Ancient CyprusAncient Cyprus

Excavator · Scholar

Athanasia Kanta

fl. 1980–2014

Excavator and scholar, active 1980–2014. Excavated at Pyla-Kokkinokremos. Excavated with Artemis Georgiou and J. Bretschneider; wrote with Vassos Karageorghis.

Life and work

  1. 2010–2011
    Excavated Pyla-Kokkinokremos with Vassos Karageorghis (Artemis Georgiou also involved); Kanta wrote the excavation-and-architecture chapters and reported a possible gate in Area III/Sector 4 found in 2012 (Kanta 2014, 103-112).

    PylaKiely 2017, p. 33Kanta 2014, pp. 1-102

  2. 2014
    Co-edited and co-authored with Karageorghis the final report Pyla-Kokkinokremos: A Late 13th Century BC Fortified Settlement in Cyprus. Excavations 2010-2011 (SIMA 141, Uppsala: Astroms Forlag).

    Kiely 2017, p. 54

  3. from 2014
    Joined the joint Leuven/Louvain/Mediterranean Archaeological Institute mission at Pyla-Kokkinokremos (Sectors 3, 4, 5); preliminary reports with Bretschneider and Driessen: 2014 (Ugarit-Forschungen 46, 2015, 1-37), 2015-2016 (UF 48, 2017/2018, 35-120).

    Bretschneider et al. 2015, p. 3Landscape and Settlement in… 2017, p. 3

  4. 2014
    Co-editor, with Karageorghis, Stampolidis and Sakellarakis, of Kypriaka in Crete: From the Bronze Age to the End of the Archaic Period (Nicosia 2014).

    Rogge et al. 2019

Connections

4 people
Vassos KarageorghisArtemis GeorgiouJ. DriessenJ. BretschneiderAthanasia Kanta
Fieldwork

Fieldwork & employment

Scholarship

Sources

  1. 1.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
  2. 2.V. Karageorghis (ed.), A. Kanta (ed.) (2014). Pyla-Kokkinokremos: A 13th Century BC Fortified Settlement in Cyprus. Excavations 2010-2011. Uppsala, Åströms förlag.
  3. 3.A. Kanta (2014). “Pyla-Kokkinokremos 2010, 2011. The excavation and architecture”. Pyla-Kokkinokremos: A 13th Century BC Fortified Settlement in Cyprus. Excavations 2010-2011, 1-102. Uppsala.
  4. 4.J. Bretschneider, A. Kanta, J. Driessen (2015). “Pyla-Kokkinokremos. Preliminary Report on the 2014 Excavations”. Ugarit-Forschungen 46, 1-37.
  5. 5. (2017). “Landscape and Settlement in Late Bronze Age Cyprus”. Palestine Exploration Quarterly. Online
  6. 6.S. Rogge (ed.), Ch. Ioannou (ed.), Th. Mavrojannis (ed.) (2019). Salamis of Cyprus: History and Archaeology from the Earliest Times to Late Antiquity. Münster, Waxmann.