Menelaos Markides

Menelaos Markides (1878-1942) was a Cypriot archaeologist and the first curator of the Cyprus Museum (1912-1931).[1] He conducted excavations at the Early-Middle Bronze Age site Vrysi tou Barba in Lapithos.[2] Additionally he excavated at Skouriotissa, Katydhata and in 1917 he excavated an Iron Age sanctuary at Arsos which was later published by the Swedish Cyprus Expedition due to his ill health.[3] In 1916 and 1918 he excavated 50 tombs at Marion.[4]

Publications
  • Markides, M. (1916). Excavations at Skouriotissa and Katydhata. Cyprus Annual Report of the Curator of Antiquities 1915, 15.
  • Markides, M. (1917). Excavations at Skouriotissa and Katydhata. Cyprus Annual Report of the Curator of Antiquities 1916, 4-20.

See also

References
  1. Roueché, Charlotte (2001). "The Prehistory of the Cyprus Department of Antiquities". British School at Athens Studies. 8: 155–166. ISSN 2159-4996. JSTOR 40960557.
  2. Webb, Jennifer M. (2018). Lapithos Vrysi Tou Barba, Cyprus: Early and Middle Bronze Age Tombs Excavated by Menelaos Markides. Nicosia: Astrom Editions. ISBN 978-9925-7455-1-7.
  3. Gjerstad, Einar; Sjöqvist, Erik; Westholm, Alfred; Lindros, John (1937). Swedish Cyprus Expedition. Finds and Results of the Excavations in Cyprus. Vol. III. Text. Stockholm: Swedish Cyprus Expedition. pp. 583–600.
  4. Markides, Menelaos (1916). Annual Report of the Curator of Antiquities, Nicosia: 20. Missing or empty |title= (help)
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