Walters Art Museum

Not published as a total. The online collection shows Cypriot pottery (Cypro-Geometric/Archaic jugs and amphorae), Late Cypriot hematite cylinder seals, gold plaques with goddesses and a silver plate assigned to the first Lambousa treasure; the museum's own Kourion sanctuary excavations of 1978-1986 are the other Cypriot strand. (2026)

MuseumMerrillees 2009

1. 1931
   Henry Walters bequeathed his collection to the city of Baltimore; the Cypriot-material records (42.157, 57.968, 57.969) carry this as the route into the Museum, which opened 1934

   BaltimoreHenry WalterscontributorsMuseum

2. 1941
   Late Cypriot hematite cylinder seals 42.811, 42.817 and 42.830 bought from the New York dealer Joseph Brummer (42.811 had passed Sadie Jones then Brummer)

   BaltimoreJoseph BrummerSadie JonesMuseum

3. 1952
   Barrel jug with geometric decoration 48.2044 by gift of the estate of Mrs Samuel C. Lamport; a Cesnola figurine jug (Vandenabeele 165.G) is also credited to her bequest (1955)

   BaltimoreMrs Samuel C. LamportMuseumVandenabeele 2001, p. 185

4. 1973
   Five Cypriot vessels (48.2334, 48.2335, 48.2336, 48.2341, 48.2347) purchased from William H. Smith of Alexandria, Virginia

   BaltimoreWilliam H. SmithMuseum

5. 1978
   American mission to the Sanctuary of Apollo Hylates at Kourion, directed by Diana Buitron and David Soren, sponsored by the Walters Art Gallery with Columbia Museum Associates, the University of Maryland Baltimore County and Dartmouth College; it set out to continue the University of Pennsylvania Museum excavations (Hill and McFadden) ended by McFadden's drowning

   KourionDiana BuitronDavid SorenKarageorghis 1979

6. 1979–1981
   Further Kourion seasons sponsored by the Walters with the University of Missouri, Maryland and Dartmouth, with National Endowment for the Humanities funding; in 1981 two separate campaigns, Buitron's (May, Walters/Maryland/Johns Hopkins) on the Archaic part of the sanctuary, and Soren's

   KourionDiana BuitronDavid SorenKarageorghis 1980Karageorghis 1981Karageorghis 1982

7. 1982
   New season at the Archaic sanctuary under Buitron, styled Curator of Greek and Roman Art at the Walters

   KourionDiana BuitronKarageorghis 1983

• Barrel jug with geometric decoration, Cypro-Archaic I

  48.2044via Mrs Samuel C. Lamport1952Museum

• Globular jug with concentric circle decoration (Black-on-Red)

  48.2341via William H. Smith1973Museum

• Cylinder seal with figures, a winged genius and animals, hematite, Late Cypriot

  42.811via Joseph Brummer1941Museum

• Cylinder seal with rows of genii, Late Cypriot

  42.830via Joseph Brummer1941Museum

• Gold plaques with goddesses and ibexes, 8th-7th c. BCE

  57.968Museum

• Scarab with a centaur and two lions in a silver swivel ring, green basalt, 6th c. BCE, recorded as from Dali

  42.157from DaliMuseum

• Silver plate, 255 mm, provisionally assigned to the first Lambousa treasure

  57.652from Lambousa (assigned)Merrillees 2009

• Bichrome IV Jug with Vertical Circle SystemsObject
• Bichrome IV Jug with Wreathed Circle SystemsObject
• Globular Jug with a Vertical Circle System, Bichrome IV or White Painted IVObject
• Large Bichrome IV Jug with Vertical Circle SystemsObject
• White Painted IV Ovoid Trefoil Jug with Concentric CirclesObject