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Theophanis Pilavakis

fl. 1969–2016

Museum director, active 1969–2016. Worked with Stuart Swiny.

Life and work

  1. 2016

    1. Reported in 2016 to a researcher on Cypriot village pottery that three older rosewater dispensers kept in Phini had broken.

      Gloria London, Village Potters of the Troodos Mountains: Ceramic Production in Agios Demetrios, Cyprus 1891-2002 (2024), p. 168

  2. Undated

    n.d.

    1. Brother of the Phini pithos maker filmed in 1969 and founder of the Pilavakion Museum of the village's pottery (Neophytou's notes on Penn Museum film F16-0398, 2009).

      Penn Museum (University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology), film collection, F16-0398, «1969 #55 Cyprus», Watson Kintner, 1969, 15 min, shot list on the Internet Archive, (no timecodes in the shot list)

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Founded1

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Documents · 2

Sources

  1. 1.Gloria London (2020). Wine Jars and Jar Makers of Cyprus: The Ethnoarchaeology of Pitharia. xxii, 218. Nicosia, Åström Editions.
  2. 2.Gloria London, Village Potters of the Troodos Mountains: Ceramic Production in Agios Demetrios, Cyprus 1891-2002 (2024).
  3. 3.Penn Museum (University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology), film collection, F16-0398, «1969 #55 Cyprus», Watson Kintner, 1969, 15 min, shot list on the Internet Archive, (no timecodes in the shot list).
  4. 4.Gloria London, 2020, Wine Jars and Jar Makers of Cyprus: The Ethnoarchaeology of Pitharia.

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