Anne Queyrel

In spring 1979 a deposit of some ten thousand fragments of Hellenistic figurines was found in a favissa on the south slope of the Amathus acropolis, as Queyrel described it¹³. Pierre Aupert had found it, and her own section of the French mission's report of 1985 calls it by far the largest group of that period from the site¹⁴. In 1982 Queyrel began its detailed study, and she dug Chantier B-Nord with Pierre Aupert and Fabienne Burkhalter, partly to see whether the deposit ran further north¹⁰. In 1983 she completed its typological classification, the basis of her first memoir for the École¹⁵.

Her 1984 paper on the cults of Amathus reported that her inventory had raised the characteristic fragments from 652 to 1,417¹³. Isis had been attested at Amathus only by an inscription of the second century BC, she noted, whereas about thirty Isiac figurines came from the site¹³. Queyrel judged their conception wholly Greek, and wrote that Aphrodite and Isis were kept distinct there¹³. She argued that the uniform clay and style pointed to production at Amathus, and left open which deity received the offerings¹³.

In the 1984 season she was on the team excavating the sanctuary of Aphrodite with Burkhalter, Antoine Hermary and Jean-Michel Saulnier¹⁴. Her report that year covered eleven types totalling 470 fragments; close study of some figurines, confirmed by a fragment found in 1982 on the acropolis summit, led to the identification of a group of the Dioscuri¹⁴. She published "Les Dioscures à Amathonte" in the Report of the Department of Antiquities, Cyprus for 1985¹¹.

Amathonte IV. Les figurines hellénistiques de terre cuite appeared in 1988 as Études chypriotes X, with 255 pages and 85 plates; according to her CV it won the Prix Mendel of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres¹¹. Hermary's chronicle of 1989 places it at the start of the publication of the excavations, after the three volumes of Testimonia¹.

Her share of the Louvre catalogue L'art des modeleurs d'argile (1998), directed by Annie Caubet, was pages 434 to 655 of volume 2 by her CV, while Sabine Fourrier wrote pages 36 to 395 and Frieda Vandenabeele pages 396 to 414¹¹. John Lund gives the chapter as "Les périodes Classique II, Hellénistique et Romaine", pages 433 to 655, one page earlier than the CV¹⁶. Within it she studied the cycle of the "Enthroned Goddess of Kition"¹⁷.

Demetrios Michaelides called her Amathus volume a notable exception to the neglect of Hellenistic Cypriot terracottas¹⁸. Lund cites it for the "surely local" making of the figurines¹⁶.

Her later work turned to Athens: a book on the archaic and classical city (2003) and Prodosia, on treason in fifth-century Athens (2010), which her CV says won the Prix Delepierre¹¹. In 2021 she was maître de conférences with habilitation in Greek history at Sorbonne Université, still listing Classical and Hellenistic Cyprus among her fields¹¹.