Museum staff · Restorer / conservator · Antiquities official
Chrysostomos Paraskeva
fl. 1927–1976 · Cyprus
Cypriot museum staff member and conservator, active 1927–1976. Worked at Nicosia (Cyprus Museum) and Athienou-Pamboulari tis Koukounninas. Worked for Einar Nilson Gjerstad and John Hilton; worked with Andreas Papadopoulos and Porphyrios Dikaios.
Life and work
- 1927–1931Engaged by the Swedish Cyprus Expedition as attendant of its collections in Cyprus, alongside Kakoullis Georgiou; Gjerstad names the foremen separately (Jorkos Anastasiou, Lazaros Nikolaou, Loizos, Michalis Nikolaou).
CyprusGjerstad et al. 1934
- 1 January 1935Appointed by Curator John Hilton, with effect from 1 January 1935, as one of five assistants for the Cyprus Museum, with George Anastasiou, Lazaros Nicolaou, Loizos Vasiloi and Melis Georghiou.
NicosiaStanley-Price 2025
- 1959Department of Antiquities survey of Athienou-Pamboulari with Porphyrios Dikaios, collecting pithos fragments, votive vessels and slag (Karageorghis 1959: 354; Megaw 1959: 18, as cited by Counts).
AthienouToumazou et al. 2011
- 1976Thanked by Karageorghis, with Andreas Papadopoulos, among the members of the Cyprus Museum Laboratory who treated objects from the Kition excavations.
NicosiaKarageorghis 1976
Connections
8 peopleFieldwork & employment
- Employed by Einar Nilson Gjerstad1927–1931
- Employed by John Hilton1935
Colleagues & contacts
- Worked with Kakoullis Georgiou1927–1931
- Worked with Loizos Vasiloi1935
- Worked with Porphyrios Dikaios1959
- Worked with Vassos Karageorghis1976
- Worked with Andreas Papadopoulos
- Connected with James Rivers Barrington Stewart
On Ancient Cyprus
1 page- AthienouSite
Sources
- 1.E. Gjerstad, J. Lindros, E. Sjöqvist, A. Westholm (1934). The Swedish Cyprus Expedition: Finds and Results of the Excavations in Cyprus 1927-1931, Vol. I (text). Stockholm, The Swedish Cyprus Expedition.
- 2.Nicholas Stanley-Price (2025). “Colonial society and the dismissal of John Hilton, first Director of Antiquities in Cyprus”. Empire & Excavation: Critical perspectives on archaeology in British-period Cyprus, 1878-1960, 109-126.
- 3.M. K. Toumazou (ed.), P. N. Kardulias (ed.), D. B. Counts (ed.) (2011). Crossroads and Boundaries: The Archaeology of Past and Present in the Malloura Valley, Cyprus.
- 4.V. Karageorghis (1976). Kition: Mycenaean and Phoenician Discoveries in Cyprus. London, Thames and Hudson.
- 5.Judy Powell (2013). Love's Obsession: The Lives and Archaeology of Jim and Eve Stewart. Kent Town, South Australia, Wakefield Press.