National and Kapodistrian University of Athens

A didactic collection of Cypriot pottery in the Archaeological Museum of the Department of History and Archaeology: 136 catalogue entries published in 2019, from Chalcolithic sherds to Roman wares; mostly entire vases, nearly all of unknown precise provenience (confiscated tomb groups). Formed by gifts from the Cyprus Department of Antiquities (1966, 1972, 1994, 2017) plus one 1970 donation to the School of Medicine. (2019)

Papalexandrou 2021, p. 2Papalexandrou 2021, p. 3

1. 1909
   Panagiotis Kavvadias (professor of archaeology at the University of Athens) and Georgios Soteriadis (appointed professor of history there in 1912), both of the Athens Archaeological Society, are invited to help arrange the new Cyprus Museum building.

   Panagiotis KavvadiasGeorgios SoteriadisStylianou-Lambert & Bounia 2016, p. 85

2. 1931
   Georgios Soteriou, professor of Christian archaeology at the University of Athens, is sent by the Academy of Athens (at the invitation of the Church of Cyprus) to survey the Byzantine and Early Christian monuments; two more visits follow and he publishes The Byzantine Monuments of Cyprus (1935, vol. 1; no second volume appeared). He also advised on the Byzantine Museum collection (icons gathered 1936 in Panagia Phaneromeni).

   Georgios M. SoteriouStewart et al. 2014, p. 40Stylianou-Lambert & Bounia 2016, p. 226, n. 27

3. 1962
   Athanasios Papageorghiou, hired by the Cyprus Department of Antiquities in 1962, had earlier studied theology at the University of Athens before coursework with Grabar in Paris; he became Director of the Department in 1989.

   Athanasios PapageorghiouStewart et al. 2014, p. 42

4. 1966
   First gift of Cypriot vases from the Cyprus Department of Antiquities (Director Vassos Karageorghis) to the University's didactic collection (a second in 1972).

   Vassos KarageorghisPapalexandrou 2021, p. 2

5. 20 October 1970
   P. Mauromatis, a Cypriot doctor from Famagusta, donates a Bichrome I neck amphora to the School of Medicine; it later passes to the Archaeological Museum of the Department of History and Archaeology (Kourou and Bourogiannis no. 69).

   Papalexandrou 2021, p. 3

6. 1972
   Second gift from the Department of Antiquities under Karageorghis.

   Vassos KarageorghisPapalexandrou 2021, p. 2

7. 1987–1997
   Eleni Mantzourani of the University of Athens excavates the ceramic Neolithic settlement of Kandou-Kouphovounos near Episkopi (two seasons by 1995; sub-rectangular stone-founded structures, Sotira-culture pottery, an unusual picrolite figurine).

   Kandou, Limassol districtEleni MantzouraniHerscher 1995Steel 1997-1998

8. 1994
   Gift from the Department of Antiquities under Director Demos Christou.

   Demos ChristouPapalexandrou 2021, p. 2

9. 2017
   Last group to enter the didactic collection: 17 vases from the collection of Paschalis Kitromilides (reviewer's p. 2 credits the Department of Antiquities under Marina Solomidou-Ieronymidou; p. 3 describes Kitromilides's own prefatory essay on how he formed his collection, partly by purchasing confiscated duplicates sold by the Cyprus Museum on the advice of his aunt, Angeliki Pierides).

   Paschalis KitromilidesMarina Solomidou-IeronymidouAngeliki PieridouPapalexandrou 2021, p. 2Papalexandrou 2021, p. 3

10. 2019
    Nota Kourou and Giorgos Bourogiannis publish the collection (Styles of Cypriot Pottery, Nicosia: University of Cyprus Press, 173 pp., 136 entries). Only two are Greek imports (a Mycenaean stirrup jar and a Late Geometric Euboian amphora sherd); one entry is a Bichrome horse figurine, probably from the Salamis area.

    Nota KourouGiorgos BourogiannisPapalexandrou 2021, p. 2

11. 2019
    Mantzourani and Voskos publish the Kandou-Kouphovounos settlement (Athens University Review of Archaeology, Supplement 1); Mantzourani's own Part A (stratigraphy and architecture, 2 vols.) appeared with the Cyprus Department of Antiquities in 2009.

    Eleni MantzouraniIoannis VoskosMaritime Narratives of Prehistoric…, p. 32Mantzourani 2009, p. 185

• Bichrome I neck amphora

  20 October 1970Papalexandrou 2021, p. 3

• 17 Cypriot vases, Kitromilides collection

  via Paschalis Kitromilides2017Papalexandrou 2021, p. 3

• Black-on-Red Marion jug with a terracotta figurine on the shoulder (Kourou and Bourogiannis no. 100, p. 129)

  Papalexandrou 2021, p. 3

• Base Ring II bull-shaped rhyton (Kourou and Bourogiannis no. 45, p. 71)

  Papalexandrou 2021, p. 3