Brat summer is out, pottery summer is in.

Riley Stockton

Somehow, it is already the month of July; the sun is getting hotter, and the time left in Cyprus is getting rapidly shorter. I was given the opportunity to return to Cyprus and work on a student research project with a Ruby-Lankford grant, and in doing so, I have become more familiar with on-site digging, the work done at Terra Ombra, and the lovely city of Larnaca. So much has already been taught and learned in this short time, and I am excited for the rest of the season to better understand the work done here at Vigla! 

This year, I have spent a lot more of my time at Terra Ombra, where I have had the opportunity to expand on what I learned about pottery the previous year. Specifically, I have learned a lot more about the process pottery undergoes after being unearthed by the various young archaeologists at Vigla over the years. With the expertise and guidance of co-director Dr. Melanie Godsey, I have begun to help read pottery and look at basket-handle amphorae for more in-depth research. 

Beautiful basket-handle amphora toes and handles
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Museums and More Museums

Joaquin Pellegrin-Alvarez

This was intended, in my mind’s eye, to be a blog post about coins on Cyprus, but I couldn’t find much without my institutional access granted to me by Reed College which I have to be on a computer to get, and all the other information online is from weird coin collector websites which is a whole kind of sketchy thing, so I’ve heard. So instead we went to a bunch of museums and archaeological places last week and I can talk about that. That’s also why this is like super late so let’s hope Tom accepts this (n.b., I accept this – Tom).

Tombs of the Kings. No kings were involved in the construction of these monuments (except maybe one?).
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