Łukasz Miszk

Łukasz Miszk is a member of the Jagiellonian University team at the Agora of Nea Paphos, and the author of the chapter in the project's first volume that argues the 1968 to 1978 excavations there need re-evaluation. The Paphos Agora Project, headed by Ewdoksia Papuci-Władyka, excavated the Agora from 2011 to 2014 and began a non-invasive survey of the wider Archaeological Park in 2015¹. His listed work begins in 2014; from 2016 he co-wrote papers on architectural features with Karolina Rosińska-Balik and on photogrammetry with Wojciech Ostrowski and others, and he was a co-author of the first preliminary report, published in 2018 in the Report of the Department of Antiquities, Cyprus, New Series 1^1,5.

In Paphos Agora Project (PAP) I (2020) he wrote chapter 2.2, an overview of research on the Agora, and chapter 3 on its stratigraphy and architecture, and co-wrote further chapters and an appendix on the urban layout^1,2,3. Plate captions credit him with the drawings of the chronological stratification of Trenches I to III¹.

In chapter 2.2 he reviews the work of Kyriakos Nicolaou, who dug around the Odeon on the east side of the Fanari hill from 1968 to 1978. Miszk calls the publications "far from satisfactory": the reports were brief and copied from one another, the documentation and finds were unavailable to researchers, and the chronology rested on upper layers and limited trial trenching. He concludes that "the research carried out in 1968-1978 needs re-evaluation". He lists how Nicolaou's date for the Odeon changed, from the 3rd century CE in 1968-69 to Augustan in 1970-75, the first half of the 2nd century in 1976-78 and Trajanic in 1979-80^1,2.