Ancient CyprusAncient Cyprus

Scholar

Festugière

fl. 1961–1962

Priest, active 1961–1962.

Life and work

  1. 1961–1962
    Sent V. Karageorghis a corrigendum to the 1961 Chronique: the Cyprus Museum pendant (BCH 1961, pp. 259-260, fig. 5) shows the snake-legged, cock-headed god known from magic (cf. Campbell Bonner, Magical Amulets), a protective amulet, and he asked that it be checked for an inscription. Karageorghis confirmed on re-examination that there is none and that the exact provenance is unknown (bought from an antiquities dealer).

    Cyprus Museum, NicosiaKarageorghis 1962

Connections

1 person

Scholarship

Objects

  • Pendant/amulet with the snake-legged, cock-headed god

    Cyprus Museum, Nicosiaby 1961Karageorghis 1962

Sources

  1. 1.V. Karageorghis (1962). “Chronique des fouilles et découvertes archéologiques à Chypre en 1961”. Bulletin de correspondance hellénique 86.
  2. 2.C. A. Stewart (ed.), T. W. Davis (ed.), A. Weyl Carr (ed.) (2014). Cyprus and the Balance of Empires: Art and Archaeology from Justinian I to the Coeur de Lion. CAARI / ASOR.