Ancient CyprusAncient Cyprus

Curator · Excavator · Collector · Museum director

G. S. Eliades

fl. 1950–1979 · Cyprus

Cypriot curator and excavator, active 1950–1979. Excavated at Nea Paphos (Kato Paphos) and Nea Paphos, rock-cut sanctuary near Toumballos. Worked for Musée de Paphos.

Life and work

  1. 21 March 1951
    A. H. S. Megaw wrote to him, as honorary curator of the Paphos District Museum, asking him to watch for Late Bronze Age surface pottery around Kato Paphos (the Agapenor / Achaean-colonisation question).

    Kato PaphosHermary 2008

  2. 1956
    Resumed clearance of the complex of rock-cut chambers near the northern limit of Nea Paphos, just west of the road from Ktima (Megaw: probably a sanctuary).

    Nea PaphosMegaw 1956

  3. 1958
    Paphos Ethnographic Museum established, on the initiative of G. S. Eliades, 'a private collector and archaeologist'.

    PaphosStylianou-Lambert & Bounia 2016, p. 110

  4. 1959
    Resumed clearance of the rock-cut sanctuary near the Toumbalos mound, laying bare the three northernmost chambers.

    Nea PaphosDikaios 1962

  5. 1970s
    Photographed in Paphos with W. A. Daszewski and Z. Sztetyłło of the Polish Mission, captioned 'the Director of the Ethnographic Museum and friend of the Polish Mission'.

    PaphosPapuci-Władyka 2020, Pl. 14 caption

Connections

4 people
Arthur Hubert Stanley Meg…Wiktor Andrzej DaszewskiZ. SztetyłłoFilippo GiudiceG. S. Eliades
ScholarshipColleagues

Scholarship

Colleagues & contacts

Objects

  • Picrolite cruciform figurine, fragment (part of an arm with lattice decoration); Winkelmann C 423; Chalcolithic

    From said to be from Kissonerga-MosphiliaEthnographical Museum, Eliades Collection, PaphosWinkelmann 2020

Sources

  1. 1.A. Hermary (2008). “Les recherches de Jean Bérard à Chypre (1950-1953): la correspondance, archives du Département des Antiquités de Chypre et de l'École Française de Rome”. Cahiers du Centre d'Études Chypriotes 38, 33-52.
  2. 2.A. H. S. Megaw (1955). “Archaeology in Cyprus, 1955”. Archaeological Reports 2, 41-46. Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies.
  3. 3.A. H. S. Megaw (1956). “Archaeology in Cyprus, 1956”. Archaeological Reports 3, 24-31. Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies.
  4. 4.P. Dikaios (1962). “Archaeology in Cyprus, 1959-61”. Archaeological Reports 8, 32-46. Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies. Online
  5. 5.T. Stylianou-Lambert, A. Bounia (2016). The Political Museum: Power, Conflict, and Identity in Cyprus.
  6. 6.E. Papuci-Władyka (ed.) (2020). Interdisciplinary Research of the Jagiellonian University in Nea Paphos UNESCO World Heritage Site (2011-2015): First Results.
  7. 7.Christine Winkelmann (2020). The Neolithic and Chalcolithic Figurines of Cyprus. Münster, Zaphon.
  8. 8.F. G. Maier, V. Karageorghis (1984). Paphos: History and Archaeology. 383 pp.. Nicosia, A. G. Leventis Foundation.