Excavator · Scholar · Cataloguer · Archaeologist
Alan Rowe
fl. 1919–1964
Excavator and scholar, active 1919–1964. Excavated with Beth-shan; worked for Palestine Expedition of the University Museum, Philadelphia.
Life and work
- 1919Field director of the University of Pennsylvania Museum's expeditions at Beisan (Beth-shan) and Meydum, whose reports noted Cypriot-type pottery and burials; in 1919 he argued for a Cypriot origin of the Phaistos Disk.
Nature A Weekly Illustrated Journal Of Science Vol-cxviii (1926) (1926)
- 1928Reported the 1928 season of the Museum's Palestine Expedition at Beisan (Beth-shan), including Thothmes III level finds with Cypriote influence.
- 1929Cited in a footnote (Q.S., 1929, p. 89; Museum Journal, 1929) on Nergal and the Cypriote/Amarna material; only a bibliographic reference.
STANLEY A.COOK, THE RELIGION OF ANCIENT PALESTINE IN THE LIGHT OF ARCHAEOLOGY
- 1936Author of a Catalogue of Egyptian Scarabs (1936), cited in a footnote; passage gives no Cypriot-specific action by him.
- UndatedField Director of the Egypt Expedition of the University of Pennsylvania Museum; wrote the article on excavations at Meydum, including a Cypriote-type burial and Cypriote-type pottery in the Gemesh coffin.
The Illustrated London News 1930-04-05: Vol 176 Iss 4746 (1930)
- UndatedDug a Bubastite cemetery at Meidim, still unpublished, the passage says, which is the only clear evidence for distinguishing the two categories.
The annual of the American schools of oriental research (1920)
- UndatedPresented a paper titled 'The Phaestos Disk: its Cypriote Origin' to the Royal Society of South Australia, arguing the disk's signs relate to later Cypriote characters.
Transactions and proceedings of the Royal Society of South Australia (Incorporated) (1912)
- UndatedAuthor of the catalogue of Egyptian scarabs in the Palestine Archaeological Museum, used to date the Limassol scarab type.
Vol 58: Annales du Service des Antiquités de l'Égypte (1964) (1964)
- UndatedSuggested that the Cypriote god Mikal, named in the late Phoenico-Cypriote inscriptions of Idalion, may be identified with the Phoenician Melkart.
Vol 41: Annales du Service des Antiquités de l'Égypte (1941) (1941)
- UndatedAssigned the earliest Syrian cylinder seal specimen to a Hyksos context and gave the Duwair-type seals a Hyksos date; cited on Palestinian seals.
- UndatedCommunicated to the author his researches into the history and monuments of Palestine/Phoenicia, to be published in the Annales du Service des Antiquités.
- UndatedExcavator of Beth-shan, where he found White Slip sherds of Cypriot ware; later reported on cemetery excavations at Cyrene.
The Excavation of Tell Beit Mirsim. Vol. I: The Pottery of the First Three Campaigns (1930), p. 46
- UndatedReported on cemetery excavations at Cyrene and the N. 83-BH tomb finds; the passage does not state Cyprus ties clearly.
- UndatedPublished work on the south temple of Beisan with a stele of the god of Beth-Shan, cited as suggesting an identification; no Cyprus-specific activity stated.
- UndatedPublished a Type II scarab from Tell Abu Hawam, stratum II, cited as a reference.
- UndatedExcavator of the Beth-shan tombs, whose classification Schaeffer said agreed with his own dating.
Schaeffer, Claude F.A., Stratigraphie comparee et chronologie de lʼ Asie occidentale (1948)
- UndatedIdentified the animal on the sherd as a cat and suggested its placement on the bull's back.
The quarterly of the Department of Antiquities in Palestine - vol. IV (1935)
- Undatedauthor of scarab study cited on map labels; author of a catalogue of Egyptian scarabs in Claude Schaeffer's papers (Collège de France), 1 document.
Connections
1 personColleagues & contacts
- Worked with Driotonscarabe de Limassol I Vol 58: Annales du Service des Antiquités de l'Égypte (1964) (1964)1964
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Sources
- 1.Nature A Weekly Illustrated Journal Of Science Vol-cxviii (1926) (1926).
- 2.The Illustrated London News 1930-04-05: Vol 176 Iss 4746 (1930).
- 3.The annual of the American schools of oriental research (1920).
- 4.American Journal of Archaeology 1930: Vol 34 Iss 1 (1930).
- 5.تاريخ الامبراطورية الفارسية.
- 6.Transactions and proceedings of the Royal Society of South Australia (Incorporated) (1912).
- 7.Vol 58: Annales du Service des Antiquités de l'Égypte (1964) (1964).
- 8.Vol 41: Annales du Service des Antiquités de l'Égypte (1941) (1941).
- 9.Cylinder Seals from Palestine (1949).
- 10.مجلة كلية الاداب جامعة فاروق الاول 9.
- 11.The Excavation of Tell Beit Mirsim. Vol. I: The Pottery of the First Three Campaigns (1930).
- 12.STANLEY A.COOK, THE RELIGION OF ANCIENT PALESTINE IN THE LIGHT OF ARCHAEOLOGY.
- 13.The Classical Review 1961-06: Vol 11 Iss 2 (1961).
- 14.American Journal of Archaeology 1929: Vol 33.
- 15.Andrée Feghali Gorton, Egyptian and Egyptianizing Scarabs: A Typology of Steatite, Faience and Paste Scarabs from Punic and other Mediterranean Sites (1996).
- 16.Schaeffer, Claude F.A., Stratigraphie comparee et chronologie de lʼ Asie occidentale (1948).
- 17.The quarterly of the Department of Antiquities in Palestine - vol. IV (1935).
- 18.Collège de France, Paris, Fonds Claude Schaeffer (34 CDF), 34 CDF art. 242, «[Cahier de notes concernant Chypre, Gaza, Jéricho, l'Egypte, la Syrie (chronologies)]», undatedof 107. Online
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