Ancient CyprusAncient Cyprus

University

Corpus Christi College, Cambridge

Cambridge, United Kingdom

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

The Cypriot collection

Received by bequest in 1891 the collection of Rev. S. S. Lewis, including a Ptolemaic faience oinochoe said to be from Kourion; further Cypriot content not read (1971)

Mitford 1971

History

  1. 1891
    Samuel Savage Lewis, Fellow of the college, bequeathed his collection to the college, including the faience 'Queen' oinochoe inscribed for Ptolemy Philopator (Mitford, Inscriptions of Kourion no. 75), which was auctioned in Paris on 28 April 1886 and acquired by Lewis then or soon after.

    CambridgeSamuel Savage LewisMitford 1971

People

1 person

Donors and lenders · 1

Objects

  • Faience 'Queen' oinochoe, 221-217 BC, inscribed for Ptolemy Philopator, 0.297 m high; said to be from Kourion

    from Kourion (said)via Samuel Savage Lewis1891Mitford 1971

Sources

  1. 1.T. B. Mitford (1971). The Inscriptions of Kourion. Philadelphia, American Philosophical Society.
  2. 2.Anna Holly Reeve (2021). “Ancient Cyprus in Leeds: Objects, Networks and Museums from 1870 to 1947”. PhD thesis, University of Leeds.