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Excavator · Museum director · Epigrapher · Scholar

Carlo Gallavotti

fl. 1970–1977 · Italy

Director of the Rome institute for Mycenaean and Aegean-Anatolian studies who headed the Italian excavation at Ayia Irini-Palaeokastro in 1970 to 1972.

Biography

Carlo Gallavotti directed the Italian mission at Ayia Irini-Palaeokastro, in the Kyrenia district, for its first three seasons from 1970 to 1972. The Bulletin de correspondance hellénique introduces him as Professor C. Gallavotti, director of the Istituto per gli Studi Micenei ed Egeo-Anatolici in Rome, and prints his report on the first season: three sectors, the town on the Palaeokastro hill, a sector to its west, and the necropolis by the sea1. Nicolaou, who prints his name as "Callavotti", records Hellenistic and Graeco-Roman houses and a tomb of the 16th century BC with Aegean cups, and states the aim of the dig as an enquiry into relations between Cyprus and the Minoan-Mycenaean world4.

The second campaign, in 1971, was long, with reports from three field directors: P. E. Pecorella, the Quilici team and L. Rocchetti2. The third season in 1972 was run "under the direction of M. Carlo Gallavotti" with the same three; it produced 25 Archaic tombs, tombs at Kharangas and a large Hellenistic and Roman quarter with baths3,5. In 1973 the fourth season is reported under Giovanni Rizza for the same institute6. Robertson in 1975 listed the site among the Late Bronze Age excavations then active "under Professor Gallavotti"10.

Life and work

  1. 1970
    First season of the Italian mission at Ayia Irini-Palaeokastro by the sea: three sectors (the town on the hill, a sector to its west, and the necropolis). The aim stated by Nicolaou was to investigate relations between Cyprus and the Minoan-Mycenaean world. Finds included Hellenistic and Graeco-Roman houses with querns, lamps and glass, and a 16th-century BC tomb with vases, bronzes, cylinder seals and two Aegean cups (one with a double-axe symbol, possibly LH II). Gallavotti supplied the BCH report himself.

    Ayia IriniKarageorghis 1971Nicolaou 1972Nicolaou 1976

  2. 1971
    Second season, 'a very long campaign' in three places: the seaside necropolis at Palaeokastro (Pecorella: fifteen tombs, fourteen already looted, one intact; LC I and late Geometric to Archaic), the settlement (Quilici), and the Kharangas tombs (Rocchetti, five Geometric tombs).

    Ayia IriniKarageorghis 1972

  3. 1972
    Third season, directed by Carlo Gallavotti with Pecorella, Quilici and Rocchetti as field directors: 25 further tombs at Palaeokastro (Archaic only, several intact, including an important Euboean skyphos), five more looted tombs at Kharangas, and a large part of the Hellenistic and Roman town with houses and a public bath, three parallel N-S streets.

    Ayia IriniKarageorghis 1973Nicolaou 1973

  4. 1973
    The fourth season (1973) of the Italian expedition at Palaiokastro is reported as directed by Prof. Giovanni Rizza on behalf of the same Rome institute; Gallavotti is no longer named.

    Ayia IriniNicolaou 1975

  5. 1976
    Published 'Alasios e Kyprios nei documenti micenei' in Studi Ciprioti e Rapporti di Scavo, fasc. 2 (Rome), pp. 51-58.

    RomeAnalisi archeomalacologiche nel sito…

  6. 1977
    Published 'Iscrizione di Stasanore a Cipro' in Kadmos 16, pp. 160-163.

    Le dialecte grec ancien…, p. 947

Connections

4 people
P. E. PecorellaL. QuiliciL. RocchettiGiovanni RizzaCarlo Gallavotti
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Fieldwork & employment

Colleagues & contacts

Sources

  1. 1.V. Karageorghis (1971). “Chronique des fouilles et découvertes archéologiques à Chypre en 1970”. Bulletin de correspondance hellénique 95.
  2. 2.V. Karageorghis (1972). “Chronique des fouilles et découvertes archéologiques à Chypre en 1971”. Bulletin de correspondance hellénique 96.
  3. 3.V. Karageorghis (1973). “Chronique des fouilles et découvertes archéologiques à Chypre en 1972”. Bulletin de correspondance hellénique 97.
  4. 4.Kyriakos Nicolaou (1972). “Archaeological News from Cyprus, 1970”. American Journal of Archaeology 76, 311-320.
  5. 5.Kyriakos Nicolaou (1973). “Archaeological News from Cyprus, 1972”. American Journal of Archaeology 77, 425-433.
  6. 6.Kyriakos Nicolaou (1975). “Archaeological News from Cyprus, 1973”. American Journal of Archaeology 79, 125-134. Online
  7. 7.K. Nicolaou (1976). “Archaeology in Cyprus, 1969-76”. Archaeological Reports 22.
  8. 8.“Analisi archeomalacologiche nel sito di ...”.
  9. 9.Le dialecte grec ancien de Chypre.
  10. 10.N. Robertson (ed.) (1975). The Archaeology of Cyprus: Recent Developments. Park Ridge, N.J., Noyes Press.
  11. 11.C. Gallavotti (1976). “Alasios e Kyprios nei documenti micenei”. Studi Ciprioti e Rapporti di Scavo, 51-58. Rome.
  12. 12.Carlo Gallavotti (1977). “Iscrizione di Stasanore a Cipro”. Kadmos 16, 160-163.