ANOTHER ACROPOLIS OF PAPHOS: FABRIKA HILL AND BEYOND
ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL STUDIES

8-11 November 2022, Athens Greece

Following on from successful scientific meetings on the history and archaeology of Paphos held in Avignon in 2012 and in Paphos in 2017, a third colloquium will be hosted in Athens in November 2022.

2020 marked the 25th anniversary of the University of Sydney’s excavations at the theatre on the southern slope of Fabrika hill in the north-eastern quarter of the UNESCO World Heritage listed city of Nea Paphos in Cyprus, but Covid prevented any opportunity to mark the event. Subsequently the French archaeological expedition at Paphos (Avignon Université), created in 2008, started to reveal new evidence of the occupation of the hill from the Hellenistic to the Medieval period and a number of important projects have continued to explore various aspects of the areas surrounding Fabrika hill led by the Department of Antiquities or foreign missions. 

This third colloquium on the archaeology of Nea Paphos aims to place this newer research on Fabrika hill but also to place this area of Paphos within the broader historical context of the rest of Hellenistic-Medieval Paphos and across the broader region of western Cyprus. Fabrika hill can now truly be seen as a second acropolis for the Hellenistic and Roman city, so what activities can now be identified to integrate this hill into what we know about other parts of the city and harbour of Nea Paphos.

The conference will take place in a hybrid format between the 8-11 November at venues provided by the  École français d’Athènes (8 November for introductory discussions and a keynote lecture), École française d’Athènes (9-10 November) and the House of Cyprus at the Embassy of Cyprus (11 November) all in Athens. A keynote lecture will be provided by Dr  Marina Solomidou-Ieronimydou, Director of the Department of Antiquities of Cyprus.

Please note that the languages of the colloquium will be Greek, French and English.

For registration follow the links below:

https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_miUfkygmR9Gv26K8qVEsOA

Organisers

The Organising Committee
Dr Claire Balandier, Dr Craig Barker and Dr Eustathios Raptou

The Scientific Committee
Dr Claire Balandier, Dr Craig Barker, Emeritus Professor Demetrios Michaelides, Dr Jolanta Mlynarczyk, Dr Eustathios Raptou and Dr Marina Solomidou-Ieronymidou

Supporters
The colloquium is made possible because of the support of the following organisations
* The Department of Antiquities of Cyprus,
* École française d’Athènes
* The Australian Archaeological Institute at Athens
* Spiti Ths Kyprou, Athens
* Laboratoire HiSoMA: Histoire et Sources des Mondes Antiques
* Avignon Université
* The University of Sydney
* Chau Chak Wing Museum, The University of Sydney