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Anna P. Georgiadou

fl. 2010–2025

Pottery specialist who wrote her doctorate on the regional workshops of Cypro-Geometric ceramics and has published on Salamis, Lapithos, Kition-Bamboula and Idalion.

Biography

Anna Georgiadou's doctoral thesis, completed in 2013 at the universities of Aix-Marseille and Athens, studied the regional workshops of Cypro-Geometric pottery of the tenth to eighth centuries BC11. Her articles follow the same material across the island. In 2012 she wrote on the early Cypro-Geometric pottery from Lapithos Tomb 5021, and in 2016 she wrote on the diffusion of Cypro-Geometric ceramics to the Levant and the Aegean2. Her study of the Salamis workshops, published in 2017, notes that the Early Iron Age evidence there is largely of a funerary nature3. With M. Dikomitou-Eliadou she wrote a 2022 study of Salamis pictorial pottery4.

She has also worked with excavated assemblages from other sites. With Sabine Fourrier and a team of specialists she published a jar burial of infants from Kition-Bamboula6. With Anna Satraki and Artemis Georgiou she published Locus 20 of the Idalion-Platia necropolis, part of a cemetery of 56 Iron Age tomb groups excavated in 2011 and 2012 under Satraki for the Department of Antiquities7. In 2021 she and Catherine Kearns reported on survey and pilot excavation at small Iron Age sites in the Vasilikos and Maroni valleys, her affiliation printed as the University of Cyprus5.

With Lindy Crewe and Despina Pilides she also wrote the chapter on the Cyprus Survey Branch for Empire & Excavation, based on archives in the Cyprus Museum and at CAARI8.

Life and work

  1. 2011–2012
    Rescue excavations in the Platia necropolis at Idalion (56 Iron Age tomb groups) were carried out under the direction of Anna Satraki for the Department of Antiquities; Georgiadou later co-published its Locus 20 with A. Georgiou and A. Satraki

    Idalion-PlatiaGeorgiadou et al. 2024

  2. 2013
    Doctoral thesis on regional workshops of Cypriot Geometric pottery, University of Aix-Marseille and University of Athens

    Traditions and innovations during…, p. 38

  3. 2016
    Published an overview of Cypriot Geometric ceramic exports to the Levant and the Aegean in the Cahiers du Centre d'Etudes Chypriotes 46 (Hommage a Antoine Hermary)

    Georgiadou 2016, p. 1

  4. 2021
    With Catherine Kearns published preliminary results of legacy-data re-survey, geophysical survey and pilot excavations at small Iron Age sites in the Vasilikos and Maroni valleys, on the eastern edge of the polity of Amathus

    Vasilikos and Maroni valleysKearns & Georgiadou 2021, p. 2

  5. 2021
    With S. Fourrier and a team of specialists published a jar burial of infants from Kition-Bamboula (Opuscula 14)

    KitionFourrier et al. 2021, p. 1Traditions and innovations during…, p. 38

  6. 2024
    Co-authored study of Locus 20, an Early Iron Age mortuary feature in the Idalion-Platia necropolis (Studia Cyprologica Berolinensia, ed. Stephan G. Schmid)

    IdalionGeorgiadou et al. 2024

  7. 2025
    With L. Crewe and D. Pilides, wrote chapter 14 on the Cyprus Survey Branch 1955-1974 in Empire & Excavation (Kiely, Reeve and Crewe eds.), based on archives in the Cyprus Museum and CAARI

    Crewe et al. 2025Kiely et al. 2025

Connections

9 people
Sabine FourrierLindy CreweArtemis GeorgiouDespina PilidesMaria Dikomitou-EliadouCatherine KearnsAnna SatrakiBérénice ChamelTatiana TheodoropoulouAnna P. Georgiadou
Scholarship

Scholarship

On Ancient Cyprus

17 pages

Sources

  1. 1.A. Georgiadou (2012). “The early Cypro-Geometric pottery: examining the evidence from Lapithos Tomb 502”. Cyprus, an island culture: society and social relations from the Bronze Age to the Venetian period, 84-103. Oxford, Oxbow Books.
  2. 2.Anna Georgiadou (2016). “La diffusion de la céramique chypriote d'époque géométrique en Méditerranée orientale. Productions et réseaux de distribution”. Cahiers du Centre d'Études Chypriotes 46, 89-112. Online
  3. 3.Anna Georgiadou (2017). “Aspects of pottery production and circulation in the Early Iron Age Cypriot polities: considering the evidence of the Salamis workshops”. TERPSIS. Studies on Mediterranean Archaeology in honour of Nota Kourou, 99-112. Brussels.
  4. 4.A. Georgiadou, M. Dikomitou-Eliadou (2022). “The Iron Age pictorial pottery of Salamis within and beyond: an overview of ceramic styles, wares and fabrics”. Beyond Cyprus: investigating Cypriot connectivity in the Mediterranean from the Late Bronze Age to the end of the Classical period, 335-349. Athens, Athens University Review of Archaeology.
  5. 5.Catherine Kearns, Anna Georgiadou (2021). “Rural Complexities: Comparative Investigations at Small Iron Age Sites in South-Central Cyprus”. Journal of Field Archaeology 46, 461-479. Online
  6. 6.S. Fourrier, A. Georgiadou, B. Chamel, N. Denninger et al. (2021). “The death of infants in Early Iron Age Cyprus. A jar burial from Kition-Bamboula”. Opuscula. Annual of the Swedish Institutes at Athens and Rome 14, 281-304. Online
  7. 7.Anna Georgiadou, Artemis Georgiou, Anna Satraki (2024). “A Window into Mortuary Practices and Ritual at Early Iron Age Idalion: Locus 20 in the Necropolis of Idalion-Platia”. Idalion in its Environment: Settlement, Pattern and Ritual, 201-.
  8. 8.Lindy Crewe, Anna Georgiadou, Despina Pilides (2025). “Works and days of the Cyprus Survey Branch during the period 1955-1974”. Empire & Excavation: Critical perspectives on archaeology in British-period Cyprus, 1878-1960. Sidestone Press.
  9. 9.T. Kiely (ed.), A. Reeve (ed.), L. Crewe (ed.) (2025). Empire & Excavation: Critical perspectives on archaeology in British-period Cyprus, 1878-1960. Leiden, Sidestone Press.
  10. 10.Michael Given (2025). “Over the landscape, in the landscape? Knowledge and agency in Cypriot archaeology, 1870-1910”. Empire & Excavation: Critical perspectives on archaeology in British-period Cyprus, 1878-1960. Leiden, Sidestone Press.
  11. 11.“Traditions and innovations during the 12th...”.