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Collector · Donor

Chr. Loizides of Morphou

fl. 1958–1974 · Cyprus

Cypriot collector and donor, active 1958–1974. Collected at Morphou-Ambelia. Gave to Cyprus Museum.

Life and work

  1. 1958
    Amateur collector at Morphou ('collectionneur amateur') who had gathered fragments of one Bichrome IV kelebe found by chance at Ambelia, with figured metopes (possible potters)

    MorphouKarageorghis 1959

  2. 1963
    Gave the Cyprus Museum the contents of a tomb group said to come from Toumba tou Skourou (inv. 1963/XI-18/1): animal-shaped White Painted VI askoi, biconical jugs; Karageorghis doubts it is the complete tomb

    NicosiaKarageorghis 1964

Connections

2 people

Scholarship

Colleagues & contacts

Objects

  • tomb group: animal askoi (White Painted VI), jugs

    From Toumba tou Skourou (said)Cyprus Museum 1963/XI-18/11963Karageorghis 1964

  • Attic skyphos in his collection

    Loizides collection, Morphou1961Karageorghis 1962

  • Bichrome Red I (IV) jug, birds on shoulder

    Loizides Collection, Morphou1974Dissinger 2017

  • Medieval sgraffito goblet compared with Pierides no. 101

    Chr. Loizides Collection1973Karageorghis 1973, p. 149

On Ancient Cyprus

1 page

Sources

  1. 1.V. Karageorghis (1959). “Chronique des fouilles et découvertes archéologiques à Chypre en 1958”. Bulletin de correspondance hellénique 83.
  2. 2.V. Karageorghis (1962). “Chronique des fouilles et découvertes archéologiques à Chypre en 1961”. Bulletin de correspondance hellénique 86.
  3. 3.V. Karageorghis (1964). “Chronique des fouilles et découvertes archéologiques à Chypre en 1963”. Bulletin de correspondance hellénique 88.
  4. 4.V. Karageorghis (1973). Cypriote Antiquities in the Pierides Collection, Larnaca, Cyprus. Athens, Ekdotiki Hellados.
  5. 5.Alicia Marie Dissinger (2017). “Cypro-Archaic Bird Iconography: Types, Uses, and Meanings”. University of Virginia.