Expedition member

Charles Burney

fl. 1953–1969

Expedition member, active 1953–1969. Excavated at Palaepaphos (Asproyi cemetery). Worked with Anne Battershill and Ethel M. Hunter.

Life and work

  1. 1953
    Per Hunter's introduction to the Asproyi cemetery, supervision of the excavation of individual graves was shared between four people: T. B. Mitford, Anne Battershill, Charles Burney and Hunter herself.

    KoukliaCatling 2020

  2. 24 June 1953
    Visited with J. H. Iliffe Bérard's excavation at Ktima, where recently cleared Geometric and Hellenistic tombs were shown them (Iliffe diary entry 24 June 1953, 'JHI & C. Burney').

    Ktima, PaphosMaier 2008

  3. 1966–1969
    Thanked by H. W. Catling, with Judge Griffith-Williams and Pat Clarke, for help during the study phase of the Kouklia tombs publication.

    Catling 2020

Connections

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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.F. G. Maier (2008). “Archaeology in Cyprus in the Fifties: Jean Bérard's work at Nea Paphos in context”. Cahiers du Centre d'Études Chypriotes 38, 53-62.