Ancient CyprusAncient Cyprus

Scholar

Tassos Papacostas

fl. 1999–2013

Scholar, active 1999–2013. Worked with Stuart Dunn.

Life and work

  1. 2009
    Metcalf thanks him for reading minutely a nearly finished draft of the whole of Byzantine Cyprus 491-1191.

    Metcalf 2009

  2. c. 2013
    Kiely (2017) describes him as teaching the Byzantine to Renaissance archaeology of the island at King's College London, and his major work on the Byzantine churches of Cyprus as the origin of the Heritage Gazetteer of Cyprus (KCL, supported by the A.G. Leventis Foundation, with S. Dunn and C. Roueche).

    LondonKiely 2017

Connections

3 people
D. M. MetcalfStuart DunnCharlotte RouechéTassos Papacostas
Colleagues

Colleagues & contacts

Sources

  1. 1.T. Kiely (2017). “Britain and the archaeology of Cyprus II: 1914 to the present day”. Cahiers du Centre d'Études Chypriotes 47, 253-310. Online
  2. 2.D. M. Metcalf (2009). Byzantine Cyprus 491-1191. Nicosia, Cyprus Research Centre.
  3. 3.S. Rogge (ed.), Ch. Ioannou (ed.), Th. Mavrojannis (ed.) (2019). Salamis of Cyprus: History and Archaeology from the Earliest Times to Late Antiquity. Münster, Waxmann.
  4. 4.T. Papacostas (1999). “Byzantine Cyprus. The Testimony of its Churches, 650-1200”. Unpublished PhD thesis, Exeter College, University of Oxford.
  5. 5.T. Papacostas (2014). “Byzantine Famagusta: An Oxymoron?”. Famagusta, vol. 1: Art and Architecture, 25-61. Turnhout.
  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.