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Clarence Fisher

fl. 1909–1939

Scholar and draughtsman, active 1909–1939. Dug for Eckley B. Coxe Jr. Egyptian Expedition; excavated with G. A. Reisner.

Life and work

  1. 1909
  2. 1922
    Excavated at Beth-shan (1922) and directed excavations at Tell el-Mutesellim (Megiddo), where he noted the temple with Cypriot-type capitals; he linked colossal statue fragments in the University Museum with the temple at Nysa Scythopolis.

    Librairie Paul Geuthner, Syria Revue Dart Oriental Et Darcheologie Tome.12 (1931)

  3. Undated
    Supplied a note on the type of a Vounous jug imported to Palestine, classifying its body, neck and handle and dating it to c. 2800–2600 BC; he also assisted Elihu Grant's Haverford expedition at 'Ain Shems and excavated at Thebes for the Philadelphia museum.

    Mccown, Chester Charlton, Ladder Of Progress In Palstine: Story Of Archaeological Adventure (1943)

  4. Undated
    Supplied a note on the type of the Vounous jug, classifying its body, neck and handle and dating it to c. 2800–2600 B.C. and identifying parallels.

    An Imported Pot from Cyprus (1939), p. 163

  5. Undated
    Excavations for the Museum in Philadelphia at Thebes reportedly yielded a large find of demotic papyri dated 309–246 BC; the passage concerns Egypt, not Cyprus.

    Assyriologische Veröffentlichungen der Yale-Universität (1922), p. 287

  6. Undated
    Co-directed Oriental Institute excavations at Tell el-Mutesellim (Megiddo), focusing on levels from c. 900 to 600 BC, where he noted the cult of Astarte and the Cypriot-capital temple.

    مجلة سوريا للفنون والاثار 12

  7. Undated
    Excavating at Beth-shan, concentrating on the Mound of the Acropolis (Tell el-Husn), where he descended fifteen metres in a vertical section.

    The Journal of the Palestine Oriental Society 1922-1923: 2-3 (1922)

  8. Undated
    Associated the UPM colossal statue fragments with the temple at Nysa Scythopolis and proposed the figure was Dionysos/Bacchus or a Roman emperor.

    Irene Bald Romano, Classical Sculpture: Catalogue of the Cypriot, Greek, and Roman Stone Sculpture in the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology (2006), p. 193

  9. Undated
    As Oriental Institute director of excavations at Megiddo he knew the Tamassos volutes and took the Megiddo volutes to be contemporary with them.

    Israel Finkelstein; Nadav Na'aman, The Fire Signals of Lachish: Studies in the Archaeology and History of Israel in the Late Bronze Age, Iron Age, and Persian Period in Honor of David Ussishkin (2011), p. 129

Connections

2 people

Recording and study

2 records
Studied1

  • Clarence Fisher examined Jar 164B:9 and offered a description and tentative date.

    No. 164B:9Ross 1994, p. 15

Drew1

  • Clarence Fisher supplied drawings of Jar 164B:9 and other pieces he considered relevant.

    Jar 164B:9 and other relevant piecesNo. 164B:9Ross 1994, p. 15

Mentioned in

7 mentions

Sources

  1. 1.James F. Ross (1994). “The Vounous Jars Revisited”. Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research 296, 15-30.
  2. 2.Mccown, Chester Charlton, Ladder Of Progress In Palstine: Story Of Archaeological Adventure (1943).
  3. 3.An Imported Pot from Cyprus (1939).
  4. 4.Assyriologische Veröffentlichungen der Yale-Universität (1922).
  5. 5.Librairie Paul Geuthner, Syria Revue Dart Oriental Et Darcheologie Tome.12 (1931).
  6. 6.مجلة سوريا للفنون والاثار 12.
  7. 7.The Journal of the Palestine Oriental Society 1922-1923: 2-3 (1922).
  8. 8.Irene Bald Romano, Classical Sculpture: Catalogue of the Cypriot, Greek, and Roman Stone Sculpture in the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology (2006).
  9. 9.Trevor Bryce; Heather D. Baker; Daniel T. Potts; Jonathan N. Tubb; Jennifer M. Webb; Paul Zimansky, The Routledge Handbook of the Peoples and Places of Ancient Western Asia: From the Early Bronze Age to the Fall of the Persian Empire (2009).
  10. 10.Israel Finkelstein; Nadav Na'aman, The Fire Signals of Lachish: Studies in the Archaeology and History of Israel in the Late Bronze Age, Iron Age, and Persian Period in Honor of David Ussishkin (2011).

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