University of Cyprus: A. G. Leventis research projects
Ιn its close cooperation with the University of Cyprus, the A. G. Leventis Foundation has supported a range of research projects in various academic areas since 2000, with the aim of stimulating intellectual curiosity and building collaborations between the University and other research institutes in Cyprus and abroad. For the independently-selected University committee which evaluates academic proposals, a key consideration is the need to support fields that receive limited state funding, both in Cyprus and internationally. In recent years, in response to the dwindling funding of the humanities, the committee has focused on supporting significant research in this area, such as the research project titled Moulding expressions of Culture: The Terracotta Figurines from the House of Orpheus, Nea Paphos recently. Conducted by Professor Demetrios Michaelides, the project studies the over 400 terracotta figurines and figurine fragments from the House of Orpheus in Paphos, involving typological, stylistic and iconographic analysis of the figurines, and the investigation of their fabrics, slips and pigments. Using a range of multidisciplinary approaches and methods, the project aims at a systematic interpretation of the analytical data, addressing issues related to chronology, technology, provenance and distribution, but also the contextualisation of the figurines within their intra-site and broader Cypriot and Mediterranean contexts, and the virtual reconstruction of fragmented specimens.
Grants given:
2000-2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 203, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022
