Society
Archaeological Joint Committee
London, United Kingdom · founded 1918
Society in London, founded 1918. 9 people in the register connected with it.
History
- 1918George Hill became founding secretary of the AJC; legislation in the Mandated territories was one of his concerns in that role. (The source gives 1918 for Hill's secretaryship, not an explicit founding date for the committee.)
- 1918–1919With Hill as secretary, AJC policy for the Mandated territories ensured the British Museum received a due share of the empire's antiquities.
- 1920The British Museum published, on behalf of the AJC, a manual for excavators and observers in the Near East; John Myres contributed the chapter on Cyprus.
- 16 November 1932AJC meeting in London devoted to Cyprus: the formal proposal for a Department of Antiquities originated here. Present were Peers, Hill, Myres (for the British School of Archaeology in Jerusalem) and G. L. M. Clauson (Colonial Office); Buxton, Buckler and Seymer attended by invitation, with A. J. Dawe of the Colonial Office. Myres reported the Cyprus Museum in 'lamentable condition'; Buckler thought the Museum's sale of antiquities fed gossip about the integrity of diggers and officials.
LondonCharles PeersGeorge HillJohn Linton MyresG. L. M. ClausonW. H. BucklerVivian SeymerA. J. DaweStanley-Price 2025Stanley-Price 2025, n. 84
- 1933The AJC recommended that Peers visit Cyprus; Hill joined him, with the British Museum paying his expenses.
- 1934Hill's visit to Cyprus (his first) produced a report on the Cyprus Museum and suggested amendments to the Antiquities Law, prepared in consultation with the AJC, which had already drafted antiquities laws for Palestine, Iraq and India.
- 1935The Bill published in the Cyprus Gazette of 10 May 1935 drew objections from the Legal Adviser to the Secretary of State, the AJC and the Director of Antiquities; the amended Law was published 30 December 1935. Hill had inserted the British Museum's name into it, giving it the right to be offered certain antiquities (removed in the 1964 amendment).
People
9 peopleStaff and members · 9
- George Hillsecretary (from 1918) · founding secretaryStanley-Price 20251918
- Charles Peersmember (16 November 1932 – 16 November 1932) · attended the 16 Nov 1932 meeting representing the Ancient Monuments Board and as President of the Society of AntiquariesStanley-Price 20251932
- John Linton Myresmember (1932–1933) · representative of the British School of Archaeology in Jerusalem at the 16 November 1932 meetingStanley-Price 20251932
- W. H. Bucklerother (16 November 1932 – 16 November 1932) · invited attendee at the 16 Nov 1932 meetingStanley-Price 20251932
- A. J. Daweofficial (16 November 1932 – 16 November 1932)Stanley-Price 2025
- G. L. M. Clausonofficial (16 November 1932 – 16 November 1932)Stanley-Price 2025
- H. J. Buxtonofficial (1932–1932)Stanley-Price 2025
- H. J. Buxton (Archdeacon)other (16 November 1932 – 16 November 1932)Stanley-Price 2025
- Vivian Seymerother (16 November 1932 – 16 November 1932)Stanley-Price 2025
Sources
- 1.Nicholas Stanley-Price (2025). “Colonial society and the dismissal of John Hilton, first Director of Antiquities in Cyprus”. Empire & Excavation: Critical perspectives on archaeology in British-period Cyprus, 1878-1960, 109-126.
- 2.Nicholas Stanley-Price (2025). “Illicit excavation and the sale of 'duplicate' antiquities: Rupert Gunnis and the Cyprus Museum, 1926-1932”. Cahiers du Centre d'Études Chypriotes 55, 269-301. Online
- 3.T. Kiely (2017). “Britain and the archaeology of Cyprus II: 1914 to the present day”. Cahiers du Centre d'Études Chypriotes 47, 253-310. Online