Ancient CyprusAncient Cyprus

Excavator · Cataloguer

L. Rocchetti

fl. 1971–1985 · Italy

Italian excavator and cataloguer, active 1971–1985. Excavated at Ayia Irini-Kharangas and Ayia Irini-Palaeokastro. Excavated with Carlo Gallavotti and P. E. Pecorella; worked with L. Quilici.

Life and work

  1. 1971
    Directed the Italian mission's excavation of five small Geometric tombs (dromos plus ovoid chamber, poor plain pottery of early Geometric date) on the hill 'Charangas', about 100 m south of Ayia Irini village, found by chance.

    Ayia IriniKarageorghis 1972

  2. 1972
    One of the 'directeurs des travaux' (with Pecorella and Quilici) under Carlo Gallavotti. With Pecorella he excavated 25 Cypro-Archaic tombs at Palaeokastron, by the sea (several intact, an important Euboean skyphos); five more, all looted Geometric tombs, at Kharangas.

    Ayia IriniKarageorghis 1973

  3. 1978
    Published the Geometric and Archaic tombs of the Ayia Irini 'Palaeokastro' sea cemetery (Biblioteca di Antichita Cipriote 4).

    Morris 1985

  4. 1985
    Co-authored with Pecorella 'The Italian Mission at Ayia Irini' in Karageorghis (ed.), Archaeology in Cyprus 1960-1985, pp. 182-192.

    Pecorella & Rocchetti 1985

Connections

3 people
Carlo GallavottiP. E. PecorellaL. QuiliciL. Rocchetti
Fieldwork

Fieldwork & employment

Scholarship

Colleagues & contacts

Sources

  1. 1.V. Karageorghis (1972). “Chronique des fouilles et découvertes archéologiques à Chypre en 1971”. Bulletin de correspondance hellénique 96.
  2. 2.V. Karageorghis (1973). “Chronique des fouilles et découvertes archéologiques à Chypre en 1972”. Bulletin de correspondance hellénique 97.
  3. 3.Desmond Morris (1985). The Art of Ancient Cyprus, with a check-list of the author's collection. Oxford, Phaidon Press in association with Jonathan Cape.
  4. 4.L. Rocchetti (1978). Le tombe dei Periodi Geometrico ed Arcaico della necropoli a mare di Ayia Irini 'Palaeokastro'. Rome.
  5. 5.P. E. Pecorella, L. Rocchetti (1985). “The Italian Mission at Ayia Irini”. Archaeology in Cyprus 1960-1985, 182-192. Nicosia, Department of Antiquities.