Justus-Liebig-Universitaet Giessen

The university Antikensammlung holds about 14 stone sculptures, 101 ceramics plus 75 fragments (Early Cypriot to Byzantine), 6 terracottas and smaller groups, listed in Recke's 2012 gazetteer; the Giessen collection was catalogued in 2010 as Kult-Tisch (Nys and Recke) (2012)

Recke 2012, p. 109

1. 1885
   Ferdinand Duemmler, a Cyprus traveller of 1885 and later lecturer at Giessen, spent June to September in Cyprus; Max Ohnefalsch-Richter dug tombs for him. Schmid gives the Giessen lectureship; the date of the post is not stated.

   CyprusFerdinand DümmlerMax Ohnefalsch-RichterSchmid 2025, p. 72

2. 1898–1909
   Bruno Sauer directed the Kunstwissenschaftliches Institut and the Kunst-, Muenzen- und Antikenkabinett at Giessen (GND note on the Wikidata record); in 1909 he moved to Kiel, and on an Egypt trip that year bought Cypriot pieces for Kiel and for himself.

   Bruno SauerWikidataRecke 2012, p. 96

3. c. 1900
   The Giessen manufacturer Wilhelm Gail formed a collection that included several small Middle Bronze Age Cypriot vessels. Recke gives no link to the university; where it went is not stated.

   GiessenWilhelm GailRecke 2012, p. 97

4. 1908
   Wilhelm Fabricius took his law doctorate at Giessen; Recke mentions this only to place the later owner of a large Cypriot limestone female head.

   Wilhelm August Julius FabriciusRecke 2012, p. 97

5. 1970–1980
   Hans-Guenter Buchholz of Giessen directed annual campaigns at Tamassos (Politiko) for the German Archaeological Institute, to prepare Ohnefalsch-Richter's unpublished 'Tamassos und Idalion' by re-excavation and study of his finds of 1885, 1889 and 1894. The first campaign was at the end of summer 1970.

   Tamassos (Politiko)Hans-Günter BuchholzMax Ohnefalsch-RichterRecke 2012, p. 89Karageorghis 1971Karageorghis 1976Karageorghis 1977Karageorghis 1979Karageorghis 1980

6. 1976–1978
   The Department of Antiquities, Nicosia, gave the Giessen collection a donation (the 1978 date is in Recke's list; a 1976 'duplicates' gift to Bonn is a separate case).

   Recke 2012, p. 109

7. 2010
   Nys and Recke published 'Kult-Tisch. Kyprische Keramik im Kontext' (Giessen 2010), the publication named for the Giessen collection.

   Karin NysMatthias ReckeRecke 2012, p. 109

8. 2010–2011
   Volume I of the final Tamassos excavation publication appeared in 2010 (necropoleis); after Buchholz's death in 2011 the series is edited by H. Matthaeus (Erlangen) and M. Recke (Giessen).

   Hans-Günter BuchholzHartmut MatthäusMatthias ReckeRecke 2012, p. 89

9. 2011
   Giessen began teaching excavations at Hala Sultan Tekke under Matthias Recke, with the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Karin Nys), to publish a building complex found by Paul Aström in 1980. In 2012 Recke calls it the only German excavation in Cyprus then run.

   Hala Sultan TekkeMatthias ReckeKarin NysRecke 2012, p. 89, p. 105