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Scholar · Donor

A. H. Church

1834–1915 · United Kingdom

Professor of Chemistry, Royal Academy of Arts. Gave to Ashmolean Museum.

Life and work

  1. 1899
    Analysed the composition of a cylinder seal from Cyprus (GR 1899,1229.36 [?]) and a copper ingot from Enkomi Ayios Iakovos (GR 1897,0401.1535) in the BM Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities.

    LondonMerrillees 2017

  2. 1903
    Published his findings on the antiquities from Cyprus in the British Museum.

    Merrillees 2017

Objects

Sources

  1. 1.Robert S. Merrillees (2017). “Cypriote antiquities in Late Ottoman Istanbul and Smyrna - II: Cypriote antiquities in the Greek Evangelical School Museum and their Trading in Late Ottoman Smyrna (Modern Izmir)”. Cahiers du Centre d'Études Chypriotes 47, 121-164. Online
  2. 2.“Gold pendant chain-earring set with garnet and green glass beads (AN1896-1908.G.462)”. Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, online collection. Online