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Christina Ioannou

fl. 2011–2024 · Cyprus

University of Cyprus historian-archaeologist of Archaic Cyprus who co-organised the 2015 Nicosia conference on Salamis and co-edited its 2019 proceedings.

Biography

Christina Ioannou, of the University of Cyprus, helped organise the 2015 Nicosia conference marking fifty years of French-Cypriot excavation at Salamis. The idea arose in spring 2014 in discussion with Vassos Karageorghis, who proposed Salamis and the French-Cypriot work there, begun in 1964. The conference ran on 21-23 May 20151. Yon thanks the University of Cyprus, Theodoros Mavrojannis and Ioannou for organising it with the Department of Antiquities3. The proceedings, Salamis of Cyprus, were published by Waxmann in 2019 and edited with Sabine Rogge1.

Her own chapter in that volume treats the royal tombs of Salamis in the mythic and historical frame of the city's rise after Enkomi, and the Phoenician role, and ends by reading the tombs as reflecting an international economic network under Neo-Assyrian dominance. It is dedicated to Vassos and Jacqueline Karageorghis8.

Earlier work includes an article on Kition and the Near East in Archaic written sources4, "D'Aphrodite à Astarté Paphia"5, and a chapter on the political situation in the Near East in the Cypro-Archaic period in Ancient Cyprus Today6. In 2024 she gave a talk on temple boys in Cypriot sculpture9.

Life and work

  1. 2011
    Published 'Les relations de la ville de Kition et le Proche-Orient selon les sources écrites de l'époque archaïque' (Cahiers du Centre d'Études Chypriotes 41), on Kition in the written sources of the Archaic period and its relations with the Near East.

    KitionIoannou 2011, p. 1

  2. 2014–2015
    With Theodoros Mavrojannis, proposed a conference on Salamis in Nicosia (conceived after a spring 2014 discussion with Vassos Karageorghis, who suggested a focus on Salamis and the five decades of the French-Cypriot excavations, begun 1964); it was held 21-23 May 2015 at the University of Cyprus, in collaboration with the Department of Antiquities.

    NicosiaRogge et al. 2019Yon 2019

  3. 2015
    Published "D'Aphrodite à Astarté Paphia" in CCEC 45 (a volume for Jacqueline Karageorghis), on the myths of Aphrodite and the evolution of her presence in Cyprus.

    Ioannou 2015, p. 1

  4. 2016
    Contributed 'The political situation in the Near East during the Cypro-Archaic period and its impact on Cyprus' (p. 325) to Ancient Cyprus Today: Museum Collections and New Research (eds G. Bourogiannis and C. Mühlenbock; Åströms förlag, Uppsala 2016 on title page).

    Ancient Cyprus Today: Museum… 2015

  5. 2019
    Co-editor, with Theodoros Mavrojannis and Sabine Rogge, of Salamis of Cyprus: History and Archaeology from the Earliest Times to Late Antiquity (Waxmann, Münster 2019); wrote 'Les tombes royales de Salamine dans le cadre mythique et historique de la création et du développement de la ville' (p. 98 of the volume), dedicated to Vassos and Jacqueline Karageorghis, on Salamis's succession to Enkomi and the Phoenician role as read from the royal tombs.

    SalamisRogge et al. 2019

  6. July 2024
    Presented 'The Presence and Symbolism of Temple Boys in Cyprus' at the fourth annual meeting of the Mediterranean Archaeology Australasian Research Community (online, hosted by Macquarie University, 17-19 July 2024); abstract: temple-boy figurines appear towards the end of the Classical period, and the paper compares their role with that elsewhere and explores the link with political leadership.

    Ioannou 2024

Connections

5 people
Sabine RoggeTheodoros MavrojannisVassos KarageorghisMarguerite YonJacqueline KarageorghisChristina Ioannou
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Sources

  1. 1.S. Rogge (ed.), Ch. Ioannou (ed.), Th. Mavrojannis (ed.) (2019). Salamis of Cyprus: History and Archaeology from the Earliest Times to Late Antiquity. Münster, Waxmann.
  2. 2.S. Rogge (ed.), Ch. Ioannou (ed.), Th. Mavrojannis (ed.) (2019). Salamis of Cyprus: History and Archaeology from the Earliest Times to Late Antiquity. Münster, Waxmann.
  3. 3.Marguerite Yon (2019). “Un cinquantenaire. La mission de l'université de Lyon à Salamine”. Salamis of Cyprus: History and Archaeology from the Earliest Times to Late Antiquity, 37-50.
  4. 4.C. Ioannou (2011). “Les relations de la ville de Kition et le Proche-Orient selon les sources écrites de l'époque archaïque”. Cahiers du Centre d'Études Chypriotes 41, 265-.
  5. 5.C. Ioannou (2015). “D'Aphrodite à Astarté Paphia”. Cahiers du Centre d'Études Chypriotes 45, 107-.
  6. 6.C. Ioannou (2016). “The political situation in the Near East during the Cypro-Archaic period and its impact on Cyprus”. Ancient Cyprus Today: Museum Collections and New Research, 325-. Uppsala, Åströms förlag.
  7. 7. (2015). Ancient Cyprus Today: Museum Collections and New Research Approaches to the Archaeology of Cyprus.
  8. 8.C. Ioannou (2019). “Les tombes royales de Salamine dans le cadre mythique et historique de la création et du développement de la ville”. Salamis of Cyprus: History and Archaeology from the Earliest Times to Late Antiquity, 98-. Waxmann.
  9. 9.C. Ioannou (2024). “The Presence and Symbolism of Temple Boys in Cyprus”. Fourth annual meeting of the Mediterranean Archaeology Australasian Research Community, 17-19 July 2024.