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Excavator · Scholar

Charalambos Bakirtzis

fl. 1991–2020 · Greece

Greek excavator and scholar, active 1991–2020. Excavated at Agios Georgios, Peyia (Cape Drepanon). Worked for University of Thessaloniki; wrote with AnneMarie Luijendijk.

Life and work

  1. 1991
    University of Thessaloniki expedition under his direction began excavations near Peyia at Ayios Yeoryios on Cape Drepanon, where three Early Christian basilicas and a bath complex had been found earlier; work focused on basilica A, the baths and the southern slope, with a courtyard room-complex west of the basilica (6th-7th c.) and cisterns.

    Peyia, PaphosHerscher 1995, p. 291

  2. 1991–1997
    Steel (AR 1997-98) reports the Greek team under him: a large rock-cut Roman tomb between bath-house and basilica A reused in Early Byzantine times; a two-storey courtyard building identified as the bishopric; annexes of basilica C with imported marble from Constantinople; arcosolia and loculi with Early Christian carvings. The Department of Antiquities had dug the site 1949-53.

    Agios Georgios tis PegeiasSteel 1997-1998, p. 144

  3. 1995
    'The role of Cyprus in the grain supply of Constantinople in the early Christian period', in Karageorghis and Michaelides (eds), Cyprus and the Sea, 247-53.

    Metcalf 2009

  4. 1999
    'Early Christian rock-cut tombs at Hagios Georgios, Peyia, Cyprus', in Ševčenko and Moss, Medieval Cyprus, 35-48 (Steel dates it 1997).

    Metcalf 2009Steel 1997-1998, p. 144

Connections

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Scholarship

Sources

  1. 1.Ellen Herscher (1995). “Archaeology in Cyprus”. American Journal of Archaeology 99, 257-294.
  2. 2.Louise Steel (1997-1998). “Archaeology in Cyprus 1987-1997”. Archaeological Reports 44, 137-149.
  3. 3.D. M. Metcalf (2009). Byzantine Cyprus 491-1191. Nicosia, Cyprus Research Centre.
  4. 4.Ch. Bakirtzis (1995). “The role of Cyprus in the grain supply of Constantinople in the early Christian period”. Cyprus and the Sea, 247-253. Nicosia.
  5. 5.Ch. Bakirtzis (1999). “Early Christian rock-cut tombs at Hagios Georgios, Peyia, Cyprus”. Medieval Cyprus: Studies in Art, Architecture, and History in Memory of Doula Mouriki, 35-48.