Excavator · Scholar
Arne Furumark
fl. 1940–2003 · Sweden
Swedish excavator and scholar, active 1940–2003. Excavated at Sinda. Worked with Vassos Karageorghis; wrote with Charles Martin Adelman.
Life and work
- 1941Published The Mycenaean Pottery: Analysis and Classification and The Chronology of Mycenaean Pottery (Stockholm), the shape (FS) and motif typology cited throughout Cypriot Late Bronze Age excavation reports; coined the term 'Levanto-Mycenaean'.
StockholmBenson 1972Graziadio
- 1940sMet J. R. B. Stewart in Sweden, discussed his chronology with him and advised him to draw up his own classification; later wrote to him of difficulties he faced working in Cyprus, which he put down to resentment at the amount of material removed from the island.
SwedenPowell 2013, p. 110
- 1947–1948Directed a Swedish expedition that partly excavated the Late Bronze Age settlement at Sinda, between Famagusta and Nicosia.
SindaKarageorghis 1969
- 1952Published the preliminary Sinda report in Arkeologiska Forskningar och Fynd (Stockholm, 1952), 'Ultravningarna vid Sinda' as cited by Benson; republished in English as 'Excavations at Sinda', Opuscula Atheniensia 6 (1965) 99-116. From Sinda he inferred a Greek immigration to the site between 1230 and 1200 BC.
StockholmBenson 1972Benson 1973, n. 12
Connections
4 peopleScholarship
- Corresponded with James Rivers Barrington Stewartprobably1940–1950
- Wrote with Charles Martin Adelman2003
Colleagues & contacts
- Worked with Symeon Klonarisprobably1948
- Connected with Vassos Karageorghis1948
- Worked with Vassos Karageorghis1948
On Ancient Cyprus
10 pages- A Cypriot Jar in the Mycenaean StyleArticle
- Ancient Cypriot Pottery: A Course from the First Pots to the Classical KingdomsArticle
- Baskets and Basket-Handled VesselsCompendium
- FlasksCompendium
- Mycenaean Imports and Local ImitationsCompendium
- Proto-White Painted WareCompendium
- StrainersCompendium
- The Maltese Cross on Cypriot PotteryCompendium
- White Painted Wheelmade WareCompendium
- Cypriot Three-Handled Jar in the Mycenaean Style with Running SpiralsObject
Sources
- 1.A. Furumark (1941). The Mycenaean Pottery. Analysis and Classification. Stockholm.
- 2.A. Furumark (1941). The Chronology of Mycenaean Pottery. Stockholm.
- 3.A. Furumark (1965). “Excavations at Sinda”. Opuscula Atheniensia 6, 99-116.
- 4.V. Karageorghis (1969). “Chronique des fouilles et découvertes archéologiques à Chypre en 1968”. Bulletin de correspondance hellénique 93.
- 5.J. L. Benson (1972). Bamboula at Kourion: The Necropolis and the Finds Excavated by J. F. Daniel. Philadelphia, University Museum, University of Pennsylvania.
- 6.J. L. Benson (1973). The Necropolis of Kaloriziki, excavated by J. F. Daniel and G. H. McFadden for the University Museum, University of Pennsylvania.
- 7.Giampaolo Graziadio. The Earliest Production of Aegean-Type Pottery in Cyprus.
- 8.Judy Powell (2013). Love's Obsession: The Lives and Archaeology of Jim and Eve Stewart. Kent Town, South Australia, Wakefield Press.
- 9.Anastasia Leriou, Giorgos Vavouranakis (2025). “Communicating archaeology in British-period Cyprus: from Ohnefalsch-Richter to Dikaios”. Empire & Excavation: Critical perspectives on archaeology in British-period Cyprus, 1878-1960. Sidestone Press.