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Archaeologist · Excavator · Scholar

Filippo Giudice

fl. 1988–2018 · Italy

Catania professor who directed the Italian excavations at Toumballos, "Garrison's Camp", in north-west Nea Paphos from July 1988.

Biography

Filippo Giudice of the University of Catania directed the Italian mission at the site known as Garrison's Camp, or Toumballos, in the north-west of Nea Paphos, which began in July 1988 under an agreement between the Republic of Cyprus and Italy1,4. The Scuola Archeologica Italiana di Atene took part in the work1. Herscher's survey prints his name as "Guidice"2.

The area held a rock-cut chamber complex that the honorary inspector Georgios Eliades had almost completely emptied in the 1950s4. The Catania team found a subterranean Hellenistic and Roman sanctuary of interconnecting rock-cut chambers, a street and buildings in the so-called Christians' quarter, and a small Byzantine basilica of the 12th or 13th century1. Later descriptions add a 72 m polygonal dromos, an Early Christian church of the end of the 4th century AD, two lined pools and a possible xystos4. Herscher reports a geometric mosaic floor in the entrance and an Early Christian building with a crypt, read as a martyrium2.

Giudice published the campaigns in the Report of the Department of Antiquities, Cyprus: the 1988 season in 1992, with E. Maugeri, S. P. Pafumi, D. Malfitana and M. Sgarlata, and the 1990 season in 19945,6. A chapter of 2016 covers the excavations from 1988 to 20137. Early titles call the site the sanctuary of Apollo; a later article by Elvia Giudice, Giada Giudice and Leonardo Fuduli calls it the "so-called" sanctuary and says the cults, the Dioskouroi among them, remain difficult to identify4.

Life and work

  1. July 1988
    The Italian mission of the University of Catania began excavation in the Garrison's Camp area (Toumballos), north-west Nea Paphos, in an area assigned by an agreement between the Republics of Cyprus and Italy; the underground rock-cut chambers had been largely cleared earlier by Georgios Eliades (1950s).

    Nea PaphosGiudice et al. 2018, p. 15Herscher 1995

  2. 1988–1990
    Published the 1988 campaign (with Maugeri, Pafumi, Malfitana, Sgarlata), the 1989 campaign and the 1990 campaign in RDAC, and 'Campagne di scavo (1988-1990) nell'area di Garrison's Camp a Nea Paphos' in Acta Cypria.

    NicosiaPapuci-Władyka 2020Steel 1997-1998, p. 147Giudice et al. 2018, p. 31

  3. 1988–1997
    Excavated a subterranean Hellenistic-Roman sanctuary of interconnecting rock-cut chambers, a street and buildings in the so-called Christians' quarter, and a small Byzantine basilica (12th-13th c. per Steel).

    Nea PaphosSteel 1997-1998, p. 147

  4. 1992
    Published 'Gli scavi del santuario di Apollo a Toumballos a Paphos (Cipro)', Sicilia Gymnasium 45, pp. 153-156; later (2000) 'Gli scavi della missione italiana nel santuario di Apollo a Toumballos (cosiddetto Garrison's Camp): i risultati e le nuove ipotesi', Third International Congress of Cypriot Studies, pp. 485-493.

    CataniaGiudice et al. 2018, p. 31

  5. 2012
    Photographed at the Avignon conference excursion (Marseille) with E. Papuci-Władyka.

    MarseillePapuci-Władyka 2020, Pl. 17 caption

  6. 2016
    Published 'Gli scavi della missione italiana a Nea Paphos 1988-2013' in Balandier and Raptou (eds), Nea Paphos, Bordeaux, pp. 79-90.

    BordeauxGiudice et al. 2018, p. 31Papuci-Władyka 2020

Connections

6 people
Claire BalandierElvia GiudiceGiada GiudiceLeonardo FuduliEwdoksia Papuci-WładykaG. S. EliadesFilippo Giudice
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Scholarship

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Sources

  1. 1.Louise Steel (1997-1998). “Archaeology in Cyprus 1987-1997”. Archaeological Reports 44, 137-149.
  2. 2.Ellen Herscher (1995). “Archaeology in Cyprus”. American Journal of Archaeology 99, 257-294.
  3. 3.E. Papuci-Władyka (ed.) (2020). Interdisciplinary Research of the Jagiellonian University in Nea Paphos UNESCO World Heritage Site (2011-2015): First Results.
  4. 4.E. Giudice, G. Giudice, L. Fuduli (2018). “The so-called Sanctuary of Apollo in Toumballos in the urban Landscape of Nea Paphos”.
  5. 5.F. Giudice, E. Maugeri, S. P. Pafumi, D. Malfitana et al. (1992). “Paphos, Garrison's Camp. Campagna 1988”. Report of the Department of Antiquities, Cyprus, 205-250.
  6. 6.F. Giudice (1994). “Paphos, Garrison's Camp. Campagna 1990”. Report of the Department of Antiquities, Cyprus, 215-268.
  7. 7.F. Giudice (2016). “Gli scavi della missione italiana a Nea Paphos 1988-2013”. Nea Paphos. Fondation et développement urbanistique d'une ville chypriote de l'antiquité à nos jours, 79-90. Bordeaux.