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Scholar · Expedition member

George Rapp

fl. 1975–2003 · United States

American scholar and expedition member, active 1975–2003. Worked with John Gifford and Steve Held; wrote with Ellen Herscher and Stuart Swiny.

Life and work

  1. 1975
    With John Gifford directed a University of Minnesota exploration of the south-east coast around Larnaca (Kition, Hala Sultan Tekke) to recover ancient topography and environment, in collaboration with the Geological Survey and the Department of Antiquities.

    Karageorghis 1976

  2. 1981–1983
    Davis's table lists Sotira-Kaminoudhia, 1981 and 1983, excavator/sponsor 'Rapp/University of Minnesota'.

    Davis 1989

  3. 1982
    Co-author, with S. Prentiss De Jesus and L. Vagnetti, of a study of Cypriote bronzes in Geneva (SMEA 23), cited by Csornay for a shaft-hole axe dated MC II c. 1750 BC.

    Csornay-Caprez 2000

  4. 1983
    Second Sotira-Kaminoudhia season (Philia culture), July-August, under the direction of S. Swiny; the research project was directed by G. Rapp and sponsored by CAARI.

    Karageorghis 1984

  5. 2003
    Co-editor, with S. Swiny and E. Herscher, of Sotira Kaminoudhia: An Early Bronze Age Site in Cyprus (CAARI Monograph 4 / ASOR Archaeological Reports 8, Boston).

    Given 2025Childs et al. 2012

Connections

4 people
Stuart SwinyEllen HerscherSteve HeldJohn GiffordGeorge Rapp
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On Ancient Cyprus

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Sources

  1. 1.V. Karageorghis (1976). “Chronique des fouilles et découvertes archéologiques à Chypre en 1975”. Bulletin de correspondance hellénique 100.
  2. 2.V. Karageorghis (1984). “Chronique des fouilles et découvertes archéologiques à Chypre en 1983”. Bulletin de correspondance hellénique 108.
  3. 3.Thomas W. Davis (1989). “A History of American Archaeology on Cyprus”. The Biblical Archaeologist 52, 163-169. Online
  4. 4.Stuart Swiny (ed.), George Rapp (ed.), Ellen Herscher (ed.) (2003). Sotira Kaminoudhia: An Early Bronze Age Site in Cyprus. Boston, American Schools of Oriental Research.
  5. 5.Michael Given (2025). “Over the landscape, in the landscape? Knowledge and agency in Cypriot archaeology, 1870-1910”. Empire & Excavation: Critical perspectives on archaeology in British-period Cyprus, 1878-1960. Leiden, Sidestone Press.
  6. 6.W. A. P. Childs (ed.), J. S. Smith (ed.), J. M. Padgett (ed.) (2012). City of Gold: The Archaeology of Polis Chrysochous, Cyprus. Princeton, Princeton University Art Museum.
  7. 7.Boldizsár Csornay-Caprez (2000). Cypriote Antiquities. Rome, L'Erma di Bretschneider.