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C. Xenophontos

fl. 1979–2002

Geologist, Geological Survey Department, Cyprus, active 1979–2002. Worked with Vassos Karageorghis; wrote with John Walsh and Nota Kourou.

Life and work

  1. 1979–1980
    Prepared thin sections for Euphemia Photos's study of material from the Kalavasos-Tenta burial pits (acknowledged by Todd as Dr. C. Xenophontos of the Geological Survey of the Ministry of Agriculture and Natural Resources).

    KalavasosTodd 1982, n. 110

  2. 1983
    Identified all the stone objects from the Palaepaphos-Skales tombs; named by Karageorghis as 'Dr. C. Xenophontos, of the Geological Survey Department'.

    PalaepaphosKarageorghis 1983, p. ix

  3. 1986
    Co-author (Elliott, Xenophontos, Malpas) of 'Petrographic and Mineral Analyses Used in Tracing the Provenance of Late Bronze Age and Roman Basalt Artefacts from Cyprus', RDAC 1986, pp. 80-96; a 1988 Levant paper by Xenophontos, Elliott and Malpas reaches the view that many basalt artefacts could come from Levantine flows, cited in the Sargon-stele discussion.

    Mattei 2016

  4. 1991
    Sole author of 'Picrolite, its nature, provenance, and possible distribution patterns in the Chalcolithic period of Cyprus', BASOR 282/283, pp. 127-38 (cited as BASOR 232(3) in one thesis bibliography).

    Karageorghis & Severis 2010Şevketoğlu 1998

  5. 2002
    Co-author with Kourou, Karageorghis, Maniatis, Polikreti and Bassiakos of 'Limestone Statuettes of Cypriote Type Found in the Aegean: Provenance Studies' (Leventis Foundation).

    Toumazou et al. 2011

Connections

4 people
John WalshCarolyn ElliottNota KourouVassos KarageorghisC. Xenophontos
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Sources

  1. 1.Ian A. Todd (1982). “Vasilikos Valley Project: Fourth Preliminary Report, 1979-1980”. Journal of Field Archaeology 9, 35-77. Online
  2. 2.V. Karageorghis (1983). Palaepaphos-Skales: An Iron Age Cemetery in Cyprus.
  3. 3.Mattei (2016). Cahiers du Centre d'Études Chypriotes 46, scan 30-31, 35, 39.
  4. 4.C. Xenophontos (1991). “Picrolite, its nature, provenance, and possible distribution patterns in the Chalcolithic period of Cyprus”. Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research 282/283, 127-138.
  5. 5.V. Karageorghis, D. C. Severis (2010). The Severis Collection of Cypriote Antiquities. Nicosia, A. G. Leventis Foundation.
  6. 6.Müge Hüseyin Şevketoğlu (1998). “Archaeological Field Survey of the Neolithic and Chalcolithic Settlement Sites in Kyrenia District, North Cyprus: Systematic Surface Collection and the Interpretation of Artefact Scatters”. PhD thesis, University of Edinburgh.
  7. 7.M. K. Toumazou (ed.), P. N. Kardulias (ed.), D. B. Counts (ed.) (2011). Crossroads and Boundaries: The Archaeology of Past and Present in the Malloura Valley, Cyprus.
  8. 8.A. C. Sneddon (2002). The Cemeteries at Marki: Using a Looted Landscape to Investigate Prehistoric Bronze Age Cyprus. Oxford, Archaeopress.