Bibliography and further reading

References to specific items can be found in the ‘bibliography’ or ‘comments’ fields of individual object records. The following list provides a general guide to further reading and sources of information, after which is a more detailed list of items cited in the introductory essays and the section on the Foundry Hoard.

General

E. Goring, A mischievous pastime. Digging in Cyprus in the Nineteenth Century (Edinburgh, 1988).

D. Hunt ed., Footprints in Cyprus. An illustrated history (revised ed.) (London, 1990) .

A.B. Knapp, Prehistoric and Protohistoric Cyprus. Identity, insularity and connectivity (Oxford, 2008).

L. Steel, Cyprus before history. From the earliest settlement to the end of the Bronze Age (London, 2004).

V. Tatton-Brown ed., Cyprus BC. 7000 years of history (London, 1979).

V. Tatton-Brown, Ancient Cyprus (Second. ed.) (London, 1997).

V. Karageorghis, Cyprus from the Stone Age to the Romans (London, 1982).

V. Karageorghis, Early Cyprus. Crossroads of the Mediterranean (Malibu, 2002).

Finally, the A.G. Leventis Foundation has published or sponsored many lavishly illustrated volumes on Cypriot collections in museums throughout the world which serve as excellent introductions to the history and material culture of ancient Cyprus. Particularly recommended are: V. Karageorghis (with J. Mertens and M. Rose) Ancient art form Cyprus. The Cesnola Collection in the Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, 2000); V. Karageorghis, E. Vassilika and P. Wilson The art of ancient Cyprus in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge (Nicosia, 1999); A. Caubet, A. Hermary and V. Karageorghis Art antique de Chypre au Musée du Louvre du Chalcolithique à l’Époque Romaine (Athens, 1991); V. Karageorghis et al. The Cyprus collections in the Medelhausmuseet (Nicosia, 2003).

References

L. Äström, The Swedish Cyprus Expedition Vol. IV/1D. The Late Cypriote Bronze Age. Other arts and crafts (Lund, 1972).

P. Äström, The Swedish Cyprus Expedition Vol. IV/1C. The Late Cypriote Bronze Age. Architecture and pottery (Lund, 1972).

P. Åström, Hala Sultan Tekke I. Excavations 1897-1971 (Studies in Mediterranean Archaeology XLV:1) (Göteborg, 1976).

A.S. Murray, A.H Smith & H.B Walters, Excavations in Cyprus. (Bequest of Miss E.T. Turner to the BritishMuseum) (London, 1900; reprinted 1970), pp. 1-54; pls. I-XII.

H. Catling, Cypriot bronzework in the Mycenaean world (Oxford, 1964).

J.-C. Courtois, Alasia II. Les tombes d’Enkomi . Le mobilier funéraire (Fouilles C.F.A. Schaeffer 1947-1965) (Paris 1981).

J.-C. Courtois, J. Lagarce and E. Lagarce, Enkomi et le Bronze Récent à Chypre (Nicoisa, 1986).

L. Crewe, Social complexity and ceramic technology on Late Bronze Age Cyprus: The new evidence from Enkomi. Unpublished PhD dissertation, University of Edinburgh 2004.

L. Crewe, “Feasting with the dead. Tomb 66 at Enkomi” in J. L. Fitton & T. Kiely eds Ancient Cyprus in the British Museum. Papers in honour of Veronica Tatton-Brown (London, forthcoming).

M. Dalton, 'The Egkomi Mapping Project', Report of the Department of Antiquities, Cyprus (2007), pp. 157-174. 

P. Dikaios, Enkomi. Excavations 1949-1959 (Bonn, 1969-1971).

E. Gjerstad et al, The Swedish Cyprus Expedition vol. I (Stockholm, 1934).

M. Hadjicosti, “More evidence for a Geometric and Archaic rural shrine of a female divinity at Enkomi”, Report of the Department of Antiquities, Cyprus, 1989, pp. 111-120.

I. Jacobsson, Aegyptiaca from Late Bronze Age Cyprus (SIMA CXII) (Jonsered, 1994).

J. Johnson, Maroni de Chypre (SIMA LIX) (Göteborg, 1980).

V. Karageorghis, Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum (Cyprus Museum) (Paris 1963).

V. Karageorghis Salamis in Cyprus. Homeric, Hellenistic and Roman (London, 1969).

V. Karageorghis, Excavations in Salamis 1952-1974 (Nicosia, 1999).

V. Kenna, Corpus des minoischen und mycenischen Siegel. VII. Die englischen Museen II (Berlin, 1967).

P. Keswani, Mortuary ritual and society in Bronze Age Cyprus. (Monographs in Mediterranean Archaeology) (London; Oakville, 2004).

