Today in Cypriot Archaeology: 19 October 2026

Leiden and the museum storerooms

Leiden University hosts the 23rd Postgraduate Cypriot Archaeology meeting, PoCA 2026, from 11 to 13 November: 34 researchers from 21 institutions give 32 papers and posters, entry is free in person or on Zoom, and Artemis Georgiou of the University of Cyprus gives the keynote (our report).

The Chlorakas-Palloures team, whose digging season is over, has a member in Cyprus studying the site's Chalcolithic figurative material; the excavation announced that the results will be presented at PoCA with other papers on the site.

The Department of Antiquities plans to enter 100,000 more objects from state museum storerooms into its CADiP database, with eight archaeologists on 42-month contracts; a first round in 2021 to 2024 entered more than 87,000 (our report).

Deadlines this month and next

Abstracts for the Swedish Cyprus Expedition centenary conference, in Nicosia in October 2027, are due to CAARI by 31 October (call). The AIA's Olivia James fellowship, up to $25,000 for US members, closes on 1 November (details); Harvard's Center for Hellenic Studies offers up to five $12,000 postdoctoral fellowships in Cyprus and Greece, due 2 November (details).

The Cyprus Institute is hiring a 3D modeller for VR models of sites (job) and a Django developer for its heritage platforms (job), both by 8 November. A ten-day symposium and fair on ancient crafts in October 2027 invites contributors by 15 November (call).

Fellowships and grants

CAARI's three graduate fellowships close on 7 December (details); its Peltenburg postdoctoral fellowship in Cypriot prehistory, US$16,500 for nine months (details), a new £2,000 graduate fellowship in maritime archaeology with the Honor Frost Foundation (details) and two US$5,500 CAARI/CAORC fellowships (details) close on 11 January 2027. The Honor Frost Foundation's training grants of up to £10,000 have no closing date (details).

Lectures and conferences

In Nicosia: the University of Cyprus autumn lectures resume on 26 October (programme), Amy Styring speaks on crop isotopes on 30 October (details), Anna Marangou on Cesnola and the Ohnefalsch-Richters on 2 November (details), Anna Reeve on Cypriot antiquities in British museums on 5 November (details), Dorota Zaprzalska on composite icons on 3 December (details), and a workshop on early pottery on 12 December (details).

In London: Anja Ulbrich on Aphrodite on 21 November (details), a day on the 1880s foreman Grigoris Antoniou on 22 November (details) and Maria Iacovou at GACUK's 40th anniversary on 2 December (details). Ten Cyprus papers come to ASOR in Chicago on 20 November (programme) and four to the AIA in Boston in January (programme).

Museums and books

Messages on Metal, 136 coins, 110 of them from Alpha Bank, is at the Leventis Municipal Museum until 10 January (our report). Pylon in Limassol shows the descendants of 57 Episkopi men measured in 1949 until 19 December (our report). The Cyprus Museum runs free Saturday artist talks on animals for children from 24 October (details), and the Presidential Palace's public tours show figurines returned from Munich in 2024 (our report). Jennifer Webb's forthcoming book studies 3,327 Early and Middle Bronze Age metal finds (our report).