University of Pennsylvania

This record covers Penn's university-side work in Cyprus (the Kyrenia shipwreck expedition and later survey and excavation partnerships). Penn's Cypriot collections and the Kourion expedition belong to the Penn Museum record. The Kyrenia ship itself stayed in Cyprus.

Nicolaou 1970Harpster 2018

1. 1967
   Michael Katzev, a Penn doctoral student under George Bass, led the Cyprus Underwater Archaeological Search around Akamas, Paphos, Cape Greco and Cape Andreas, with Susan Katzev, Jeremy Green and E. T. Hall. Late in the season the team was shown the Kyrenia wreck found by Andreas Cariolou two years earlier. Nicolaou calls it the University's first exploration season.

   KyreniaMichael KatzevSusan Womer KatzevGeorge Fletcher BassJeremy GreenAndreas CariolouHarpster 2018Nicolaou 1968Nicolaou 1969, p. 48

2. 1968
   Excavation of the Kyrenia shipwreck (about 90 feet down, one mile off Kyrenia): an estimated two thirds of the amphora cargo, 307 whole or fragmentary amphorae, were raised, with hopper mills, fishing-net weights, a bronze coin and lead sheets.

   KyreniaMichael KatzevNicolaou 1970Nicolaou 1969, p. 48

3. 1969
   Third season completed the excavation of the shipwreck. Nicolaou reports it as the University of Pennsylvania Underwater Expedition under Prof. Michael Katzev; the timbers were raised and treated in Kyrenia Castle.

   KyreniaMichael KatzevNicolaou 1970Harpster 2018

4. 1970–1975
   The Cyprus government converted galleries of Kyrenia Castle for conservation and display of the hull; reassembly (J. R. Steffy, with Piercy) finished in 1975. The ship remained in Cyprus.

   Kyrenia CastleJ. Richard SteffyHarpster 2018

5. 1971–1972
   Yechiel M. Lehavy of the University of Pennsylvania is listed as senior supervisor of the Neolithic Dhali-Agridhi sector of the American Expedition to Idalion.

   Dhali-AgridhiYechiel M. LehavyStager et al. 1974

6. 1987–1993
   The Universities of Missouri-Columbia and Pennsylvania carried out fieldwork at Byzantine Kalavasos-Kopetra under Murray McClellan and Marcus Rautman: survey in 1987, excavations 1988-91, including a three-aisled basilica at Sirmata.

   Kalavasos-KopetraMurray McClellanMarcus RautmanSteel 1997-1998, p. 142

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