Ancient CyprusAncient Cyprus

Excavators & finders

Markos Elevtheriou

d. 1953 · Cyprus

Lived at Episkopi. Worked with Socrates Stylianou and Mavrosavvas.

Life and work

  1. 1900–1905
    With Socrates Stylianou (also of Episkopi) and Mavrosavvas (originally from Larnaca) rifled a tomb at Kaloriziki, about 300 m east of the church of Ayios Ermoyenis, 'some fifty years' before McFadden's 1954 article. Part of the finds was disposed of locally; the rest (two bronze tripods, the rim and handles of a bronze vase, and a gold and enamel sceptre) was taken to Larnaca, to the house of Constantinos Grammenopoulos, where police caught the three and confiscated it.

    Kourion-Kaloriziki / LarnacaMcFadden & Sjöqvist 1954, p. 131

  2. 1900–1905
    The seized sceptre became, in McFadden's words, one of the most highly prized possessions of the Cyprus Museum; Given reads the finds as having languished in the Customs House for ten years.

    Larnaca / NicosiaMcFadden & Sjöqvist 1954, p. 131Given 2025, p. 42

  3. 1900–1905
    NamedNamed by McFadden as one of three tomb robbers whose loot police confiscated in Larnaca; no proceedings are reported in the text read.

    McFadden & Sjöqvist 1954, p. 131

Connections

2 people

Colleagues & contacts

Objects

  • Gold and enamel sceptre; two bronze tripods; rim and handles of a bronze vase (loot from Kaloriziki Tomb 40)

    From Kourion-Kaloriziki, Tomb 40Cyprus Museum, Nicosia (sceptre)1900–1905McFadden & Sjöqvist 1954, p. 131

Sources

  1. 1.George H. McFadden, Erik Sjöqvist (1954). “A Late Cypriote III Tomb from Kourion Kaloriziki No. 40”. American Journal of Archaeology 58, 131-142. Archaeological Institute of America. Online
  2. 2.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.