Gerald Cadogan

Gerald Cadogan began digging at Maroni-Vournes, in the Larnaca district, in 1981, on a site that had last been tested in 1897 by a British Museum mission looking for Late Bronze Age tombs^1,4,8. The Archaeological Reports date his start to 1981, the French Chronique reports a first campaign in 1982, and Thomas Kiely describes a trial season in 1981 followed by work from 1982^1,4,7. The excavation was sponsored by the University of Cincinnati, and its aim was the occupation sequence at Maroni around the time the first Aegean settlers arrived⁴. A second season ran from September to November 1983 and found, on bedrock, the earliest floor with a hearth, dated to Late Cypriot IA; Cadogan's preliminary report, "Maroni I", appeared in the Report of the Department of Antiquities for 1983^5,13.

After Cadogan moved from Cincinnati to England, the British School at Athens became a co-sponsor. Kiely dates the joint enterprise from 1985, and the Chronique shows both institutions behind the 1986 season^6,7. Work continued until 1993, with study seasons afterwards^3,7. The excavators found buildings of Late Cypriot I and II, the large Late Cypriot IIC Ashlar Building and an Archaic shrine built in the ruins of an older structure³. In 1990 Sturt W. Manning began a survey of the lower Maroni valley in association with Cadogan's Maroni Valley Project³. Cadogan published four Cypro-Minoan inscriptions from Vournes with J. Driessen and S. Ferrara¹¹. The catalogued material is in the Larnaca Archaeological Museum, and the A. G. Leventis Foundation supported the work and, from 2005 to 2009, the publication of the results⁸.

In the preface to the catalogue of the Pierides Collection at Larnaca, Vassos Karageorghis thanked Cadogan and Nicholas Stanley-Price for reading the final stages of the text⁹. Cadogan was co-editor, with Maria Iacovou, Katerina Kopaka and James Whitley, of Parallel Lives: Ancient Island Societies in Crete and Cyprus (2012)¹⁷. A festschrift, The Great Islands: Studies of Crete and Cyprus presented to Gerald Cadogan, was published in 2015¹².