Ancient CyprusAncient Cyprus

Museum

Cantor Arts Center

Stanford, United States

Museum in Stanford; part of Stanford University. 1 person in the register connected with it.

The Cypriot collection

about 5,000 Cypriot objects, mostly terracottas, acquired in 1896 as "duplicates" of the Cesnola collection; its database records 119 "Cypriot lamps" from the Stanford Family Collection against 185 lamps in the 1968 list (2021)

Masson 1996Lightfoot, p. 15

History

  1. 1896
    About 5,000 Cypriot objects, "5000 duplicata of the Cesnola Collection", sold by the Metropolitan Museum (in Cesnola's time as director) to Leland Stanford, for the Leland Stanford Jr. Museum.

    Leland StanfordLuigi Palma di CesnolaMasson 1996Marangou 2000, p. 370Barker & Merrillees 2017, p. 67Coleman et al. 1996, p. 564

  2. 1906
    The earthquake destroyed or damaged many of the objects; a photograph at the Cantor shows the Cesnola display after the quake. Masson says many were destroyed or damaged; Marangou says many were then sold or exchanged with other university collections.

    Masson 1996Marangou 2000, p. 370Lightfoot 2017, p. 22 n. 76

  3. 1953
    At least five Mycenaean vases (ex-Cesnola, "from Alambra") went to the Nicholson Museum, Sydney, in an exchange arranged by A. D. Trendall; the return items are not recorded.

    Arthur Dale TrendallBarker & Merrillees 2017, p. 67

  4. 1964
    Davis and Webster published the Stanford Cesnola terracottas (446 catalogued, many in groups), as SIMA XVI; a list of the glass followed in 1968 (Webster).

    T. B. L. WebsterKarageorghis & Amyx 1974Lightfoot 2017, p. 22 n. 76

  5. 1995
    After another earthquake in 1989, Stanford exchanged part of its Cesnola glass with the Harvard Semitic Museum (22 glass vessels, accession 1995.10).

    Lightfoot 2017, p. 16

People

1 person

Objects

Sources

  1. 1.Olivier Masson (1996). “La dispersion des antiquités chypriotes: les deux collections Cesnola”. Cahiers du Centre d'Études Chypriotes 25, 3-32. Online
  2. 2.A. G. Marangou (ed.) (2000). The Consul Luigi Palma di Cesnola 1832-1904: Life and Deeds.
  3. 3.Craig Barker, Robert S. Merrillees (2017). “Cypriot Antiquities from the Cesnola Collections in the Nicholson Museum at the University of Sydney”. Mediterranean Archaeology 30, 51-71.
  4. 4.Christopher S. Lightfoot. The Cesnola Collection of Cypriot Art: Terracotta Oil Lamps. Metropolitan Museum of Art.
  5. 5.C. S. Lightfoot (2017). The Cesnola Collection of Cypriot Art: Ancient Glass. New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
  6. 6.J. E. Coleman, J. A. Barlow, M. K. Mogelonsky, K. W. Schaar (1996). Alambra: A Middle Bronze Age Settlement in Cyprus. Archaeological Investigations by Cornell University 1974-1985. Jonsered, Paul Åströms Förlag.
  7. 7.V. Karageorghis, D. A. Amyx (1974). Cypriote Antiquities in San Francisco Bay Area Collections. Göteborg.