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Markus Egetmeyer

fl. 1992–2020

Philologist of the Cypriot syllabic inscriptions, author of a repertoire of Cypro-Greek syllabic inscriptions (2010) and co-author of the Inscriptiones Cypri Syllabicae.

Biography

Markus Egetmeyer is a philologist who reads and catalogues the inscriptions written in the Cypriot syllabary. His Wörterbuch zu den Inschriften im Kyprischen Syllabar appeared in 19922, and Le dialecte grec ancien de Chypre followed in two volumes, a grammar and a repertoire of the inscriptions in the Cypro-Greek syllabary4; bibliographies date it to 2009 or 2010.

For the 2002 catalogue of the George and Nefeli Giabra Pierides collection, edited by Vassos Karageorghis, he wrote the chapter on the inscribed stones1,3. Other work listed in Steele's bibliography includes a 2004 article on the administration of the kingdom of Idalion, an article on the Eteocypriot question, and a 2013 chapter on the change from the Cypro-Minoan to the Cypro-Greek syllabaries1. In 2016 he edited, as an appendix to Palaepaphos-Skales by Karageorghis and Raptou, a Cypro-Minoan inscription on a bronze bowl of the Cypro-Geometric period6.

With Artemis Karnava and Massimo Perna he wrote a 2011 paper on a corpus of Cypriot syllabic inscriptions, and in 2017, with them and Hedvig Landenius Enegren, reported the completion of the first fascicle of the Inscriptiones Cypri Syllabicae, covering Amathus, Curium and Marion1,8.

Life and work

  1. 2002
    'Inscribed stones', pp. 260-4 in V. Karageorghis (ed.), Ancient Art from Cyprus in the Collection of George and Nefeli Giabra Pierides (Athens): he catalogued the inscribed stones of that collection.

    NicosiaSteele 2018, p. 267

  2. 2004
    'Apports philologiques sur l'administration du royaume d'Idalion', CCEC 34, 101-14.

    Steele 2018, p. 267

  3. 2010
    Le dialecte grec ancien de Chypre, vol. 1 Grammaire, vol. 2 Repertoire des inscriptions en syllabaire chypro-grec (de Gruyter, Berlin); the standard inscriptions repertoire, cited as such in several books on disk.

    BerlinSteele 2018, p. 267Toumazou et al. 2011, p. 205Recke 2018

  4. 2011
    With Karnava and Perna: 'A corpus of Cypriot syllabic inscriptions of the 1st mill. BC', Proc. 4th International Cyprological Conference, ed. A. Dimitriou, Nicosia, 419-27.

    NicosiaSteele 2018, p. 267

  5. 2012
    With Karnava and Perna: 'Rapport 2006-2010 sur les ecritures chypriotes syllabiques' (Etudes mycéniennes 2010, 23-40); also 'Sprechen Sie Golgisch?' (427-34).

    Steele 2018, p. 267

  6. 2014
    A 2014 CCEC 44 introduction to a catalogue of Cypriot sculpture notes that Antoine Hermary wrote an addendum to the commentary on Cat. No. 22 referring to a new reading recently suggested by Egetmeyer.

    Karageorghis et al. 2014

  7. 2016
    Appendix V in Karageorghis and Raptou, Palaepaphos-Skales: edition of a bronze bowl with a Cypro-Minoan inscription of the Cypro-Geometric period, pp. 131-6.

    PalaepaphosSteele 2018, p. 267

Connections

6 people
Vassos KarageorghisGeorge Giabra PieridesMassimo PernaArtemis KarnavaHedvig Landenius EnegrenAlmut HintzeMarkus Egetmeyer
Scholarship

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Sources

  1. 1.Philippa M. Steele (2018). Writing and Society in Ancient Cyprus. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press.
  2. 2.M. Egetmeyer (1992). Wörterbuch zu den Inschriften im Kyprischen Syllabar. Berlin and New York, de Gruyter.
  3. 3.M. Egetmeyer (2002). “Inscribed stones”. Ancient Art from Cyprus in the Collection of George and Nefeli Giabra Pierides, 260-264. Athens.
  4. 4.Le dialecte grec ancien de Chypre.
  5. 5.M. Egetmeyer (2013). “From the Cypro-Minoan to the Cypro-Greek syllabaries: linguistic remarks on the script reform”. Syllabic Writing on Cyprus and its Context, 107-131. Cambridge.
  6. 6.M. Egetmeyer (2016). “Appendix V. A bronze bowl from Palaepaphos-Skales with a new Cypro-Minoan inscription from the Cypro-Geometric period”. Palaepaphos-Skales, 131-136. Nicosia.
  7. 7.M. K. Toumazou (ed.), P. N. Kardulias (ed.), D. B. Counts (ed.) (2011). Crossroads and Boundaries: The Archaeology of Past and Present in the Malloura Valley, Cyprus.
  8. 8.M. Recke (2018). Like Herrings in a Barrel: Max Ohnefalsch-Richter.
  9. 9.V. Karageorghis (ed.), E. Poyiadji-Richter (ed.), S. Rogge (ed.) (2014). Cypriote Antiquities in Berlin in the Focus of New Research.
  10. 10.Karnava (2020). Inscriptiones Cypri Syllabicae. Fasciculus I: Inscriptiones Amathuntis, Curii, Marii.