<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?><pres:item xmlns:pres="http://kulturarvsdata.se/presentation#"><pres:version>1.3.0</pres:version><pres:buildDate>2026-06-01</pres:buildDate><pres:itemLabel>- Document -</pres:itemLabel><pres:dataQuality>Rådata</pres:dataQuality><pres:id>4254220</pres:id><pres:service>arkiv</pres:service><pres:organization xml:lang="en">Statens museer för världskultur - Medelhavsmuseet</pres:organization><pres:organizationShort>SMVK-MM</pres:organizationShort><pres:type xml:lang="en">Dokument</pres:type><pres:entityUri>http://kulturarvsdata.se/SMVK-MM/arkiv/4254220</pres:entityUri><pres:idLabel>150409/Cyprus/program</pres:idLabel><pres:description xml:lang="en">Studi sul Mediterraneo    
 Antico (ISMA) Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche 
 (CNR)). Patterns of interaction on the south coast 
  of Cyprus: a view from the Early Bronze Age 
 Pottery assemblage
14.15  Maria Dikomitou-Eliadou and Athanasios K. Vionis 
 (University of Cyprus). Silent artefacts revealing 
 their story: The analytical paradigm of Bronze Age 
 Cooking pottery
14.30  Discussion
14.45 Coffee break 
 



Session 2D  
Chairing: Jennifer Webb
15.00  Caroline Sauvage and Joanna Smith (Loyola 
 Merimount University, Los Angeles and University  
 of Pennsylvania) Local and Regional Patterns of 
 Textile production in Late Bronze Age Cyprus 
15.15  Hedvig Landenius Enegren and Ina Vanden Berghe 
 (University of Copenhagen and Royal Institute of 
 Cultural Heritage Brussels ((KIK-IRPA)). Two “re-  
 discovered” textile fragments from Paleoskoutella
15.30  Maria Rosaria Belgiorno (Istituto per le Tecnologie 
 Applicate ai Beni Culturali - CNR). Cosmetic 
 production in Cyprus in Early-Middle Bronze Age
15.45  Zuzana Chovanec (University at Albany). Making 
 Sense of Ancient Scents: Documenting the Use of 
 Perfumed Substances in Ancient Cyprus
16.00  Walter Crist (Arizona State University). Playing 
 Spaces: Changing Gaming practices in Bronze 
 Age Cyprus
16.15-16.30 Discussion

Day 3 MonDay, april 27 
Medelhavsmuseet, Fredsgatan 2 
 
Session 3A  
Chairing: Thomas Kiely
09.00  Sanne Houby-Nielsen (Nordiska Museet). 
 The phantom stratigraphy at Ayia Irini: new 
 investigations in the Swedish excavations at the 
 sanctuary at Ayia Irini, 1929
09.15  Giorgos Bourogiannis (Medelhavsmuseet). The 
 unpublished pottery from Ayia Irini: Setting the 
 stage for a ceramic reconsideration
09.30  Christian Mühlenbock (Medelhavsmuseet). 
	 Terracotta	figurines	from	Ayia	Irini,	results	from	
 extended provenance studies.
09.45  Alessandra Colosimo (Stockholm University). 
 Animals and cult practices at Ayia Irini, Cyprus, 
 between Late Cypriot III and Cypro-Archaic II
10.00  Adriano Orsingher (Università degli Studi di Roma   
 “La Sapienza”). Reconsidering the necropolis of 
 Ayia Irini: a glimpse of the Iron Age evidence
10.15  Discussion
10.30  Coffee Break
 

Session 3B  
Chairing: Despina Pilides
11.00  Matthias Recke (Justus-Liebig-Universität, 
 Giessen). Tamassos-Phrangissa: The rising of a 
 lost sanctuary and its furnishing
11.15  Demetra Aristotelous (Department of Antiquities, 
 Cyprus), Kato Platres-Kampos tou Koulourou: an 
 extra-urban sanctuary site in the Troodos 
 mountain range?”
11.30  Stella Diakou (Trinity College, Dublin), Histories
 of pots and people: re-discovering the archaeology 
 of Cypro-Geometric Lapithos
11.45  Anastasia Christophilopolou (The Fitzwilliam 
 Museum): Re-examining the history of Cypriot 
 Antiquities in the Fitzwilliam Museum: A closer 
 look at the collection’s past and future
12.00  Discussion 

Session 3C  
Chairing: Maria Rosaria Belgiorno
12.15  Christina Ioannou (UMR8167  Orient et 
 Méditerranée). The Political situation in the Near 
 East during the Archaic period and its impact on 
 Cyprus
12.30  Barbara Porter and Joseph Greene (The Harvard 
 Semitic Museum). The Puzzling Case of the 
 Assyrian King Sargon II’s Stele from Cyprus 
 Archaeological Evidence, Image, and Texts. 
12.45  Christian Vonhoff (Friedrich-Alexander-University 
 Erlangen-Nuremberg). Phoenician Bronzes from 
 Cyprus Reconsidered – Intercultural Exchange 
 in Early Iron Age Cyprus against the Background of 
 a Pan-Mediterranean Perspective
13.00  Lunch

Session 3D  
Chairing: Bernard Knapp
14.15  Ludovic Thély (École française d’Athènes). 
 Topography in the Lower City of Amathus:   
 Towards new multidisciplinary research in Cyprus’ 
 archaeology
14.30  Anna Cannavò (École française d’Athènes). 
 Mapping ancient Amathus
14.45  Sabine Fourrier (HiSoMA, Maison de l’Orient et de 
 la Méditerranée – Jean Pouilloux, Lyon). The 
 Iron Age city of Kition: State of research</pres:description><pres:content xml:lang="en">Ancient Cyprus today:  
Museum Collections and new Research  

