Ancient CyprusAncient Cyprus

Collector · Dealer

George Petrakides

fl. 1961–1966 · Cyprus

Cypriot collector and dealer, active 1961–1966. Collected at Larnaca. Lent to Cyprus Museum.

Life and work

  1. 1966
    Lent a White Painted III amphora (H. 64.5 cm) with an archer shooting at a bird to the Cyprus Museum

    LarnacaKarageorghis 1967

Objects

  • Limestone female head, Arsos-style, with fillet and veil, dated by Karageorghis to the first half of the 1st c. BC

    Karageorghis 1962

  • White Painted III amphora, archer aiming at a large bird, from the Petrakides collection, Larnaca

    Cyprus Museum (on loan)1966Karageorghis 1967Robertson 1975

Sources

  1. 1.V. Karageorghis (1962). “Chronique des fouilles et découvertes archéologiques à Chypre en 1961”. Bulletin de correspondance hellénique 86.
  2. 2.V. Karageorghis (1967). “Chronique des fouilles et découvertes archéologiques à Chypre en 1966”. Bulletin de correspondance hellénique 91.
  3. 3.Robert Stuart Merrillees (2014). “George Basil Palma, Chemist and Collector of Cypriote Antiquities in Famagusta, Cyprus, in the 20th Century A.D.”. Cahiers du Centre d'Études Chypriotes 44. Online
  4. 4.N. Robertson (ed.) (1975). The Archaeology of Cyprus: Recent Developments. Park Ridge, N.J., Noyes Press.