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Elena Poyiadji-Richter

fl. 2002–2023

Nicosia archaeologist and museum curator, author of the 2003 study of Cypriot funerary reliefs and co-editor of the 2014 volume on the Berlin Cyprus collection.

Biography

Elena Poyiadji-Richter, who also published as E. Pogiatzi, wrote Die Grabreliefs auf Zypern von der archaischen bis zur römischen Zeit (2003), a study of Cypriot funerary reliefs1. Antoine Hermary reviewed her later work and described that book as important5.

She was Assistant Curator at the Leventis Municipal Museum in Nicosia. Vassos Karageorghis thanked her in that post for help with his final study of the Phylactou collection, published in 2010 on its installation in the museum's Constantine Leventis Wing6. She was one of three curators of the exhibition Colours of Medieval Cyprus and is named as supervisor of its catalogue7. In 2011 she is among those credited as collaborators on Karageorghis's catalogue of the Angelos and Emily Tsirides collection8.

In 2013 she published a paper on funerary portraiture on Hellenistic grave reliefs from Cyprus in the Graz conference volume Hellenistic Cyprus2. With Karageorghis and Sabine Rogge she organised the Berlin conference of 8 May 2013 and edited its volume, Cypriote Antiquities in Berlin in the Focus of New Research (2014); Hermary names her secretary-general of the Cypriot-German Cultural Association4,5. Her own chapter treats the funerary sculptures in the Berlin collection, among them a banquet relief topped by a lion, a group from Mosfiloti and a seated terracotta woman from Marion3,5. In 2023 she edited the first volume of the catalogue of the Cypriot antiquities of Alexander Malios9.

Life and work

  1. 2003
    Published, as E. Pogiatzi, Die Grabreliefs auf Zypern von der archaischen bis zur römischen Zeit (Peleus 23, Mannheim/Möhnesee), the standard study of Cypriot funerary reliefs.

    MannheimRecke 2018Kiely & Fourrier 2012Dissinger 2017

  2. c. 2005
    One of three curators of the exhibition 'Colours of Medieval Cyprus: Aspects of Daily Life 1191-1571' (Leventis Municipal Museum, Nicosia / Hellenic Centre, London), marking Cyprus's EU accession; named 'Supervisor' of the accompanying catalogue (introduction and entries by Papanikola-Bakirtzi).

    Nicosia; LondonPapanikola-Bakirtzi 2004, p. 169

  3. 2009–2010
    Thanked by V. Karageorghis, as Assistant Curator of the Leventis Municipal Museum, for help in the final study of the Phylactou Collection before it was published (2010) on installation in the museum's Constantine Leventis Wing.

    NicosiaKarageorghis 2010

  4. 2013
    Published 'Funerary Portraiture on Hellenistic Grave Reliefs from Cyprus' in the Graz conference volume Hellenistic Cyprus (conference 1 Oct 2010), pp. 77-90.

    GrazMerrillees 2017

  5. 8 May 2013
    Co-organiser/co-editor of the Berlin conference 'Cypriote Antiquities in Berlin in the Focus of New Research' and of its 2014 volume, with Karageorghis and Rogge; her own paper treats the Cyprus Collection's funerary sculptures (a banquet relief topped by a lion; a fragmentary group from Mosfiloti; a terracotta seated woman from Marion).

    BerlinKarageorghis et al. 2014Karageorghis et al. 2014

Connections

10 people
Alexander MaliosVassos KarageorghisAngelos TsiridesSabine RoggeEmily TsiridesChris PhylactouDemetra Papanikola-Bakirt…Loukia Loizou HadjigavrielAlexander GatzscheIrene PamerElena Poyiadji-Richter
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Fieldwork & employment

Scholarship

Colleagues & contacts

Sources

  1. 1.E. Pogiatzi (2003). Die Grabreliefs auf Zypern von der archaischen bis zur römischen Zeit. Mannheim/Möhnesee.
  2. 2.E. Poyiadji-Richter (2013). “Funerary Portraiture on Hellenistic Grave Reliefs from Cyprus”. Hellenistic Cyprus. Proceedings of the International Conference, Graz, 1 October 2010, 77-90.
  3. 3.E. Poyiadji-Richter (2014). “Aspects of Funerary Art: The Sculptures in the Cyprus Collection in Berlin”. Cypriote Antiquities in Berlin in the Focus of New Research, 169-189. Münster/New York, Waxmann.
  4. 4.V. Karageorghis (ed.), E. Poyiadji-Richter (ed.), S. Rogge (ed.) (2014). Cypriote Antiquities in Berlin in the Focus of New Research.
  5. 5.V. Karageorghis (ed.), E. Poyiadji-Richter (ed.), S. Rogge (ed.) (2014). Cypriote Antiquities in Berlin in the Focus of New Research.
  6. 6.V. Karageorghis (ed.) (2010). Cypriote Antiquities in the Phylactou Collection. Nicosia, A. G. Leventis Foundation.
  7. 7.Demetra Papanikola-Bakirtzi (2004). Colours of Medieval Cyprus: Through the Medieval Ceramic Collection of the Leventis Municipal Museum of Nicosia. Nicosia, The Anastasios G. Leventis Foundation.
  8. 8.Vassos Karageorghis (2011). Cypriote and Other Antiquities in the Collection of Angelos and Emily Tsirides. Nicosia, En Tipis.
  9. 9.Alexander Gatzsche (2023). “From Cyprus to Leipzig: Provenance Research”. Alexander Malios Collection, Volume 1: Cypriot Antiquities, 20-31. Leipzig, AMRICHA.
  10. 10.Robert S. Merrillees (2017). “Cypriote antiquities in Late Ottoman Istanbul and Smyrna - II: Cypriote antiquities in the Greek Evangelical School Museum and their Trading in Late Ottoman Smyrna (Modern Izmir)”. Cahiers du Centre d'Études Chypriotes 47, 121-164. Online
  11. 11.M. Recke (2018). Like Herrings in a Barrel: Max Ohnefalsch-Richter.
  12. 12.T. Kiely, S. Fourrier (2012). “Excavations at Kition-Bamboula 1879. Finds in the British Museum”. Cahiers du Centre d'Études Chypriotes 42, 273-.
  13. 13.Alicia Marie Dissinger (2017). “Cypro-Archaic Bird Iconography: Types, Uses, and Meanings”. University of Virginia.