Ancient CyprusAncient Cyprus

Collector

Marllen Triantafyllides

fl. 1979–1987

Collector, active 1979–1987. Collected at Nicosia.

Life and work

  1. 1979
    A Bichrome IV jug from the M. Triantafyllides Collection, Nicosia (no inventory number) was published in Karageorghis and des Gagniers 1979, p. 143, SXXV.g.9.

    NicosiaDissinger 2017

  2. 1987
    Karageorghis's Chronique des fouilles lists, under 'Collections privees', the 'Collection de Marllen Triantafyllides, Nicosie': a Red Polished (Mottled) amphora, h. 43.5 cm, with human-head knobs above the handles, and a small limestone winged sphinx statuette with red detail, probably from an incense burner.

    NicosiaKarageorghis 1988

Connections

1 person

Scholarship

Colleagues & contacts

Objects

  • Red Polished (Mottled) amphora, h. 43.5 cm

    private collection, Nicosiaby 1987Karageorghis 1988

  • Limestone statuette of a crouching winged sphinx, painted detail

    private collection, Nicosiaby 1987Karageorghis 1988

  • Bichrome IV jug (Dissinger V.J.166), waterfowl in free field style, CA

    private collection, Nicosiaby 1979Dissinger 2017

Sources

  1. 1.V. Karageorghis (1988). “Chronique des fouilles et découvertes archéologiques à Chypre en 1987”. Bulletin de correspondance hellénique 112.
  2. 2.Alicia Marie Dissinger (2017). “Cypro-Archaic Bird Iconography: Types, Uses, and Meanings”. University of Virginia.