Foreman · Restorer / conservator · Antiquities official
Andreas Georghiou
fl. 1959–1983 · Cyprus
Cypriot foreman and conservator, active 1959–1983. Excavated at Kition, Palaepaphos-Skales and Salamis, Tomb 79. Worked for Department of Antiquities, Cyprus; worked with Vassos Karageorghis and Andreas Savva.
Life and work
- 1959–1976One of Karageorghis's three field foremen and collaborators at Kition (with Kakoullis Georghiou and Andreas Savva); he and Kakoullis Georghiou also helped prepare the material for publication.
KitionKarageorghis 1976, p. 17
- 1960sTook more than six weeks to excavate and consolidate the ivory-plated Gamma throne at the dromos wall of Salamis Tomb 79; the Alpha bed was sorted and restored in the Nicosia laboratory.
SalamisRogge et al. 2019, p. 196
- 1979–1981Foreman of the Department technicians who began the emergency excavation at Palaepaphos-Skales, with draughtsman Chrysilios Polykarpou, retired technical assistant Symeon Klonaris and Custodian George Ioannou as expert diggers; Karageorghis thanks them for sharing the hardships of digging.
KoukliaKarageorghis 1983, p. ix
Connections
5 peopleColleagues & contacts
- Worked with Andreas Savva1959–1976
- Worked with Kakoulis Georghiou1959–1976
- Worked with Vassos Karageorghis1959–1983
- Worked with Chrysilios Polykarpou1979–1981
- Worked with George Ioannou1979–1981
Sources
- 1.V. Karageorghis (1976). Kition: Mycenaean and Phoenician Discoveries in Cyprus. London, Thames and Hudson.
- 2.V. Karageorghis (1983). Palaepaphos-Skales: An Iron Age Cemetery in Cyprus.
- 3.S. Rogge (ed.), Ch. Ioannou (ed.), Th. Mavrojannis (ed.) (2019). Salamis of Cyprus: History and Archaeology from the Earliest Times to Late Antiquity. Münster, Waxmann.