Ancient CyprusAncient Cyprus

Scholar

Eric Gubel

fl. 1985–2009

Scholar, active 1985–2009.

Life and work

  1. 1987
    Published Phoenician Furniture (Studia Phoenicia 7), cited for Phoenician sphinx-throne, thymiaterion and seal iconography in Cypriot material (Marion/Necropolis II, Meniko, Salamis).

    LeuvenChilds et al. 2012Rogge et al. 2019

  2. 2009
    Attributed the group of ivory plates of unusual round shape (Horus-birth plates, Salamis ivories) to Sidon ('USI' group).

    Rogge et al. 2019

Sources

  1. 1.E. Gubel (1987). Phoenician Furniture: A Typology Based on Iron Age Representations with Reference to the Iconographical Context. Louvain.
  2. 2.E. Gubel (2005). “Phoenician and Aramean Bridle-Harness Decoration: Examples of Cultural Contacts and Innovation in the Eastern Mediterranean”. Crafts and Images in Contact.
  3. 3.E. Gubel (2009). “The 'Unusually Shaped Ivories' (USI) Group with Stylized Trees”. Syrian and Phoenician Ivories of the Early First Millennium BCE.
  4. 4.W. A. P. Childs (ed.), J. S. Smith (ed.), J. M. Padgett (ed.) (2012). City of Gold: The Archaeology of Polis Chrysochous, Cyprus. Princeton, Princeton University Art Museum.
  5. 5.S. Rogge (ed.), Ch. Ioannou (ed.), Th. Mavrojannis (ed.) (2019). Salamis of Cyprus: History and Archaeology from the Earliest Times to Late Antiquity. Münster, Waxmann.