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Stella M. Lubsen-Admiraal

fl. 1989–2014

Author of the published catalogues of Thanos Zintilis's Cypriot collection, from the 1989 Amsterdam exhibition to the 2003 SIMA volume and the 2004 Athens museum catalogue.

Biography

Stella M. Lubsen-Admiraal published the Cypriot collection of Thanos N. Zintilis. In 1989 she and Joost Crouwel produced the catalogue of the exhibition Cyprus & Aphrodite at the Allard Pierson Museum, Amsterdam3,9. L. Alpe describes it as the first public showing of the collection, with some objects published then and most still unpublished1.

In the festschrift for Vassos Karageorghis (Kypriakai Spoudai 54-55, 1990-91) she published a female limestone figure, Z.662, said to have been found below a wall of a building at Kidasi, about 20 km north of Kouklia-Palaepaphos and then on loan to the Allard Pierson Museum; the same article proposed a typology of Chalcolithic stone figurines10. Christian Winkelmann later set her typology against those of Goring and Flourentzos and corrected her on the context of some pieces from Kissonerga3. In 1994 she published the collection's seven stone plank figures, which Falconer, Monahan and Fall say are purported to come from a Bronze Age cemetery at Kidasi-Foutsi, with painted decoration noted on five4. In 2002 she published "The Goddess of Achna. Heptastolos" in Cahiers du Centre d'Etudes Chypriotes 3211.

Her catalogue Ancient Cypriote Art in the T.N. Zintilis Collection (SIMA 20:25, with a CD-ROM) appeared in 200312. Alpe counts 714 objects in it: 389 pottery, 79 stone, 57 terracotta statuettes, 30 metal and 159 pieces of jewellery1. The collection, until then at the Allard Pierson Museum, went to the Museum of Cycladic Art in Athens in 20021, and her museum catalogue for the Goulandris Foundation followed in 20047,13.

Life and work

  1. 1989
    With Joost Crouwel produced the catalogue of the exhibition 'Cyprus & Aphrodite' in the Allard Pierson Museum, Amsterdam, the first public showing of part of the Zintilis collection.

    AmsterdamWinkelmann 2020, p. 592Alpe 2004

  2. 1990–1991
    Published the Chalcolithic female limestone figure 'Zintilis Idol' (Z.662, then on loan to the Allard Pierson Museum, 27 cm; said found below a wall of a building at Kidasi, c. 20 km north of Kouklia-Palaepaphos) and proposed a typology of Cypriote Chalcolithic stone figurines, in the Karageorghis festschrift Kypriakai Spoudai 54-55.

    Admiraal 1990-1991, p. 53Winkelmann 2020, p. 349, p. 598

  3. 1994
    Published the Zintilis Collection's seven stone plank figures (Lubsen-Admiraal 1994); Falconer et al. say they are purported to come from a Bronze Age cemetery at Kidasi-Foutsi, Paphos district, and that painted decoration is noted on five of the seven.

    Falconer et al. 2014, p. 7, p. 10

  4. 2002
    Published 'The Goddess of Achna. Heptastolos', CCEC 32 (2002), 257-274.

    Recke 2018, p. 55

  5. 2002
    Per Alpe, the Zintilis collection, long kept in the Allard Pierson Museum, has been in the Museum of Cycladic Art (N. P. Goulandris Foundation), Athens, since 2002.

    AthensAlpe 2004

  6. 2003
    Catalogue Ancient Cypriote Art in the T.N. Zintilis Collection (SIMA 20:25 / Corpus of Cypriote Antiquities 25), VI + 89 pp., 93 plates of drawings and a CD-ROM of photographs; she studied and classified the collection: pottery 389, stone 79, terracotta statuettes 57, metal 30, jewellery 159 (total 714).

    SavedalenAlpe 2004Hardy 2014

  7. 2004
    Museum catalogue Ancient Cypriote Art: The Thanos N. Zintilis Collection (Athens, N. P. Goulandris Foundation), with a Greek title in Kiely and Merrillees 2012.

    AthensDissinger 2017, p. 536Childs et al. 2012, p. 167Kiely & Merrillees 2012, p. 27

Connections

6 people
Paul ÅströmThanos N. ZintilisJoost CrouwelMaria TolisLaurence AlpeSamuel Andrew HardyStella M. Lubsen-Admiraal
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On Ancient Cyprus

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Sources

  1. 1.Laurence Alpe (2004). “Review of S. M. Lubsen-Admiraal, Ancient Cypriote Art in the T. N. Zintilis Collection (2003)”. Cahiers du Centre d'Études Chypriotes 34. Online
  2. 2.Samuel Andrew Hardy (2014). “Using Open-Source Data to Identify Participation in the Illicit Antiquities Trade: A Case Study on the Cypriot Civil War”. European Journal on Criminal Policy and Research 20. Online
  3. 3.Christine Winkelmann (2020). The Neolithic and Chalcolithic Figurines of Cyprus. Münster, Zaphon.
  4. 4.Steven E. Falconer, Ellis M. Monahan, Patricia L. Fall (2014). “A Stone Plank Figure from Politiko-Troullia, Cyprus: Potential Implications for Inferring Bronze Age Communal Behavior”. Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research 371, 3-. Online
  5. 5.M. Recke (2018). Like Herrings in a Barrel: Max Ohnefalsch-Richter.
  6. 6.Alicia Marie Dissinger (2017). “Cypro-Archaic Bird Iconography: Types, Uses, and Meanings”. University of Virginia.
  7. 7.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.
  8. 8.T. Kiely, R. S. Merrillees (2012). “The archaeological interests of Samuel Brown, government engineer, and his circle of acquaintances in late nineteenth-century Cyprus”. Cahiers du Centre d'Études Chypriotes 42, 245-272. Online
  9. 9.S. M. Lubsen-Admiraal (ed.), J. Crouwel (ed.) (1989). Cyprus & Aphrodite. Exhibition in the Allard Pierson Museum, Archaeological Museum of the University of Amsterdam. 's-Gravenhage, SDU.
  10. 10.S. M. Lubsen Admiraal (1990-1991). “A Chalcolithic Cypriote anthropomorphic figurine in the Zintilis Collection in Amsterdam”. Kypriakai Spoudai 54-55, 41-51.
  11. 11.S. M. Lubsen-Admiraal (2002). “The Goddess of Achna. Heptastolos”. Cahiers du Centre d'Études Chypriotes 32, 257-274.
  12. 12.S. M. Lubsen-Admiraal (2003). Corpus of Cypriote Antiquities 25: Ancient Cypriote art in the T. N. Zintilis Collection. Sävedalen, Paul Åströms Förlag.
  13. 13.S. M. Lubsen-Admiraal (2003). Corpus of Cypriote Antiquities 25: Ancient Cypriote art in the T. N. Zintilis Collection. Sävedalen, Paul Åströms Förlag.