Giorgos Papantoniou

Giorgos Papantoniou has studied Cypriot sanctuaries as landscapes, from the Cypriot basileis to the Hellenistic strategos. His monograph Religion and Social Transformations in Cyprus: from the Cypriot Basileis to the Hellenistic Strategos appeared in 2012⁵, preceded by a 2008 paper on sacred landscapes in the proceedings of the Dublin young researchers' meeting, which he edited with A. Fitzgerald and S. Hargis³ and by a 2009 study of Soloi-Cholades⁴. Two articles followed in 2013, in the American Journal of Archaeology⁶ and the Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research⁷.

At Vavla-Kapsalaes he is one of four authors of a 2015 paper on the sanctuary's topography⁸. Kearns cites his 2018 work with N. Kyriakou for the surface finds there, figurines and statuary of a Pan-like god, and for the argument that the sanctuary may mark a royal claim to territory or copper⁹. With Anna Satraki of the Department of Antiquities he used GIS and least-cost paths in 2019 to relate the extra-urban sanctuaries of Salamis to territorial claims and copper routes, through the UnSaLa-CY project on the sacred landscapes of Cyprus; the volume prints his affiliation as the University of Cyprus^1,2. He also edited Unlocking Sacred Landscapes with C. Morris and A. Vionis¹².

Other work concerns Aphrodite and terracottas. With Christine E. Morris he wrote on the "Cypriot-born" Aphrodite in 2014 and 2019, and contributed a chapter to Empire & Excavation (2025) on Cypriot Aphrodite and British colonial discourse¹². He co-edited Hellenistic and Roman Terracottas (2019) and published on the House of Orpheus terracottas at Nea Paphos with colleagues in 2017 and 2019¹¹.