Draft:Ioannis Ionas

Ioannis Ionas (Greek: Ιωάννης Ιωνάς) is a Cypriot archaeologist specialising in traditional architecture, an ethnographer and a folklorist.

He has written the first comprehensive overview on Cypriot vernacular pottery. To achieve this he recorded a large number of pottery collections in private collections and museums and recorded the making process from the potters conducting many interviews.

Publications

 * Ionas I. (1984). L'architecture religieuse au Chypriote Récent (Kition et Enkomi). In: Temples et sanctuaires. Séminaire de recherche 1981-1983. sous la direction de G. Roux. Lyon: Maison de l'Orient et de la Méditerranée Jean Pouilloux, 97-105. (Travaux de la Maison de l'Orient, 7).
 * Aurenche O., Aurenche M., Bazin M., Desfarges P., Ionas I. (1993). Un village et son terroir: Episkopi (Paphos)/A village and its land: Episkopi (Paphos). In: Kinyras: L'Archéologie française à Chypre/French Archaeology in Cyprus Table ronde tenue à Lyon, 5-6 novembre 1991/Symposium held in Lyons November 5th-6th 1991. Lyon: Maison de l'Orient et de la Méditerranée Jean Pouilloux. 205-254. (Travaux de la Maison de l'Orient, 22).
 * Ionas, I. (2000). Traditional Pottery and Potters in Cyprus. The Disappearance of an Ancient Craft Industry in the 19th and 20th Centuries. Ashgate, Aldershot. Birmingham Byzantine and Ottoman Monographs.
 * Ionas, I. (2003). La maison rurale de Chypre (XVIIIe-XXe siecle) aspects et techniques de construction. Nicosie: Publication du Centre de Recherche Scientifique de Chypre.