Ancient CyprusAncient Cyprus

Draughtsman / artist · Museum staff

Adamantios Diamantis

1900–1994 · Cyprus

Painter. Worked with Porphyrios Dikaios and John Hilton.

Life and work

  1. 1931–1932
    Dikaios thanks 'Mr. A. Diamantis' for the final tomb-plans and section (from Dikaios's own originals) and for the drawings of the vases and other objects in the Vounous-Bellapais report.

    BellapaisDikaios 1940

  2. 1935–1936
    Named among Hilton's colleagues in the Department of Antiquities who lamented his departure; the Hiltons had befriended him and his wife (friends for life).

    NicosiaStanley-Price 2025

  3. 1936–1946
    Prepared all the drawings of the finds from Khirokitia except those of the stone axe-heads (Dikaios's final report).

    KhirokitiaDikaios 1953

Connections

3 people
Porphyrios DikaiosJohn HiltonEleanor StewartAdamantios Diamantis
Colleagues

Colleagues & contacts

Sources

  1. 1.Nicholas Stanley-Price (2025). “Colonial society and the dismissal of John Hilton, first Director of Antiquities in Cyprus”. Empire & Excavation: Critical perspectives on archaeology in British-period Cyprus, 1878-1960, 109-126.
  2. 2.P. Dikaios (1953). Khirokitia: Final Report on the Excavation of a Neolithic Settlement in Cyprus on Behalf of the Department of Antiquities, 1936-1946. Oxford, Oxford University Press.
  3. 3.P. Dikaios (1940). “The Excavations at Vounous-Bellapais in Cyprus, 1931-2”. Archaeologia 88, 1-174.
  4. 4.Judy Powell (2013). Love's Obsession: The Lives and Archaeology of Jim and Eve Stewart. Kent Town, South Australia, Wakefield Press.
  5. 5.T. Stylianou-Lambert, A. Bounia (2016). The Political Museum: Power, Conflict, and Identity in Cyprus.