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Epigrapher · Numismatist · Antiquities official · Curator

Ino (Ioanna) Nicolaou

1928–2018 · Cyprus

Epigraphist, numismatist and Department of Antiquities archaeologist who published the inscriptions and coins of Salamis, Paphos and Idalion and directed excavations at Amathus.

Biography

Ino Nicolaou (1928 to 2018) published inscriptions and coins from Salamis, Paphos and Idalion, and in the 1980s directed the Department of Antiquities' work in the Amathus necropolis1,4. She studied for a time at St Andrews with Terence Mitford and did graduate work in Athens2. In 1963 she gave the commentary on the Greek inscriptions of a statue base from Mandria, near Kouklia, acquired by the Cyprus Museum6.

Her publications include Cypriote Inscribed Stones (1971) and, with Mitford, Inscriptions from Salamis (1974)3. With O. Mørkholm she published the Ptolemaic coin hoard from Nea Paphos (Paphos I, 1976), and in 1990 the Paphos II coin volume, covering the House of Dionysos, excavated by Kyriakos Nicolaou from 1962 to 1978, and the Odeion11,14. She catalogued the coins of the American Expedition to Idalion for 1970 to 1977, where she is thanked as Assistant Curator of the Cyprus Museum10. With Kyriakos Nicolaou she published the Dhenia Kafkalla and Mali tombs in 198813.

In 1983 she assisted Michael Loulloupis in the Department's work in the Lower City and Necropolis of Amathus, and in 1984 she directed the second season in the East Necropolis, which covered five tombs and two rock-cut pits8,9. Archaeology in Cyprus, 1981-85 says she directed much of the Department's excavation of tombs in the east and west necropolis there in those years4. Metcalf notes that she kept for many years an annual record of newly found inscriptions14. A volume of papers in her honour, edited by D. Michaelides, appeared in 20132. She died in 20181.

Life and work

  1. 1963
    Gave the commentary on the Greek inscriptions of a grey-marble statue base from Mandria (west of Kouklia), probably taken from the Temple of Aphrodite, acquired by the Cyprus Museum (reg. no. 126).

    MandriaKarageorghis 1964

  2. 1963
    Photographed at the Polish Maloutena site at Paphos with K. Nicolaou and K. Michałowski (archive of Z. Sztetyłło).

    Nea PaphosPapuci-Władyka 2020, Fig. 4 caption

  3. 1969–1970
    Published the main study of sling bullets in Cyprus (as Michaelidou-Nicolaou, 1969-70, pp. 359-69), later cited by the Idalion team.

    Stager & Walker 1989, p. 359

  4. 1970–1977
    Identified, photographed and catalogued the coins of the American Expedition to Idalion; the catalogue 'Idalion 1970-1977' is by I. Nicolaou.

    IdalionStager & Walker 1989, p. xixStager & Walker 1989

  5. 1971
    Published Cypriote Inscribed Stones, a Department of Antiquities publication.

    Nicolaou 1976

  6. 1974
    With T. B. Mitford, published Inscriptions from Salamis (Department of Antiquities).

    SalamisNicolaou 1976

  7. 1976
    With O. Mørkholm, published a Ptolemaic coin hoard (Paphos I), the hoard from the House of Dionysos.

    Nea PaphosMaier & Karageorghis 1984, n. 24Maier & Karageorghis 1984, n. 10

  8. 1981–1985
    Much of the Department's excavation of tombs in the east and west necropolis of Amathus in this period was directed by her.

    AmathusSymons 1986-1987, p. 66

  9. 1983
    Assisted M. Loulloupis in the Department's long campaign in the Lower City and Necropolis of Amathus.

    AmathusKarageorghis 1984

  10. 1984
    Directed the Department's second season in the East Necropolis of Amathus (five tombs and two rock-cut pits).

    AmathusKarageorghis 1985

  11. 1986
    Published a Roman 'kalathos' inscription from Arkalon (RDAC 1986, 194 no. 5).

    Maier 1992, n. 24

  12. 1988
    With K. Nicolaou, published 'The Dhenia Kafkalla and Mali Tombs' (RDAC 1988/1).

    DeneiaCsornay-Caprez 2000

  13. 1990
    Published the Paphos coin volume (Paphos II): coins of the House of Dionysos (excavated 1962-78 by K. Nicolaou) and of the Odeion (62 coins less a hoard of 6, nos. 52-112).

    Nea PaphosMetcalf 2009

  14. 2018
    Died; obituary by D. Michaelides, E. Markou and M. Amandry, INC Compte Rendu 65 (2018), pp. 50-58.

    Michaelides et al. 2018, p. 23

Connections

9 people
Kyriakos NicolaouTerence Bruce MitfordD. M. MetcalfO. MørkholmVassos KarageorghisHector CatlingLawrence E. StagerEvangeline MarkouMichael LoulloupisIno (Ioanna) Nicolaou
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Sources

  1. 1.D. Michaelides, E. Markou, M. Amandry (2018). “Obituary. Ino Nicolaou (1928-2018)”. International Numismatic Council, Compte Rendu 65, 50-58.
  2. 2.T. Kiely (2017). “Britain and the archaeology of Cyprus II: 1914 to the present day”. Cahiers du Centre d'Études Chypriotes 47, 253-310. Online
  3. 3.K. Nicolaou (1976). “Archaeology in Cyprus, 1969-76”. Archaeological Reports 22.
  4. 4.D. J. Symons (1986-1987). “Archaeology in Cyprus, 1981-85”. Archaeological Reports 33, 62-77.
  5. 5.V. Karageorghis (1962). “Chronique des fouilles et découvertes archéologiques à Chypre en 1961”. Bulletin de correspondance hellénique 86.
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  14. 14.D. M. Metcalf (2009). Byzantine Cyprus 491-1191. Nicosia, Cyprus Research Centre.
  15. 15.E. Papuci-Władyka (ed.) (2020). Interdisciplinary Research of the Jagiellonian University in Nea Paphos UNESCO World Heritage Site (2011-2015): First Results.
  16. 16.H. W. Catling (2020). Kouklia: Late Bronze Age and Early Iron Age Tombs at Palaepaphos 1951-1954. Oxford, BAR Publishing.
  17. 17.I. Nicolaou (1971). Cypriote Inscribed Stones. Department of Antiquities, Cyprus.
  18. 18.T. B. Mitford, I. K. Nicolaou (1974). The Greek and Latin Inscriptions from Salamis. Nicosia, Department of Antiquities, Cyprus.
  19. 19.I. Nicolaou, O. Morkholm (1976). A Ptolemaic Coin Hoard. Nicosia, Department of Antiquities, Cyprus.
  20. 20.I. Nicolaou (1990). Paphos II: The Coins from the House of Dionysos. Nicosia, Department of Antiquities, Cyprus.
  21. 21.I. Nicolaou, K. Nicolaou (1988). “The Dhenia Kafkalla and Mali Tombs”. Report of the Department of Antiquities, Cyprus, 71-120.
  22. 22.I. Nicolaou-Michaelidou (1997). “Deux cippes funéraires du musée de Nicosie, Chypre”.