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

  1. 1954–1962
    Major Millar gave a fragment of a marble slab with a Greek inscription (Mitford no. 193) to the Episkopi Museum, per Mitford's catalogue.

    EpiskopiMajor MillarMitford 1971, no. 193

  2. 1963
    The '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 people

Staff and members · 1

Fieldwork · 1

Donors and lenders · 1

Objects

On Ancient Cyprus

4 pages

Sources

  1. 1.T. B. Mitford (1971). The Inscriptions of Kourion. Philadelphia, American Philosophical Society.
  2. 2.K. Nicolaou (1966). “Archaeology in Cyprus, 1961-66”. Archaeological Reports 12, 27-43. Online