Ancient CyprusAncient Cyprus

Excavator · Archaeologist

Hans Erik Mathiesen

fl. 1989–1995

Excavator and archaeologist, active 1989–1995. Excavated at Akamas-Ayios Kononas. Excavated with Jane Fejfer; worked with Peter Hayes.

Life and work

  1. 1989–1991
    With Jane Fejfer directed three seasons of survey and excavation of the Danish Akamas Project (University of Aarhus) around the two chapels of Ayios Kononos on the Akamas peninsula, to study a small community in a marginal area and its relation to major centres in the Roman and Early Byzantine periods. Part of a Late Roman building (interpreted as a villa rustica, 4th c., dated by a coin of Constans) was excavated; slag suggests copper working c. A.D. 220-390.

    AkamasHerscher 1995

  2. 1991
    Co-authored with J. Fejfer the first-seasons report 'The Danish Akamas-project. The first two seasons of work (1989 and 1990)', RDAC 1991, 211-23.

    Metcalf 2009

Connections

2 people

Fieldwork & employment

Scholarship

Colleagues & contacts

Sources

  1. 1.Ellen Herscher (1995). “Archaeology in Cyprus”. American Journal of Archaeology 99, 257-294.
  2. 2.J. Fejfer, H. E. Mathiesen (1991). “The Danish Akamas-project. The first two seasons of work (1989 and 1990)”. Report of the Department of Antiquities, Cyprus, 211-223.
  3. 3.J. Fejfer, H. E. Mathiesen (1992). “Ayios Kononas. A Late Roman/Early Byzantine site in the Akamas”. Acta Cypria. Acts of an International Congress on Cypriote Archaeology held in Göteborg on 22-24 August 1991, Part 2, 67-83. Göteborg.
  4. 4.J. Fejfer, H. E. Mathiesen (1995). “The Site of Ayios Kononas”. Ancient Akamas, Vol. 1: Settlement and Environment, 73-86. Aarhus, Aarhus University Press.
  5. 5.D. M. Metcalf (2009). Byzantine Cyprus 491-1191. Nicosia, Cyprus Research Centre.
  6. 6.Benjamin Costello IV (2014). Architecture and Material Culture from the Earthquake House at Kourion, Cyprus. Oxford, Archaeopress.