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Kypris : Heiligtümer und Kulte weiblicher Gottheiten auf Zypern in der kyproarchaischen und kyproklassischen Epoche (Königszeit)

This book (analytical text: c. 200,000 words; catalogue: c. 110,000 words) is a slightly revised version of a German doctoral dissertation and the product of six years’ research. It collates, analyses, and interprets very disparately published literary, epigraphic and, mostly unpublished, archaeological material from more than 200 sanctuary sites all over Cyprus. The material was accessed through information from unpublished files, maps and field-notebooks provided by the Department of Antiquities in Cyprus and the directors and members of international archaeological expeditions and studied in museum and excavation storerooms and offices from 1998-2002.

Analysing both written (literature and inscriptions) and archaeological evidence from more than 200 sanctuary sites all over the island, this study explores the importance and meaning of Cypriot Aphrodite (Kypris) in comparison to other goddesses and gods on the island during the age of the city-kingdoms (ca. 750-310 BC). While the evidence is systematically presented for each city-kingdom in a 240 page catalogue, key-topics such as the attribution of the cult-sites, the iconography of votive-figures as well as the distribution and topography of the sanctuaries (sacred landscape) are discussed and summarised in chapters 1 to 8.