Ancient CyprusAncient Cyprus

Epigrapher

A. M. Honeyman

fl. 1954–1962

Epigrapher, active 1954–1962. Worked with Vassos Karageorghis.

Life and work

  1. 1954
    Read the Phoenician text of King Pumiyaton (year 34, king of Citium and Idalion) on the inscribed block from the newly found sanctuary of Asklepios and Hygieia at Dromolaxia, Larnaca Museum; the Greek text on the same block was dated by Mr Mitford.

    DromolaxiaMegaw 1954

  2. 1961
    Gave Karageorghis a commentary, from photographs, on ten incised Phoenician characters on the shoulder of a White Painted IV vase in the Cyprus Museum; judged the reading unclear.

    NicosiaKarageorghis 1962

  3. 1962
    Commented from a photograph on two Phoenician letters painted on the neck of a Plain White VII amphora (inv. 1962/IX-4/3, probably from the Ayia Irini necropolis, Kyrenia) in the Cyprus Museum.

    NicosiaKarageorghis 1963

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Colleagues & contacts

Sources

  1. 1.A. H. S. Megaw (1954). “Archaeology in Cyprus, 1954”. Archaeological Reports 1, 28-34. Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies.
  2. 2.V. Karageorghis (1962). “Chronique des fouilles et découvertes archéologiques à Chypre en 1961”. Bulletin de correspondance hellénique 86.
  3. 3.V. Karageorghis (1963). “Chronique des fouilles et découvertes archéologiques à Chypre en 1962”. Bulletin de correspondance hellénique 87.
  4. 4.Javier Teixidor (1975). “Early Phoenician Presence in Cyprus: Analysis of Epigraphical Material”. The Archaeology of Cyprus: Recent Developments, 121-128.