Museum
Episkopi Museum
Episkopi, Cyprus · founded 15 December 1969
Museum in Episkopi, founded 15 December 1969; part of Department of Antiquities of Cyprus. 3 people in the register connected with it.
The Cypriot collection
Small two-room local museum holding movable finds from Kourion and the Episkopi area; no object count found.
History
- 1954–1962Major Millar gave a fragment of a marble slab with a Greek inscription (Mitford no. 193) to the Episkopi Museum, per Mitford's catalogue.
- 1963The 'Kourion House Museum' acquired a 2nd-century BC epitaph of a three-year-old boy, found built into the cavea of the Kourion theatre (published RDAC 1964, 203).
KourionNicolaou 1966
People
3 peopleStaff and members · 1
- Christos Grigorioustaff (from 1971) · custodianMitford 1971
Fieldwork · 1
- George H. McFaddenexcavator (1934–1953)
Donors and lenders · 1
- Major Millargave objects1954–1962
Objects
Fragment of a marble slab with a Greek inscription (Mitford no. 193), 0.145 x 0.075 x 0.03 m
via Major Millar1954–1962Mitford 1971, no. 193
On Ancient Cyprus
4 pages- Anthropomorphic Hydria: Artifact AnalysisArticle
- Earthquakes in Ancient CyprusCompendium
- Horse and Rider FigurinesCompendium
- StrainersCompendium
Sources
- 1.T. B. Mitford (1971). The Inscriptions of Kourion. Philadelphia, American Philosophical Society.
- 2.K. Nicolaou (1966). “Archaeology in Cyprus, 1961-66”. Archaeological Reports 12, 27-43. Online