“The Athienou Archaeological Project: Thirteen Years of investigations at Athienou-Malloura,” Abstracts (AIA) 105^th Annual Meeting 27 (2004): 98-99.

By

Michael K. Toumazou (Davidson College)

P. Nick Kardulias (College of Wooster )

Derek B. Counts (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee)

Following two productive field seasons (in 2001 and 2002) supported through an NSF-REU Sites grant, the Athienou Archaeological Project, sponsored by Davidson College, devoted the 2003 season to analysis and study of accumulated artifacts in preparation for final publication. The season lasted June 1-July 21.

Detailed catalogue descriptions were completed of over 900 artifacts excavated by AAP and currently in the Larnaka Museum. With final editing, these entries will constitute a major component of the final publication. In the process, several joins were made between sculpture fragments excavated at different seasons, and additional fragments of limestone statuettes of Pan were identified, adding to the already large corpus of such statuettes from the Malloura sanctuary previously identified and forming the core of an unpublished Bryn Mawr College MA Thesis by Clay Cofer. Moreover, two well-preserved limestone sculptures excavated during th 2002 season, were singeld out for study and will be published as separate articles: (1) a sakkos-clad female head of Artemis (Cypro-Classical), and (2) a unique wall bracket with a relief of three dancing Bes figures (Cypro-Archaic). Detailed studies were also begun on the small corpus of inscriptions, and a group of artifacts that may be connected with ritual activity- “ash shovels,” circular disks, and thymiateria. Moreover, a pilot metric study relating measurements and proportions of statuary body fragments to complete statues was initiated. The purpose is to group complete and fragmentary sculptures into classes as defined by size, date, and type (e.g., kouroi, draped votaries, “temple-boys”). Finally, AAP’s web page was expanded and updated (http://www.davidson.edu/academic/classics/AAP).