Scholar · Excavator
David Stronach
fl. 1959–1963
Scholar and excavator, active 1959–1963. Worked for British Institute of Persian Studies.
Life and work
- 1959–1961Classified Near Eastern fibulae, including Cypriot-Levantine types, in Iraq 21 (1959), and excavated Pasargadae in 1961–63.
- 1959Cited as having produced an ordering attempt (Ordnungsversuch) classifying Cypriot-Levantine fibula material, in Iraq 21 (1959).
- 1963–1974Excavated 10 objects (among them 'Tetradrachm of Seleucus I', inv. 1974.105.9) in 1963; now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Metropolitan Museum of Art collection online, inv. 1974.105.9; 1974.105.10; 1974.105.11
- UndatedDocumented and classified hundreds of Near Eastern fibulae into types and proposed a fibula chronology for Syria and Mesopotamia.
- UndatedExcavated an object ('Storage jar', inv. 1978.93.12) in 1961; now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Metropolitan Museum of Art collection online, 'Storage jar', inv. 1978.93.12
Mentioned in
6 mentionsDocuments · 6
- The Development of the Fibula in Cyprus and the Levant
1963
proposed fibula classifications and dating
Birmingham 1963
- Dor, ruler of the seas: Nineteen years of excavations at the Israelite-Phoenician harbor town on the Carmel Coast
2000
opened Area E with the Berkeley group
Stern 2000
- The Adventure of the Illustrious Scholar: Papers Presented to Oscar White Muscarella
2018
wrote on Erebuni architecture
Simpson 2018
- Archaeology, Artifacts and Antiquities of the Ancient Near East: Sites, Cultures, and Proveniences
Muscarella 2013
- The Routledge Handbook of the Peoples and Places of Ancient Western Asia: From the Early Bronze Age to the Fall of the Persian Empire
Bryce et al. 2009
- Violinbogenfibeln und Blattbügelfibeln des griechischen Festlandes aus mykenischer Zeit
1985
Sources
- 1.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).
- 2.Oscar White Muscarella, Archaeology, Artifacts and Antiquities of the Ancient Near East: Sites, Cultures, and Proveniences (2013).
- 3.Violinbogenfibeln und Blattbügelfibeln des griechischen Festlandes aus mykenischer Zeit (1985).
- 4.Metropolitan Museum of Art collection online, 'Storage jar'.
- 5.Metropolitan Museum of Art collection online.
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