Ancient CyprusAncient Cyprus

Scholar

Basch

fl. 1985–1987

Scholar, active 1985–1987. Wrote with Michael Artzy.

Life and work

  1. 1985
    With M. Artzy, published the ship graffiti from Kition (Area II: nineteen graffiti on the south wall of Temple 1, and the altar of Temple 4) in Excavations at Kition V, pp. 322-336. They suggested the graffiti and anchors might indicate a mariners' cult and that the temple may have been dedicated to a seafarers' protector, and linked the ships to the Acco graffiti; they did not claim an ethnic identity for the engravers.

    KitionHadjikyriakos & Trentin 2015Wachsmann 2009, pp. 319-320Oren 2000

  2. 1987
    Published Le musée imaginaire de la marine antique (Athens), cited by the KHM Vienna catalogue for Cypriot Iron Age askoi with ship-form decoration (Basch 1987, 148-149, 254, 257).

    AthensBernhard-Walcher et al. 1999

Connections

2 people

Scholarship

On Ancient Cyprus

1 page

Sources

  1. 1.I. Hadjikyriakos (ed.), M. G. Trentin (ed.) (2015). Cypriot Cultural Details. Proceedings of the 10th Postgraduate Cypriot Archaeology Conference (PoCA 2010), October 2010, Venice, Italy. Oxford, Oxbow Books.
  2. 2.L. Basch, M. Artzy (1985). “Ship Graffiti at Kition”. Excavations at Kition V. The Pre-Phoenician Levels, Areas I and II, Part I, 322-336.
  3. 3.L. Basch (1987). Le musée imaginaire de la marine antique. Athens.
  4. 4.L. Basch (1995). “La rentrée des coques dans l'antiquité, exemples à Chypre à l'époque archaïque”. Proceedings of the International Symposium Cyprus and the Sea, Nicosia 1994, 99-118. Nicosia.
  5. 5.A. Bernhard-Walcher, G. Dembski, K. Gschwantler, V. Karageorghis (1999). Die Sammlung zyprischer Antiken im Kunsthistorischen Museum / The Collection of Cypriote Antiquities in the Kunsthistorisches Museum. Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum.
  6. 6.Shelley Wachsmann (2009). Seagoing Ships and Seamanship in the Bronze Age Levant. College Station, Texas A&M University Press.
  7. 7.Eliezer D. Oren (ed.) (2000). The Sea Peoples and Their World: A Reassessment. Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Museum.