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Nota Kourou

National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Department of History & Archaeology, Faculty Member

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Archaeologist, Director of the Athens University Excavations at Tenos Xobourgo (Cyclades), Professor Emerita of the University of Athens, Greece

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ΕΠΙΤΥΜΒΙΑ ΣΤΗΛΗ ΕΦΗΒΟΥ ΑΠΟ ΤΟ ΞΩΜΠΟΥΡΓΟ. ΜΙΚΡΟ ΠΑΡΑΘΥΡΟ ΣΤΟΝ ΑΥΣΤΗΡΟ ΡΥΘΜΟ (A MARBLE GRAVE STELE OF A YOUNG MAN FROM XOBOURGO ON TENOS. OPENING A SMALL WINDOW TO THE AUSTRE STYLE)

ΠΟΛΥΤΡΟΠΟΣ. Τόμος προς τιμήν του Ν. Σταμπολίδη, 2023

This paper presents and discusses a fragmentary grave stele from the Classical Cemetery of Xobour... more This paper presents and discusses a fragmentary grave stele from the Classical Cemetery of Xobourgo on Tenos. Made of local, Tenian marble, the stele is easily identified as an early fifth century piece in the austere style. A stylistic and iconographic analysis of the stele is undertaken followed by a comparative discussion of island stelai in the same style. Emphasis is given to some other contemporary grave stelai from the same cemetery in order to elaborate on the austere style on the island.

Astarte thrones BAAL Hors Serie XVIII

Three Global Harbours of the ancient world:Tyre, Sidon, Byblos. Three Global harbours of the Ancient World, Proceedings of the International Symposium Bristol, 25-29 October, Beirut 2017, BAAL, Hors- Série XVIII, 2020

This paper reviews and discusses a typical Phoenician monument in the form of an empty throne kno... more This paper reviews and discusses a typical Phoenician monument in the form of an empty throne known as “Astarte throne”; it denotes a characteristic aniconic cult mainly in the area of Sidon and Tyre on the Phoenician Mainland, but the monument type also occurs in Cyprus, while similar forms and versions of the type are found in southern Aegean. The absence of this form from the Punic world where Astarte cults and seated statues of the deity are well known is also discussed.

Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum. Deutschland. Dresden, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen. Skulpturensammlung. Mit einem Anhang zum Kunstgewerbemuseum. Band 4: Geo-metrische und Korinthische Keramik. Bearbeitet von Christiane Dehl-von Kaenel

Gnomon (München), 2022

Provenance of archaeological limestone with EPR spectroscopy: the case of the Cypriote-type statuettes

Journal of Archaeological Science, Jul 1, 2004

The present work demonstrates the potential of EPR spectroscopy as a useful technique in provenan... more The present work demonstrates the potential of EPR spectroscopy as a useful technique in provenance investigation of archaeological finds of limestone. The case of the small, Cypriote-type limestone statuettes found in most major Archaic sanctuaries of the Eastern Mediterranean is used as an illustrative application. Ancient and modern limestone quarries of Cyprus, Samos, Rhodes and Egypt were sampled in order to form a reference data bank for the likely places of origin. Samples were also taken from statuettes exhibited in the archaeological museums of Nicosia (2 samples), Samos (14 samples) and Copenhagen (National Archaeological Museum, 19 samples). All quarry and archaeological samples were analysed with EPR spectroscopy. The quarry samples from Rhodes were easily distinguished from the other quarry samples and were not treated further because they produce material of low quality and compactness. A detailed study of the EPR spectroscopy results leads to the determination of a number of parameters, which separate the reference group of Samos from those of Cyprus and Egypt. The structure of the EPR spectra in the region around g=2.0000 is characteristic for these different quarrying areas. Diagrams where each quarry area is represented by a field were drawn and the archaeological samples were plotted on them. All the analysed statuettes (except for one, which is most probably of Samian limestone) appear to be carved in Cypriote limestone. Consequently, the results of this research offer a decisive argument in favour of the Cypriote origin for statuettes of this type found in the Aegean.

