David W. Rupp

David W. Rupp directed the Canadian survey of the countryside around Palaipaphos, the region north of Kouklia in the Paphos district. He taught at Brock University in Ontario. In 1977 he and Vassos Karageorghis directed a small dig by Brock practical-course students at Arpera, locality Chiflik, which found a building floor with Red Polished sherds⁴.

From 1979 a Brock mission under Rupp explored the Palaipaphos region^1,5. The Canadian Palaipaphos Survey Project concentrated on the river valleys around Kouklia, and preliminary reports appeared in the Cyprus Department of Antiquities annual report for 1981 and 1983³. Fieldwork ended in 1991, with systematic surface collection at 17 early sites sampled that year^1,2. A symposium held at Brock in March 1986 produced the volume Western Cyprus: Connections, which Rupp edited (1987)^1,10.

In 1992 the project's successor, the Western Cyprus Project, began testing the site of Prastio Agios Savvas tis Karonis, which the survey had identified in 1986. The results indicated that the surface scatters came from erosion and geomorphological processes, with settlement from the late ceramic Neolithic^1,2.

Rupp also wrote on the origins of the Cypriot state. His 1987 chapter "Vive le Roi" presented Iron Age Cyprus as a secondary state formed under pressure from an existing state, through Phoenician colonization of Kition^7,9. In 1988 he published an article on the Royal Tombs at Salamis as messages of power and authority¹¹. In 2004 he described the survey's methods in a chapter on the Paphos district¹²; Maria Iacovou notes that the survey's final volume was still unpublished at that date⁷.