International Symposium on Cypriot Archaeology

Cyprus: Religion and Society from the Late Bronze Age to the End of the Archaic Period


Erlangen, 23.-24. Juli 2004

In Kooperation mit Prof. Dr. Vassos Karageorghis (Anastasios G. Leventis-Stiftung, Zypern) und Prof. Dr. Hartmut Matthäus (Institut für Klassische Archäologie, Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg) ist dieses Symposium zur zyprischen Archäologie in Erlangen veranstaltet worden. Die aus Dänemark, Deutschland, Finnland, Großbritannien, den USA und Zypern stammenden Referenten vertraten die Disziplinen Archäologie, Prähistorie, Anthropologie und Indoeuropäische Sprachwissenschaften. In ihren Beiträgen widmeten sie sich Aspekten der zyprischen Religion und Gesellschaft. Sämtliche Vorträge bewegten sich in einem zeitlichen Rahmen, der von der späten Bronzezeit bis in die archaische Periode reichte.

Gruppenphoto der Referenten und Organisatoren (v.l.n.r.): K. Kolotourou, St. Böhm, S. Rogge, D. Pilides, R. Plath, A. L. D'Agata, A. M. Carstens, P. Kranz, H. Matthäus, V. Karageorghis, R. Senff, V. Kassianidou, A. T. Reyes, A. Rathje, K. Lorentz, K. Walcher
© Zypern-Institut

 Vorträge:

  • Dr. Anna Lucia D’Agata (Istituto di Studi sulle Civiltà dell’Egeo e del Vicino Oriente, Rome, Italy), Cult Activity on Crete and Cyprus between Late Bronze Age and Early Iron Age. What Comparative Analysis Can Tell Us.
  • Prof. Dr. Hartmut Matthäus (University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany), Phoenician and Cypro-Archaic Deities and Demons. A Study in the Transfer of Iconography and Ideology.
  • Dr. Kirsi Lorentz (University of Cambridge, UK), Late Cypriot Burial Practices: Age as a Form of Social Difference.
  • Dr. Anne Marie Carstens (University of Copenhagen, Denmark), To Bury a Ruler – the Meaning of the Horse in Aristocratic Burials.
  • Katja Walcher, M.A. (University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany), The Royal Tomb 5 at Tamassos – an Analysis of its Decoration with Regard to Religious or Representative Prototypes.
  • PD Dr. Robert Plath (University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany), Linear B: Society and Religion.
  • Prof. Dr. Andres T. Reyes (Groton School, Groton, USA), Seals as Subject and Object: Using Stamp-Seals.
  • Prof. Dr. Stephanie Böhm (Universität Würzburg, Deutschland), A Flower Smelling Man. About a Pictorial Motif of Cypro-Archaic Vase Painting, its Iconography and Significance.
  • PD Dr. Reinhard Senff (University of Bochum, Germany), Dress, Habit and Insignia of Cypriot Statues from Archaic to Roman Times.
  • Prof. Dr. Vassos Karageorghis (Anastasios G. Leventis Foundation, Nicosia, Cyprus), Aspects of Everyday Life in Archaic Cyprus.
  • Dr. Vasiliki Kassianidou (University of Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus), Was Copper Production under Divine Protection in Late Bronze Age Cyprus? Some Thoughts on an Old Question.
  • Dr. Lorenz Rahmstorf (University of Mainz, Germany), Ethnicity and Changes in Weaving Technology in Cyprus and the Eastern Mediterranean during the 12th Century BC.
  • Dr. Despo Pilides (Department of Antiquities, Nicosia, Cyprus), Storage Jars and Cooking Pots: Implications and Social Significance.
  • Dr. Katerina Kolotourou (University of Edinburgh, UK), Musical Instruments and Cult: Iconographic and Archaeological Evidence from Geometric and Archaic Cyprus.
  • Dr. Annette Rathje (University of Copenhagen, Denmark), Fabulous Feasts. The Rites, the Power and the Cultural Interaction in the Mediterranean.


Die Symposiumsbeiträge sind publiziert worden: 

Vassos Karageorghis / Hartmut Matthäus / Sabine Rogge (Eds),  Cyprus: Religion and Society from the Late Bronze Age to the End of the Archaic Period (Möhnesee: Bibliopolis, 2005)
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