Princeton University

No published count found. Its Art Museum's antiquities were formed by gift, purchase and bequest, and the 2012 catalogue states that no object found by the University's Polis excavations has left Cyprus to join its collections. (2012)

Childs et al. 2012

1. 1948–1949
   Erik Sjoqvist, a member of the Swedish Cyprus Expedition 1927-31, is visiting professor at Princeton, then professor of art and archaeology 1951-69; the 2012 catalogue says his Cypriot work is the link Princeton later took up

   PrincetonErik SjöqvistChilds et al. 2012

2. 1963–1966
   Porphyrios Dikaios, after retiring as Director of the Cyprus Department of Antiquities in 1963, teaches at Princeton (and Brandeis) until 1966

   PrincetonPorphyrios DikaiosMeyers 1997, pp. 677-678

3. 1971
   Frances F. Jones, Curator of Classical Art in the Princeton University Art Museum, supplies T. B. Mitford with a note on the stratigraphic context of a sherd from the Kourion shrine/heroon excavation (terminus ante quem mid-first century AD)

   KourionF. JonesTerence Bruce MitfordMitford 1971

4. 1980
   At the suggestion of Vassos Karageorghis (then Director of Antiquities) that Princeton continue Sjoqvist's Cypriot link, W. A. P. Childs looks at sites with Sophocles Hadjisavvas; Polis is chosen because published work concerned only its cemeteries

   Polis ChrysochousWilliam A. P. ChildsVassos KarageorghisSophocles HadjisavvasChilds et al. 2012

5. 1983
   Princeton Cyprus Expedition's first season: survey with Kenneth Hamma (USC) and graduate students including Nancy Serwint, then trial trenches; the survey found no evidence that Marion lay east of modern Polis. A SUNY Albany mission under P. W. Wallace worked the Akamas in parallel 'in collaboration'

   Polis ChrysochousWilliam A. P. ChildsKenneth HammaNancy SerwintP. W. WallaceKarageorghis 1984Childs et al. 2012

6. 1983–2007
   No object found at Polis has left Cyprus to join Princeton's collections: the finds are held in Cyprus (Paphos District Museum, Cyprus Museum, and from 2008 the Local Museum of Marion and Arsinoe)

   Polis ChrysochousDora MatarChilds et al. 2012file 2026

7. 1984–2007
   Excavation at Polis under permit from the Department of Antiquities: Peristeries (Cypro-Archaic sanctuary and public building), Maratheri (Cypro-Classical sanctuary, city wall, colossal c. 3 m terracotta statue) and Petrerades (Hellenistic to medieval town); followed by study seasons. Joanna S. Smith is assistant director from 1988; a conservation system is run by Christoph von Bieberstein from 1994

   Polis ChrysochousWilliam A. P. ChildsJoanna S. SmithNancy SerwintChristoph von BiebersteinChilds et al. 2012

8. 20 October 2012 – 20 January 2013
   'City of Gold: Tomb and Temple in Ancient Cyprus' at the Princeton University Art Museum: 110 objects from Polis lent by the Department of Antiquities, the British Museum and the Louvre; catalogue edited by Childs, Smith and Padgett

   PrincetonWilliam A. P. ChildsJoanna S. SmithJ. Michael PadgettMaria HadjicostiChilds et al. 2012