Scholar · Draughtsman / artist · Expedition member
Greg Deftereos
fl. 1998–2008
Scholar and draughtsman, active 1998–2008. Worked at Marki. Worked with Andrew C. Sneddon and Tom Rymer.
Life and work
- 2007Hardy (2014) cites Deftereos (2007: 9) as a 'looting ethnographer' who observed that 'unknown origins' and the 'grandfather clause' (falsely-claimed inheritance) are used as face-saving ways of avoiding saying that something was looted.
- 2008Published 'Tomb looters at Deneia: the past as property' in Frankel and Webb, The Bronze Age Cemeteries at Deneia in Cyprus (SIMA 135), pp. 5-12 (as listed in Stanley Price 2025).
DeneiaStanley-Price 2025
- UndatedAssisted A. C. Sneddon in the field for the two months of the Marki survey and was responsible for the bulk of the artefact illustrations.
MarkiSneddon 2002
Connections
3 peopleScholarship
- Published material of David Frankelprobably2008
Colleagues & contacts
- Worked with Tom Rymer1998–1999
- Worked with Andrew C. Sneddon1999
Sources
- 1.Samuel Andrew Hardy (2014). “Using Open-Source Data to Identify Participation in the Illicit Antiquities Trade: A Case Study on the Cypriot Civil War”. European Journal on Criminal Policy and Research 20. Online
- 2.A. C. Sneddon (2002). The Cemeteries at Marki: Using a Looted Landscape to Investigate Prehistoric Bronze Age Cyprus. Oxford, Archaeopress.
- 3.Nicholas Stanley-Price (2025). “Illicit excavation and the sale of 'duplicate' antiquities: Rupert Gunnis and the Cyprus Museum, 1926-1932”. Cahiers du Centre d'Études Chypriotes 55, 269-301. Online
- 4.G. Deftereos (2008). “Tomb looters at Deneia: the past as property”. The Bronze Age Cemeteries at Deneia in Cyprus, 5-12. Sävedalen, Åström.