Museum
Pilavakion Museum
Phini, Cyprus
Museum in Phini. 1 person in the register connected with it.
History
- 1980sFani Pilavakis created and privately funded the Pilavakion Museum in Phini in the 1980s to preserve village pottery history.
- UndatedNotes by Yiannis Neophytou (June 2009) on a Penn Museum film of 1969 record that the museum was founded by Theophanis Pilavakis, brother of the potter Yiannakis Pilavakis filmed in 1969, and that it shows his last jar, made in 1972.
- UndatedNamed in Village Potters of the Troodos Mountains: Ceramic Production in Agios Demetrios, Cyprus 18.
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1 recordPeople’s work with it
- 1980
Theophanis PilavakisFounded
Fani created and privately funded the Pilavakion Museum to preserve the history of village pottery.
PhiniLondon 2020, p. 44
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- Wine Jars and Jar Makers of Cyprus: The Ethnoarchaeology of Pitharia
Founded · 1980 · p. 44
Fani created and privately funded the Pilavakion Museum to preserve the history of village pottery.
London 2020
- People · 1listed under People
Sources
- 1.Gloria London (2020). Wine Jars and Jar Makers of Cyprus: The Ethnoarchaeology of Pitharia. xxii, 218. Nicosia, Åström Editions.
- 2.Penn Museum, Philadelphia (1969). Film collection, F16-0398, «1969 #55 Cyprus», Watson Kintner, 20–21 June 1969, with notes by Yiannis Neophytou (June 2009). Internet Archive.
- 3.Gloria London (2024). Village Potters of the Troodos Mountains: Ceramic Production in Agios Demetrios, Cyprus 1891-2002.
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