Zypern. Beiträge zur Geschichte einer archäologischen Disziplin”. Cahiers du Centre d'Études Chypriotes 42.
12.Stephan G. Schmid (2025). “Was there an official German interest in the archaeology of Cyprus between 1878 and 1914?”. Empire & Excavation: Critical perspectives on archaeology in British-period Cyprus, 1878-1960, 69-92. Leiden, Sidestone Press.