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C. N. Johns

fl. 1930–1948

Draughtsman and excavator, active 1930–1948. Worked for Department of Antiquities in Palestine.

Life and work

  1. 1930–1933
    Excavated the Southern-eastern cemetery at Atlit in 1930-1 and published the find (Tomb L.35) in 1933; the passage cites his report.

    Varda Sussman, Greek and Hellenistic Wheel- and Mould-Made Closed Oil Lamps in the Holy Land Collection of the Israel Antiquities Authority (2009), p. 105

  2. 1930
    Excavated Atlit for the Department of Antiquities in Palestine in 1930–35; he showed that bichrome bottles and red polished ware from the Atlit cemetery were not of true Cypriot origin and recognised a group of jugs as possibly Cypriot.

    Report on Underwater Excavation at the Phoenician Harbour, Atlit, Israel (2009), p. 1

  3. 1930–1935
    Directed the British excavations at Atlit's salt ponds, mainly 1930–1935, which uncovered Bronze to Iron Age strata and Phoenician cemeteries; the passage does not mention Cyprus.

    Ephraim Stern, Dor: Ruler of the Seas (2000), p. 66

  4. 1933
    Published fragmentary painted bowls discovered in excavations at the Pilgrims' Castle, Atlit, in the Palestine Department of Antiquities Quarterly, 1933-4.

    Archaeologia, Or, Miscellaneous Tracts Relating to Antiquity 1938: Vol 87 (1938)

  5. 1948
    A survey of Kyrenia castle was carried out for the Department by Mr. C. N. Johns, assisted by Mr. J. S. Last, during the year. (1948)

    Colonial Office, Annual Report on Cyprus for 1948, p. 43

  6. 1948
    In the Kourion expedition papers of 1948: «You may also have a visit from C.N.Johns of the Palestine Department who hopes to visit the west of the Island»

    Penn Museum Archives, Kourion Expedition records (PU-Mu 1050), Box 1, folder 16, p. 70

  7. Undated
    Excavated the cemeteries and castle at Atlit in the 1930s; he suggested that thirteenth-century bowls resembling Zeuxippus ware found in Cyprus may have been imported from there.

    THIRTEENTH-CENTURY POTTERY FROM THE MONASTERY OF ST. MARY OF CARMEL (1984), p. 104

  8. Undated
    Mentioned discovery of sgraffiato fragments at 'Ajlun in TransJordan and at Tell el 'Ujul near Gaza.

    III.—<i>Medieval finds at Al Mina in North Syria</i> (1938), p. 52

  9. Undated
    Found a narrow alabastron of dark green glass in a chambered tomb at Athlit (Tomb L/21 B) and associated it with a 5th century burial.

    Essay on a Phoenician Ear-Ring (1958), p. 100

  10. Undated
    Suggested that thirteenth-century bowls resembling Zeuxippus forms found in Cyprus may have been imported from Cyprus.

    Zeuxippus Ware (1968), p. 85

  11. Undated
  12. Undated
    Recognized a group of jugs as of foreign, possibly Cypriote, origin.

    The Quarterly of the Department of Antiquities in Palestine 1944: Vol 11 3-4 (1944)

  13. Undated
    Excavator of the 'Atlit cemetery who showed that the two miniature bichrome bottles and the red polished ware found there are not of true Cypriote origin.

    American Journal of Archaeology October-December 1938: Vol 42 Iss 4 (1938)

  14. Undated
    Excavator of an iron knife found at Atlit in Palestine, whom the passage cites as suggesting it is of Sicilian type; not tied to Cyprus directly.

    T.j Dunbabin, The Western Greeks

Mentioned in

6 mentions

Sources

  1. 1.Colonial Office, Annual Report on Cyprus for 1948.
  2. 2.THIRTEENTH-CENTURY POTTERY FROM THE MONASTERY OF ST. MARY OF CARMEL (1984).
  3. 3.Varda Sussman, Greek and Hellenistic Wheel- and Mould-Made Closed Oil Lamps in the Holy Land Collection of the Israel Antiquities Authority (2009).
  4. 4.III.—<i>Medieval finds at Al Mina in North Syria</i> (1938).
  5. 5.Essay on a Phoenician Ear-Ring (1958).
  6. 6.Zeuxippus Ware (1968).
  7. 7.Varda Sussman, Oil-Lamps in the Holy Land: Saucer Lamps From the beginning to the Hellenistic period Collections of the Israel Antiquities Authority (2007).
  8. 8.Report on Underwater Excavation at the Phoenician Harbour, Atlit, Israel (2009).
  9. 9.The Quarterly of the Department of Antiquities in Palestine 1944: Vol 11 3-4 (1944).
  10. 10.Archaeologia, Or, Miscellaneous Tracts Relating to Antiquity 1938: Vol 87 (1938).
  11. 11.American Journal of Archaeology October-December 1938: Vol 42 Iss 4 (1938).
  12. 12.Ephraim Stern, Dor: Ruler of the Seas (2000).
  13. 13.T.j Dunbabin, The Western Greeks.
  14. 14.Penn Museum Archives, Kourion Expedition records (PU-Mu 1050), Box 1, folder 16.

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