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Expedition

French Mission in Ktima

Cyprus · founded 1953

Expedition, founded 1953. 2 people in the register connected with it.

History

  1. 1952
    Jean Berard and Jean Deshayes joined the Kouklia Expedition's soundings at Nea Paphos from early June; the western part of the site was tested without pre-classical strata. They identified the Skender Geometric tombs found in wartime air-raid trenches.

    Nea PaphosJean BérardJean DeshayesMaier 2008

  2. 1953–1955
    French Mission in Ktima under Berard excavated the Geometric-Hellenistic Iskender (Skender) cemetery at Ktima with Deshayes; Deshayes published the finds in La Necropole de Ktima (BAH 75, 1963).

    Ktima (Paphos)Jean BérardJean DeshayesMaier 2008Caubet 1993

  3. 1955
    The French share of the finds went to the Louvre, said to be the last objects to reach a French museum under the partage law; crates were opened in transit and vases crushed, then restored in the Louvre stores by mission members (per Suzanne Berard, via Caubet).

    Jean BérardCaubet 1993

People

2 people

Staff and members · 1

Fieldwork · 1

Sources

  1. 1.F. G. Maier (2008). “Archaeology in Cyprus in the Fifties: Jean Bérard's work at Nea Paphos in context”. Cahiers du Centre d'Études Chypriotes 38, 53-62.
  2. 2.Annie Caubet (1993). “Les antiquités chypriotes au Musée du Louvre”. Kinyras : l'archéologie française à Chypre. Lyon. Online
  3. 3.Jean Deshayes (1963). La nécropole de Ktima (Mission Jean Bérard 1953-55). Paris, Geuthner.