Draughtsman / artist · Antiquities official

Chrysilios Polykarpou

fl. 1967–1983 · Cyprus

Cypriot draughtsman and antiquities official, active 1967–1983. Excavated at Palaepaphos-Skales. Worked for Department of Antiquities, Cyprus; worked with Andreas Georghiou and Vassos Karageorghis.

Life and work

1967
Named among members of the Department of Antiquities who helped H. W. Catling in his Nicosia work on the Kouklia tomb material, when Vassos Karageorghis was Director.
NicosiaCatling 2020
1976
With Elias Markou, made the plans and sections reproduced in Karageorghis's Kition book (Surveyors of the Department of Antiquities).
KitionKarageorghis 1976
1979–1983
Draughtsman among the Department technicians (with foreman Andreas Georghiou, retired technical assistant Symeon Klonaris and Custodian George Ioannou) who began the emergency excavation at Palaepaphos-Skales and shared the digging with Karageorghis.
PalaepaphosKarageorghis 1983

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Colleagues

Colleagues & contacts

Worked with Elias Markou1967–1983
Worked with Hector Catling1967
Worked with Vassos Karageorghis1976–1983
Worked with Andreas Georghiou1979–1981
Worked with George Ioannou1979
Worked with Xenophon Michael1983

Sources

1.V. Karageorghis (1976). Kition: Mycenaean and Phoenician Discoveries in Cyprus. London, Thames and Hudson.
2.V. Karageorghis (1983). Palaepaphos-Skales: An Iron Age Cemetery in Cyprus.
3.H. W. Catling (2020). Kouklia: Late Bronze Age and Early Iron Age Tombs at Palaepaphos 1951-1954. Oxford, BAR Publishing.
4.John Howard Young, Suzanne Halstead Young (1955). Terracotta Figurines from Kourion in Cyprus. Philadelphia, University Museum, University of Pennsylvania.