Ancient CyprusAncient Cyprus

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A. W. Lawrence

fl. 1946–1966 · United Kingdom

Professor of Archaeology, Cambridge, active 1946–1966. Excavated at Kato Paphos. Lent to Nicholson Museum, University of Sydney; worked with Arthur Dale Trendall and R. J. C. Jamieson.

Life and work

  1. 1946–1947
    As Cambridge professor of archaeology, arranged with A. D. Trendall the permanent loan of Cypriot material from the Fitzwilliam Museum, the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology and the Museum of Classical Archaeology to the Nicholson Museum, Sydney; six cases arrived Oct 1947 on SS Taranaki; 195 objects listed.

    CambridgeBarker & Merrillees 2017, p. 22-23

  2. September 1966
    Assisted A. H. S. Megaw (for the British School at Athens) in the resumed excavation of Saranda Kolones, with R. J. C. Jamieson and students J. Hayes and G. Waywell.

    Kato PaphosMegaw 1967

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4 people
James Rivers Barrington S…Arthur Hubert Stanley Meg…Arthur Dale TrendallR. J. C. JamiesonA. W. Lawrence
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Sources

  1. 1.A. H. S. Megaw (1967). “Excavations at Paphos in Cyprus, 1966”. Archaeological Reports 13, 25-28.
  2. 2.Craig Barker, Robert S. Merrillees (2017). “Cypriot Antiquities from the Cesnola Collections in the Nicholson Museum at the University of Sydney”. Mediterranean Archaeology 30, 51-71.