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Scholar · Cataloguer · Epigrapher

Knud Friis Johansen

1887–1971 · Denmark

Classical archaeologist. Catalogued the collection of National Museum of Denmark; wrote with C. Blinkenberg.

Life and work

  1. 1924
    Co-author with Christian Blinkenberg of the Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum fascicle for the National Museum of Denmark, Copenhagen, which publishes part of its Cypriot pottery (Early/Middle Bronze Age and Cypro-Archaic); cited as 'Blinkenberg & Friis Johansen 1924' and, in Karageorghis (2002), 'JOHANSEN (F.K.) 1924'.

    CopenhagenKarageorghis 2002Dissinger 2017GraziadioBlinkenberg & Johansen 1924

  2. 1924
    The National Museum, Copenhagen, purchased in 1924 an inscribed amphora (Mitford no. 283) and nine inscribed sherds from the Kafizin nymph sanctuary; Mitford learned this from Friis Johansen's 1953 publication. How the purchase was arranged is not stated.

    CopenhagenMitford 1980

  3. 1953
    Published the Copenhagen Kafizin material: 'Weihinschriften aus dem Nymphenheiligtum des Kafizin Hügels, Kypros', Det Kongelige Danske Videnskabernes Selskab, Arkæologisk-kunsthistoriske Meddelelser 4, 1 (1953), pp. 1-29: one complete vase and nine fragments (Inv. 8364-8372). Fraser notes the inscriptions are excellently illustrated and hopes for a corpus; Megaw says it will ease T. B. Mitford's work on the dedications.

    CopenhagenMitford 1980Fraser 1954Megaw 1954

  4. 1953–1980
    Mitford's 1980 corpus of the Kafizin inscribed pottery cites Friis Johansen's publication for the Copenhagen pieces and records that he agreed with Mitford's reading of kouryas as a deme-name from the territory of Idalion (a reading Mitford later abandoned in favour of a trade title).

    Mitford 1980

Connections

2 people

Scholarship

Colleagues & contacts

On Ancient Cyprus

2 pages

Sources

  1. 1.A. H. S. Megaw (1954). “Archaeology in Cyprus, 1953”. Journal of Hellenic Studies 74. Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies.
  2. 2.K. F. Johansen (1953). “Weihinschriften aus dem Nymphenheiligtum des Kafizin Hügels”. Det Kongelige Danske Videnskabernes Selskab, Arkæologisk-kunsthistoriske Meddelelser 4, 1-29.
  3. 3.Terence B. Mitford (1980). The Nymphaeum of Kafizin: The Inscribed Pottery. Berlin and New York, Walter de Gruyter.
  4. 4.P. M. Fraser (1954). “Bibliography: Graeco-Roman Egypt. Greek Inscriptions (1952-3)”. Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 40. Online
  5. 5.C. Blinkenberg, K. Friis Johansen (1924). Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum. Danemark. Copenhague, Musée National. Paris, É. Champion.
  6. 6.“Knud Friis Johansen (1887-1971), Wikidata Q5744530 / GND 127081100”. Wikidata. Online
  7. 7.V. Karageorghis (2002). “Nouvelles archéologiques. Cypriote Antiquities in Foreign Museums”. Cahiers du Centre d'Études Chypriotes 32, 3-4.
  8. 8.Alicia Marie Dissinger (2017). “Cypro-Archaic Bird Iconography: Types, Uses, and Meanings”. University of Virginia.
  9. 9.Giampaolo Graziadio. The Earliest Production of Aegean-Type Pottery in Cyprus.
  10. 10.C. Blinkenberg, K. Friis Johansen (1924). Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum. Danemark. Copenhague, Musée National. Paris, É. Champion.