Museum director · Cataloguer

P. Kastriotis

fl. 1899–1928 · Greece

Greek museum director and cataloguer, active 1899–1928. Worked for National Archaeological Museum of Athens.

Life and work

1899
Published a limestone head from 'Lycia' in the National Museum, Athens (Archaiologike Ephemeris, pp. 52-56). Karageorghis/Kaltsas (2003) note it is another Herakles head of Cypriote type; Gjerstad first identified it as Herakles, not Omphale as in the original publication.
AthensKarageorghis 2003, p. 118
August 1928
As Director of the National Museum he received 41 prehistoric and Geometric Cypriote vases handed over 'in accordance with an exchange programme'.
AthensKarageorghis 2003, p. 12

41 prehistoric and Geometric Cypriote vases (exchange)
National Archaeological Museum of AthensAugust 1928Karageorghis 2003, p. 12
Limestone head, said to come from Lycia, identified by Gjerstad as Herakles (published by Kastriotis 1899, pl. 4)
National Archaeological Museum of Athens1899Karageorghis 2003, p. 118

1.V. Karageorghis (2003). Ancient Cypriote Art in the National Archaeological Museum, Athens. Athens, Kapon Editions, for the A. G. Leventis Foundation.
2.V. Karageorghis (2003). Ancient Cypriote Art in the National Archaeological Museum, Athens. Athens, Kapon Editions, for the A. G. Leventis Foundation.
3.Π. Καστριώτης (1899). “Αρχαϊκή κεφαλή εκ Λυκίας”. Archaiologike Ephemeris, 52-56.
4.Esther Solomon (ed.) (2021). Contested Antiquity: Archaeological Heritage and Social Conflict in Modern Greece and Cyprus. Indiana University Press.