Ancient CyprusAncient Cyprus

Archaeologist · Scholar

Karin Nys

fl. 1993–2011 · Belgium

Belgian archaeologist and scholar, active 1993–2011. Excavated at Hala Sultan Tekke. Excavated with Matthias Recke; studied under Paul Åström.

Life and work

  1. 2001
    Vandenabeele reports that Nys's doctoral thesis at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel would treat in detail the Cypriot jugs with an anthropomorphic face or zoomorphic protome.

    BrusselsVandenabeele 2001, p. 184

  2. 2001
    Gave Merrillees (in his chapter on Sandwith and Cesnola) the Ashmolean reference for the Piot jug (Acc. No. 1974.437; Brown and Catling 1980, 124, fig. 73, no. 85).

    Merrillees 2001

  3. 2011
    From 2011 Giessen University under Matthias Recke excavated at Hala Sultan Tekke in cooperation with Brussels (VUB) under Karin Nys, aiming at the final publication of a building complex discovered in 1980 by Paul Astrom and partly cleared on a large scale.

    Hala Sultan TekkeRecke 2012, p. 4

Connections

6 people
Matthias ReckePaul ÅströmJan CoenaertsPolte De WeirdtRalf VandamFrieda VandenabeeleKarin Nys
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Fieldwork & employment

Scholarship

Colleagues & contacts

On Ancient Cyprus

2 pages

Sources

  1. 1.Matthias Recke (2012). “Deutschland und das antike Zypern. Beiträge zur Geschichte einer archäologischen Disziplin”. Cahiers du Centre d'Études Chypriotes 42.
  2. 2.F. Vandenabeele (2001). “Collecting vases with figurines/protomes in the nineteenth century AD”. Cyprus in the 19th Century AD: Fact, Fancy and Fiction, 184-188. Oxford, Oxbow.
  3. 3.R. S. Merrillees (2001). “T. B. Sandwith and the beginnings of Cypriote archaeology”. Cyprus in the 19th Century AD: Fact, Fancy and Fiction, 222-239. Oxford, Oxbow.
  4. 4.M. Recke (2018). Like Herrings in a Barrel: Max Ohnefalsch-Richter.
  5. 5.Karin Nys (2008). “Paul Åström, the Mentor of Several Generations of Archaeological Students and an Inspiration for Generations to Come”. Cypriot Material Culture Studies: From Picrolite Carving to Proskynetaria, 15-20. Paul Åströms Förlag.
  6. 6.K. Nys, M. Recke (2004). “Craftsmanship and the cultural/political identity of the Cypriote kingdoms. The case of Idalion and Tamassos”. Cahiers du Centre d'Études Chypriotes 34, 211-222.
  7. 7.K. Nys, M. Recke (2010). Kult-Tisch. Kyprische Keramik im Kontext. Giessen.
  8. 8.P. Astrom (ed.), K. Nys (ed.) (2008). The Swedish Cyprus Expedition 80 Years. Proceedings of the Symposium in Honour of the Memory of Einar Gjerstad held in the Royal Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities, Stockholm, 28 September 2007. Sävedalen.
  9. 9.K. Nys (2008). “The Study of Cypriote Iron Age Pottery after the Swedish Cyprus Expedition: Inflation or Deflation of Gjerstad's Legacy?”. The Swedish Cyprus Expedition 80 Years, 67-91.
  10. 10.K. Nys (2012). “The Swedish Cyprus Expedition. The First Comprehensive Study of the Island's Ancient History”. Ancient Cyprus. Cultures in Dialogue, 30-. Brussels and Nicosia.