Augustus Chapman Merriam

In June 1875 The Academy reported that Mr A. C. Merriam of Columbia College, New York, had made a thorough examination of the pottery in the collection of Luigi Palma di Cesnola, comparing it with the pottery Heinrich Schliemann had found at Hissarlik; the journal added that his results did not differ from those already put forward¹. Augustus Chapman Merriam was born at Leyden, New York, on 30 May 1843^5,8.

His later work was on the stone and bronze. In 1893 the American Journal of Archaeology, on whose editorial committee he sat, printed his "A Series of Cypriote Heads in the Metropolitan Museum"⁶. The New York Times of 26 February 1893 headlined a lecture by him as the last in his course on Cypriote sculpture². In the Columbia volume in honour of Henry Drisler (1894) he published three papers, "A Bronze of Polyclitan Affinities in the Metropolitan Museum", "Geryon in Cyprus" and "Hercules, Hydra, and Crab"⁷. The Revue archéologique of 1895 reviewed his studies of the three Geryon statue fragments and the Geryon relief from Cyprus, now in New York³.

He died at Athens on 19 January 1895, described as Professor of Columbia College^5,8.