Phoenician pressence in Early iron age crete reconsidered

Localización: Actas del IV Congreso Internacional de Estudios Fenicios y Púnicos: Cádiz, 2 al 6 d... more

Limestone Statuettes of Cypriote Type Found in the Aegean: Provenance Studies. Nota Kourou, Vassos Karageorghis, Yannis Maniatis, Kyriaki Polikreti, Yannis Bassiakos, and Costa Xenophontos

Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research, Feb 1, 2004

Xobourgo on Tenos

Xobourgo is a fortified settlement on the island of Tenos in the Cyclades. Keywords: archaeology;... more

Sonderdruck Gnomon 2023 6 Kourou

A. Coulié and M. Filimonos-Tsopotou (eds), 'Rhodes. Une île grecque aux portes de l'Orient, XV e-... more

Review of Chr. Dehl- von Kaenel, CVA Deutschland 106, Dresden 4, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen. Skulpturensammlung 4.

Gnomon 94, 445-448, 2022

Review of the ninety-two vases from the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen, Skulpturensammlung along with... more

The Artist and the Donor. The Inscribed Statuettes of Cypriot type found in the Aegean revisited

Beyond Cyprus, edited by G. Bouroghiannis, 2022

This paper takes up a discussion of a small class of archaic limestone statuettes of Cypriot type... more This paper takes up a discussion of a small class of archaic limestone statuettes of Cypriot type with a dedicatory inscription in Greek alphabet and language. They are found primarily in Eastern Aegean sanctuaries made in a kind of soft limestone known from Cyprus and in a few places in Eatern Aegean. The paper focuses on the inscriptions and issues of origin, religion and ritual practices .

Α new Orientalizing Attico-Cycladic Coarse ware style from Xobourgo on Tenos, in ΕΞΟΧΟΣ ΑΛΛΩΝ, Αθήνα 2021

Εξοχος άλλων.Τιμητικός τόμος για την Εύα Σημαντώνη-Μπουρνιά,

A new coarse ware stand with fine incised decoration in a Protoattic style from Xobourgo on Tenos... more

Novità pitecusane

Euboica

Euboica: L'Eubea e la presenza euboica in Calcidica e in Occidente: Atti del convegno internazionale di Napoli, 13-16 Nov. 1996

American Journal of Archaeology, 2000

Horse-bird Askoi from Carthage. A case-study of cultural interrelations in Early Iron Age Mediterranean

Atti del V Congresso Internazionale di Studi Fenici e Punici)0, Marsala-Palermo, 2-8 Οttobre 2000, 2005

Xobourgo on Tenos

The Encyclopedia of Ancient History, 2020

Xobourgo is a fortified settlement on the island of Tenos in the Cyclades. Keywords: archaeology;... more

Phoenicians and Attic Middle Geometric Pottery in the Mediterranean

Les Phéniciens, les Puniques et les autres, 2019

La céramique grecque aux époques géométrique et orientalisante (XIe-VIe siècle av. J.-C.). La céramique grecque, 1, Paris 2013

Mortuary Practices in Early Iron Age Aegean. Family Rituals and Communal Rites

Ancestral and chthonic cults at Tenos

Opuscula. Annual of the Swedish Institutes at Athens and Rome, 2021

This paper presents the material evidence from two neighbouring Early Iron Age sites at Xobourgo ... more This paper presents the material evidence from two neighbouring Early Iron Age sites at Xobourgo on Tenos, identified as sacred places, and comments on their religious character and evolution. The first, conventionally named the Pro-Cyclopean Sanctuary, has a purely mortuary character. It starts in the Late Protogeometric period with an ancestral cult on a pebble platform over an empty grave, continues with a number of pyre pits inside enclosure walls, and ends up with a chthonic cult at an eschara in the Late Geometric period to be replaced by a small sacred oikos in the 7th century. The second starts as an open-air shrine, named the Pre-Thesmophorion Shrine, with an eschara and a protected place for storing pithoi, and it is turned into a Demeter sanctuary, a Thesmophorion, with a small temple in the Classical period. After considering the development and phases of both sites, it is claimed that they have similar, though not identical, cultic roles. Their different architectural a...

