Ancient CyprusAncient Cyprus

Archaeologist · Scholar

Sakellarakis

fl. 1970–1992 · Greece

Greek archaeologist and scholar, active 1970–1992. Worked with Jean-Pierre Olivier and J.-C. Poursat.

Life and work

  1. 1970
  2. Undated
    Archaeologist of Crete who published a Cypriot conoid seal (CMS I Suppl. 150) as Aegean and compared ivories from the Idaean cave with the throne from a rich burial at Salamis.

    G.C. IOANNIDES, ΑΦΙΕΡΩΜΑ ΣΤΟ ΒΑΣΟ ΚΑΡΑΓΙΩΡΓΗ / Studies in Honour of Vassos Karageorghis (1992), p. 219

  3. Undated
    Has recently argued that some ivory objects in the Idaean cave were part of a throne like one in the wealthy burial at Cypriot Salamis.

    Sarah C. Murray, The Collapse of the Mycenaean Economy: Imports, Trade, and Institutions 1300-700 BCE (2017), p. 270

  4. Undated
    Preferred the earthquake hypothesis for the LM IB destructions (personal communication).

    Jan Driessen; Colin F. Macdonald, The Troubled Island: Minoan Crete Before and After the Santorini Eruption (2020), p. 107

  5. Undated
    Discussed the concept of psychostasia and the weighing of souls in later Greek tradition.

    Chrysanthi Gallou, The Mycenaean Cult of the Dead (2005), p. 42

Connections

2 people

Mentioned in

6 mentions

Sources

  1. 1.G.C. IOANNIDES, ΑΦΙΕΡΩΜΑ ΣΤΟ ΒΑΣΟ ΚΑΡΑΓΙΩΡΓΗ / Studies in Honour of Vassos Karageorghis (1992).
  2. 2.Sarah C. Murray, The Collapse of the Mycenaean Economy: Imports, Trade, and Institutions 1300-700 BCE (2017).
  3. 3.Charlotte R. Long, The Ayia Triadha Sarcophagus: A Study of Late Minoan and Mycenaean Funerary Practices and Beliefs (1974).
  4. 4.Jan Driessen; Colin F. Macdonald, The Troubled Island: Minoan Crete Before and After the Santorini Eruption (2020).
  5. 5.Chrysanthi Gallou, The Mycenaean Cult of the Dead (2005).
  6. 6.Yannis Sakellarakis; Eleni Konstantinidi-Syvridi, The Mycenaean Collection of Ivory Combs at the National Archaeological Museum, Athens (2022).

Corrections and additions

Did you know this person?

We would like to hear from relatives, colleagues and anyone who knows more about this person's life and work.

Missing from this record

  • Dates of birth and death unknown
  • No photograph

We would like to hear about

  • Dates and places of birth and death
  • Other spellings or names they used
  • Photographs, letters or papers
  • Their work, collections or excavations
  • A mistake in what we say
Write to us

or alexis@ancientcyprus.com

If this page is about you, write to us and we will correct it or take it down. Tell us if you would like to be thanked by name on the page.