Scholar · Cataloguer

Barbara Kling

fl. 1988–2015

Scholar and cataloguer, active 1988–2015. Worked at Maa-Palaeokastro and Apliki-Karamallos. Wrote with Diane Bolger and James D. Muhly.

Life and work

1988
Wrote 'Some Stylistic Remarks on the Pottery of Mycenaean IIIC:1 Style from Maa-Palaeokastro' in Karageorghis & Demas, Excavations at Maa-Palaeokastro 1979-1986 (Nicosia, Department of Antiquities), pp. 317-339 (as cited in other works).
Maa-PalaeokastroKling 1988
1988
Cited as 'B. Kling (with contribution by HWC) in RDAC 1988, pp. 270-4' in a note of the Liverpool Palaepaphos tombs volume (HWC = H. W. Catling); the note concerns a Kouklia item whose identity was not read.
Kouklia (Palaepaphos)Catling 2020
1989
Published 'Mycenaean IIIC:1b and Related Pottery in Cyprus' (SIMA 87, Göteborg: Paul Åström), a study of the Cypriot IIIC:1b and related wares that reassessed the chronology of Apliki-Karamallos and accepted Taylor's original dating (per the OEANE entry).
GöteborgKling 1989 Kling 1997
1991
Co-editor, with J. A. Barlow and D. L. Bolger, of 'Cypriot Ceramics: Reading the Prehistoric Record' (Philadelphia: University Museum); author of 'A terminology for the matte-painted, wheelmade pottery of Late Cypriot IIC-IIIA' in it, pp. 181-184.
PhiladelphiaDissinger 2017 Graziadio
2000
'Mycenaean IIIC:1b and related pottery in Cyprus. Comments on the current state of research' in E. D. Oren (ed.), The Sea Peoples and their World: a Reassessment (Philadelphia), pp. 281-293.
Graziadio
2007
Co-editor, with J. D. Muhly, of Joan du Plat Taylor's excavations at the Late Bronze Age mining settlement at Apliki Karamallos, Cyprus (SIMA 94(1), Sävedalen: Paul Åström), i.e. publication of the 1938-39 Cyprus Mines Corporation excavations directed by Joan duPlat Taylor.
AplikiGiven 2025 Kling 1997

Connections

5 people

Scholarship

Published material of Vassos Karageorghis1988
Wrote with Diane Bolger1991
Wrote with Jane A. Barlow1991
Wrote with James D. Muhly2007
Published material of Joan du Plat Taylor2007

On Ancient Cyprus

8 pages

A Cypriot Jar in the Mycenaean StyleArticle
Ancient Cypriot Pottery: A Course from the First Pots to the Classical KingdomsArticle
Copper Metallurgy in Ancient CyprusCompendium
From Bronze to Iron: Cypriot Pottery c. 1300–950 BCECompendium
Mycenaean Imports and Local ImitationsCompendium
Proto-White Painted WareCompendium
Village Life in Late Bronze Age CyprusCompendium
White Painted Wheelmade WareCompendium

Sources

1.B. Kling (1988). “Some Stylistic Remarks on the Pottery of Mycenaean IIIC:1 Style from Maa-Palaeokastro”. Excavations at Maa-Palaeokastro 1979-1986, 317-339. Nicosia, Department of Antiquities.
2.Barbara Kling (1989). Mycenaean IIIC:1b and Related Pottery in Cyprus. Göteborg, Paul Åström.
3.B. Kling (1991). “A terminology for the matte-painted, wheelmade pottery of Late Cypriot IIC-IIIA”. Cypriot Ceramics: Reading the Prehistoric Record, 181-184. Philadelphia, University Museum.
4.B. Kling (2000). “Mycenaean IIIC:1b and related pottery in Cyprus. Comments on the current state of research”. The Sea Peoples and their World: a Reassessment, 281-293. Philadelphia.
5.B. Kling (ed.), J. D. Muhly (ed.) (2007). Joan du Plat Taylor's Excavations at the Late Bronze Age Mining Settlement at Apliki Karamallos, Cyprus. Sävedalen, Paul Åströms Förlag.
6.Barbara Kling (1997). “Apliki-Karamallos”. The Oxford Encyclopedia of Archaeology in the Near East.
7.Alicia Marie Dissinger (2017). “Cypro-Archaic Bird Iconography: Types, Uses, and Meanings”. University of Virginia.
8.Giampaolo Graziadio. The Earliest Production of Aegean-Type Pottery in Cyprus.
9.H. W. Catling (2020). Kouklia: Late Bronze Age and Early Iron Age Tombs at Palaepaphos 1951-1954. Oxford, BAR Publishing.
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.