Anne-Marie Guimier-Sorbets

Anne-Marie Guimier-Sorbets and Demetrios Michaelides argued that the Alexandrian tomb model, with its courtyard, peristyle, loculi, painted decoration and imitation doors, reached Nea Paphos in the Tombs of the Kings and Ammoi Tomb 1³. They presented the paper at the Egypt and Cyprus in Antiquity conference in Nicosia in April 2003, and it appeared in the 2009 proceedings. They note that the Ptolemies kept Cypriots out of high office and that the tombs may have housed Alexandrian officials³.

In September 2009 she and Michaelides organised a colloquium on Hellenistic and Imperial Cyprus at Université Paris Ouest-Nanterre and the Institut National d'Histoire de l'Art, and edited its papers as Cahiers du Centre d'Études Chypriotes 39⁴. Her own paper in that volume treats three Hellenistic figured pavements: a pebble floor under the House of Dionysos at Nea Paphos, found in 1977; a pebble mosaic over a tomb at Kourion; and a pavement on Fabrika Hill, deposited in 1996¹. In 2016, in the volume for Antoine Hermary, she and Michaelides compared the Tombs of the Kings with tombs on Rhodes and at Lindos and proposed that the Agia Solomoni and Agios Lambrianos hypogea may have been underground nymphaea².