A.B. Knapp, Copper production and divine protection. Archaeology, ideology and social complexity on Bronze Age Cyprus(SIMA Pocketbook 42) (Göteborg,1986).

J. Lagarce & E. Lagarce, Alasia IV. Deux tombes du Chypriote Récent d’Enkomi (Tombs 1851 et 1907) (Paris 1985).

O. Masson, Les inscriptions chypriotes syllabiques (2nd ed. Paris, 1983)

J. Myres, 'Excavations in Cyprus 1913”, Annual of the British School of Athens 41 (1946), pp. 68-72.

J. Myres and M. Ohnefalsch-Richter, A catalogue of the Cyprus Museum (London, 1899).

C. F.A. Schaeffer, Missions en Chypre 1932-1935 (Paris, 1936).

C. F.A. Schaeffer, Enkomi-Alasia. Nouvelles missions en Chypre 1946-1950 (Paris, 1952).

C. F.A. Schaeffer, et al. Alasia I (Paris, 1971).

N. Stanley-Price, 'The Ottoman Law on Antiquities (1874) and the founding of the Cyprus Museum' in V. Tatton-Brown ed. Cyprus in the 19th Century AD. Fact, fancy and fiction (Oxford, 2001), 267-275.

L. Steel, 'The British Museum and the invention of the Cypriot Late Bronze Age' in V. Tatton-Brown ed. Cyprus in the 19th Century AD. Fact, fancy and fiction (Oxford, 2001), pp. 160-167.

L. Steel, Cyprus before history. From the earliest settlement to the end of the Bronze Age (London, 2004).

V. Tatton-Brown, “Sculpture and terracottas from Enkomi in the British Museum” Cahier du Centre d'Etudes Chypriotes 30 (2000), pp. 17-25.

V. Tatton-Brown, “Enkomi: the notebook in the British Museum.” Cahier du Centre d'Etudes Chypriotes 33 (2003), pp. 9-65.

J. Webb, Ritual architecture, iconography and practice in the Late Cypriot Bronze Age (Jonsered, 1999).

G.R.H. Wright, 'Archaeology and Islamic Law in Cyprus' in V. Tatton-Brown ed. Cyprus in the 19th Century AD. Fact, fancy and fiction (Oxford, 2001), pp. 261-266.

Foundry Hoard (further reading)

G. Bass et al., ‘Cape Gelidonya. A Bronze Age shipwreck’ Transactions of the American Philosophical Society (new series) 57,8 (Philadelphia, 1967).

H. W. Catling, ‘Late Cypriot hoards’ in Cypriot bronzework in the Mycenaean world (Oxford, 1964), pp. 278-298.

J.C. Courtois, ‘L’activité métallurgique et les bronzes d’Enkomi au Bronze Récent’ in J.D. Muhly & V. Karageorghis eds. Early metallurgy in Cyprus, 4000-500 BC (Nicosia, 1982), pp. 155-75, esp. 164-168.

V. Karageorghis, ‘A Late Cypriote hoard of bronzes from Sinda’ Report of the Department of Antiquities, Cyprus 1973, pp. 72-82

V. Karageorghis, ‘The founder’s hoard’ in V. Karageorghis & M. Demas Pyla-Kokkinokremmos (Nicosia, 1984), pp. 55-57, 63-65.

A.B. Knapp, J.D. Muhly and P.M. Muhly, ‘To hoard is human. Late Bronze Age metal deposits in Cyprus and the Aegean’ Report of the Department of Antiquities, Cyprus 1988(1), pp. 233-262.

J. Lagarce, ‘La cachette de fondeur aux épées (Enkomi 1967) et l’atelier voisin’ in C.F.A. Schaeffer et al. Alasia I (Paris, 1971), pp. 381-432.

H. Mätthaus & G. Schumacher-Mätthaus ‘Zyprische Hortfunde. Kult und Metallhandwerk in der späten Bronzezeit’ in O.H. Frey et al. eds Gedenkschrift für Gero von Merhart (Marburger Studien) (Marburg, 1986), pp. 129-191.

C. Pulak, ‘The Ulu Burun Shipwreck’ in S. Swiny et al. eds Res Maritimae. Cyprus and the East Mediterranean from Prehistory to Late Antiquity (Atlanta, 1997).

C.F.A. Schaeffer, ‘Un nouveau trésor de bronzes découvert à Enkomi’ in Enkomi-Alasia. Nouvelles missions en Chypre 1946-1950 (Paris, 1952), pp. 37-67.

Th. Spiropoulos, Ysteromykenäiki thesavri (Athens, 1972) [Greek].