A Cypriot Sequence in Early Iron Age Crete: Heirlooms, Imports and Adaptations

Cahiers du Centre d'Etudes Chypriotes, 2016

L’étude est consacrée à une série d’importations chypriotes en Crète datant du début de l’Âge du ... more L’étude est consacrée à une série d’importations chypriotes en Crète datant du début de l’Âge du Fer. Il s’agit surtout de catégories spécifiques d’objets et de vases rituels qui ont eu une influence majeure sur la communauté locale. Pour répondre à la demande créée par ces importations, les ateliers locaux développent une production similaire, qui reprend exactement les mêmes types de vases et d’objets, et qu’on appelle «créto-chypriotes » . Contrairement à un usage courant mais erroné, le terme ne s’applique qu’aux imitations exactes d’importations chypriotes et non pas à tous les vases crétois dont la décoration ou la forme sont légèrement influencées par les productions chypriotes. La conclusion principale de cette recherche est que ces ateliers crétois, ainsi que les importations, forment une série chypriote en Crète, qui a ses origines à la fin de l’Âge du Bronze ; cela explique l’existence de reliques chypriotes (heirlooms) au début de la série.Kourou Nota. A Cypriot Sequence in Early Iron Age Crete: Heirlooms, Imports and Adaptations. In: Cahiers du Centre d'Etudes Chypriotes. Volume 46, 2016. Hommage à Antoine Hermary. pp. 51-69

ΕΠΙΤΥΜΒΙΑ ΣΤΗΛΗ ΕΦΗΒΟΥ ΑΠΟ ΤΟ ΞΩΜΠΟΥΡΓΟ. ΜΙΚΡΟ ΠΑΡΑΘΥΡΟ ΣΤΟΝ ΑΥΣΤΗΡΟ ΡΥΘΜΟ (A MARBLE GRAVE STELE OF A YOUNG MAN FROM XOBOURGO ON TENOS. OPENING A SMALL WINDOW TO THE AUSTRE STYLE)

ΠΟΛΥΤΡΟΠΟΣ. Τόμος προς τιμήν του Ν. Σταμπολίδη, 2023

This paper presents and discusses a fragmentary grave stele from the Classical Cemetery of Xobour... more This paper presents and discusses a fragmentary grave stele from the Classical Cemetery of Xobourgo on Tenos. Made of local, Tenian marble, the stele is easily identified as an early fifth century piece in the austere style. A stylistic and iconographic analysis of the stele is undertaken followed by a comparative discussion of island stelai in the same style. Emphasis is given to some other contemporary grave stelai from the same cemetery in order to elaborate on the austere style on the island.

Astarte thrones BAAL Hors Serie XVIII

Three Global Harbours of the ancient world:Tyre, Sidon, Byblos. Three Global harbours of the Ancient World, Proceedings of the International Symposium Bristol, 25-29 October, Beirut 2017, BAAL, Hors- Série XVIII, 2020

This paper reviews and discusses a typical Phoenician monument in the form of an empty throne kno... more This paper reviews and discusses a typical Phoenician monument in the form of an empty throne known as “Astarte throne”; it denotes a characteristic aniconic cult mainly in the area of Sidon and Tyre on the Phoenician Mainland, but the monument type also occurs in Cyprus, while similar forms and versions of the type are found in southern Aegean. The absence of this form from the Punic world where Astarte cults and seated statues of the deity are well known is also discussed.

Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum. Deutschland. Dresden, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen. Skulpturensammlung. Mit einem Anhang zum Kunstgewerbemuseum. Band 4: Geo-metrische und Korinthische Keramik. Bearbeitet von Christiane Dehl-von Kaenel

Gnomon (München), 2022

Provenance of archaeological limestone with EPR spectroscopy: the case of the Cypriote-type statuettes

Journal of Archaeological Science, Jul 1, 2004

The present work demonstrates the potential of EPR spectroscopy as a useful technique in provenan... more The present work demonstrates the potential of EPR spectroscopy as a useful technique in provenance investigation of archaeological finds of limestone. The case of the small, Cypriote-type limestone statuettes found in most major Archaic sanctuaries of the Eastern Mediterranean is used as an illustrative application. Ancient and modern limestone quarries of Cyprus, Samos, Rhodes and Egypt were sampled in order to form a reference data bank for the likely places of origin. Samples were also taken from statuettes exhibited in the archaeological museums of Nicosia (2 samples), Samos (14 samples) and Copenhagen (National Archaeological Museum, 19 samples). All quarry and archaeological samples were analysed with EPR spectroscopy. The quarry samples from Rhodes were easily distinguished from the other quarry samples and were not treated further because they produce material of low quality and compactness. A detailed study of the EPR spectroscopy results leads to the determination of a number of parameters, which separate the reference group of Samos from those of Cyprus and Egypt. The structure of the EPR spectra in the region around g=2.0000 is characteristic for these different quarrying areas. Diagrams where each quarry area is represented by a field were drawn and the archaeological samples were plotted on them. All the analysed statuettes (except for one, which is most probably of Samian limestone) appear to be carved in Cypriote limestone. Consequently, the results of this research offer a decisive argument in favour of the Cypriote origin for statuettes of this type found in the Aegean.

Phoenician pressence in Early iron age crete reconsidered

Localización: Actas del IV Congreso Internacional de Estudios Fenicios y Púnicos: Cádiz, 2 al 6 d... more

Limestone Statuettes of Cypriote Type Found in the Aegean: Provenance Studies. Nota Kourou, Vassos Karageorghis, Yannis Maniatis, Kyriaki Polikreti, Yannis Bassiakos, and Costa Xenophontos

Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research, Feb 1, 2004

Xobourgo on Tenos

Xobourgo is a fortified settlement on the island of Tenos in the Cyclades. Keywords: archaeology;... more

Sonderdruck Gnomon 2023 6 Kourou

A. Coulié and M. Filimonos-Tsopotou (eds), 'Rhodes. Une île grecque aux portes de l'Orient, XV e-... more

Review of Chr. Dehl- von Kaenel, CVA Deutschland 106, Dresden 4, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen. Skulpturensammlung 4.

Gnomon 94, 445-448, 2022

Review of the ninety-two vases from the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen, Skulpturensammlung along with... more

The Artist and the Donor. The Inscribed Statuettes of Cypriot type found in the Aegean revisited

Beyond Cyprus, edited by G. Bouroghiannis, 2022

This paper takes up a discussion of a small class of archaic limestone statuettes of Cypriot type... more This paper takes up a discussion of a small class of archaic limestone statuettes of Cypriot type with a dedicatory inscription in Greek alphabet and language. They are found primarily in Eastern Aegean sanctuaries made in a kind of soft limestone known from Cyprus and in a few places in Eatern Aegean. The paper focuses on the inscriptions and issues of origin, religion and ritual practices .

Α new Orientalizing Attico-Cycladic Coarse ware style from Xobourgo on Tenos, in ΕΞΟΧΟΣ ΑΛΛΩΝ, Αθήνα 2021

Εξοχος άλλων.Τιμητικός τόμος για την Εύα Σημαντώνη-Μπουρνιά,

A new coarse ware stand with fine incised decoration in a Protoattic style from Xobourgo on Tenos... more

Novità pitecusane

Euboica

Euboica: L'Eubea e la presenza euboica in Calcidica e in Occidente: Atti del convegno internazionale di Napoli, 13-16 Nov. 1996

American Journal of Archaeology, 2000

Horse-bird Askoi from Carthage. A case-study of cultural interrelations in Early Iron Age Mediterranean

Atti del V Congresso Internazionale di Studi Fenici e Punici)0, Marsala-Palermo, 2-8 Οttobre 2000, 2005

