The Tombs of Enkomi (British Museum excavations)
Programme
9.00-9.30 Registration
9.30-9.45 Address by the Director of the Department of Antiquities
SESSION 1
9.45-10.00 D. Pilides (Curator of Antiquities, Department of Antiquities, Cyprus), ‘Introduction to the Enkomi Project’
10.00-10.25 T. Kiely (British Museum, UK), ‘Poachers turned gamekeepers? The British Museum archaeological agents in Cyprus in the 1890s’
10.25-10.50 D. Pilides (Curator of Antiquities, Department of Antiquities, Cyprus), ‘The Cypriot Pottery from the tombs of Enkomi’
10.50-11.15 P. Mountjoy (British School at Athens), ‘Enkomi “Old Tombs” and the missing LHIIIC early phase’
11.15-11.40 A. Papadopoulos (Department of Antiquities, Cyprus), ‘Exceptional objects from old excavations. The case of Aegean artefacts at Enkomi (1896 excavations)’
11.40-12.15 Coffee break
SESSION 2
12.15-12.40 N. Hirschfeld (University of San Antonio, USA), ‘Further consideration of the marked pottery found in the Enkomi British Tombs’
12.40-13.05 R. and H. Merrillees (Paris), ‘The cylinder and stamp seals from the British Museum excavations in the old collection of the Cyprus Museum’
13.05-13.30 H. Crossman (University of Reading, UK), ‘Contextual analysis of economic and social networks. The circulation of Bronze Age soft stone artifacts in Bahrain (Qala’ at al-Bahrain and Saar) and Cyprus (Enkomi and Maroni)’
13.30-15.00 Lunch
SESSION 3
15.00-15.25 L. Crewe (University of Manchester, UK), ‘Making space for the living and the dead at Enkomi’
15.25-15.50 Anthi Kaldelis (University of Cyprus and Open University of Cyprus), ‘Accomplishing the Objectives of the project: The methodological framework’
15.50-16.15 E. Gubel (Musées Royaux d’Art et Histoire, Brussels, Belgium), ‘Enkomi, Cyprus and Brussels, Belgium: The Cypriote Collection of the Royal museum of Art and History’
16. 15- 16.45 General discussion