University

University of Arizona

Tucson, United States

University in Tucson. 9 people in the register connected with it.

History

1984
First season on the acropolis of Kourion under David Soren; reopened Trench III of the Penn Museum excavations (J. F. Daniel, 1934) on the 50th anniversary to the day, using Daniel's field notebooks obtained through Roger Edwards of the University Museum. Early finds included human and animal skeletons attributed to the earthquake of AD 365.
Kourion acropolisDavid Soren Karageorghis 1985 IV 2014
1985
Second season: work continued west, revealing four further rooms and one more victim.
Kourion acropolisDavid Soren IV 2014
1986
Season aimed at completing the large house complex begun in 1984; the rooms were found destroyed by the earthquake of 21 July AD 365 as the BCH report states, with contents in place.
Kourion acropolisDavid Soren Karageorghis 1987 IV 2014
1986
The Sanctuary of Apollo Hylates at Kourion, Cyprus, bears the imprint of the Arizona Board of Regents (plan reproduced by permission of the University of Arizona Press); author as given in the caption: David Soren.
David Soren IV 2014
1987
Final season of the acropolis project; by its close the Arizona mission had exposed ca. 673.58 square metres with Building A (the Earthquake House) fully excavated and Building B (the 'Market') only partly excavated.
Kourion acropolisDavid Soren Karageorghis 1988 IV 2014
1987
Exploratory season at Idalion by Pamela Gaber of the University of Arizona; the Lower City sounding revealed a localized fire in an olive-oil-pressing room of Building B.
Idalion Lower CityPamela Gaber Herscher 1995 Gaber 2008
1992–2001
University of Arizona Expedition to Idalion under Pamela Gaber relocated the long-sought 'Lang's Temple' / 'Temple of Apollo Amyklos' on Mouti tou Arvili in 1992 and excavated an open-air Geometric/Archaic to Roman sanctuary (the Adonis temenos) and Lower City industrial installations (olive-oil pressing, horn working, clay levigation). After 2001 the project continued as the Lycoming College Expedition under Gaber to 2005.
IdalionPamela Gaber Margaret Morden W. G. Dever Gaber 2008 Steel 1997-1998
2013
Robert Schon's affiliation given as University of Arizona in the TAESP volume 1 contributor list.
Robert Schon Given et al. 2013, p. 17

People

9 people

Staff and members · 8

P. Molinariexcavator (1984–1987) · co-author of the Arizona Kourion excavation report (affiliation inferred from the report title)IV 2014, p. 1551984
Schifferstaff (1984–1987) · field-notebook keeper, Earthquake House excavations (SFN)IV 20141984
Thomas W. Davisstudent (1984–1986) · student in Cypriot archaeology (1984); excavator on Soren's Kourion projectDavis 2016, p. 11984
Pamela Gaberfield-director (1987–2001) · director, University of Arizona Expedition to Idalion · worked for itGaber 2008 Herscher 19951987–1997
Margaret Mordenexcavator (1992–1992) · member or staffGaber 20081992
Robert Schonother (2013–2013) · listed affiliation in TAESP volume (2013)Given et al. 2013, p. 172013
G. Roger Edwardscurator (1984–1984)IV 2014
W. G. Deverother (1996–1998)Gaber 2008 Meyers 1997

Fieldwork · 1

David Sorenfield-director (1984–1987) · director of the Kourion acropolis excavation · dug for it · worked for itKarageorghis 1985 Karageorghis 19871984–1987

On Ancient Cyprus

2 pages

Sources

1.V. Karageorghis (1985). “Chronique des fouilles et découvertes archéologiques à Chypre en 1984”. Bulletin de correspondance hellénique 109.
2.V. Karageorghis (1987). “Chronique des fouilles et découvertes archéologiques à Chypre en 1986”. Bulletin de correspondance hellénique 111.
3.V. Karageorghis (1988). “Chronique des fouilles et découvertes archéologiques à Chypre en 1987”. Bulletin de correspondance hellénique 112.
4.Benjamin Costello IV (2014). Architecture and Material Culture from the Earthquake House at Kourion, Cyprus. Oxford, Archaeopress.
5.Pamela Gaber (2008). “The History of History: Excavations at Idalion and the Changing History of a City-Kingdom”. Near Eastern Archaeology 71. Online
6.Ellen Herscher (1995). “Archaeology in Cyprus”. American Journal of Archaeology 99, 257-294.
7.Louise Steel (1997-1998). “Archaeology in Cyprus 1987-1997”. Archaeological Reports 44, 137-149.
8.Thomas W. Davis (2016). “The Jewish Diaspora in Ptolemaic and Roman Cyprus: Some Speculations”. Journal of Ancient Egyptian Interconnections 10.
9.Michael Given, A. Bernard Knapp, Jay Noller, Luke Sollars et al. (2013). Landscape and Interaction: The Troodos Archaeological and Environmental Survey Project, Cyprus. Volume 1: Methodology, Analysis and Interpretation. Oxford, Oxbow Books.
10.Eric M. Meyers (ed.) (1997). The Oxford Encyclopedia of Archaeology in the Near East. New York, Oxford University Press.