Laurence Alpe

Laurence Alpe, a French-language scholar of Limassol and the kingdom of Amathus, reviewed the printed catalogue of the Zintilis collection in 2004. In 2003 she published with Sabine Fourrier an article on a production of Amathus in the Cahiers du Centre d'Etudes Chypriotes⁹.

Her review in the Cahiers of Stella M. Lubsen-Admiraal's catalogue of the collection of Thanos N. Zintilis records that it was formed mostly in the 1950s and 1960s, was long kept at the Allard Pierson Museum, and has been at the Museum of Cycladic Art in Athens since 2002. She gives its contents as 389 pieces of pottery, 79 of stone, 57 terracotta statuettes, 30 of metal and 159 pieces of jewellery, and faults the printed volume for its lack of photographs¹. In the next volume she reviewed several catalogues in the SIMA series and Jacqueline Karageorghis's Kypris, the Aphrodite of Cyprus, remarking that chance finds, looting and acquisitions had too often caused the archaeological context and provenance of such antiquities to be forgotten².

In 2007 she completed a thesis, "Limassol et ses environs: étude d'un site secondaire au temps des royaumes de Chypre", at the Université de Provence Aix-Marseille I⁷. The same year she argued, in a paper on the Cypro-Archaic sanctuary of Limassol-Komissariato, that it shows an indigenous cult that took in Phoenician elements, not a purely Phoenician sanctuary⁵. Her chapter "Limassol in Antiquity: from its Origins to the End of the Roman Period" (pp. 49-95) in a collective history of the city, published by 2016, draws on funerary material from 332 tombs found in rescue excavations in different quarters of Limassol⁸.