Ancient CyprusAncient Cyprus

Scholar

James D. Muhly

fl. 1969–2009

Scholar, active 1969–2009. Wrote with Barbara Kling and Vassos Karageorghis.

Life and work

  1. 1969
    Yale PhD dissertation 'Copper and Tin: The Distribution of Mineral Resources and the Nature of the Metals Trade in the Bronze Age'; cited by the Idalion report (AEI 1989) for locations of ancient copper ore.

    New HavenStager & Walker 1989

  2. 1975
    Paper 'Near Eastern Chronology and the Date of the Late Cypriot I Period' in N. Robertson (ed.), The Archaeology of Cyprus: Recent Developments (Park Ridge, NJ: Noyes Press), pp. 76-89.

    Dissinger 2017

  3. 1982
    Co-editor with R. Maddin and V. Karageorghis of the proceedings of the 1981 symposium Early Metallurgy in Cyprus, 4000-500 B.C. (Nicosia, 1982).

    NicosiaSymons 1986-1987

  4. 1984
    Co-editor with V. Karageorghis of Cyprus at the Close of the Late Bronze Age (Nicosia 1984).

    NicosiaSymons 1986-1987

  5. 1984–1985
    Named as author of the Late Bronze Age overview in the volume Archaeology in Cyprus 1960-1985.

    Hermary 1986

  6. 2007
    Co-editor, with B. Kling, of Joan du Plat Taylor's excavations at the Late Bronze Age mining settlement at Apliki Karamallos (SIMA 94(1), Sävedalen: Paul Åström).

    Given 2025

  7. 2009
    Co-editor of Oxhide ingots in the central Mediterranean (Rome, Leventis Foundation and CNR) with Lo Schiavo, Maddin and Giumlia-Mair; also author of 'The origin of the name Ionian' in Cyprus and the East Aegean (Nicosia 2009), pp. 23-30.

    Given 2025Merrillees 2016

Connections

6 people
Vassos KarageorghisJoan du Plat TaylorNoel RobertsonBarbara KlingR. MaddinMaria Rosaria BelgiornoJames D. Muhly
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On Ancient Cyprus

5 pages

Sources

  1. 1.J. D. Muhly (1969). “Copper and Tin: The Distribution of Mineral Resources and the Nature of the Metals Trade in the Bronze Age”. PhD dissertation, Yale University.
  2. 2.J. D. Muhly (1975). “Near Eastern Chronology and the Date of the Late Cypriot I Period”. The Archaeology of Cyprus: Recent Developments, 76-89. Park Ridge, NJ, Noyes Press.
  3. 3.J. D. Muhly (ed.), R. Maddin (ed.), V. Karageorghis (ed.) (1982). Early Metallurgy in Cyprus, 4000-500 B.C.. Nicosia, Pierides Foundation.
  4. 4.V. Karageorghis (ed.), J. D. Muhly (ed.) (1984). Cyprus at the Close of the Late Bronze Age. Nicosia.
  5. 5.B. Kling (ed.), J. D. Muhly (ed.) (2007). Joan du Plat Taylor's Excavations at the Late Bronze Age Mining Settlement at Apliki Karamallos, Cyprus. Sävedalen, Paul Åströms Förlag.
  6. 6.D. J. Symons (1986-1987). “Archaeology in Cyprus, 1981-85”. Archaeological Reports 33, 62-77.
  7. 7.Antoine Hermary (1986). “Chronique d'archéologie chypriote (1984-1985)”. Cahiers du Centre d'Études Chypriotes 5.
  8. 8.Lawrence E. Stager (ed.), Anne M. Walker (ed.) (1989). American Expedition to Idalion, Cyprus, 1973-1980. Chicago, Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago.
  9. 9.Alicia Marie Dissinger (2017). “Cypro-Archaic Bird Iconography: Types, Uses, and Meanings”. University of Virginia.
  10. 10.Michael Given (2025). “Over the landscape, in the landscape? Knowledge and agency in Cypriot archaeology, 1870-1910”. Empire & Excavation: Critical perspectives on archaeology in British-period Cyprus, 1878-1960. Leiden, Sidestone Press.
  11. 11.Robert Stuart Merrillees (2016). “Studies on the provenances of the stele of Sargon II from Larnaca (Kition) and the two so-called Dhali (Idalion) silver bowls in the Louvre”. Cahiers du Centre d'Études Chypriotes 46, 349-386. Online