Ancient CyprusAncient Cyprus

Numismatist · Collector

Andreas Pitsillides

fl. 1970–2014 · Cyprus

Cypriot numismatist and collector, active 1970–2014. Worked with Eleanor Stewart; wrote with D. M. Metcalf and Maria Iacovou.

Life and work

  1. 1981
    Powell cites him as remembering Eve Stewart's brief 1981 visit to Cyprus to work in the museum (personal communication, 2010).

    CyprusPowell 2013

  2. 1980s – 2000s
    After many years, offered to help Eve Stewart tidy her late husband Jim Stewart's long-neglected manuscript on the Lusignan coinage.

    Powell 2013

  3. 1995
    Co-published with D. M. Metcalf 'Islamic and Byzantine coins in Cyprus during the condominium centuries' (Epetiris tou Kentrou Epistimonikon Ereunon 21); a second joint paper on further finds followed in 1997 and a note on an Islamic copper coin in Numismatic Report 28-30 (1997-9).

    Metcalf 2009

  4. 2000–2001
    Published a hoard of 6th-century Byzantine coins from Mazotos, Larnaca district (Numismatic Report 31-2, 2000-1, 25-32).

    MazotosMetcalf 2009

  5. 2012–2014
    Owned the Middle Byzantine copper-alloy dish (the 'A. Pitsillides Collection') that was examined and photographed by the author of the Balance of Empires chapter, who thanks 'Mr. Pitsillides' for sharing his knowledge of the treasure; Kassianidou did the compositional analysis in an appendix.

    Stewart et al. 2014

Connections

4 people
Maria IacovouD. M. MetcalfVassiliki KassianidouEleanor StewartAndreas Pitsillides
ScholarshipColleagues

Scholarship

Colleagues & contacts

Objects

  • Middle Byzantine copper-alloy dish, part of a treasure, kept in the A. Pitsillides Collection

    Stewart et al. 2014

Sources

  1. 1.A. G. Pitsillides (2000). “A hoard of 6th century Byzantine coins from Mazotos, Larnaca district, Cyprus”. Numismatic Report 31-2, 25-32.
  2. 2.A. G. Pitsillides, D. M. Metcalf (1995). “Islamic and Byzantine coins in Cyprus during the condominium centuries”. Epetiris tou Kentrou Epistimonikon Ereunon 21, 1-12.
  3. 3.D. M. Metcalf (2009). Byzantine Cyprus 491-1191. Nicosia, Cyprus Research Centre.
  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.C. A. Stewart (ed.), T. W. Davis (ed.), A. Weyl Carr (ed.) (2014). Cyprus and the Balance of Empires: Art and Archaeology from Justinian I to the Coeur de Lion. CAARI / ASOR.