Ancient CyprusAncient Cyprus

Museum

National Museum of Ireland

Dublin, Ireland

Museum in Dublin. 1 person in the register connected with it.

The Cypriot collection

The Dublin collections (NMI plus UCD) contain c. 600 Cypriot items, 253 catalogued in 2004; the NMI alone holds c. 90 Cypriot glass vessels, two-thirds plain perfume bottles (2004)

Frankel 2006Lightfoot 2017, p. 20

History

  1. 2002
    Karageorghis announced a catalogue of the NMI and Trinity Classical Museum Cypriote antiquities, then in preparation by Christina Haywood for the A. G. Leventis Foundation

    Christina HaywoodKarageorghis 2002

  2. 2004
    Cypriot Antiquities in Dublin published (NMI and UCD collections)

    Christina HaywoodSouyoudzoglou-Haywood 2004Frankel 2006

People

1 person

Staff and members · 1

Objects

  • Mycenaean-type piriform jar, 'ex Kenny collection'

    NMI 1934:101934Graziadio

  • Bird figurine, Cypro-Archaic

    NMI 1903:3441903Dissinger 2017

  • Bird figurine, Cypro-Archaic II

    NMI 1940:221940Dissinger 2017

  • Mycenaean piriform jar FS 44/45 with secondary decoration, cited with Cyprus FM 60

    NMI 1939:91939Graziadio

Sources

  1. 1.David Frankel (2006). “Review of Karageorghis and Vanchugov (Odessa), Souyoudzoglou-Haywood (Dublin) and Karageorghis (Giabra Pierides) catalogues”. American Journal of Archaeology 110, 519-520. Online
  2. 2.C. Souyoudzoglou-Haywood (2004). Cypriot Antiquities in Dublin. The Collections of the National Museum of Ireland and University College Dublin. Nicosia, A. G. Leventis Foundation.
  3. 3.V. Karageorghis (2002). “Nouvelles archéologiques. Cypriote Antiquities in Foreign Museums”. Cahiers du Centre d'Études Chypriotes 32, 3-4.
  4. 4.Alicia Marie Dissinger (2017). “Cypro-Archaic Bird Iconography: Types, Uses, and Meanings”. University of Virginia.
  5. 5.Giampaolo Graziadio. The Earliest Production of Aegean-Type Pottery in Cyprus.
  6. 6.C. S. Lightfoot (2017). The Cesnola Collection of Cypriot Art: Ancient Glass. New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art.