Porphyrios Dikaios (

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: Πορφύριος Δίκαιος) FSA (

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, 16 August 190423 August 1971) was a Cypriot archaeologist.

Early life and education

Porphyrios was born in Nicosia and graduated from the

Pancyprian Gymnasium The Pancyprian Gymnasium (), is the oldest still operational Lyceum, high school in Cyprus, founded in 1812. History In the location of the current school, an older school existed, established in 1753 known as Ellinomouseion (). The ''Pancypri ...

. He studied archaeology in the

National and Kapodistrian University of Athens The National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA; , ''Ethnikó kai Kapodistriakó Panepistímio Athinón''), usually referred to simply as the University of Athens (UoA), is a public university in Athens, Greece, with various campuses alo ...

, in the

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(1924–1925) and the

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(1925–1926). He interrupted his studies in Liverpool and continued at the

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and finally at the

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where he graduated in 1929.

Career

After returning to Cyprus he was assigned at the age of 25 to the position of Assistant Curator of the

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(1929–1931) and a year later he started his own excavation work. He became Curator of the Cyprus Museum (1931–1960) and finally Director of the

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(1960–1963) after the independence of Cyprus from Britain. He conducted excavation work at Bellapais-Vounous (1931), in the Neolithic site of Khoirokitia, in the Chalcolithic site of Erimi (1933–1935), the Bronze Age site of Enkomi, as well as Sotira (1934) and Salamis, and identified the Philia culture; his work focused on

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. He retired from the Department in 1963 and traveled to the United States where he taught at the

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and

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. In 1966 he moved to Heidelberg where he taught at the

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as a professor of

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until the end of his life.

Legacy

In 2015 he was commemorated by a stamp from the Cyprus post.

Publications

* Dikaios, P. (1932)
Les Cultes Préhistoriques dans l'ile de Chypre
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'', ''13''(4), 345–354. http://www.jstor.org/stable/4389856 * Dikaios, P. (1933)
Ploughing in Cyprus in the Early Bronze Age
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'', ''33'', 132–33. https://doi.org/10.2307/2790198. * Dikaios, P. (1934)
Cyprus Museum Excavations
'' Antiquity,'' ''8''(29), 86-90. doi:10.1017/S0003598X00116540 * Dikaios, P. (1934)
Les fouilles à Chypre en 1933 et 1934
''Comptes-Rendus Des Séances de l Année - Académie Des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres'', ''78''(3), 276. https://doi.org/10.3406/crai.1934.76530 * Dikaios, P., Dikaios, P. M., & Robinson, E. S. G. (1935)
A silver stater of Idalium
'' The Numismatic Chronicle and Journal of the Royal Numismatic Society'', ''15''(60), 282–284. http://www.jstor.org/stable/42664362 * Dikaios, P. (1935)
A hoard of silver Cypriot staters from Larnaca
''The Numismatic Chronicle and Journal of the Royal Numismatic Society'', ''15''(59), 165–179. http://www.jstor.org/stable/42660930 * Dikaios, P. (1936)
La Civilisation néolithique dans l'ile de Chypre
''Syria'', ''17''(4), 356–364. http://www.jstor.org/stable/4195987 * Dikaios, P. (1936)
An Iron Age Painted Amphora in the Cyprus Museum
'' The Annual of the British School at Athens'', ''37'', 56–72. http://www.jstor.org/stable/30096661 * Dikaios, P. (1936)
Recherches sur la civilisation néolithique en Chypre
''Comptes-Rendus Des Séances de l Année - Académie Des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres'', ''80''(3), 218–221. https://doi.org/10.3406/crai.1936.76777 * Dikaios, P. (1940). I.—The Excavations at Vounous-Bellapais in Cyprus, 1931–2. '' Archaeologia'', ''88'', 1–174. doi:10.1017/S0261340900014557 *Dikaios, P. (1940)
New Light on Prehistoric Cyprus
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'', ''7''(1), 69–83. doi:10.2307/4241665 *Dikaios, P. (1945). Archaeology in Cyprus, 1939-45. ''

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'', ''65'', 104–105. https://doi.org/10.2307/626343 *Dikaios, P. (1946). Two “Naucratite” Chalices from Marium. ''The Journal of Hellenic Studies'', ''66'', 5–7. https://doi.org/10.2307/626531 *Dikaios, P. (1948)
The Bronze Statue of Septimius Severus in the Cyprus Museum
''Archaeology'', ''1''(3), 146–147. http://www.jstor.org/stable/41662230 *Dikaios, P. (1948)
Une coupe peinte Chypriote de l'Age du Fer
'' Revue Archéologique'', ''29/30'', 316–325. http://www.jstor.org/stable/41028695 *Dikaios, P. (1961). Archaeology in Cyprus, 1959-61. ''Archaeological Reports'', ''8'', 32–46. https://doi.org/10.2307/581002 *Dikaois, P. (1961). ''Sotira: A Neolithic Settlement in Cyprus''. Pennsylvania: University of Pennsylvania Press. * Dikaios, P. (1963). The Context of the Enkomi Tablets. ''Kadmos'', ''2''(1), 39-52. https://doi.org/10.1515/kadm.1963.2.1.39 * Dikaios, P. (1969–1971). ''Enkomi: Excavations 1948–1958,'' ''Vols. I–IIIb''. Mainz am Rhein: Verlag Philipp von Zabern.

References

Greek Cypriots 1904 births 1971 deaths Prehistorians Cypriot academics {{Cyprus-bio-stub 20th-century Cypriot people People educated at Pancyprian Gymnasium National and Kapodistrian University of Athens alumni University of Paris alumni Princeton University faculty Brandeis University faculty Academic staff of Heidelberg University People from Nicosia 20th-century Cypriot archaeologists Fellows_of_the_Society_of_Antiquaries_of_London

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Legacy

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