Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Cambridge

Large Bronze Age tomb groups, mainly from Stewart's excavations at Vounous and elsewhere, held in stores; no published total (1998)

Karageorghis 1998, p. 118-119

1. 1914
   Sir Henry Bulwer's collection of nine traditional Karpasia costumes given to the museum (Stylianou-Lambert and Bounia date it 1914; Kiely and Merrillees say only that a Cypriot costume collection is in Cambridge).

   CambridgeHenry Ernest Gascoyne BulwerStylianou-Lambert & Bounia 2016, p. 95Kiely & Merrillees 2012

2. 1923–1924
   Frank Ransom gave his father William's collection of nearly 1,500 objects (23.116-1203), Cypriot part including glass, a Mycenaean-type gold diadem, pottery and votive statuettes, with 250 pounds for cases; announced in the Cambridge University Reporter 3 June 1924.

   CambridgeFrank RansomWilliam RansomBarker & Merrillees 2017, p. 68

3. 1935–1936
   On his first visit to Cyprus Stewart bought pots and sherds, some for Lewis Clark at the museum.

   CyprusJames Rivers Barrington StewartLewis ClarkPowell 2013, p. 47

4. 1938
   Most of the Fitzwilliam's Cypriot material was moved to the Museum of Classical Archaeology, Cambridge, in anticipation of a Cypriot centre and a post for Stewart; the Vounous remainder later passed from there to MAA.

   CambridgeJames Rivers Barrington StewartChristophilopoulou 2016

5. 1947
   (Museum of Classical Archaeology, Cambridge, not yet MAA.) About 160 Vounous items went on permanent loan from Cambridge to the Nicholson Museum, Sydney; Cypriot teaching material also went to Manchester and Liverpool.

   CambridgeA. W. LawrenceChristophilopoulou 2016

6. 1951
   Tamassos iron sword and spear fragments (reg. 1951.2042, Bulwer collection) entered MAA.

   CambridgeHenry Ernest Gascoyne BulwerArchaeology & Anthropology n.d.

7. 1998
   Karageorghis reports large Cypriot Bronze Age tomb groups, mainly Stewart's Vounous finds, kept in storerooms on the outskirts of Cambridge in unsatisfactory conditions, which the museum authorities were unhappy about but could not fund.

   CambridgeKarageorghis 1998, p. 118-119

8. 2016
   The Fitzwilliam began a project on the history of Cypriot collections across the Cambridge university museums, including MAA.

   CambridgeAnastasia ChristophilopoulouChristophilopoulou 2016

• Kernos made of four jars fixed together with a central handle, grey-slipped brown fabric

  Z 20993via Deaconess AllenArchaeology & Anthropology n.d.

• Iron sword and spear fragments from Tamassos (1951.2042 B, C, E.1 and three more records)

  1951.2042from Tamassosvia Henry Ernest Gascoyne BulwerArchaeology & Anthropology n.d.

• Vounous Bronze Age tomb groups from Stewart's excavations (stores)

  from Vounousvia James Rivers Barrington Stewart1937–1938Karageorghis 1998, p. 118-119Christophilopoulou 2016

• White Slip WareCompendium