Cyprus an island culture ; society and social relations from the Bronze Age to the Venetian period : [proceedings of the 9th annual conference in postgraduate Cypriot archaeology (POCA 2009) ... held at the ... University of Oxford from the 19th to the 21

This volume, introduced by Edgar Peltenburg, presents results of the latest research by young scholars working on aspects of Cypriot archaeology from the Bronze Age to the Venetian period. It presents a diverse excavation, material culture, iconographic and linguistic evidence to explore the themes of ancient landscape, settlement and society; religion, cult and iconography; and Ancient Cyprus and the Mediterranean. Proceedings of the 9th Annual Meeting of Young Researchers in Cypriot Archaeology, 2009. Preface 9 Acknowledgements 11 Abbreviations 12 1. TEXT MEETS MATERIAL IN LATE BRONZE AGE CYPRUS 14 2. EXPANDING AND CHALLENGING HORIZONS IN THE CHALCOLITHIC: NEW RESULTS FROM SOUSKIOU-LAONA 37 3. THE NECROPOLIS AT KISSONERGA-AMMOUDHIA: NEW CERAMIC EVIDENCE FROM THE EARLY-MIDDLE BRONZE AGE IN WESTERN CYPRUS 51 4. DETECTING A SEQUENCE: STRATIGRAPHY AND CHRONOLOGY OF THE WORKSHOP COMPLEX AREA AT ERIMI-LAONIN TOU PORAKOU 61 5. PYLA-KOKKINOKREMOS AND MAA-PALAEOKASTRO: A COMPARISON OF TWO NATURALLY FORTIFIED LATE CYPRIOT SETTLEMENTS 78 6. THE EARLY CYPRO-GEOMETRIC I POTTERY: EXAMINING THE EVIDENCE FROM LAPITHOS TOMB 502 97 7. THE ANCHORAGE SITE AT KOUKLIA-ACHNI, SOUTHWEST CYPRUS: PROBLEMS AND PERSPECTIVES 117 8. ETEOCYPRIOT: LINGUISTIC AND ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE 135 9. COPPER AND CULT IN BRONZE AGE CYPRUS 146 10. OF “GODDESSES” AND “WARRIORS”. GENDER ASPECTS OF THE CYPRIOT “GODDESS WITH UPRAISED ARMS” 166 11. HATHOR, LA GRANDE DÉESSE ET L’INDUSTRIE DU CUIVRE CHYPRIOTE 174 12. CULT AND ICONOGRAPHY: VOTIVE SCULPTURE FROM THE ARCHAIC TO EARLY HELLENISTIC SANCTUARY AT MARONI-VOURNES 190 13. FRAGRANT COPYING? MYCENAEAN PERFUMED OIL AND THE ROLE OF CYPRUS 209 14. SOME NOTES ON THE JEWELLERY OF CYPRUS AND GREECE: THE ART OF GOLDSMITHS AND COPPERSMITHS FROM THE LATE BRONZE AGE TO THE EARLY IRON AGE 223 15. IMITATION OR INNOVATION? STYLE, DECORATION AND SYNTAX OF GREEK AND CYPRIOT POTTERY DURING THE GEOMETRIC PERIOD 237 16. THE ATTIC POTTERY FROM KITION – A CONTEXTUAL APPROACH 254 17. CYPRUS AND CILICIA: AMPHORA PRODUCTION, TRADE AND RELATIONS IN THE EARLY ROMAN ERA 264 18. VENETIAN ELEMENTS IN THE ICONOSTASIS OF CYPRUS 281 This volume, introduced by Edgar Peltenburg, presents the results of latest research by young scholars working on aspects of Cypriot archaeology from the Bronze Age to the Venetian period. It presents a diversity excavation, material culture, iconographic and linguistic evidence to explore the themes of ancient landscape, settlement and society; religion, cult and iconography; and Ancient Cyprus and the Mediterranean.