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.

Hunt 1989

History

  1. 1870
    Vases given by Luigi Palma di Cesnola to a Rev. Joseph Owens, passing through Cyprus, are now in the National Museum, Edinburgh

    Joseph OwensMasson 1996

  2. 1950–1955
    Finds of the Liverpool-St Andrews expedition at Palaepaphos allocated to St Andrews were later transferred to the National Museum of Scotland

    KoukliaTerence Bruce MitfordKiely 2017

  3. 1983
    Royal Scottish Museum granted staff member Elizabeth Goring leave to complete her PhD thesis on Late Cypriot goldwork

    EdinburghElizabeth Sarah GoringGoring 1983

  4. 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

    EdinburghElizabeth Sarah GoringVassos KarageorghisHunt 1989

  5. 1988
    Goring, 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 people

Staff and members · 2

Donors and lenders · 4

Objects

  • Earrings with granulation, uncertain provenance (Goring catalogue no. 387A)

    Goring 1983

  • Aegean-type pottery, unknown provenance, Cyprus (cat. 98 in the study of the earliest Aegean-type production)

    1912.274Graziadio

Sources

  1. 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. 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. 3.Olivier Masson (1996). “La dispersion des antiquités chypriotes: les deux collections Cesnola”. Cahiers du Centre d'Études Chypriotes 25, 3-32. Online
  4. 4.Elizabeth Sarah Goring (1983). “Late Cypriot Goldwork, vol. 1”. PhD thesis, Bedford College, University of London.
  5. 5.Giampaolo Graziadio. The Earliest Production of Aegean-Type Pottery in Cyprus.