Ancient CyprusAncient Cyprus

Scholar · Restorer / conservator · Draughtsman / artist

Andreas Stylianou

fl. 1937–2000 · Cyprus

Byzantine scholar, active 1937–2000. Worked at Bellapais. Married to Judith Dobell; worked with Costas Kyrkos and Eleanor Stewart.

Life and work

  1. 1937–1938
    As one of two teenage boys, mended and drew pottery at the benches of the Stewarts' workroom at Bellapais Abbey (Vounous finds); described as coming from a very modest background and later a distinguished Byzantine scholar; later married museum volunteer Judith Dobell.

    BellapaisPowell 2013, p. 58

  2. 1968
    Began inquiring into the discovery of the first Lambousa treasure ('When I occupied myself for the first time with this question in 1968'); with Judith Stylianou collected the local oral evidence for both Lambousa hoards, published in Stylianou and Stylianou 1969, 'The treasures of Lambousa' (in Stylianou and Harmanta, Karavas, pp. 45-111).

    Merrillees 2009

  3. 1968–1969
    Leader (n. 7) says the Stylianous traced the son of one of the finders, whose account (jewellery in a pot hidden beneath a floor, plates walled up in a niche, found on subsequent workdays in February 1902) she calls probably the most reliable account of the discovery; Merrillees (2009, p. 393) praises their survey as 'the most exhaustive and authentic'.

    KaravasLeader 2000, n. 6-7Merrillees 2009

  4. 1987
    Published 'Der Schatz von Lambousa' in the Bremen exhibition catalogue Aphrodites Schwestern und christliches Zypern (pp. 175-7), repeating his account of the oral evidence.

    Merrillees 2009

Connections

4 people
Judith DobellEleanor StewartCostas KyrkosRuth E. LeaderAndreas Stylianou
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Sources

  1. 1.Judy Powell (2013). Love's Obsession: The Lives and Archaeology of Jim and Eve Stewart. Kent Town, South Australia, Wakefield Press.
  2. 2.R. S. Merrillees (2009). “The modern history of the first Lambousa treasure of Byzantine silverware from Cyprus”. The Antiquaries Journal 89, 389-403. Online
  3. 3.A. Stylianou, J. Stylianou (1969). “The treasures of Lambousa”. Karavas, 45-111. Athletic Union of Karavas.
  4. 4.A. Stylianou (1987). “Der Schatz von Lambousa”. Aphrodites Schwestern und christliches Zypern. 9000 Jahre Kultur Zyperns, 175-177.
  5. 5.A. Stylianou, J. A. Stylianou (1985). The Painted Churches of Cyprus: Treasures of Byzantine Art. London, Trigraph.
  6. 6.A. Stylianou, J. A. Stylianou (1997). The Painted Churches of Cyprus: Treasures of Byzantine Art. Nicosia, A. G. Leventis Foundation.
  7. 7.M. K. Toumazou (ed.), P. N. Kardulias (ed.), D. B. Counts (ed.) (2011). Crossroads and Boundaries: The Archaeology of Past and Present in the Malloura Valley, Cyprus.
  8. 8.W. A. P. Childs (ed.), J. S. Smith (ed.), J. M. Padgett (ed.) (2012). City of Gold: The Archaeology of Polis Chrysochous, Cyprus. Princeton, Princeton University Art Museum.
  9. 9.T. Kiely (2017). “Britain and the archaeology of Cyprus II: 1914 to the present day”. Cahiers du Centre d'Études Chypriotes 47, 253-310. Online
  10. 10.Ruth E. Leader (2000). “The David Plates Revisited: Transforming the Secular in Early Byzantium”. The Art Bulletin 82, 407-427. College Art Association. Online