Lapithos Vrysi tou Barba, Cyprus
Subtitle: early and middle Bronze Age tombs excavated by Menelaos Markides
By: by Jennifer M. Webb ; with contributions by Andreas Charalambous, Stella Diakou, Maria Dikomitou-Eliadou, Marcos Martinón-Torres and Despina Pilides
Contributors: Charalambous, Andreas (Archaeologist) contributor; Diakou, Stella, contributor; Dikomitou-Eliadou, Maria, contributor; Martinón-Torres, Marcos, contributor; Pilides, Despina, contributor; Shelby White and Leon Levy Program for Archaeological Publications (Firm)
Series: Studies in Mediterranean archaeology -- volume CXLVIII; Studies in Mediterranean archaeology -- v. 148.
Publisher: Astrom Editions
Published: 2018
Place of publication: Nicosia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 294
ISBN-13: 9789925745517
Subjects: Excavations (Archaeology); Antiquities; Bronze age; Tombs; Kypriakon Mouseion (Cyprus)
Other titles: Early and middle Bronze Age tombs excavated by Menelaos Markides
Description: This volume is the full publication of eighteen Early and Middle Bronze Age tombs excavated in the extensive 'Vrysi tou Barba' cemetery at Lapithos on the north coast of Cyprus in 1917 by Menelaos Markides, the first Curator of the Cyprus Museum. Based on archival records, museum inventories and the finds, now in the Cyprus Museum, it presents a full description of each tomb and its contents, with tomb plans, drawings and colour photographs of all objects; as well as a detailed account of the excavations, the ceramic and metal assemblages and the site of Lapithos in its wider archaeological context. In addition, it contains chapters on Markides (by Despina Pilides), the location of the tombs (by Stella Diakou and Jennifer Webb), portable X-ray Fluorescence analysis of the ceramics (by Maria Dikomitou-Eliadou and Marcos Martinón-Torres) and the chemical characterisation of the copper alloy artefacts (by Andreas Charalambous). The volume almost doubles the number of excavated and fully published tombs from the 'Vrysi tou Barba' cemetery and makes an important contribution to our understanding of one of the largest and most important Middle Bronze Age settlements on Cyprus.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-294).
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Menelaos Markides, the first curator of the Cyprus Museum  -- by Despina Pilides; title: Locating the Bronze Age tombs at Lapithos Vrysi tou Barba  -- by Stella Diakou and Jennifer M. Webb; title: From 1917 to 2017: a complex history --; title: The excavations: tombs and finds --; title: The tombs and assemblages in context --; title: Portable X-ray fluorescence analysis of early and middle Bronze Age ceramics from Lapithos Vrysi tou Barba: results of the first analytical campaign  -- by Maria Dikomitou-Eliadou and Marcos Martinón-Torres; title: Chemical characterisation of copper alloy artefacts from Lapithos Vrysi tou Barba using pXRF non-destructive chemical analysis -- by Andreas Charalambous.