Pierre Aupert

When the French School at Athens took up Amathus at the suggestion of Vassos Karageorghis, the effective direction of the dig was entrusted to Pierre Aupert, then a member of the School; Antoine Hermary joined him later, and administrative direction stayed with the School's director, Pierre Amandry⁵. The first season, in 1975, opened four sectors in the upper town and found rock-cut foundations of an Archaic-Classical building, sherds from the Geometric period onward, and stone and terracotta figurines¹. In 1976 the mission looked for the four-chambered tomb that Cesnola had dug at Amathus and could not relocate it⁶.

From 1976 to 1980 the mission dug on the acropolis at the temple of Aphrodite, where the dedication of Androkles, last king of Amathus, to Aphrodite of Cyprus turned up re-used in a later wall². Aupert and Hermary reported on the acropolis work together in the Report of the Department of Antiquities, Cyprus for 1980, and in the early 1980s they dated the temple to the early Imperial period and found terrace walls destroyed about 300 BC³. With Marie-Christine Hellmann he edited Amathonte I (1984)¹³, and with Hermary he published a survey of the French excavations of 1975 to 1984¹⁴. By 1995 he had examined the west gate, a north curtain wall with three towers and a rampart on the harbour side⁴.

He edited the Guide d'Amathonte in 1996, which appeared in English in 2000¹⁵, and with Pavlos Flourentzos published a Hellenistic cadastral inscription from Amathus in 2008¹⁷.