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Antiquities official · Expedition member

George Markou

fl. 1950–1967

Antiquities official and expedition member, active 1950–1967. Excavated at Myrtou-Pigadhes. Worked with Hector Catling.

Life and work

  1. by 21 May 1951
    Megaw cites him as the precedent for a Department member taking leave and spending it on a dig: 'what George Markou did at Myrtou'. Letter of Megaw to Dikaios, London, 21 May 1951, printed as no. 12 in Hermary's edition of the Bérard correspondence.

    MyrtouHermary 2008

  2. 1967
    Helped H. W. Catling's Nicosia work on the Kouklia tomb material; listed with Kyriakos Nikolaou, Ino Nikolaou, Grigoris Christou, Elias Markou and Chrysilios Polykarpou as members of the Department of Antiquities.

    NicosiaCatling 2020

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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.H. W. Catling (2020). Kouklia: Late Bronze Age and Early Iron Age Tombs at Palaepaphos 1951-1954. Oxford, BAR Publishing.