Ancient CyprusAncient Cyprus

Scholar

Alan R. Schulman

fl. 1960–1971

Scholar, active 1960–1971. Worked for University Museum, University of Pennsylvania; worked with Terence Bruce Mitford.

Life and work

  1. 1971
    Supplied Mitford with comments on the Egyptian hieroglyphic inscription on a bronze Saite situla (No. 15; Cyprus Museum Inv. 1954/IX-4/1/M 51) from the Archaic Precinct of the Sanctuary of Apollo, Kourion (found 27 March 1937 in the University Museum excavations). He reads it 'May Isis give life (to) Shepenamun the son of Psamtek' and dates the vessel to the 26th (Saite) Dynasty, 663-525 BC.

    KourionMitford 1971

Connections

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Colleagues & contacts

Objects

  • Bronze Egyptian situla with hieroglyphic inscription around the rim and three syllabic signs on the wall (Mitford 1971, no. 15)

    From Kourion, Archaic Precinct, Sanctuary of Apollo (surface filling)Cyprus Museum, Nicosia 1954/IX-4/1/M 5127 March 1937Mitford 1971

Sources

  1. 1.T. B. Mitford (1971). The Inscriptions of Kourion. Philadelphia, American Philosophical Society.