Ancient CyprusAncient Cyprus

Curator · Scholar

Pierre Devambez

fl. 1963–1972 · France

French curator and scholar, active 1963–1972. Worked with Vassos Karageorghis.

Life and work

  1. 1963
    At the 8th International Congress of Classical Archaeology in Paris, on the closing Seine boat excursion, introduced Vassos Karageorghis (who had spoken on the Salamis 'Royal Necropolis') to Jean Pouilloux of Lyon, where they first discussed Lyon University taking part in digs at Salamis under Pouilloux.

    ParisKarageorghis 2015, p. 4

  2. 1965
    Acted again as liaison between the Secretariat of the Union Academique Internationale and the Cyprus Department of Antiquities for CVA Cyprus 2 (Private Collections 1).

    Karageorghis 1965

  3. 1972
    Wrote the obituary-notice 'Porphyrios Dikaios', Syria 49(3-4), 500-501.

    Given 2025

Connections

2 people

Colleagues & contacts

Sources

  1. 1.V. Karageorghis (2015). “Aspects peu connus de la contribution de Jacqueline Karageorghis à l'archéologie chypriote”. Cahiers du Centre d'Études Chypriotes 45, 1-5.
  2. 2.V. Karageorghis (1965). Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum, Cyprus 2: Cyprus, Private Collections I. Department of Antiquities, Cyprus.
  3. 3.P. Devambez (1972). “Porphyrios Dikaios”. Syria 49, 500-501.
  4. 4.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.