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P. J. Riis

fl. 1940–1972

Scholar and archaeologist, active 1940–1972.

Life and work

  1. 1949
    Published Berytus IX (1949), which illustrates a nude female plaque comparable to the British Museum stand.

    Some Syro-Phoenician Bronze Caryatid Stands (1973), p. 88

  2. 1956–1970
    Archaeologist and scholar who published the Hama urn cemetery, including Cypriot-type vessels, and Sukas I (1970); he argued that Aegean-type material at Sukas and Ras Shamra reflected half-Mycenaeanised Cypriots, catalogued stone alabastra including one from Amathus (1956), and compared Kourion armlets and a Cypriot pendant with a Copenhagen pin.

    Greek, Roman and Byzantine Studies Winter 1960: Vol 3 Iss 1 (1960)

  3. 1956
    Compiled a 1956 inventory of stone alabastra that includes one example from Cyprus, from Tomb 283 at Amathus.

    A Stone Alabastron in the J. Paul Getty Museum and Its Mediterranean Context (2018), p. 13

  4. 1970
    Cited as author of Sukas, i (1970), a work referenced in a footnote on Assyrian references to Ionians; no independent activity described.

    A. T. Reyes, Archaic Cyprus: A Study of the Textual and Archaeological Evidence (1994), p. so

  5. 1970
    Authored Sukas I (1970), a valuable study of the distribution of skyphoi in the East.

    The foundation of Thasos (1978), p. 69

  6. 1972
    Riis presented the finds of his excavations at Hama and Sukas in Syria, focusing on the Mycenaean finds from those tombs and suggesting that Mycenaean trade was conducted by merchants of Cypriot origin.

    Press and Information Office, Republic of Cyprus, press release of 31 March 1972, «Αι Εργασίαι του Διεθνούς Αρχαιολογικού Συμποσίου»

  7. Undated
    Discussed the aktines, pyrgos and kestos of a goddess's crown, rejecting the view that the kestos was a chest band; cited in an article on Hera's cult-images.

    American Journal of Archaeology 1960-10: Vol 64 Iss 4 (1960)

  8. Undated
    Communicated the Copenhagen pin to Jacobsthal, supplied a photograph, agreed on a fifties-of-the-fifth-century date, and compared Curium gold-plated bronze armlets and a Cypriote gold pendent with it.

    Paul Jacobsthal, Greek Pins and Their Connexions with Europe and Asia (1956), p. 55

  9. Undated
    Showed that the leaf-crown existed in the Creto-Mycenaean area and in Oriental regions; discussed the Hierapolis crown and the kestos, refusing the chest-band explanation.

    Problems of Hera's Cult-Images (1960), p. 344

  10. Undated
    Author of a chronology of Protogeometric imports at Tell Abu Huwam, adopted by Maisler for dating stratum III.

    Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research 1955-04: Iss 138

  11. Undated
    Cited for suggesting that Late Bronze Age Aegean-type presence at Sukas (Phoenicia) was a local establishment of half-Mycenaeanized Cypriotes rather than true Greeks.

    Pharaoh's Workers (1994), p. [168]

  12. Undated
    Argues that Mycenaean objects at Ras Shamra were imported, with Cyprus as their source, reflecting a local establishment of half-mycenaeanized Cypriots.

    Thirty Seasons at Ras Shamra in Syria (1972), p. 140

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7 mentions

Sources

  1. 1.Greek, Roman and Byzantine Studies Winter 1960: Vol 3 Iss 1 (1960).
  2. 2.American Journal of Archaeology 1960-10: Vol 64 Iss 4 (1960).
  3. 3.Paul Jacobsthal, Greek Pins and Their Connexions with Europe and Asia (1956).
  4. 4.Problems of Hera's Cult-Images (1960).
  5. 5.Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research 1955-04: Iss 138.
  6. 6.A. T. Reyes, Archaic Cyprus: A Study of the Textual and Archaeological Evidence (1994).
  7. 7.A Stone Alabastron in the J. Paul Getty Museum and Its Mediterranean Context (2018).
  8. 8.Pharaoh's Workers (1994), p. [168].
  9. 9.Thirty Seasons at Ras Shamra in Syria (1972).
  10. 10.The foundation of Thasos (1978).
  11. 11.Some Syro-Phoenician Bronze Caryatid Stands (1973).
  12. 12.Press and Information Office, Republic of Cyprus, press release of 31 March 1972, «Αι Εργασίαι του Διεθνούς Αρχαιολογικού Συμποσίου».
  13. 13.Schaeffer, Claude F.a., Stratigraphie Comparee Et Chronologie De L Asie Occidentale (1948).

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