Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery

No total published in the sources reached. Cypriot ceramics from the 1885 Campbell bequest formed the core of the archaeological collection. (2017)

Ulbrich & Kiely 2012Kiely 2017Symons 1987

1. 1885
   Received a range of Cypriot ceramics from the bequest of the Stoke-on-Trent potter Colin Minton Campbell (the South Kensington Museum received vases from the same bequest); these formed the core of its archaeological collection. Archaeology was also an element of the founding collection of 1885.

   Colin Minton CampbellUlbrich & Kiely 2012Kiely 2017

2. 1939
   Vounous objects allocated to the Fitzwilliam Museum and Birmingham Museum were exhibited with the newly acquired Cypriot material at the Institute of Archaeology, London.

   Kiely 2017

3. from 1951
   After 1951 the local authority began funding new acquisitions, including support for excavations, and archaeology became a major element of the museum.

   Kiely 2017

4. 1965–1973
   The museum's archaeology department was among the sponsors (with university and research-board funders, the Liverpool Museum and the Ashmolean) of the Aceramic Neolithic Ayios Epiktetos-Vrysi project (1969-73) directed by Gelling and Peltenburg of the University of Birmingham.

   Ayios Epiktetos-VrysiP. S. GellingEdgar J. PeltenburgKiely 2017

5. 1979–1980
   Hosted, with the Department of Antiquities, the temporary exhibition 'Cyprus BC' organised by the British Museum (shown at the British Museum 1979-80).

   Kiely 2017

6. 1980–1981
   Received the bulk of the c.1,000 Cypriot objects dispersed by the Wellcome Foundation Trustees (material surplus to the medical-historical theme), including Rupert Gunnis's collection sold to Wellcome on 30 August 1933; a few pieces went to other British museums. Kiely dates the distribution 1980, Symons 1981.

   Henry WellcomeRupert Forbes GunnisKiely 2017Symons 1987

7. 1981
   Peltenburg's catalogue Cypriote Antiquities in the Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery (Birmingham, 1981) was published; Catling cites it for the Kouklia (EVIA) tomb contents (Birmingham Museum p. 41, no. 397).

   Edgar J. PeltenburgCatling 2020Morris 1985

8. 1982
   Accession numbers 1982 A 978 and 1982 A 1495-1505 (female figurines holding a bird) appear in Dissinger's catalogue, consistent with accessioning of the Wellcome material in 1982 (inference, not stated by the sources).

   Dissinger 2017

• Picrolite figurine, Chalcolithic, no provenance, ht 6.4 cm (cruciform-figure precursor published by Peltenburg 1982)

  Morris 1985

• Female figurine holding a bird, Cypro-Archaic, Lapithos workshop

  1982 A 978Dissinger 2017

• Female figurine holding a bird, Cypro-Archaic, Lapithos workshop

  1982 A 1495Dissinger 2017

• Female figurine holding a bird, Cypro-Archaic, Lapithos workshop

  1982 A 1496Dissinger 2017

• Female figurine holding a bird, Cypro-Archaic, Arsos workshop

  1982 A 1505Dissinger 2017

• Miniature stone jar from Kouklia tomb (EVIA:1) and other Kouklia tomb pottery from the Liverpool/St Andrews excavations (Birmingham Museum p. 41 no. 397)

  from Kouklia, Evreti tomb EVIACatling 2020