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Collector · Donor

Vassos Lyssarides

1920–2021 · Cyprus

Physician. Collected at Nicosia. Gave to Cyprus Museum; married to Barbara Cornwall Lyssarides.

Connections

2 people

Sales, gifts & bequests

Objects

  • Terracotta mould for a female figure with raised arms, pierced in seven places, H. 20 cm

    Cyprus Museum, Nicosia 1984/XII-12/431984Karageorghis 1985, fig. 13

  • Terracotta horse-and-rider figurine, H. 14.3 cm

    Cyprus Museum, Nicosia 1984/XII-21/51 (as printed)1984Karageorghis 1985, fig. 16

  • Fragmentary funerary terracotta of a seated woman, Marion type, H. 39.7 cm

    Cyprus Museum, Nicosia 1984/XII-12/441984Karageorghis 1985, fig. 18

  • Limestone head of a young man with wreath, H. 15.8 cm

    Cyprus Museum, Nicosia 1984/XII-12/491984Karageorghis 1985, fig. 21

  • Fragmentary limestone female head with net-held hair, preserved H. 22.1 cm ('meme donation')

    Cyprus Museum, Nicosia 1984/XII-12/501984Karageorghis 1985, fig. 22

  • Hellenistic lagynos with ivy and myrtle frieze, H. 17.6 cm

    Cyprus Museum, Nicosia 1984/VI-5/35 June 1984Lund 2015, p. 258Karageorghis 1985

On Ancient Cyprus

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Sources

  1. 1.V. Karageorghis (1985). “Chronique des fouilles et découvertes archéologiques à Chypre en 1984”. Bulletin de correspondance hellénique 109.
  2. 2.J. Lund (2015). A Study of the Circulation of Ceramics in Cyprus from the 3rd Century BC to the 3rd Century AD. Aarhus, Aarhus University Press.
  3. 3.Wikidata: Vasos Lyssarides. Online