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Scholar

Karen Radner

fl. 1846–2016

Scholar, active 1846–2016.

Life and work

  1. by 22 June 1846
    Detected that the squeezes of lines 15-23 of the left side sent to the British Museum by Niven Kerr on 22 June 1846 were made after the stele's back (c. 13 cm slab) had been sliced off by the Berlin museums' agents, hence the excision happened before that date; Merrillees credits her for this information.

    Merrillees 2016

  2. 2010
    Published 'The Stele of Sargon II of Assyria at Kition: A Focus for an Emerging Cypriot Identity?' (pp. 429-49), described by Merrillees as the most recent and up-to-date survey of the stele and its historical implications; he faults her statements that it was found in 1844 by Ludwig Ross and her equation of Alashiya with Cyprus, and notes Nicolaou's 1976 review of the discovery circumstances is not in her bibliography.

    Merrillees 2016Childs et al. 2012

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Sources

  1. 1.K. Radner (2010). “The Stele of Sargon II of Assyria at Kition: A Focus for an Emerging Cypriot Identity?”. Interkulturalität in der Alten Welt: Vorderasien, Hellas, Ägypten und die vielfältigen Ebenen des Kontakts, 429-449.
  2. 2.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
  3. 3.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.