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Scholar

Chris Entwistle

fl. 2003–2009

Scholar, active 2003–2009. Worked with Robert Stuart Merrillees.

Life and work

  1. 2003
    Published 'Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon Earth': the British Museum and the second Cyprus treasure (pp. 226-35, or 226-36 in other bibliographies) in the Festschrift for David Buckton, Through a Glass Brightly, which he also edited. Merrillees quotes a passage from it on the first treasure: found 'in the late 1890s ... in unknown circumstances', acquired by the duc de Dino, who offered it to the British Museum; the purchase was 'formally submitted to the Trustees on the 23rd July 1898; a decision was deferred until the following financial year, when it was duly acquired for 500 pounds'. Merrillees reconciles this with the Museum's and Dino's letters (Trustees' agreement 26 July 1898, cheque by 20 April 1899).

    Merrillees 2009, p. 393Merrillees 2009, p. 402

  2. 2009
    Shared with Merrillees, together with Stuart Pyhrr, the information available to him on the first Lambousa treasure; Merrillees names them as his greatest debt and says the study could not have been written without it. Merrillees also credits Entwistle with the observation that the BM's part of the treasure was obtained from the duc de Dino. Merrillees calls the Cobham note in Peristianes (1910) the only earlier published reference to how the BM part was obtained from Dino, 'until Entwistle's recent observation' (p. 396).

    Merrillees 2009, p. 396Merrillees 2009, p. 402

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Sources

  1. 1.R. S. Merrillees (2009). “The modern history of the first Lambousa treasure of Byzantine silverware from Cyprus”. The Antiquaries Journal 89, 389-403. Online
  2. 2.C. Entwistle (2003). “'Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth': the British Museum and the second Cyprus treasure”. Through a Glass Brightly: Studies in Byzantine and Medieval Art and Archaeology Presented to David Buckton, 226-235. Oxford, Oxbow.