Ancient CyprusAncient Cyprus

Curator · Cataloguer

Eleni Vassilika

fl. 1995–2007

Curator and cataloguer, active 1995–2007. Worked for Fitzwilliam Museum; wrote with Vassos Karageorghis and Penelope Wilson.

Life and work

  1. 1995
    With V. Karageorghis (for the A. G. Leventis Foundation) conceived a Cypriote gallery at the Fitzwilliam Museum.

    CambridgeKarageorghis 1998

  2. December 1997
    Leventis Gallery of Cypriote Antiquities inaugurated at the Fitzwilliam by the Duke of Edinburgh; the Leventis Foundation endowed the gallery and was to publish an illustrated catalogue.

    CambridgeKarageorghis 1998

  3. 1999
    Co-author, with V. Karageorghis and P. Wilson, of The Art of Ancient Cyprus in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge (Nicosia: A. G. Leventis Foundation). Author of catalogue entries such as no. 161 (a head/bust discussed as a possible portrait of the emperor Licinius, pp. 94-95).

    CambridgeGiven 2025Karageorghis 2003

  4. 2007
    The Fitzwilliam catalogue (Karageorghis and Vassilika) is cited by Buchholz for the statement that Sir Henry Bulwer purchased through Eustatios Konstantinides a third of the finds from Ohnefalsch-Richter's Tamassos excavations; Buchholz quotes it in discussing the division of finds.

    TamassosBuchholz 2007, n. 10

Connections

2 people

Scholarship

Colleagues & contacts

Sources

  1. 1.V. Karageorghis (1998). “Cypriote Antiquities in Foreign Museums”. Cahiers du Centre d'Études Chypriotes 28, 118-119.
  2. 2.V. Karageorghis, E. Vassilika, P. Wilson (1999). The Art of Ancient Cyprus in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge. Nicosia, A. G. Leventis Foundation.
  3. 3.Michael Given (2025). “Over the landscape, in the landscape? Knowledge and agency in Cypriot archaeology, 1870-1910”. Empire & Excavation: Critical perspectives on archaeology in British-period Cyprus, 1878-1960. Leiden, Sidestone Press.
  4. 4.V. Karageorghis (2003). Ancient Cypriote Art in the National Archaeological Museum, Athens. Athens, Kapon Editions, for the A. G. Leventis Foundation.
  5. 5.H.-G. Buchholz (2007). “Bemerkungen zu M. Ohnefalsch-Richters Ausgrabungen 1889 in Tamassos”. Cahiers du Centre d'Études Chypriotes 37, 231-244.