Antiquities official · Excavator

George Ioannou

d. 2004 · Cyprus

Cypriot antiquities official and excavator. Excavated at Palaepaphos-Skales. Worked for Department of Antiquities, Cyprus; worked with Andreas Georghiou and Elizabeth Catling.

Life and work

1958–1959
As museum guard at Kouklia he helped Hector Catling and Elizabeth Catling record the British Expedition (1951-54) tomb groups kept in the local museum, when Catling was a Temporary Officer in the Department of Antiquities and Terence Mitford had invited him to publish the tombs.
KoukliaCatling 2020, p. 15
January 1979
After agricultural levelling at Skales, southeast of Kouklia, exposed and partly destroyed tombs (T. 42-57) before the Department was told, the local Custodian was asked to remove the objects and take them to the Kouklia Museum; no record, plan or photograph was made in situ, so Karageorghis's account of those tombs depends entirely on his recollection ('an experienced excavator').
KoukliaKarageorghis 1983, p. 1
1979–1983
Took part in the Skales emergency excavation directed by Karageorghis as one of the 'expert diggers', with foreman Andreas Georghiou, draughtsman Chrysilios Polykarpou and retired technical assistant Symeon Klonaris. Field-owner: Philip Papageorghiou of Paphos.
KoukliaKarageorghis 1983, p. ix
by 2004
Maier's 2004 guide thanks 'the custodians of the Kouklia Museum, the late George Joannou and now Onesiphoros Loucaides'.
KoukliaMaier 2004, p. 37

Connections

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Colleagues

Colleagues & contacts

Worked with Elizabeth Catling1958–1959
Worked with Hector Catlingprobably1958–1959
Worked with Andreas Georghiou1979–1981
Worked with Chrysilios Polykarpou1979
Worked with Symeon Klonaris1979
Worked with Vassos Karageorghis1979–1983
Succeeded by Onesiphoros Loucaides2004
Preceded Onesiphoros Loucaides

Sources

1.V. Karageorghis (1983). Palaepaphos-Skales: An Iron Age Cemetery in Cyprus.
2.H. W. Catling (2020). Kouklia: Late Bronze Age and Early Iron Age Tombs at Palaepaphos 1951-1954. Oxford, BAR Publishing.
3.F. G. Maier (2004). Guide to Palaipaphos (Kouklia). Nicosia, Bank of Cyprus Cultural Foundation.