Fitzwilliam Museum

Described in 1999 as arguably second in Britain only to the British Museum's Cypriote holdings across Cambridge collections. (1999)

Karageorghis et al. 1999

1. 1876
   Purchased a selection of 39 glass vessels, some from Amathus, from the antiquities Luigi Palma di Cesnola left on deposit in the British Museum (GR.1.1876 series).

   Luigi Palma di CesnolaUlbrich & Kiely 2012Masson 1996

2. 1883–1892
   Bought antiquities at the four sales of the Lawrence-Cesnola Collection, formed by Alessandro Cesnola.

   Alessandro (Alexander) Palma di CesnolaKarageorghis et al. 1999Ulbrich & Kiely 2012

3. 1888–1891
   As a subscriber to the Cyprus Exploration Fund, received division material from Palaepaphos, Leondari Vouno, Marion, Limniti and Salamis; duplicates were passed on to public schools and colleges (Cheltenham, Eton, Haileybury, Marlborough, Westminster).

   Karageorghis et al. 1999

4. 1888
   F. H. H. Guillemard gave the Cypriot antiquities collected on his 1887 visit to Cyprus; he is said to have founded the Cyprus Exploration Fund.

   Francis Henry Hill GuillemardKarageorghis et al. 1999Ulbrich & Kiely 2012

5. 1892
   Sir Henry Bulwer presented Tamassos finds (a third of the 1889 excavated share, bought through Eustathios Constantinides, from Ohnefalsch-Richter's dig); notice in the Cambridge University Reporter of 1 March 1892, signed J. H. Middleton. Further material followed in 1907.

   TamassosHenry Ernest Gascoyne BulwerMax Ohnefalsch-RichterEustathios ConstantinidesJ. H. MiddletonKarageorghis et al. 1999Buchholz 1989Kiely & Merrillees 2012, p. 18

6. 1893
   Samuel Sandars gave a Hellenistic limestone male head (GR.1.1893).

   Samuel SandarsMuseum

7. 1908
   A. J. B. Wace sold five Cypriot items (GR.132b/c/g.1908 among them); he gave a lagynos in 1921 (GR.3.1921).

   Alan John Bayard WaceMuseum

8. 1909
   William Ridgeway sold three gold diadems (GR.155a-c.1909).

   William RidgewayMuseum

9. 1932
   Edward Towry Whyte bequeathed a collection including Cypriot items (GR.17a/b.1932, GR.18.1932).

   Edward Towry WhyteMuseum

10. 1936
    Winifred Lamb published the Cambridge Greek vases in Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum (GB 11, Cambridge 2).

    Winifred LambKiely 2017, p. 41

11. 1938
    Almost all the Cypriot material was transferred to the Museum of Classical Archaeology, Little St Mary's Lane, in the hope of a centre for Cypriot archaeology with a teaching post for J. R. Stewart; the war intervened.

    James Rivers Barrington StewartKarageorghis et al. 1999Kiely 2017, p. 41

12. 1939
    J. R. B. Stewart gave a Vounous group and other Cypriot antiquities (17 records, e.g. GR.6c.1939).

    VounousJames Rivers Barrington StewartMuseumKarageorghis 1998, p. 118

13. 1947
    Objects that followed Stewart to Sydney were formally transferred to the University of Sydney's Nicholson Museum; some Cypriot pottery went to the Liverpool Museum and the Manchester Museum for teaching. The rest of the Cambridge holding moved to the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology.

    Karageorghis et al. 1999

14. 1964
    Budde and Nicholls published the Catalogue of the Greek and Roman Sculpture in the Fitzwilliam Museum.

    J. BuddeR. NichollsKiely 2017, p. 41

15. December 1997
    Leventis Gallery of Cypriote Antiquities opened, inaugurated by the Duke of Edinburgh, funded by the A. G. Leventis Foundation; conceived 1995 by Eleni Vassilika and Vassos Karageorghis.

    Eleni VassilikaVassos KarageorghisPenelope WilsonKarageorghis et al. 1999Karageorghis 1998

16. 1999
    The Art of Ancient Cyprus in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge published (Karageorghis, Vassilika, Wilson), with European Commission Raphael Programme and Leventis funding.

    Vassos KarageorghisEleni VassilikaPenelope WilsonKarageorghis et al. 1999

17. 2007
    The Cypriot display was refreshed under Keeper Lucilla Burn; a temporary display of Cypriot medieval ceramics followed in 2012.

    Lucilla BurnKiely 2017, p. 41

18. c. 2016
    Anastasia Chrysophilopoulou appointed, with Leventis Foundation funding, to digitise and study the Cypriot collection.

    Anastasia ChristophilopoulouKiely 2017, p. 43

19. September 2021
    'Being an Islander: Art and Identity of the large Mediterranean Islands' exhibition, with Cypriot food-practice narratives developed by A. Christophilopoulou.

    Anastasia ChristophilopoulouRe-approaching Cyprus: a day… 2021

• Jug

  GR.3.1869via C. Babington1869Museum

• Glass series, ex Cesnola

  GR.1.1876via Luigi Palma di Cesnola1876Masson 1996

• Cypriot head, 1887 collection

  GR.216.1888via Francis Henry Hill Guillemard1888Museum

• Bowl, Bulwer Collection

  GR.53.1892from Tamassosvia Henry Ernest Gascoyne Bulwer1892Museum

• Limestone male head with garland, Hellenistic

  GR.1.1893via Samuel Sandars1893Museum

• Gold diadems

  GR.155a-c.1909via William Ridgeway1909Museum

• Vounous group, e.g. bowl

  GR.6c.1939from Vounousvia James Rivers Barrington Stewart1939Museum

• Bull rhyton, White Painted ware

  GR.4.1977via Ruth Plaister1977Museum

• Arms and Armour of Iron Age CyprusCompendium
• Glass in Ancient CyprusCompendium
• Roman CyprusCompendium
• Seafaring and Ships in Ancient CyprusCompendium
• The Legal Export of Cypriot AntiquitiesCompendium
• Triple Crossing LinesCompendium
• Tulip Bowls and Cult VesselsCompendium
• Wavy LinesCompendium
• Weapons of Bronze Age CyprusCompendium
• Zig-ZagsCompendium
• Dipper with High Loop HandleObject
• Limestone Head of a Beardless Votary in a Conical HelmetObject
• Red Polished Spouted BowlObject
• Zoomorphic Askos with a Horned Head, probably Red PolishedObject