Ancient CyprusAncient Cyprus

Excavator · Scholar

Joan Connelly

fl. 1987–2010

Excavator and scholar, active 1987–2010. Excavated at Yeronisos (Geronisos) island. Wrote with Jolanta Młynarczyk.

Life and work

  1. 1987–1997
    Reported as having excavated a series of Hellenistic structures on the island of Yeronisos off the west coast of Cyprus.

    YeronisosSteel 1997-1998

  2. 1988
    Published Votive Sculpture of Hellenistic Cyprus (New York University Press per Dissinger 2017; 'Nicosia' per the Athens NAM catalogue), cited for funerary busts, limestone sources and sculpture of Cypriot sanctuaries.

    Dissinger 2017Karageorghis 2003Toumazou et al. 2011

  3. 1989
    Published 'Standing Before One's God: Votive Sculpture and the Cypriot Religious Tradition', BibArch 52 (1989) 210-18.

    Childs et al. 2012

  4. 2002
    With A. I. Wilson published 'Hellenistic and Byzantine Cisterns on Geronisos Island', RDAC 2002, 269-80 (269-86 in another citation).

    GeronisosChilds et al. 2012, p. 125 n. 31IV 2014

  5. 2010
    'Cyprus in the Age of Empires', in Hadjisavvas (ed.) 2010, 173-205, a source for the Polis chapter's Hellenistic and Roman background.

    Childs et al. 2012

Connections

1 person

Scholarship

On Ancient Cyprus

3 pages

Sources

  1. 1.J. B. Connelly (1988). Votive Sculpture of Hellenistic Cyprus. New York, New York University Press.
  2. 2.J. B. Connelly (1989). “Standing Before One's God: Votive Sculpture and the Cypriot Religious Tradition”. Biblical Archaeologist 52, 210-218.
  3. 3.J. B. Connelly, A. I. Wilson (2002). “Hellenistic and Byzantine Cisterns on Geronisos Island”. Report of the Department of Antiquities, Cyprus, 269-.
  4. 4.J. B. Connelly (2010). “Cyprus in the Age of Empires”. 173-205.
  5. 5.Louise Steel (1997-1998). “Archaeology in Cyprus 1987-1997”. Archaeological Reports 44, 137-149.
  6. 6.W. A. P. Childs (ed.), J. S. Smith (ed.), J. M. Padgett (ed.) (2012). City of Gold: The Archaeology of Polis Chrysochous, Cyprus. Princeton, Princeton University Art Museum.
  7. 7.Alicia Marie Dissinger (2017). “Cypro-Archaic Bird Iconography: Types, Uses, and Meanings”. University of Virginia.
  8. 8.V. Karageorghis (2003). Ancient Cypriote Art in the National Archaeological Museum, Athens. Athens, Kapon Editions, for the A. G. Leventis Foundation.
  9. 9.M. K. Toumazou (ed.), P. N. Kardulias (ed.), D. B. Counts (ed.) (2011). Crossroads and Boundaries: The Archaeology of Past and Present in the Malloura Valley, Cyprus.
  10. 10.Benjamin Costello IV (2014). Architecture and Material Culture from the Earthquake House at Kourion, Cyprus. Oxford, Archaeopress.