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Antiquities official · Scholar · Restorer / conservator

Sophocles Sophocleous

fl. 1984–2012 · Cyprus

Conservator of Byzantine frescoes and icons, active 1984–2012. Worked at Paphos district. Wrote with Christos Argyrou and Frini Hadjichristophi.

Life and work

  1. 1985
    Published the Atlas des representations chypro-archaiques des divinites (SIMA Pocket-book 33, Goteborg); Hermary notes it in his Chronique.

    GoteborgHermary 1986Childs et al. 2012

  2. 1991
    With T. Georghiou published Cypriot terracotta figurines of the sixth and fifth centuries in the Pierides Foundation Museum (Transeuphratene 4, pp. 45-49); Dissinger cites it for a female figurine holding a bird, Larnaca, Pierides Museum, Bank of Cyprus Cultural Foundation 669.

    LarnacaDissinger 2017

  3. 2012
    Acknowledged by the Princeton Polis expedition as a regional director of the Paphos district (volume City of Gold, 2012).

    PolisChilds et al. 2012

Connections

2 people

Scholarship

Objects

  • Cypro-Archaic female terracotta figurine holding a bird (published by Sophocleous and Georghiou 1991, pl. XVIII no. 5)

    Pierides Foundation Museum, Larnaca BoCCF 669 (AR 15 MIP 669)Dissinger 2017

Sources

  1. 1.S. Sophocleous (1985). Atlas des représentations chypro-archaïques des divinités. Göteborg, Paul Åströms Förlag.
  2. 2.S. Sophocleous (1985). “L'Aphrodite en tant qu'androgyne”. Archaeologia Cypria 1, 79-96.
  3. 3.S. Sophocleous, T. Georghiou (1991). “Cypriot Terracotta Figurines of the Sixth and Fifth Centuries in the Pierides Foundation Museum”. Transeuphratène 4, 45-49.
  4. 4.S. Sophocleous (1994). Icons of Cyprus, 7th - 20th Century. Nicosia.
  5. 5.W. A. P. Childs (ed.), J. S. Smith (ed.), J. M. Padgett (ed.) (2012). City of Gold: The Archaeology of Polis Chrysochous, Cyprus. Princeton, Princeton University Art Museum.
  6. 6.C. A. Stewart (ed.), T. W. Davis (ed.), A. Weyl Carr (ed.) (2014). Cyprus and the Balance of Empires: Art and Archaeology from Justinian I to the Coeur de Lion. CAARI / ASOR.
  7. 7.Alicia Marie Dissinger (2017). “Cypro-Archaic Bird Iconography: Types, Uses, and Meanings”. University of Virginia.
  8. 8.Antoine Hermary (1986). “Chronique d'archéologie chypriote (1984-1985)”. Cahiers du Centre d'Études Chypriotes 5.
  9. 9.A. Kleiman, A. Fantalkin, H. Mommsen, I. Finkelstein (2019). “The Date and Origin of Black-on-Red Ware: The View from Megiddo”. American Journal of Archaeology 123, 531-555.