University of Leeds

a small University-held group of Cypriot antiquities, identified by Reeve with the BM Amathus donation of 1894/95, and a second group given by Eliza Bodington in 1913; individual pieces now sit in Leeds Museums and Galleries with LEEDM.D numbers. (2021)

Reeve 2021, p. 169Reeve 2021, p. 203

1. 1874
   Yorkshire College of Science created; a museum was planned but never established, so staff and students used the museum of the Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society. Became the University of Leeds by royal charter in 1904.

   LeedsLouis Compton MiallUniversity of LeedsReeve 2021, p. 127

2. 1875
   Louis Compton Miall, curator of the Society's museum, becomes Lecturer in Biology at the College (Professor 1876) and holds both posts concurrently.

   LeedsLouis Compton MiallReeve 2021

3. 1894–1895
   The BM Trustees offer the Yorkshire College material from the Amathus excavations; Nathan Bodington, Principal, accepts. Reeve identifies it, on object types and unknown provenance, with the University's Cypriot collection found in storage in 1913. Ulbrich and Kiely say this material is no longer identifiable.

   AmathusNathan BodingtonReeve 2021, p. 169Ulbrich & Kiely 2012

4. July 1902
   On Bodington's application, A. S. Murray tells the BM Trustees that the Principal of the Yorkshire College asks for duplicates on behalf of the Society's museum, used by College students; Enkomi, Klavdia-Tremithos and Paphos material goes to the Society, where its curator Henry Crowther uses it for typological display and school lectures, not the College.

   LeedsNathan BodingtonHenry CrowtherReeve 2021, pp. 169-170Reeve 2021, p. 171

5. 1904
   University of Leeds chartered; Nathan Bodington first Vice-Chancellor (1904-1911).

   LeedsNathan BodingtonUniversity of LeedsReeve 2021, p. 169

6. October 1913
   Eliza Bodington gives the Classical Department a group of Cypriot antiquities found among Nathan Bodington's stored possessions in the University cellar, 'in the hope that it might encourage a taste for archaeology'. A second selection from his Cypriot collection goes to the Society's museum (94th Annual Report). A. M. Woodward, Lecturer in Classics, catalogues the University group.

   LeedsEliza BodingtonA. M. WoodwardReeve 2021, p. 203Reeve 2021, p. 216

7. 1914
   Woodward publishes on the Lanuvium antiquities at Leeds but not on the Cypriot collections; Reeve finds no sign the Cypriot material was used for University research.

   LeedsA. M. WoodwardReeve 2021

8. 2021
   Anna Reeve, AHRC-funded doctoral researcher in Classics at Leeds, completes the PhD thesis on the Leeds ancient Cypriot collection, 1870-1947.

   LeedsAnna Holly ReeveReeve 2021