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Pierides family of Larnaca

fl. 1825–2017 · Cyprus

Larnaca family whose museum of Cypriot antiquities lent to an exhibition in Stockholm, and one of whose members, Luke Zenon Pierides, first suggested a Swedish excavation in Cyprus.

Biography

The Pierides family of Larnaca kept a museum of Cypriot antiquities, and one of its members first suggested the Swedish Cyprus Expedition. Eva Rystedt records that Luki Z. Pierides, that is Luke Zenon Pierides, put the idea of a Swedish excavation in Cyprus to Axel W. Persson, and she quotes Persson's own 1931 account of it. A temporary exhibition of Cypriote antiquities from the family's museum was later arranged at the Medelhavsmuseet in Stockholm, in connection with a conference on Cypriote archaeology6.

Life and work

  1. 1992
    A temporary exhibition of Cypriote antiquities from the museum of the Pierides family in Larnaca was arranged at the Medelhavsmuseet, Stockholm, in connection with a conference on Cypriote archaeology; Rystedt also records that Luki Z. Pierides (Luke Zenon) first suggested a Swedish excavation in Cyprus to Axel W. Persson, quoting Persson (1931).

    StockholmEva Rystedt (1994). The Swedish Cyprus Expedition: The Living Past, pp. 19-71

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8 people
Max Ohnefalsch-RichterArthur Bernard CookDemetrios PieridesLuke Zenon PieridesDjabra (Gabriel) PieridesZeno D. PieridesDemetrios Z. PieridesGeorge Giabra PieridesPierides family of Larnaca
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Sources

  1. 1.V. Karageorghis (1973). Cypriote Antiquities in the Pierides Collection, Larnaca, Cyprus. Athens, Ekdotiki Hellados.
  2. 2.Alicia Marie Dissinger (2017). Cypro-Archaic Bird Iconography: Types, Uses, and Meanings. p. 203.
  3. 3.A. B. Cook (1940). Zeus: A Study in Ancient Religion, vol. III part 1.
  4. 4. (1900). Répertoire d'épigraphie sémitique, vol. 1.
  5. 5. (1925). “Revue archéologique”. Revue archéologique.
  6. 6.Eva Rystedt (1994). The Swedish Cyprus Expedition: The Living Past.
  7. 7.A. B. Cook, 1940, Zeus: A Study in Ancient Religion, vol. 3 part 1.
  8. 8.V. Karageorghis, F. Rizopoulou-Egoumenidou, D. Papanikola-Bakirtzis, C. Elliott, 1985, Ancient Cypriote Art in the Pierides Foundation Museum.
  9. 9.V. Karageorghis, 1973, Cypriote Antiquities in the Pierides Collection, Larnaca, Cyprus.
  10. 10.Alicia Marie Dissinger, 2017, Cypro-Archaic Bird Iconography: Types, Uses, and Meanings.
  11. 11.Alicia Marie Dissinger, Cypro-Archaic Bird Iconography: Types, Uses, and Meanings (2017).

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