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Dr. zlem aykent currently works at the Department of History, Istanbul 29 Mayis University, Turkey. She is primarily interested in late eighteenth and early nineteenth-century intellectual history and historiography.

Dr. Luca Zavagno currently works at the Department of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, Eastern Mediterranean University, Famagusta and he is working on a book on the History of Cyprus in the Early Byzantine period.

ISLANDS OF THE
EASTERN
MEDITERRANEAN

A History of Cross-Cultural Encounters

E DITED BY ZLEM AYKENT AND L UCA Z AVAGNO

Published in 2014 by I.B.Tauris & Co Ltd

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Copyright editorial selection 2014 zlem aykent and Luca Zavagno

Copyright individual chapters 2014 C. Aka Ata, Elif Bayraktar Tellan, zlem aykent, Cline Dauverd, Marc Fehlmann, Elektra Kostopoulou, Pnar enk, Fredrick Whitling, Luca Zavagno and N. Zeynep Yele

The right of zlem aykent and Luca Zavagno to be identified as the editors of this work has been asserted by them in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.

All rights reserved. Except for brief quotations in a review, this book, or any part thereof, may not be reproduced, stored in or introduced into a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the publisher.

Every attempt has been made to gain permission for the use of the images in this book. Any omissions will be rectified in future editions.

References to websites are accurate at the time of writing.

International Library of Ethnicity, Identity and Culture 5

ISBN: 978 1 78076 629 4

eISBN: 978 0 85773 739 7

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CONTENTS

zlem aykent and Luca Zavagno

Cline Dauverd

N. Zeynep Yele

Elif Bayraktar Tellan

Pnar enk

Elektra Kostopoulou

Fredrick Whitling

Marc Fehlmann

C. Aka Ata

LIST OF FIGURES

Mehmeds school book, 28.5 21.5 cm, Topkapi Saray Museum, Istanbul (H 2324).

Cristoforo Buondelmonti, Liber Insularum Archipelagi (c. 1420).

Ptolemys world map in Geographia (c. 150 CE).

Crown Prince Gustaf Adolf and the Swedish consul Luki Z. Pierides in Larnaca. Einar Gjerstad is standing behind the Crown Prince (to his left), Erik Sjqvist is sitting.

SCE excavation sites (1933).

Erik Sjqvist in tomb 306, Lapithos (left); Erik Sjqvist with SCE pottery (right).

The SCE, from left to right: John Lindros, Alfred Westholm (Alfiros), Erik Sjqvist and Einar Gjerstad (left); John Lindros taking measurements at Vouni (right).

Einar Gjerstad and Volvo, Nicosia (left); Sjqvist, Alfiros and Volvo, Nicosia (right).

The only known image of Crown Prince Gustaf Adolf excavating in Cyprus (at Stylli, 1930).

SCE group picture (Lindros is missing, possibly behind the camera).

Sjqvist and Gjerstad with priest.

Einar Gjerstad, John Lindros, Erik Sjqvist and Alfred Westholm during one of the surveys run in Cyprus between 1927 and 1931.

Famagusta 1931. SCE finds waiting to be shipped to Sweden.

A looters hole at Latsi, North West of Poli Crysochous, Paphos District. Photo by the author taken in October 2008.

A multi-chamber Iron Age tomb to the West of Ayia Irini, todays Akdeniz, Morphou-/Gzelyurt District, that was looted in March 2009. Photo by the author taken in May 2009. The tomb is situated in clear view of the village, ca. 3 metres underground. The looters had to dig two trenches to get to it, and had erected a camp with heavy equipment near the site; the farmers living at Akdeniz must have noticed what was going on.

A looters hole northeast of todays Pamuklu, March 2010, Famagusta-/Gazimausa- District. Photo by the author.

An ebay-offer from Israel made in spring 2010: Roman earrings for US$3,490. The internet opened boundless opportunities to transact with an ever-growing number of people. Sales of looted and illegally exported antiquities increased within the opaque global market on the world wide web, while national laws continue to lag behind the changes in technology.

A Late Helladic Pottery Chalice from Cyprus, LH III B1, 13001220 B.C. , attributed to the so-called Protome Painter B. This is a rare example of a well-documented Cypriot artefact that has been repeatedly published since 1931, that was on loan to the British Museum for nearly 40 years and that was sold at Sothebys in 1988. Private collection, Switzerland. Archologisches Institut der Universitt Zrich, photo: Silvia Hertig.

The volume of Cypriot material sold by Sothebys and Christies between 1988 and 2008 as a percentage of all antiquities sold by these two companies within the same time span. Source: Frank Tomio, Archologisches Institut der Universitt Zrich, University of Zurich, Switzerland.

Headline in the Turkish Cypriot newspaper Kibris reporting the arrest of looters on 5 December 2009.

Find spots and previous history of ownership (provenance) of Cypriot antiquities in the Severis, Giabra-Pierides and Zentilis collections.

A very rare Gold stater minted at Salamis under Pnytagoras, circa 351/0332/1 B.C. Sold by the Classical Numismatic Group Inc. in New York at the Triton Sale XIII on 5 January 2010. Private collection, Classical Numismatic Group Inc., Lancaster, PA.

LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS

Celine Dauverd is an historian of early modern Europe specialising in Renaissance and Mediterranean teaching at the University of Colorado-Boulder. Her research focuses on socio-cultural relations between Spain and Italy during the early modern era (14501650).

Akca Atac is Assistant Professor at the Department of Political Science and International Relations of ankaya University, Ankara; her research interests focus on normativism and normative theories in international relations.

Mark Fehlmann specialises in classic archaeology and on the relation between arts economy and markets. He is currently Director of the Museum Oskar Reinhart Museum in Winterthur.

Fredrick Whitling who worked on the role Foreign Academies and the Swedish Institute in Rome, between 19351953, is now a post-doctoral fellow at the Swedish Institute in Rome and engaged in the project of editing a history of institute between 1925 and 1950.

Elektra Kostopoulous background in Turkish Balkan history has shaped her interest in the islands of the Aegean and Crete under Ottoman rule. She is a member of the Department of History of Rutgers University.

Pinar eniik is a specialist of politics and identity in the late Ottoman Mediterranean. She currently teaches at Dou University in Istanbul.

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