Porphyrios Dikaios (

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: Πορφύριος Δίκαιος) FSA (16 August 190423 August 1971) was a Greek

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archaeologist born in

Nicosia Nicosia ( ; el, Λευκωσία, Lefkosía ; tr, Lefkoşa ; hy, Նիկոսիա, romanized: ''Nikosia''; Cypriot Arabic: Nikusiya) is the largest city, capital, and seat of government of Cyprus. It is located near the centre of the Mesaor ...

. 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

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(1924-1925) and the

University of Liverpool , mottoeng = These days of peace foster learning , established = 1881 – University College Liverpool1884 – affiliated to the federal Victoria Universityhttp://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukla/2004/4 University of Manchester Act 200 ...

(1925-1926). He interrupted his studies in Liverpool to continue them at the

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and finally the

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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

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(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 Bellapais is a small village in the Kyrenia District in the northern part of Cyprus, about four miles from the town of Kyrenia. It is under the ''de facto'' control of Northern Cyprus 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 The Prehistoric Period is the oldest part of Cypriot history. This article covers the period 10,000 to 800 BC and ends immediately before the documented history of Cyprus begins. Epipalaeolithic Cyprus was not settled in the Paleolithic (befo ...

. He retired from the Department in 1963 and traveled to the United States where he taught at the

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and

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. In 1966 he moved to Heidelberg where he taught at the

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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)

References

Greek Cypriot people 1904 births 1971 deaths Cypriot archaeologists Prehistorians 20th-century archaeologists Cypriot academics {{Cyprus-bio-stub 20th-century Cypriot people National and Kapodistrian University of Athens alumni University of Paris alumni Princeton University faculty Brandeis University faculty Academic staff of Heidelberg University People from Nicosia

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