Antiquities official · Scholar
Efthymia Alphas
fl. 2017 · Cyprus
Cypriot antiquities official and scholar, active in 2017. Worked for Department of Antiquities, Cyprus.
Life and work
- 2017Published, as a Department of Antiquities officer, a paper on the Department's measures and difficulties in investigating the illicit (especially internet) trade in Cypriot antiquities, with an outline of Cypriot export legislation from the 1869 Ottoman regulation to the Antiquities Law.
- 2017Contributed the text for the repatriated exhibit from the Hadjiprodomou Private Collection in the Department's periodic exhibition 'Archaeology and Memory: Excavations in the Districts of Keryneia and Ammochostos'.
On Ancient Cyprus
5 pages- Antiquities in an Estate: A Practical Guide for ExecutorsArticle
- Selling Cypriot Antiquities in the UK: Law, Auctions and ExportArticle
- What Is My Cypriot Antiquity Worth? Real Auction PricesArticle
- Collecting Cypriot Antiquities Today: Law, Provenance and Due DiligenceCompendium
- Looting in Occupied Northern Cyprus after 1974Compendium
Sources
- 1.Efthymia Alphas (2017). “From a Bronze Age Tomb in Cyprus to the Estate of a Gentleman in Sussex: Measures Taken and Problems Faced in the Investigations on the Illicit Trade of Antiquities”. Four Decades of Hiatus in Archaeological Research in Cyprus: Towards Restoring the Balance, 30-43. Verlag Holzhausen.
- 2.D. Pilides (ed.), M. Mina (ed.) (2017). Four Decades of Hiatus in Archaeological Research in Cyprus: Towards Restoring the Balance. Proceedings of the international one-day workshop held in Lefkosia (Nicosia) on 24th September 2016, hosted by the Department of Antiquities, Cyprus. Vienna, Verlag Holzhausen / Department of Antiquities, Cyprus.