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Scholar

Briggs Buchanan

fl. 1952–2020

Scholar, active 1952–2020. Worked with Richard W. V. Catling; wrote with Roger Moorey and James Y. MacDonald.

Life and work

  1. 1952
    Wrote the report 'The Evreti Cylinder Seals' (Appendix 2 of Catling's Kouklia tombs publication, dated 1952) on seals from the Liverpool/St Andrews tombs at Kouklia, including an uncatalogued seal (Kouklia inventory 1566, 1) now identified in the Cyprus Museum (by Joanna Smith, 2018).

    KoukliaCatling 2020

  2. 1952
    Also described the cylinder seals EIIIA:19 and others in the catalogue entries; he never saw seal AII:38.

    KoukliaCatling 2020

  3. 1966
    Catalogue of Ancient Near Eastern Seals in the Ashmolean Museum, vol. I, Cylinder Seals (Oxford); Benson (1972) cites it for an Ashmolean cylinder, No. 986, in the style of an Idalion prism.

    OxfordMerrillees 2005Benson 1972

Connections

5 people
Hector CatlingRichard W. V. CatlingRoger MooreyJames Y. MacDonaldHelen Hughes-BrockBriggs Buchanan
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Colleagues & contacts

Sources

  1. 1.H. W. Catling (2020). Kouklia: Late Bronze Age and Early Iron Age Tombs at Palaepaphos 1951-1954. Oxford, BAR Publishing.
  2. 2.Robert Stuart Merrillees (2005). “Towards a fuller history of the Cyprus Museum”. Cahiers du Centre d'Études Chypriotes 35, 191-214. Online
  3. 3.Eric M. Meyers (ed.) (1997). The Oxford Encyclopedia of Archaeology in the Near East. New York, Oxford University Press.
  4. 4.J. L. Benson (1972). Bamboula at Kourion: The Necropolis and the Finds Excavated by J. F. Daniel. Philadelphia, University Museum, University of Pennsylvania.
  5. 5.B. Buchanan (1966). Catalogue of Ancient Near Eastern Seals in the Ashmolean Museum. Volume I. Cylinder Seals. Oxford.
  6. 6.Briggs Buchanan, P. R. S. Moorey (1988). Catalogue of Ancient Near Eastern Seals in the Ashmolean Museum, vol. 3, The Iron Age Stamp Seals. Oxford.