Ancient CyprusAncient Cyprus

Epigrapher

Drioton

fl. 1959

Epigrapher, active in 1959.

Life and work

  1. 1959
    Deciphered the hieroglyphic inscription on a white-paste Egyptian scarab from a Cypro-Archaic tomb found accidentally in Kimon Street, Limassol, during house foundations in 1959 (finds registered nos. 247-248). Translation as printed: 'Amon-Re loves whomever loves him'; formula 'appears only from the 22nd dynasty', hence not before 900 BC, devotion to Amon ceasing with the Persian dynasty c. 525 BC. The note reached Karageorghis through Robert Charles.

    LimassolKarageorghis 1960, p. 268Dikaios 1962, p. 36

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Sources

  1. 1.V. Karageorghis (1960). “Chronique des fouilles et découvertes archéologiques à Chypre en 1959”. Bulletin de correspondance hellénique 84.
  2. 2.P. Dikaios (1962). “Archaeology in Cyprus, 1959-61”. Archaeological Reports 8, 32-46. Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies. Online
  3. 3.Veronica Tatton-Brown (ed.) (2001). Cyprus in the 19th Century AD: Fact, Fancy and Fiction. Oxford, Oxbow.