Ancient CyprusAncient Cyprus

Collector

S. Kammitsis

fl. 1959–1960 · Cyprus

Cypriot collector, active 1959–1960. Collected at Polis tis Chrysochou (Marion). Catalogued the collection of Vassos Karageorghis.

Life and work

  1. 1959
    Karageorghis records the 'collection de S. Kammitsis, Nicosie', the whole of which was assembled at Polis tis Chrysochou (ancient Marion): a veiled female terracotta head with earrings (fig. 58), two Attic red-figure askoi (hare and eagle; panther and swan) and a fragmentary Attic lekythos with an owl

    NicosiaKarageorghis 1960, pp. 38-39

  2. 1960
    The 1960 Chronique notes the same collection again and publishes a remarkable sardonyx scarab (6th c. BC, Herakles shooting Nessos with Deianeira, Egyptian ankh), like the rest from Marion; compared with a Marion scarab of Theseus and the Minotaur then in the collection of G. G. Pierides, Nicosia

    NicosiaKarageorghis 1961

Connections

1 person

Scholarship

Objects

  • Veiled female terracotta head with earrings, white-painted face

    From Polis tis Chrysochou (Marion)Kammitsis collection, Nicosia1959Karageorghis 1960, pp. 38-39

  • Sardonyx scarab, Herakles, Nessos and Deianeira

    From Marion (Polis tis Chrysochou)Kammitsis collection, Nicosia1960Karageorghis 1961

Sources

  1. 1.V. Karageorghis (1960). “Chronique des fouilles et découvertes archéologiques à Chypre en 1959”. Bulletin de correspondance hellénique 84.
  2. 2.V. Karageorghis (1961). “Chronique des fouilles et découvertes archéologiques à Chypre en 1960”. Bulletin de correspondance hellénique 85.