This book combines the papers of the conference 'Cypriote Antiquities in Berlin in the Focus of New Research' which took place in May 2013. Organized by The Cypriot-German Cultural Association on the occasion of its 35th anniversary in collaboration with the Antikensammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, the aim of the conference was to draw attention to the objects of the outstanding 'Cyprus Collection', which has been exhibited in a special gallery since the re-opening of the Neues Museum in 2009.

Prehistoric Cypriot ceramics were widely traded, especially in the late Bronze Age, and constitute an important source of information about international trade and cultural relations in the Bronze and Iron Age eastern Mediterranean. These papers were presented at an international conference held at the University of Pennsylvania Museum in October 1989. Symposium Series II University Museum Monograph, 74

The Cesnola Collection of antiquities from Cyprus preserves the island’s artistic traditions from prehistoric through Roman times and represents the first large group of ancient Mediterranean works to enter the museum’s collection. This publication which focuses on Ancient Glass and is the third volume in a series aimed at publishing the collection in its entirety. This catalogue contains descriptions and illustrations of 520 glass vessels and objects. Although the majority of the glass is Roman, the scope of the collection extends from the Late Bronze Age through the end of antiquity (ca. 1500 B.C.– A.D. 600). It is the first attempt in over a century to provide a detailed account of the ancient glass found on Cyprus by Cesnola.