Xobourgo on Tenos

The Encyclopedia of Ancient History, 2020

Xobourgo is a fortified settlement on the island of Tenos in the Cyclades. Keywords: archaeology;... more

Phoenicians and Attic Middle Geometric Pottery in the Mediterranean

Les Phéniciens, les Puniques et les autres, 2019

La céramique grecque aux époques géométrique et orientalisante (XIe-VIe siècle av. J.-C.). La céramique grecque, 1, Paris 2013

Mortuary Practices in Early Iron Age Aegean. Family Rituals and Communal Rites

Ancestral and chthonic cults at Tenos

Opuscula. Annual of the Swedish Institutes at Athens and Rome, 2021

This paper presents the material evidence from two neighbouring Early Iron Age sites at Xobourgo ... more This paper presents the material evidence from two neighbouring Early Iron Age sites at Xobourgo on Tenos, identified as sacred places, and comments on their religious character and evolution. The first, conventionally named the Pro-Cyclopean Sanctuary, has a purely mortuary character. It starts in the Late Protogeometric period with an ancestral cult on a pebble platform over an empty grave, continues with a number of pyre pits inside enclosure walls, and ends up with a chthonic cult at an eschara in the Late Geometric period to be replaced by a small sacred oikos in the 7th century. The second starts as an open-air shrine, named the Pre-Thesmophorion Shrine, with an eschara and a protected place for storing pithoi, and it is turned into a Demeter sanctuary, a Thesmophorion, with a small temple in the Classical period. After considering the development and phases of both sites, it is claimed that they have similar, though not identical, cultic roles. Their different architectural a...

A Cypriot Sequence in Early Iron Age Crete: Heirlooms, Imports and Adaptations

Cahiers du Centre d'Etudes Chypriotes, 2016

L’étude est consacrée à une série d’importations chypriotes en Crète datant du début de l’Âge du ... more L’étude est consacrée à une série d’importations chypriotes en Crète datant du début de l’Âge du Fer. Il s’agit surtout de catégories spécifiques d’objets et de vases rituels qui ont eu une influence majeure sur la communauté locale. Pour répondre à la demande créée par ces importations, les ateliers locaux développent une production similaire, qui reprend exactement les mêmes types de vases et d’objets, et qu’on appelle «créto-chypriotes » . Contrairement à un usage courant mais erroné, le terme ne s’applique qu’aux imitations exactes d’importations chypriotes et non pas à tous les vases crétois dont la décoration ou la forme sont légèrement influencées par les productions chypriotes. La conclusion principale de cette recherche est que ces ateliers crétois, ainsi que les importations, forment une série chypriote en Crète, qui a ses origines à la fin de l’Âge du Bronze ; cela explique l’existence de reliques chypriotes (heirlooms) au début de la série.Kourou Nota. A Cypriot Sequence in Early Iron Age Crete: Heirlooms, Imports and Adaptations. In: Cahiers du Centre d'Etudes Chypriotes. Volume 46, 2016. Hommage à Antoine Hermary. pp. 51-69

Ρυθμοί της Κυπριακής Κεραμικής.Σύντομη Επισκόπιση με βάση τη Συλλογή του Αρχαιολογικού Μουσείου του Τμήματος Ιστορίας και Αρχαιολογίας του ΕΚΠΑ

by Nota Kourou and Giorgos Bourogiannis

Cypriot pottery styles, 2019

A short survey of Cypriot pottery styles from the Chalcolithic period to Roman times

Pots, Workshops and Early Iron Age Society. Function and Role of Ceramics in Early Greece, edited by V. Vlachou, Études d’archéologie 8, Brussels: CReA-Patrimoine, 2015

by Vicky VLACHOU, Nota Kourou, Εvangelia Simantoni-Bournia, Susan Langdon, and Manolis Mikrakis

Review of M. d’ Acunto, Ialiso I. La necropolis: gli scavi italiani (1916-1934). I periodi protogeometrico e geometrico (950-690 a,C.)

