Sculpture in Roman Cyprus

Apollo, July, 2003 by Jane Fejfer

(25) T.B. Mitford, 'Religious Documents from Roman Cyprus', Journal of Hellenic Studies, vol. LVI, 1946, pp. 27(30,) and idem, 'Further Contributions to the Epigraphy of Cyprus', American Journal of Archaeology, vol. LXV, 1961, pp. 111-12.

(26) A. Hermary, 'Le Sanctuaire de Zeus Labranios a Phasoula', Studies in Honour of Vassos Karageorghis: Kypriakai Spoudai, 1992, Nicosia, 1992, pp. 333-37, and E. Prokopiou, 'Phasoula-Kastro', Report of the Department of Antiquities Cyprus (hereafter RDAC), 1999, pp. 315-23.

(27) For a survey of Roman funerary, monuments, see D.A. Parks, Burial Customs of Roman Cyprus: Origin and Development, unpublished PhD thesis, University of Missouri-Columbia, 1999, and idem, 'Epitaphs and Tombstones of Hellenistic and Roman Cyprus', in Ancient Journeys, op. cit.

(28) For the so-called funerary busts, see M. Bruun-Lundgren, 'A Male Portrait Bust of the Roman Period in a Private Collection in Sweden', in P. Astrom (ed.), Acta Cypria: Acts of an International Congress on Cypriote Archaeology Held in Goteborg on 22-24 August 1991, Jonsered, 1992, pp. 9-33.

(29) For Cyprus, see C. Kondoleon, Domestic and Divine: Roman Mosaics in the House of Dionysos, New York and London, 1995.

(30) On the sculptural decor of private spaces, see above all E. Bartman, 'Sculptural Collecting and Display in the Private Realm', in E.K. Gazda (ed.), Roman Art in the Private Sphere, Ann Arbor, 1994, pp. 71-88.

(31) Preliminary reports on the Polish excavations at the House of Theseus in Nea Paphos have appeared regularly: see, for example, W. Daszewski, 'Excavations of the Polish Archaeological Mission at Kato Paphos in 1966-67', RDAC, 1968, pp. 52-66; idem, 'Polish Excavations at Kato (Nea) Paphos', RDAC, 1970, pp. 122-41; idem, 'Polish Excavations at Kato (Nea) Paphos in 1970 and 1971', RDAC, 1972, pp. 204-36; idem, 'Les Fouilles Polonaises a Nea Paphos', RDAC, 1976, pp. 219-25.

(32) See idem, op. cit. in n. 31 above (1976), plate 36.1, and idem, op. cit. in n. 4 above, p. 155.

(33) For the Diana (Paphos Museum, FR 2/65), see V. Karageorghis, 'Chronique des Fouilles a Chypre en 1965', Bulletin de Correspondance Hellenique (hereafter BCH), no. 90, 1966, p. 357, fig. 113, and J. Mlynarczyk, Nea Paphos III: Nea Paphos in the Hellenistic Period, Warsaw, 1990, p. 103, plate 22.

(34) For the Asclepius (Paphos Museum, FR 1/66), see Karageorghis, op. cit. in n. 33 above, p. 357, fig. 112; 546 5-9 the Hygeia is unpublished; for the Hercules (Paphos Museum, FR 2/67), see idem, Greek Gods and Heroes in Ancient Cyprus, Athens, 1998, p. 167, fig. 11; for the Bacchus (Paphos Museum, FR 3/67), see Daszewski, op. cit. in n. 31 above (1968), plate 14.2; for the Silvanus (Paphos Museum, FR 18/76), see V. Karageorghis, 'Chronique des Fouilles a Chypre en 1981', BCH, no. 106, 1982, p. 735, fig 6; for the Satyr (Paphos Museum, FR 9/66), see Daszewski, op. cit. in n. 31 above (1970), plate 23.2; for the Muse (Paphos Museum, FR 70/73), see Daszewski, op. cit. in n. 31 above (1976), plate 36.2.

 

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