Museum director · Scholar · Excavator
S. Alexiou
fl. 1950–1974 · Greece
Greek museum director and scholar, active 1950–1974.
Life and work
- 1950–1958Explained the Archanes model group as a version of a divine triad and suggested the raised-hand object was a wreath; cited as author of KChr. 1950 and 1958 studies.
- 1952Cited in BCH 76 (1952) as publishing material relevant to the Axos head comparison.
- 1973Director of the Heraklion Museum who allowed a vase in the Giamalakis collection to be reproduced in Marguerite Yon's study of the Cypriot kalathos (1973); he also published Cretan material.
- UndatedPublished a boat painted on a Postpalatial larnax from Gazi near Iraklion.
- UndatedReferred to a linear A chariot-ideogram supposedly seen on a tablet found at Tylissos, a point the passage notes Caratelli rejected.
- UndatedProvided facilities to the author for studying the Minoan dagger objects in Heraklion Museum.
- UndatedExcavated at Poros and elsewhere in Crete.
- UndatedConducted recent excavations in Crete whose results Evans used on the Early Minoan period.
Connections
1 personColleagues & contacts
- Connected with Marguerite YonHeraklion vase, Giamalakis collection no. 743 Marguerite Yon, Chapitre premier. — Le calathos chypriote au Xle s. av. J.-C. et la décoration figurée (1973), p. 131973
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Sources
- 1.Marguerite Yon, Chapitre premier. — Le calathos chypriote au Xle s. av. J.-C. et la décoration figurée (1973).
- 2.Lauren Adams, Orientalizing Sculpture in Soft Limestone from Crete and Mainland Greece (1978).
- 3.Charlotte R. Long, The Ayia Triadha Sarcophagus: A Study of Late Minoan and Mycenaean Funerary Practices and Beliefs (1974).
- 4.A Mycenaean Puzzle from Lefkandi in Euboea (1968).
- 5.The Early Bronze Age Daggers of Crete (1967).
- 6.The Khaniale Tekke Tombs, II (1967).
- 7.Jan Driessen; Colin F. Macdonald, The Troubled Island: Minoan Crete Before and After the Santorini Eruption (2020).
- 8.R. A. Crossland; Ann Birchall, Bronze Age Migrations in the Aegean: Archaeological and Linguistic Problems in Greek Prehistory (1973).
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