Approaches to the Archaeology of Cyprus

 

 
S t o c k h o l m  2 5 - 2 7  o f  A p r i l  2 0 1 5 



Day 1, SaturDay april 25  
Östasiatiska Museet, Tyghusplan, Skeppsholmen 
 
11.00-12.00  Registration 
12.00-12.30  A welcome from the organizers 
 

Session 1A  
Chairing: Sanne Houby Nielsen 
12.30 Thomas Kiely (The British Museum, London). 
 Beyond the Metropolis: Regional collections of 
 Cypriot antiquities in the United Kingdom
12.45  Despina Pilides (Department of Antiquities,  
 Cyprus). Contextualizing the collections of the 
  Cyprus Museum: Recent projects
13.00  Catherine Olien (Northwestern University, 
 Chicago). The Collection, Restoration, and 
 Display of the Cypriot Fragment at the 
  Metropolitan Museum in the Late Nineteenth  
 Century
13.15  Discussion
13.30-14.00  Coffee Break 
 

Session 1B  
Chairing: Caroline Sauvage 
14.00  Evangeline Markou (National Hellenic Research 
 Foundation (NHRF), Institute of Historical 
 Research (IHR), Section of Greek and Roman
 Antiquity). Incorporating numismatics into 
 historical and archaeological studies. The case
 of Cyprus
14.15  Charalambos Paraskeva (University of 
 Edinburgh). CARMA: An Integrated System for 
 High-Resolution Archaeological Information 
 Recording, Introduction and First Results
14.30  Paolo Mauriello (Istituto per le Tecnologie 
 Applicate ai Beni Culturali - CNR). The research 
 commitment of ITAB-CNR in Cyprus in 
	 Archaeometry	and	field	Archaeology 
14.45  Discussion
 

Session 1C  
Chairing: Eustathios Raptou 
15.00  Giorgos Papantoniou (Trinity College, Dublin), 
 Rethinking the portrait-like sculpture of 
 Hellenistic Cyprus
15.15  Alexia Miltiadous Johansson (Cardiff University) 
 Reconstructing social behavior and interactions 
 in domestic settings in Roman Cyprus
15.30  Craig Barker (Sydney University Museums), 
 Recent research on Hellenistic and Roman 
 Urbanisation in the Theatre precinct of Nea 
 Paphos
15.45  Kamila Nocon (Jagiellonian University, Kraków),  
 Hellenistic Kitchen ware from the  Paphos Agora 
 Project 
16.00  Discussion
16.15-18.00  Reception 

Day 2, SunDay april 26  
Medelhavsmuseet, Fredsgatan 2  
 

Session 2A  
Chairing: Lina Kassianidou
09.00  Anastasia Leriou (Archaeological Society at 
 Athens). Locating identities in ancient Cyprus: 
 a view from the 21st century
09.15  Peter Fischer (University of Gothenburg). 
 The New Swedish Cyprus Expedition 2010-14: 
 Excavations at Hala Sultan Tekke.
09.30  Teresa Bürge (Austrian Academy of Sciences). 
 Recently Discovered Cylinder Seals from Hala 
 Sultan Tekke
09.45  Bettina Stolle (Stockholm University). The reuse  
 of a well as a deposit for seven individuals at Hala 
 Sultan Tekke
10.00  Adam Lindqvist (Uppsala University), 
 Fishing on Cyprus during the Late Bronze Age
10.15  Discussion
10.30-11.00  Coffee break
 

Session 2B  
Chairing: Peter Fischer 
11.00  Kevin Fisher (The University of British Columbia).  
 The Kalavasos and Maroni Built Environments  
 (KAMBE) Project:  Investigating Late Bronze Age  
 Urban Landscapes in south-central Cyprus
11.15  Giorgos Papasavvas (University of Cyprus). 
 Processes of abandonment at Enkomi; The 
 sanctuary of the Horned God
11.30  Lina Kassianidou (University of Cyprus). 
 Metallurgy and metalwork in Enkomi – Revisiting 
 Porphyrios Dikaios’ excavations
11.45  Jennifer Webb (La Trobe University, Melbourne). 
 Lapithos revisted: a fresh look at a key Middle 
 Bronze Age site in Cyprus.
12.00  Discussion
12.15-13.30 Lunch break
 

Session 2C  
Chairing: Giorgos Papasavvas 
13.30  Constantinos S. Constantinou (University of East 
 Anglia). Late Neolithic Eastern Mediterranean: 
 identifying and comparing social and economic 
 organisation in Cyprus and northern Levant
13.45  Bernard Knapp (Cyprus American Archaeological 
 Research Institute (CAARI)), Maritime Transport 
 Containers and Bronze Age Cyprus
14.00  Silvana Di Paolo (Istituto di, 85 years 
 after the Swedish Cyprus Expedition
15.00  Discussion
 

Session 3E  
Chairing: Christian Mühlenbock 
15.15		 Katarzyna	Zeman-Wiśniewska	(Cardinal	Stefan		
 Wyszynski University, Warsaw). Figuring out   
	 figurines,	on	an	example	of	multiple	origins	of	the	
 Cypriot Early Iron Age anthropomorphic 
 terracottas.
15.30  Eustathios Raptou (Department of Antiquities, 
 Cyprus). Exchange of Terracottas between Cyprus 
 and the Aegean during the 6th and 5th c. B.C.
15.45  Niki Eriksson (University of Gothenburg). Image, 
 confusion and syncretism: In search of Dionysus in 
 Kition
16.00  Discussion
16.15  Coffee Break

16.30-17.00  Final discussion, future perspectives  
   and collaborations: Sabine Fourrier 



Medelhavsmuseet
Fredsgatan 2,  
Stockholm 

Östasiatiska museet
Tyghusplan, Skeppsholmen,  
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