CYPRUS COLLECTION

With some 7000 registered objects, the Ashmolean’s collection of Cypriot antiquities ranks among the largest and most significant outside Cyprus. It illustrates the culture and history of ancient Cyprus, a cultural crossroads between Orient and Occident, from the earliest settlements on the island in about 10.000 BC until the Roman period. The great majority of the objects – pottery, terracotta figurines, sculpture, metal-work and jewellery – date to the Bronze and Iron Ages (2000 – 300 BC) and come from British excavations at various sites across the island.

Brown A. and H. W. Catling. Ancient Cyprus. (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 1986, 2nd edition)

Frankel, D. Early and Middle Cypriote Bronze Age material in the Ashmolean Museum, Corpus of Cypriote antiquities 7, SIMA XX:7 (Gothenburg, 1983).