Museum
National Museums Scotland
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Museum in Edinburgh. 6 people in the register connected with it.
The Cypriot collection
Holds Cypriot antiquities from Scottish collectors and from Scottish-linked fieldwork; Goring's 1988 catalogue drew items from Edinburgh, Glasgow, Aberdeen and St Andrews.
History
- 1870Vases given by Luigi Palma di Cesnola to a Rev. Joseph Owens, passing through Cyprus, are now in the National Museum, Edinburgh
- 1950–1955Finds of the Liverpool-St Andrews expedition at Palaepaphos allocated to St Andrews were later transferred to the National Museum of Scotland
- 1983Royal Scottish Museum granted staff member Elizabeth Goring leave to complete her PhD thesis on Late Cypriot goldwork
EdinburghElizabeth Sarah GoringGoring 1983
- 14 April 1988 – 4 September 1988'Aphrodite's Island: Art and Archaeology of Ancient Cyprus', Royal Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh, curated by Elizabeth Goring (Curator of Mediterranean Archaeology) with loans from Aberdeen, Edinburgh, Glasgow and St Andrews and from the Cyprus Department of Antiquities; Karageorghis supported it and attended the opening conference
- 1988Goring, A Mischievous Pastime: Digging in Cyprus in the Nineteenth Century, with the exhibition catalogue (viii+98 pp., 120 illustrations), published by National Museums of Scotland with the Bank of Cyprus Cultural Foundation
EdinburghElizabeth Sarah GoringHunt 1989
People
6 peopleStaff and members · 2
- Elizabeth Sarah Goringcurator (1983–1988) · staff member; granted leave to complete the thesis · worked for itGoring 1983Hunt 19891983–1988
- Joseph Owensother (from 1870)Masson 1996
Donors and lenders · 4
- Vassos Karageorghislender (1988–1988) · lent objectsHunt 19891988
- Julius Robertson van MillingendonorHunt 1989
- Patrick Geddesdonor · bequeathed objects · member or staffHunt 1989
- W. M. Ramsaydonor · bequeathed objectsHunt 1989
Objects
Earrings with granulation, uncertain provenance (Goring catalogue no. 387A)
Aegean-type pottery, unknown provenance, Cyprus (cat. 98 in the study of the earliest Aegean-type production)
1912.274Graziadio
Sources
- 1.David Hunt (1989). “Mischievous Digging (review of E. Goring, A Mischievous Pastime: Digging in Cyprus in the Nineteenth Century, Edinburgh 1988)”. The Classical Review. Online
- 2.T. Kiely (2017). “Britain and the archaeology of Cyprus II: 1914 to the present day”. Cahiers du Centre d'Études Chypriotes 47, 253-310. Online
- 3.Olivier Masson (1996). “La dispersion des antiquités chypriotes: les deux collections Cesnola”. Cahiers du Centre d'Études Chypriotes 25, 3-32. Online
- 4.Elizabeth Sarah Goring (1983). “Late Cypriot Goldwork, vol. 1”. PhD thesis, Bedford College, University of London.
- 5.Giampaolo Graziadio. The Earliest Production of Aegean-Type Pottery in Cyprus.