Gnomon 2023 , 2023

Review of the important material from the Protogeometric and Geometric graves at Ialysos spread... more

Cyprus in the period of the kingdoms: Recent developments

Ν. Παπαδημητρίου- Μ. Τόλη (eds.), Αρχαία Κύπρος. Πρόσφατες εξελίξεις στην αρχαιολογία της ανατολικής Μεσογείου, Μουσείο Κυκλαδικής Τέχνης, Αθήνα 2017,331-335., 2017

Review article of ΑΡΧΑΙΑ ΚΥΠΡΟΣ Πρόσφατες εξελίξεις στην αρχαιολογία της ανατολικής Μεσογείου

Review of Gaignerot-Driessen, De l' occupation postpalatiale à la cité-état grecque, Aegaeum 40

TOPOI 21.2, 2017

Review Griechenland im Zeitalter der Wanderungen.Von Ende der mykenischen Ära bis auf die Dorier”, Die Agäische Frühzeit IV (Wien 1980), Aρχαιογνωσία 3 (1982-84), 279-283.

Review of Kerschner_Lemos(eds), Archaeometric analysis of Euboean and Euboean related pottery

Review of Kerschner-Lemos (eds), Archaeometric Analysis of Euboean and Euboean Related Pottery (2... more

SAIA is pleased to invite you to the International Workshop "Greek Pottery Between the Aegean and the Central Mediterranean in the 8th and 7th Centuries BC. Productions, styles and iconographies, functions and contexts", 9-10-11.03.2023, "Doro Levi" Lecture Hall, odòs Partnenonos 14.

by Scuola Archeologica Italiana di Atene and Nota Kourou

La Scuola Archeologica Italiana di Atene è lieta di invitarvi al Workshop Internazionale di Studi... more La Scuola Archeologica Italiana di Atene è lieta di invitarvi al Workshop Internazionale di Studi “Greek Pottery Between the Aegean and the Central Mediterranean in the 8th and 7th Centuries BC. Productions, styles and iconographies, functions and contexts”, organizzato in collaborazione con il Ministero greco della Cultura e dello Sport e l’École française d’Athénes, e che si terrà il 9, il 10 e l’11 marzo 2023 nell’Aula Magna “Doro Levi”, presso la Scuola Archeologica Italiana di Atene, odòs Parthenonos 14.

Per partecipare al workshop distanza, potete scansionare il QRcode sulla locandina e ottenere il link alla piattaforma Zoom.

Η Ιταλική Αρχαιολογική Σχολή Αθηνών με ιδιαίτερη χαρά σας προσκαλεί στο Διεθνές Συνέδριο «Greek Pottery Between the Aegean and the Central Mediterranean in the 8th and 7th Centuries BC. Productions, styles and iconographies, functions and contexts», που διοργανώνεται σε συνεργασία με το Υπουργείο Πολιτισμού και Αθλητισμού και τη Γαλλική Σχολή Αθηνών και θα πραγματοποιηθεί στις 9, 10 και 11 Μαρτίου 2023 στην Αίθουσα Εκδηλώσεων Ντόρο Λέβι, στην Ιταλική Αρχαιολογική Σχολή Αθηνών, οδός Παρθενώνος 14.

Για να συμμετάσχετε στο Συνέδριο, με φυσική ηλεκτρονικά, παρακαλείστε να σκανάρετε το QRcode στην συνημμένη αφίσα για να λάβετε το σύνδεσμο στην πλατφόρμα Zoom.

The Italian School at Athens is pleased to invite you to the International Workshop "Greek Pottery Between the Aegean and the Central Mediterranean in the 8th and 7th Centuries BC. Productions, styles and iconographies, functions and contexts", organized in collaboration with the Greek Ministry of Culture and Sport and the French School of Athens, which will be held on March 9th, 10th and 11th, 2023, in “Doro Levi Lecture Hall”, Italian Archeological School at Athens, odòs Parthenonos 14.

To attend online, please scan the QRcode in our flyer to get the link to the Zoom platform.