Larnaca District Museum

State regional museum for antiquities of all periods found in the Larnaca district.

Karageorghis 1969

1. 1948–1969
   The District Archaeological Museum was housed in Larnaca Fort (the 'medieval fort' in the 1968 Chronique), per a heritage-museum survey; the Department of Antiquities reported that the old premises had been inaccessible to its staff since 1963 because of the political situation

   LarnacaStylianou-Lambert & Bounia 2016Karageorghis 1969

2. August 1968
   New museum building completed and handed over to the Department of Antiquities: two galleries (sculpture and inscriptions; pottery, bronzes, jewellery, coins and minor arts), with storerooms for reserve collections and material from the current Kition excavations

   LarnacaKyriakos NicolaouNicolaou 1970Karageorghis 1969

3. 1968
   Mrs Theodora Zeno Pierides, widow of Zeno Pierides, gave a large collection of bronze tools and weapons of all periods, including an axe-adze (reg. 14) and a Syrian-type axe (reg. 15)

   LarnacaMrs Theodora Z. PieridesKarageorghis 1969

4. 26 January 1969
   Museum opened to the public, inaugurated by Archbishop Makarios, President of the Republic

   LarnacaArchbishop Makarios IIINicolaou 1970

5. 1973
   Bronze daggers, swords and other weapons (EBA-LBA, provenance unknown), Lca M 757-796, recorded as given by Mrs Theodora Z. Pierides

   LarnacaMrs Theodora Z. PieridesNicolaou 1975, p. 127

6. 1973
   Greek inscription on a grey marble statue base found under the floor of the church of Aghios Lazaros, Lca M 745, among the museum's principal acquisitions of the year

   LarnacaNicolaou 1975

7. 1984
   Acquired the material of three tombs at Kalavasos (Late Cypriot IA; reg. 1298), a tomb at Ormidhia-Konizaros with an exceptionally large Bichrome IV amphora (reg. 1182), a Cypro-Archaic I tomb at Kiti (reg. 1227) and Neolithic-Chalcolithic sherds from Gyrtomylos near Kalavasos (reg. 1296), as listed by the Department

   LarnacaVassos KarageorghisKarageorghis 1985

8. 1987
   Stelios Dimitriou gave a Bichrome V kylix (1409/42) and eight other listed objects, including a terracotta figurine of a lyre-playing woman (1409/107) and a Bes-face terracotta (1409/117)

   LarnacaStelios DimitriouKarageorghis 1988

• Bichrome V kylix, h. 14.7 cm

  1409/42via Stelios Dimitriou1987Karageorghis 1988

• Terracotta figurine of a lyre-playing woman, h. 31.5 cm

  1409/107via Stelios Dimitriou1987Karageorghis 1988

• Bichrome IV amphora with lotus decoration, h. 90 cm

  1182from Ormidhia-Konizaros1984Karageorghis 1985

• Bronze daggers, swords etc. (EBA-LBA), provenance unknown

  Lca M 757-796via Mrs Theodora Z. Pierides1973Nicolaou 1975, p. 127

• Bronze axe-adze, l. 14.5 cm, from the Pierides gift of bronze tools and weapons

  14via Mrs Theodora Z. Pierides1968Karageorghis 1969

• Greek inscription on grey marble statue base, from under the floor of Aghios Lazaros church

  Lca M 745from Larnaca, Aghios Lazaros1973Nicolaou 1975

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