Curator · Scholar
Alexander Cambitoglou
fl. 1962–2020 · Greece
University professor of classical archaeology, active 1962–2020. Succeeded James Rivers Barrington Stewart.
Life and work
- 1962Arrived at Sydney only months before J. R. B. Stewart's death (Feb 1962) and had to run the department; the Registrar told him that if he did not apply for the Chair he would be assumed not to want to stay.
SydneyPowell 2013, p. 234
- 1962Raised with Eve Stewart's lawyer the purchase of Stewart's library and coin collection; he and a colleague recommended Sydney as the place for it.
SydneyPowell 2013, p. 236
- 1963–1965Dispute with Eve Stewart over the Melbourne Cyprus Expedition (Karmi/Vasilia/Ayia Paraskevi) finds and records held at the Nicholson Museum: reluctant to cede control, he asked for Schaeffer's Vounous material back, and finds were sent to her in poorly packed cases in 1965 (four cases temporarily missing).
SydneyPowell 2013, pp. 240-241
- 29 March 1965Attended the Melbourne Cyprus Expedition committee, which agreed to sponsor Derek Howlett to work with Eve Stewart to mid-1966 and to contribute £2000 to a last excavation on Cyprus led by her.
- 1966Opened the reorganised Nicholson Museum with a lecture on beauty for its own sake; Megaw later criticised his long reign for neglecting non-Greek, non-Roman objects.
SydneyPowell 2013, p. 264
- 1967–1975Directed excavations at Zagora on Andros (Greece); founded the Australian Archaeological Institute at Athens in 1981.
Zagora, AndrosPowell 2013, p. 267
- 2020Acknowledged by H. W. Catling among Australian helpers in his attempts to recover the Asproyi Tomb IV records.
Connections
5 peopleDisputes & the law
- Rival of Derek Howlett1962
Scholarship
- Corresponded with Dorothy Evelyn Stewart (née Dray)1962–1965
- Corresponded with Eleanor Stewart1962–1965
Colleagues & contacts
- Succeeded James Rivers Barrington Stewart1962
- Worked with Hector Catlingpossibly2020
Sources
- 1.Judy Powell (2013). Love's Obsession: The Lives and Archaeology of Jim and Eve Stewart. Kent Town, South Australia, Wakefield Press.
- 2.H. W. Catling (2020). Kouklia: Late Bronze Age and Early Iron Age Tombs at Palaepaphos 1951-1954. Oxford, BAR Publishing.
- 3.A. Cambitoglou (1988). Zagora. Vol. 2, Excavation of a Geometric Town on the Island of Andros. Excavation Season 1969, Study Season 1969-70. Athens, Athens Archaeological Society.