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A Catalogue of the Cyprus Museum, with a Chronicle of Excavations undertaken since the British Occupation, and Introductory Notes on Cypriote Archaeology

John L. Myres and Max Ohnefalsch-Richter

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A Catalogue of the Cyprus Museum (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1899) is the catalogue of the government collection of antiquities in Nicosia, the Cyprus Museum, by John L. Myres and Max Ohnefalsch-Richter. According to the preface, it began with a suggestion by the High Commissioner in October 1893. Myres, then in charge for a time of the British Museum's excavations at Amathus, cleaned, arranged and catalogued the collection in summer 1894, and Ohnefalsch-Richter helped and later revised part of the text. H. B. Walters contributed the accounts of the British Museum's work at Kourion and Maroni. The collection grew, the preface explains, under the Ottoman law of 1874, which gave the government a third of the finds of permitted excavations.

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The book opens with a chronicle of excavations since the British occupation and introductory notes on Cypriote archaeology. The catalogue is arranged by period (the Bronze Age and the "Graeco-Phoenician" age) and by class, from pottery and imported Greek vases to glass, terracottas, bronzes, jewellery and gems. Collections and tomb groups from individual sites, among them Salamis, follow, with indexes and eight plates.

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  • Myres, J. L. and Ohnefalsch-Richter, M. 1899. A Catalogue of the Cyprus Museum, with a Chronicle of Excavations undertaken since the British Occupation, and Introductory Notes on Cypriote Archaeology. Oxford: Clarendon Press, Preface pp. v–vii.

Contents

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  1. PREFACEscan 9
  2. CHRONICLE OF EXCAVATIONSscan 17
  3. INTRODUCTION.scan 29
  4. THE BRONZE AGE.scan 52
  5. FIGURINES.scan 67
  6. STONE IMPLEMENTS.scan 68
  7. THE GRAECO-PHOENICIAN AGE.scan 75
  8. DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE OF POTTERY.scan 75
  9. SERIES OF PRINCIPAL TYPES OFscan 79
  10. IMPORTED VASES OF GREEK FABRICS.scan 97
  11. POTTERY OF THE HELLENISTIC AGE.scan 108
  12. VASES OF ALABASTER.scan 115
  13. GLASS.scan 116
  14. TERRACOTTAS.scan 123
  15. BRONZE OBJECTS.scan 131
  16. JEWELLERY, GEMS, &c.scan 137
  17. SPECIAL COLLECTIONS FROM VARIOUS SITESscan 157
  18. VI. SALAMIS.scan 177
  19. TOMB GROUPSscan 189
  20. KURION (EPISKOPI).scan 196
  21. SALAMIS (near ENKOMI).scan 199
  22. MARONI.scan 203
  23. INDEX Iscan 205
  24. OF NAMES, PLACES, OBJECTS, AND STYLES.scan 205
  25. INDEX II.scan 226
  26. OF DIAGRAMS INSERTED IN THE TEXT.scan 226
  27. INDEX III.scan 227
  28. OF TOMB GROUPS FROM THE LARGER EXCAVATIONS.scan 227
  29. INDEX IV.scan 232
  30. SOUTH KENSINGTON MUSEUM.scan 233
  31. INDEX V.scan 236
  32. OF REFERENCES TO THE PRINCIPAL PUBLICATIONSscan 236
  33. INDEX VI.scan 239
  34. INDEX VII.scan 240
  35. Clarendon Press, Oxford.scan 257
  36. 1. DICTIONARIES.scan 257

Plates and figures

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  2. scan 247
  3. scan 268

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