Porphyrios Dikaios

Greek Cypriot archaeologist (1904–1971)

Porphyrios Dikaios

Born| (1904-08-16)16 August 1904

Nicosia, Cyprus

Died| 23 August 1971(1971-08-23) (aged 67)

Nicosia, Cyprus

Scientific career
Fields| Archaeology

Porphyrios Dikaios (Greek: Πορφύριος Δίκαιος) FSA (16 August 1904 - 23 August 1971) was a Cypriot archaeologist born in Nicosia.

He studied archaeology in the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, in the British School at Athens (1924–1925) and the University of Liverpool (1925–1926). He interrupted his studies in Liverpool and continued at the University of Lyon and finally at the University of Sorbonne where he graduated in 1929.[1]

After returning to Cyprus he was assigned at the age of 25 to the position of Assistant Curator of the Cyprus Museum (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 Department of Antiquities (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 Prehistoric Cyprus.[2][3] He retired from the Department in 1963 and traveled to the United States where he taught at the University of Princeton and Brandeis University. In 1966 he moved to Heidelberg where he taught at the University of Heidelberg as a professor of Near Eastern archaeology until the end of his life.[4][5][6]

## Publications[edit]

* Dikaios, P. (1932). Les Cultes Préhistoriques dans l'ile de Chypre
* Dikaios, P. (1933). Ploughing in Cyprus in the Early Bronze Age
* Dikaios, P. (1934). Cyprus Museum Excavations. Antiquity, 8(29), 86-90. doi:10.1017/S0003598X00116540
* La Civilisation néolithique dans l'ile de Chypre (1936)
* An Iron Age Painted Amphora in the Cyprus Museum (1936/37)
* The Excavations at Vounous-Bellapais in Cyprus (1940)
* New Light on Prehistoric Cyprus (1940)
* The Context of the Enkomi Tablets (1962)
* Enkomi: Excavations 1948–1958, Vols. I–IIIb. Mainz am Rhein: Verlag Philipp von Zabern, (1969–1971)

## See also[edit]

* Peter Megaw
* Hector Catling
* Swedish Cyprus Expedition

## References[edit]

1. ^ Devambez, Pierre (1972). "Porphyrios Dikaios (1904–1971)". Syria. 49 (3/4): 500–501. ISSN 0039-7946. JSTOR 4197855.
2. ^ "Collections Online | British Museum". www.britishmuseum.org. Retrieved 2021-11-13.
3. ^ Kiely, Thomas (2017-12-01). "Britain and the archaeology of Cyprus – II". Cahiers du Centre d'Études Chypriotes (47): 253–310. doi:10.4000/cchyp.319. ISSN 0761-8271. S2CID 249114635.
4. ^ Nicolaou, Kyriakos (1973). "Archaeological News from Cyprus, 1971". American Journal of Archaeology. 77 (1): 51–60. doi:10.2307/503232. ISSN 0002-9114. JSTOR 503232. S2CID 191391123.
5. ^ "Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries". The Antiquaries Journal. 20 (3): 419–427. 1940. doi:10.1017/S0003581500021764. ISSN 0003-5815.
6. ^ Polignosi. "Δίκαιος Πορφύριος". www.polignosi.com. Retrieved 2020-07-24.

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