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Antiquities official · Archaeologist · Scholar · Excavator

Ioannis Violaris

fl. 1998–2017 · Cyprus

Cypriot antiquities official and archaeologist, active 1998–2017. Excavated at Nicosia (Palaion Demarcheion). Worked with Benjamin Costello IV; wrote with Vassos Karageorghis and Marie-Louise von Wartburg.

Life and work

  1. December 1998
    Paper on Ohnefalsch-Richter's five Greek articles in the periodical Hesperos, read at the 22nd British Museum Classical Colloquium (December 1998); printed 2001. It recovers five articles (1884) and a short 1881 correspondence unrecorded in the bibliography, and discusses the sale of the Larnaca 'Artemis' statue to Vienna (600 francs to Ohnefalsch-Richter).

    LondonTatton-Brown 2001

  2. 2004
    Published 'Excavations at the site of Palaion Demarcheion, Lefkosia', CCEC 34 (pp. 69-80).

    NicosiaMetcalf 2009

  3. 2009
    With M.-L. von Wartburg, published pottery of the 12th and early 13th century from the Nicosia (Palaion Demarcheion) site.

    NicosiaMetcalf 2009

  4. 2012
    Co-authored with V. Karageorghis 'Tombs of the Late Bronze Age in the Limassol Area Cyprus (17th-13th Centuries BC)', Nicosia; cited for Limassol Museum pottery (Aegean-type pottery study thanks him for facilities at the Limassol Museum).

    NicosiaGraziadio

  5. 2017
    With E. Stefani, published a paper on Amathus, its city and necropoleis, in N. Papadimitriou and M. Toli (eds), Athens 2017.

    AthensRogge et al. 2019

Connections

5 people
Vassos KarageorghisMax Ohnefalsch-RichterMarie-Louise von WartburgBenjamin Costello IVDemetra AristotelousIoannis Violaris
ScholarshipColleagues

Scholarship

Colleagues & contacts

Sources

  1. 1.Ioannis Violaris (2001). “Max Ohnefalsch-Richter and the Hesperos”. Cyprus in the 19th Century AD: Fact, Fancy and Fiction, 248-252. Oxford, Oxbow.
  2. 2.Veronica Tatton-Brown (ed.) (2001). Cyprus in the 19th Century AD: Fact, Fancy and Fiction. Oxford, Oxbow.
  3. 3.Y. Violaris (2004). “Excavations at the site of Palaion Demarcheion, Lefkosia”. Cahiers du Centre d'Études Chypriotes 34, 69-80.
  4. 4.D. M. Metcalf (2009). Byzantine Cyprus 491-1191. Nicosia, Cyprus Research Centre.
  5. 5.M.-L. von Wartburg, Y. Violaris (2009). “Pottery of a 12th Century Pit from the Palaion Demarcheion Site in Nicosia: A Typological and Analytical Approach to a Closed Assemblage”. Actas del VIII Congreso Internacional de Cerámica Medieval en el Mediterráneo, Ciudad Real-Almagro 2006, vol. 1, 249-264. Ciudad Real.
  6. 6.V. Karageorghis, Y. Violaris (2012). Tombs of the Late Bronze Age in the Limassol Area Cyprus (17th-13th Centuries BC). Nicosia.
  7. 7.Giampaolo Graziadio. The Earliest Production of Aegean-Type Pottery in Cyprus.
  8. 8.Y. Violaris and E. Stefani (2017). “'Amathous polis Kyprou archaiotatē ...': the city and its necropoleis (Greek title as cited)”. N. Papadimitriou and M. Toli (eds), Archaia Kypros: Prosphates exelixeis ... (Athens 2017).
  9. 9.S. Rogge (ed.), Ch. Ioannou (ed.), Th. Mavrojannis (ed.) (2019). Salamis of Cyprus: History and Archaeology from the Earliest Times to Late Antiquity. Münster, Waxmann.
  10. 10.Benjamin Costello IV (2014). Architecture and Material Culture from the Earthquake House at Kourion, Cyprus. Oxford, Archaeopress.