Ancient CyprusAncient Cyprus

Scholar

F. E. Zeuner

fl. 1958–1961

Scholar, active 1958–1961. Wrote with A. Grosvenor Ellis and Porphyrios Dikaios.

Life and work

  1. 1958
    Published 'Animal remains from a Late Bronze Age sanctuary on Cyprus and the problem of the domestication of fallow deer' (Journal of the Palaeontological Society of India 3: 131-135); Morris 1985 quotes him on fallow deer being domesticated 'for religious purposes only or for meat supply also', and cited by Idalion reports for Dama mesopotamica in Cyprus.

    Stager et al. 1974Stager & Walker 1989Morris 1985

  2. 1961
    With A. Grosvenor Ellis studied the animal bones from Dikaios's Sotira excavation (Appendix 3, pp. 235-236). Dikaios reports that their report shows domestication of the dog and goat, the presence of Dama mesopotamica probably herded, and an uncertain status for the pig.

    Dikaios 1961Stager et al. 1974

Connections

5 people
Porphyrios DikaiosJohn Lawrence AngelA. Grosvenor EllisS. P. DanceM. StekelisF. E. Zeuner
Scholarship

Scholarship

On Ancient Cyprus

1 page

Sources

  1. 1.P. Dikaios (1961). Sotira. Philadelphia, University Museum, University of Pennsylvania.
  2. 2.F. E. Zeuner (1958). “Animal remains from a Late Bronze Age sanctuary on Cyprus and the problem of the domestication of fallow deer”. Journal of the Palaeontological Society of India 3, 131-135.
  3. 3.F. E. Zeuner (1961). “Animal bones, Appendix III”. Sotira, 235-236. Philadelphia, The University Museum.
  4. 4.L. E. Stager (ed.), A. Walker (ed.), G. E. Wright (ed.) (1974). American Expedition to Idalion, Cyprus: First Preliminary Report, Seasons of 1971 and 1972. American Schools of Oriental Research.
  5. 5.Lawrence E. Stager (ed.), Anne M. Walker (ed.) (1989). American Expedition to Idalion, Cyprus, 1973-1980. Chicago, Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago.
  6. 6.Desmond Morris (1985). The Art of Ancient Cyprus, with a check-list of the author's collection. Oxford, Phaidon Press in association with Jonathan Cape.