Porphyrios Dikaios (
Greek
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: Πορφύριος Δίκαιος)
FSA (16 August 190423 August 1971) was a Greek
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archaeologist born in
Nicosia
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.
He studied archaeology in the
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
The National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA; el, Εθνικό και Καποδιστριακό Πανεπιστήμιο Αθηνών, ''Ethnikó ke Kapodistriakó Panepistímio Athinón''), usually referred to simply as the Univers ...
, in the
British School at Athens
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(1924-1925) and the
University of Liverpool
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(1925-1926). He interrupted his studies in Liverpool to continue them at the
University of Lyon
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and finally the
University of the Sorbonne
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where he graduated in 1929.
After returning to Cyprus he was assigned at the age of 25 to the position of Assistant Curator of the
Cyprus Museum
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The museum houses artifacts discovered during numerous excavations on the island. The museum is home to the most extensi ...
(1929-1931) and a year later he started his own excavation work. He became Curator of the Cyprus Museum (1931-1960) and finally Director of the
Department of Antiquities (1960-1963) after the independence of Cyprus from Britain. He conducted excavation work at
Bellapais
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The village was the home for some years of Lawrence Durrell, ...
-Vounous (1931), in the Neolithic site of
Khoirokitia, in the Chalcolithic site of Erimi (1933-1935), the Bronze Age site of
Enkomi
Enkomi ( el, Έγκωμη; tr, Tuzla) is a village near Famagusta in Cyprus. It is the site of an important Bronze Age city, possibly the capital of Alasiya. Enkomi is under the ''de facto'' control of Northern Cyprus.
In 1974, Enkomi had about ...
, as well as
Sotira (1934) and
Salamis, and identified the
Philia culture; his work focused on
Prehistoric Cyprus
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Epipalaeolithic
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. He retired from the Department in 1963 and traveled to the United States where he taught at the
University of Princeton
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and
Brandeis University
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. In 1966 he moved to Heidelberg where he taught at the
University of Heidelberg
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as a professor of Near Eastern archaeology until the end of his life.
Publications
Les Cultes Préhistoriques dans l'ile de Chypre(1932)
Ploughing in Cyprus in the Early Bronze Age(1933)
La Civilisation néolithique dans l'ile de Chypre(1936)
An Iron Age Painted Amphora in the Cyprus Museum(1936/37)
*
The Excavations at Vounous-Bellapais in Cyprus (1940)
New Light on Prehistoric Cyprus(1940)
*
The Context of the Enkomi Tablets (1962)
* ''Enkomi: Excavations 1948–1958'', Vols. I-IIIb. Mainz am Rhein: Verlag Philipp von Zabern, (1969–1971)
See also
*
Peter Megaw
Arthur Hubert Stanley "Peter" Megaw, (20 July 191028 June 2006) was an architectural historian and archaeologist. He specialised in Byzantine churches. He served as Director of the Department of Antiquities (Cyprus), Department of Antiquities, ...
*
Hector Catling
Hector William Catling, CBE, FSA (26 June 192415 February 2013) was a British archaeologist who served as director of the British School at Athens between 1971 and 1989.
Early life
Catling was born on 26 June 1924. He was educated at Bristol G ...
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Swedish Cyprus Expedition
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1971 deaths
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