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Excavator · Curator · Cataloguer · Archaeologist

Dimitri Baramki

fl. 1935–1967

Excavator and curator, active 1935–1967.

Life and work

  1. 1935
    Described a pit with pottery and a scarab from the second half of the Late Bronze Age south of Jerusalem (1935).

    Zeidan Kafafi; Robert Schick, Jerusalem Before Islam (2007), p. 70

  2. 1958
    Excavated in 1958 a Late Bronze Age chamber tomb at Sarepta in South Lebanon whose pots are among the Cypriot holdings of the AUB Museum.

    Struan Simpson, The A.G. Leventis Foundation: Third Decade, 1999 to 2008 (2010), p. 46

  3. 1958
    Professor of Archaeology at AUB who in 1958 excavated a Late Bronze Age chamber tomb at Sarepta, yielding Cypriot vases.

    Anon., "Cypriote Antiquities in Lebanon", Cyprus Today vol. 47, no. 3 (July – September 2009), pp. 42–43, p. 42.

  4. 1967
    Excavated and published a robbed Late Bronze Age tomb at Sarepta containing Mycenaean and Cypriot vessels, and wrote the 1967 guide to the Archaeological Museum of the American University of Beirut.

    El-Lisht and Tell El-Yahudiya Ware in The Archaeological Museum of the American University Of Beirut (1978), p. 75

  5. 1967
  6. Undated
    Cited as suggesting Mycenaean potters or traders were present on Cyprus given the abundant Mycenaean finds.

    Juergen Spanuth, Die Rueckkehr der Herakliden (1989)

  7. Undated
    Excavated and published the Sarepta tomb, which had been robbed before excavation and contained Mycenaean and Cypriot vessels.

    Carol Bell, The Evolution of Long Distance Trading Relationships across the LBA/Iron Age Transition on the Northern Levantine Coast: Crisis, continuity and change (2006), p. 54

  8. Undated
    Published the catalogue of Mycenaean vessels from the Sarepta tomb, with FS attributions that differ from Hankey and Koehl.

    Robert B. Koehl, Sarepta III: The Imported Bronze and Iron Age Wares from Area II,X (1985), p. 58

Mentioned in

6 mentions

Sources

  1. 1.El-Lisht and Tell El-Yahudiya Ware in The Archaeological Museum of the American University Of Beirut (1978).
  2. 2.Juergen Spanuth, Die Rueckkehr der Herakliden (1989).
  3. 3.C-M. Bennett; L. Copeland; C. Vita-Finzi; T. J. Wilkinson; A. M. T. Moore; Carolyn Elliott; E. J. Peltenburg; R. S. Merrillees; M. Artzy; I. Perlman; F. Asaro; K. R. Maxwell-Hyslop; Tamara Stech Wheeler; Robert Maddin; James D. Muhly; J. Wilkinson; R. W. Hamilton; J. Folda; A. Lemaire; W. Culican; C-M. Bennett; D. L. Kennedy; Denis E. Groh, Levant: Journal of the British School of Archaeology in Jerusalem, Volume X (1978) (1978).
  4. 4.Carol Bell, The Evolution of Long Distance Trading Relationships across the LBA/Iron Age Transition on the Northern Levantine Coast: Crisis, continuity and change (2006).
  5. 5.Robert B. Koehl, Sarepta III: The Imported Bronze and Iron Age Wares from Area II,X (1985).
  6. 6.Zeidan Kafafi; Robert Schick, Jerusalem Before Islam (2007).
  7. 7.Struan Simpson, The A.G. Leventis Foundation: Third Decade, 1999 to 2008 (2010).
  8. 8.Anon., "Cypriote Antiquities in Lebanon", Cyprus Today vol. 47, no. 3 (July – September 2009).

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