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Scholar · Cataloguer

Lucia Vagnetti

fl. 1974–2007

Scholar and cataloguer, active 1974–2007. Catalogued the collection of Christakis Hadjiprodromou; worked with Anna Lucia D'Agata.

Life and work

  1. 1974
    'Preliminary Remarks on Cypriote Chalcolithic Figurines', RDAC 1974, pp. 24-34: reviewed earlier literature and divided the Chalcolithic figurines by material (clay, hard stones, steatite) and the picrolite figures into three types.

    Winkelmann 2020, p. 16Karageorghis et al. 1985

  2. 1975
    'Some Unpublished Chalcolithic Figurines', RDAC, pp. 1-4: published further Chalcolithic figurines (e.g. from Salamiou and Kathikas in Morris's figure credits).

    Winkelmann 2020, p. 16Şevketoğlu 1998Morris 1985

  3. 1979
    'Two Steatite Figurines of Anatolian Type in Chalcolithic Cyprus', RDAC, pp. 112-114: two figurines that had appeared on the art market, from which she defined the 'Anatolian type'.

    Winkelmann 2020, p. 16Şevketoğlu 1998

  4. 1980
    Published the picrolite assemblage ascribed to the Chalcolithic cemetery of Souskiou-Vathyrkakas, then housed in the Hadjiprodromou Collection in Famagusta, cataloguing the whole assemblage (figurines and pendants, other pendants, miscellaneous objects, vases).

    FamagustaWinkelmann 2020, p. 16Morris 1985

  5. 1991
    'Stone sculpture in Chalcolithic Cyprus', BASOR 282/283, pp. 139-151: overview of Neolithic and Chalcolithic figurines on a broadened repertoire.

    Karageorghis & Severis 2010Winkelmann 2020, p. 16

  6. 1995
    Coordinated the project 'Materiali Egei, Ciprioti e Vicino Orientali in Musei e Collezioni Italiane' (SMEA XXXVI, 1995, p. 149), within which Bettelli and Di Paolo, with A. L. D'Agata, catalogued Cypriot antiquities in the Perugia and Cortona museums.

    ItalyTatton-Brown 2001, n. 1

  7. 2004
    With V. Karageorghis, M. Bettelli and S. Di Paolo, co-authored Collezioni archeologiche cipriote in Italia I (Biblioteca di antichità cipriote 7, Rome: A. G. Leventis Foundation / CNR); wrote 'I fratelli Palma di Cesnola e il collezionismo di antichità cipriote', pp. 9-10.

    RomeStanley-Price 2018Given 2025

  8. 2007
    With M. Bettelli and S. Di Paolo, 'La collezione cipriota del Museo archeologico di Firenze nel quadro della storia e dell'archeologia di Cipro', in Guidotti et al., pp. 132-173.

    FlorenceGiven 2025

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6 people
Vassos KarageorghisJohn WalshSilvana Di PaoloChristakis HadjiprodromouM. BettelliAnna Lucia D'AgataLucia Vagnetti
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On Ancient Cyprus

2 pages

Sources

  1. 1.Christine Winkelmann (2020). The Neolithic and Chalcolithic Figurines of Cyprus. Münster, Zaphon.
  2. 2.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.
  3. 3.V. Karageorghis, F. Rizopoulou-Egoumenidou, D. Papanikola-Bakirtzis, C. Elliott (1985). Ancient Cypriote Art in the Pierides Foundation Museum.
  4. 4.Müge Hüseyin Şevketoğlu (1998). “Archaeological Field Survey of the Neolithic and Chalcolithic Settlement Sites in Kyrenia District, North Cyprus: Systematic Surface Collection and the Interpretation of Artefact Scatters”. PhD thesis, University of Edinburgh.
  5. 5.V. Karageorghis, D. C. Severis (2010). The Severis Collection of Cypriote Antiquities. Nicosia, A. G. Leventis Foundation.
  6. 6.Veronica Tatton-Brown (ed.) (2001). Cyprus in the 19th Century AD: Fact, Fancy and Fiction. Oxford, Oxbow.
  7. 7.Nicholas Stanley-Price (2018). “Illicit excavation: the trial of Alessandro Palma di Cesnola in Cyprus in 1878”. The Antiquaries Journal 98, 297-317.
  8. 8.Michael Given (2025). “Over the landscape, in the landscape? Knowledge and agency in Cypriot archaeology, 1870-1910”. Empire & Excavation: Critical perspectives on archaeology in British-period Cyprus, 1878-1960. Leiden, Sidestone Press.
  9. 9.F. G. Maier, V. Karageorghis (1984). Paphos: History and Archaeology. 383 pp.. Nicosia, A. G. Leventis Foundation.
  10. 10.L. Vagnetti (1974). “Preliminary Remarks on Cypriote Chalcolithic Figurines”. Report of the Department of Antiquities, Cyprus, 24-34.
  11. 11.L. Vagnetti (1975). “Some Unpublished Chalcolithic Figurines”. Report of the Department of Antiquities, Cyprus, 1-4.
  12. 12.L. Vagnetti (1979). “Two Steatite Figurines of Anatolian Type in Chalcolithic Cyprus”. Report of the Department of Antiquities, Cyprus, 112-114.
  13. 13.L. Vagnetti (1980). “Figurines and Minor Objects from a Chalcolithic Cemetery at Souskiou-Vathyrkakas (Cyprus)”. Studi Micenei ed Egeo-Anatolici 21, 17-72.
  14. 14.L. Vagnetti (1991). “Stone sculpture in Chalcolithic Cyprus”. Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research 282/283, 139-151.
  15. 15.L. Vagnetti (2004). “I fratelli Palma di Cesnola e il collezionismo di antichità cipriote”. Collezioni archeologiche cipriote in Italia I, 9-10. Rome, CNR / A. G. Leventis Foundation.
  16. 16.L. Vagnetti, M. Bettelli, S. Di Paolo (2007). “La collezione cipriota del Museo archeologico di Firenze nel quadro della storia e dell'archeologia di Cipro”. Egeo, Cipro, Siria e Mesopotamia. Dal collezionismo allo scavo archeologico in onore di Paolo Emilio Pecorella, 132-173. Livorno, Sillabe.