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Scholar

Bettina Fischer

fl. 2000–2001

Scholar, active 2000–2001.

Life and work

  1. 2000
    Published a note on a terracotta dromedary figurine found in 1979 in the sanctuary of Aphrodite on the acropolis of Amathus, previously published as a fragmentary Archaic dromedary; argued it is, apart from the Idalion cup in the Louvre, the only dromedary representation found in Cyprus.

    AmathusFischer 2000

  2. 2001
    Published 'Le rôle des sanctuaires dans l'économie chypriote' (CCEC 31, 51-58) on Late Bronze Age craft installations, above all metallurgy, inside sanctuaries, notably Kition-Kathari and Enkomi.

    Fischer 2001Kearns 2022

Sources

  1. 1.Bettina Fischer (2000). “Un dromadaire égaré ? A propos d'une figurine archaïque en terre cuite de l'acropole d'Amathonte à Chypre”. Cahiers du Centre d'Études Chypriotes 30.
  2. 2.Bettina Fischer (2001). “Le rôle des sanctuaires dans l'économie chypriote”. Cahiers du Centre d'Études Chypriotes 31, 51-58.
  3. 3.Catherine Kearns (2022). The Rural Landscapes of Archaic Cyprus: An Archaeology of Environmental and Social Change. Cambridge University Press.