Cypriote Antiquities in Berlin in the Focus of New Research - Conference in Berlin, 8 May 2013

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Address by Andreas Scholl

Address by Andreas K. Spyridakis

Address by Vassos Karageorghis

Three Museums – One Collection: The Antikensammlung Berlin as a Research Institute

An Exceptional Late Cypriote Bronze Age Askos with Animal Protome in the Antikensammlung, Berlin

The Eastern and Western Correlations of a Cypriote Bronze Stand in Berlin

Cypriote bronze stands and the stand in Berlin

Cypriote wheeled stands, Biblical vase supports, European Kessel wagen and some Thessalian coins

Cypriote Iron Age Vases of the Pictorial Style in Berlin

Metal Finds from the “Royal Cemetery” of Tamassos – Local Traditions, Phoenician and Greek Cultural Influences in Archaic Cyprus

Status symbols

Armour

Weapons

Iron spits – obeloi

Metal vases

Incense burners – thymiateria

Achaemenid animal style

Summary

Remarks on Some Freestanding Archaic Limestone Sculptures in Berlin

The Berlin Collection from the Necropoleis of Marion

History of excavation and collection

The objects

Marion and Athens

Aspects of Funerary Art: The Sculptures in the Cyprus Collection in Berlin

Grave relief with a banquet scene (Ant. Misc. 8140)

Grave relief of a woman with maid (SK 796)

Terracotta grave statue of a seated woman (TC 8160)

Female head and shoulder of a terracotta grave statue (TC 8161,1)

Large and Well Fortified: A Colossal Female Head with a Mural Crown in Berlin

Introduction

Limestone Sculpture – Large-size Heads

Small-size Limestone Sculpture – Heads

Limestone Sculpture – Statues

Limestone Sculpture – Fragments of Mural Crowns

Uncertain Examples of Limestone Sculpture

Limestone Sculpture – Provenance

Terracotta Figurines

Coins

The Cypriote Repertoire of Mural Crowns

Conclusions

Hellenistic Sculpture from Cyprus in the Berlin Collections

Male statue, Antikensammlung TC 6682,5

Male head, Museum für Vor- und Frühgeschichte XI b 3933

Two male heads, Antikensammlung SK 326 and SK 327