Ancient CyprusAncient Cyprus

Excavator · Archaeologist

P. E. Pecorella

fl. 1970–2007 · Italy

Italian excavator and archaeologist, active 1970–2007. Excavated at Ayia Irini-Palaeokastro. Excavated with Carlo Gallavotti and L. Rocchetti; worked with L. Quilici.

Life and work

  1. 1971
    Directed the excavation of the seaside cemetery at Ayia Irini: fifteen tombs, fourteen already plundered, one found intact; dromos and pit types; the cemetery was used in LC I, then from the late Geometric and through the Archaic period

    Ayia IriniKarageorghis 1972

  2. 1972
    With Quilici and Rochetti named as directors of works under Carlo Gallavotti. Pecorella and Rocchetti excavated at Palaeokastron by the sea: 25 tombs, all of the Archaic period, several found intact, with a good harvest of pottery including an important Euboean skyphos

    Ayia IriniKarageorghis 1973

  3. 1977
    Published the Late Bronze Age tombs of the seaside necropolis of Ayia Irini 'Paleokastro'

    RomeHouby-Nielsen 2016Csornay-Caprez 2000

  4. 1985
    With L. Rocchetti, wrote 'The Italian Mission at Ayia Irini' in Archaeology in Cyprus 1960-1985, pp. 182-192

    Given 2025

Connections

4 people
Carlo GallavottiL. RocchettiL. QuiliciFulvia Lo SchiavoP. E. Pecorella
FieldworkScholarship

Fieldwork & employment

Scholarship

Colleagues & contacts

Sources

  1. 1.V. Karageorghis (1972). “Chronique des fouilles et découvertes archéologiques à Chypre en 1971”. Bulletin de correspondance hellénique 96.
  2. 2.V. Karageorghis (1973). “Chronique des fouilles et découvertes archéologiques à Chypre en 1972”. Bulletin de correspondance hellénique 97.
  3. 3.P. E. Pecorella (1977). Le tombe dell'età del bronzo tardo della necropoli a mare di Ayia Irini, Paleokastro. Rome.
  4. 4.P. E. Pecorella, L. Rocchetti (1985). “The Italian Mission at Ayia Irini”. Archaeology in Cyprus 1960-1985, 182-192. Nicosia, Department of Antiquities.
  5. 5.S. Houby-Nielsen (2016). “Excavations at Ayia Irini in the winter of 1929: tricky Phoenicians and Biblical floods”. Ancient Cyprus Today: Museum Collections and New Research, 105-117. Uppsala.
  6. 6.Boldizsár Csornay-Caprez (2000). Cypriote Antiquities. Rome, L'Erma di Bretschneider.
  7. 7.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.