Saul S. Weinberg

Saul S. Weinberg directed the single season at Phaneromeni, near Episkopi, in 1955: the University of Missouri's excavation of an Early Bronze Age settlement and cemetery in the Kourion area. J. L. Davis describes it as the first excavation in the Old World sponsored by an American state university⁷.

His first work in Cyprus was at Bamboula, Kourion. In 1951, with a grant from the American Philosophical Society, he made an intensive study of the architecture of the site that John Franklin Daniel had left unpublished at his death in 1948. Ellen Kohler assisted him; the rest of the Bamboula publication went to J. L. Benson⁸. Davis lists him among the workers of the University Museum's Kourion expedition between 1947 and 1954⁷.

A. H. S. Megaw's report for 1954 announced that Weinberg would make trials at Phaneromeni the next year for the University of Missouri⁵. The 1955 report gives the results: house floors of Early Cypriot II and III, and a cemetery of a dozen chamber tombs with Early Cypriot II pottery, one of them with a dromos corridor over 9 m long and four openings on each side. Weinberg hoped to open larger areas in 1957⁶. He published an account, "Exploring the Early Bronze Age in Cyprus", in Archaeology in 1956¹, and edited the volume of studies presented to Hetty Goldman that year². A speaker at a Nicosia colloquium in 1975 called him the pioneer who had started the excavation of a settlement near Kourion about twenty years earlier, and hoped he would return to it⁹.