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Zomenia Zomeni

b. 1978 · Cyprus

Geologist of the Geological Survey Department of Cyprus who prepared the geological map of the Malloura Valley and wrote a 2012 doctorate on the marine terraces and geoarchaeology of Palaipaphos.

Biography

Zomenia Zomeni is the geologist who prepared the geological map of the Malloura Valley for the Athienou Archaeological Project. She worked as a Geological Officer in the Geological Survey Department of the Republic of Cyprus in Nicosia1,9.

The project's volume on the Malloura Valley, dated 2010 on its title page, thanks her and Senior Geological Officer Ioannis Panayides for preparing the stratigraphic column of Cyprus and the geological map of the valley1.

In 2012 she completed a doctorate at Oregon State University, with a dissertation titled Quaternary Marine Terraces on Cyprus: Constraints on Uplift and Pedogenesis, and the Geoarchaeology of Palaipafos2,3. The thesis is unpublished, but other projects cite it: the Nea Paphos team uses it for uplift, for the dating of marine terraces and for a table of ancient earthquakes, and the Souskiou and Archaic Cyprus volumes refer to it as well3,4,5. The same year she wrote the short chapter "The Geology of Cyprus" for the Department of Antiquities catalogue Ancient Cyprus: Cultures in Dialogue6.

In 2017 she and Maria Dikomitou-Eliadou published "From North to South: Red Polished Fyllia (Philia) Pottery Production and Distribution Patterns at the Beginning of the Cypriot Bronze Age" in the volume edited by D. Pilides and M. Mina8.

In 2022 she was a co-author of a paper in Heritage, "X-ray Fluorescence Spectroscopy of Picrolite Raw Material on Cyprus". Its authors include Theodora Moutsiou, Vassiliki Kassianidou and Christian Reepmeyer and the Geological Survey Department is her address on it9. The paper reports the first characterisation of picrolite from the Troodos source regions by handheld and synchrotron X-ray fluorescence9.

Life and work

  1. 2010
    Named as Geological Officer of the Geological Survey Department, thanked with Senior Geological Officer Ioannis Panayides for preparing the stratigraphic column of Cyprus and the geological map of the Malloura Valley for the Athienou Archaeological Project volume (Annual of ASOR 65, dated 2010 on its title page).

    AthienouToumazou et al. 2011, p. 42, p. 1

  2. 2012
    PhD dissertation, Oregon State University: Quaternary Marine Terraces on Cyprus: Constraints on Uplift and Pedogenesis, and the Geoarchaeology of Palaipafos (unpublished). Cited by the Nea Paphos project (earthquake table and marine-terrace dating) and by the Souskiou and Archaic Cyprus volumes. Also wrote 'The Geology of Cyprus' in the Ancient Cyprus: Cultures in Dialogue catalogue (Department of Antiquities, 2012, pp. 34-37).

    Papuci-Władyka 2020Kearns 2022, p. 371Peltenburg et al. 2019, p. 1462Pilides & Papadimitriou 2012, p. 37

  3. 2017
    With Maria Dikomitou-Eliadou, 'From North to South: Red Polished Fyllia (Philia) Pottery Production and Distribution Patterns at the Beginning of the Cypriot Bronze Age', pp. 92-103 in Pilides and Mina (eds), Four Decades of Hiatus in Archaeological Research in Cyprus.

    Pilides & Mina 2017, p. 4

  4. 2022
    Co-author of the first picrolite raw-material characterisation (HHpXRF and synchrotron micro-XRF) on the Troodos source regions, with Moutsiou, Ioannides, Charalambous, Kassianidou, Reepmeyer and others (Heritage 5, 664-676). Her role beyond authorship is not stated in the page read.

    Moutsiou et al. 2022, p. 1

Connections

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Vassiliki KassianidouPhaedon KyriakidisTheodora MoutsiouMaria Dikomitou-EliadouCorey J. A. BradshawMathieu ThouryChristian ReepmeyerIoannis PanayidesZomenia Zomeni
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Sources

  1. 1.M. K. Toumazou (ed.), P. N. Kardulias (ed.), D. B. Counts (ed.) (2011). Crossroads and Boundaries: The Archaeology of Past and Present in the Malloura Valley, Cyprus.
  2. 2.Z. Zomeni (2012). Quaternary Marine Terraces on Cyprus: Constraints on Uplift and Pedogenesis, and the Geoarchaeology of Palaipafos. Corvallis, Oregon State University.
  3. 3.Catherine Kearns (2022). The Rural Landscapes of Archaic Cyprus: An Archaeology of Environmental and Social Change. Cambridge University Press.
  4. 4.E. Peltenburg (ed.), D. Bolger (ed.), L. Crewe (ed.) (2019). Figurine Makers of Prehistoric Cyprus: Settlement and Cemeteries at Souskiou. Oxford, Oxbow Books.
  5. 5.E. Papuci-Władyka (ed.) (2020). Interdisciplinary Research of the Jagiellonian University in Nea Paphos UNESCO World Heritage Site (2011-2015): First Results.
  6. 6.Despo Pilides (ed.), Nikolas Papadimitriou (ed.) (2012). Ancient Cyprus: Cultures in Dialogue. Department of Antiquities, Cyprus.
  7. 7.D. Pilides (ed.), M. Mina (ed.) (2017). Four Decades of Hiatus in Archaeological Research in Cyprus: Towards Restoring the Balance. Proceedings of the international one-day workshop held in Lefkosia (Nicosia) on 24th September 2016, hosted by the Department of Antiquities, Cyprus. Vienna, Verlag Holzhausen / Department of Antiquities, Cyprus.
  8. 8.M. Dikomitou-Eliadou, Z. Zomeni (2017). “From North to South: Red Polished Fyllia (Philia) Pottery Production and Distribution Patterns at the Beginning of the Cypriot Bronze Age”. 92-103.
  9. 9.Theodora Moutsiou, Demetrios Ioannides, Andreas Charalambous, Sebastian Schöder et al. (2022). “X-ray Fluorescence Spectroscopy of Picrolite Raw Material on Cyprus”. Heritage 5, 664-676. MDPI. Online
  10. 10.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.