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Eleni Zapiti

fl. 2002–2020 · Cyprus

Numismatist who catalogued the coins of the Bank of Cyprus Cultural Foundation with Lefki Michaelidou, in a 2008 volume that later studies cite for Cypriot coin types.

Biography

Eleni Zapiti catalogued Cypriot coins with Lefki Michaelidou. In 2002 the two wrote the chapter "The Coins" (pp. 316-327) in the catalogue of the George and Nefeli Giabra Pierides collection, which was donated to the Bank of Cyprus Cultural Foundation; a reviewer notes the donation in connection with plans for a new museum1,5.

With Michaelidou she then published Nomismata tes Kyprou in Nicosia in 20078 and, in 2008, Coins of Cyprus from the Collection of the Bank of Cyprus Cultural Foundation2. Later studies of the coinages of Salamis, Paphos, Amathus and Marion cite the 2008 volume for the coin types6,7. In 2013 she published eleven coins of Cleopatra VII from the Foundation's collections in the Cyprus Numismatic Society's Numismatic Report3,9. Her name is also on a conference poster, with Michaelidou and authors from the Cyprus Institute, on a digital library of Cypriot medieval coins10.

Life and work

  1. 2002
    Wrote, with Lefki Michaelidou, the chapter on the coins in V. Karageorghis et al., Ancient Art from Cyprus in the Collection of George and Nefeli Giabra Pierides (Athens 2002, pp. 316-327); the collection was donated to the Bank of Cyprus Cultural Foundation, which built a museum for it.

    NicosiaMarkou 2007Barr-Sharrar

  2. 2007
    With L. Michaelidou, Nomismata tes Kyprou (Nicosia 2007), as cited by Papantoniou & Morris.

    NicosiaPapantoniou & Morris 2019

  3. 2008
    Eleni Zapiti and Lefki Michaelidou, Coins of Cyprus from the Collection of the Bank of Cyprus Cultural Foundation (Nicosia 2008); the standard reference for Cypriot royal coin types (Salamis, Paphos, Amathous, Marion).

    NicosiaSome Enigmatic Sequences on…Papantoniou 2013

  4. 2013
    Published 11 coins of Cleopatra VII from the Bank of Cyprus Cultural Foundation collections, in Cyprus Numismatic Society, The Numismatic Report XXXIX-XLIII (2008-2012), pp. 165-178 (as summarised in the CCEC bibliography).

    NicosiaCrewe 2015

  5. c. 2019
    Named with L. Michaelidou (Bank of Cyprus Cultural Foundation) and Cyprus Institute authors on a poster 'Building a Digital Library for Cypriot Medieval Coins' in a conference programme (conference and year not read).

    Masons' marks in Cyprus:…

  6. 2020
    Signed [E. Z.] catalogue entries for Cypriot coins (e.g. Evagoras I of Salamis; a gold coin of King Milkyaton/Pymayyaton of Kition) in Cyprus: Crossroads of Civilizations (Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, Washington DC); entries cite Michaelidou and Zapiti 2008.

    Washington DCCyprus: Crossroads of Civilizations 2021

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Scholarship

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Sources

  1. 1.E. Zapiti, L. Michaelidou (2002). “The Coins”. Ancient Art from Cyprus in the Collection of George and Nefeli Giabra Pierides, Athens, 316-327.
  2. 2.Eleni Zapiti, Lefki Michaelidou (2008). Coins of Cyprus from the Collection of the Bank of Cyprus Cultural Foundation. Nicosia, Bank of Cyprus Cultural Foundation.
  3. 3.E. Zapiti (2013). “Cypriot Coins of Cleopatra VII from the Collections of the Bank of Cyprus Cultural Foundation”. The Numismatic Report XXXIX-XLIII (2008-2012), 165-178. Nicosia, Cyprus Numismatic Society.
  4. 4.Évangéline Markou (2007). “Le témoignage des monnaies sur l'orfèvrerie chypriote classique”. Cahiers du Centre d'Études Chypriotes 37, 411-427. Online
  5. 5.Beryl Barr-Sharrar (signature of the review column). “Review column covering Ancient Art from Cyprus in the Collections of George and Nefeli Giabra Pierides”. Online
  6. 6.“Some Enigmatic Sequences on Salaminian Coins”.
  7. 7.G. Papantoniou (2013). “Cypriot Autonomous Polities at the Crossroads of Empire: The Imprint of a Transformed Islandscape in the Classical and Hellenistic Periods”. Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research 370, 169-205. Online
  8. 8.G. Papantoniou, C. E. Morris (2019). “Kyprogenes Aphrodite: between political power and cultural identity”. Gods of peace and war in the myths of the Mediterranean people, 147-173. Ioannina, Ministry of Culture.
  9. 9.Lindy Crewe (2015). “An Early-Middle Cypriot Bronze Age zoomorphic figurine from Kissonerga-Skalia”. Cahiers du Centre d'Études Chypriotes 45, 351-361. Online
  10. 10.Masons' marks in Cyprus: preliminary considerations.
  11. 11. (2021). Cyprus: Crossroads of Civilizations.