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Archaeologist · Draughtsman / artist · Numismatist · Cataloguer

Dorothy Hannah Cox

fl. 1931–1959 · United States

American archaeologist and draughtsman, active 1931–1959. Excavated at Lapithos and Kourion (Curium) acropolis. Dug for Pennsylvania University Museum; worked with Bert Hodge Hill and Lucy Talcott.

Life and work

  1. 1931
    Architect on the University Museum (Pennsylvania) team that opened further tombs at Lapithos (Vrysi tou Barba cemetery) under Bert Hodge Hill's general direction; staff were Lucy Talcott, Virginia Grace and Dorothy H. Cox.

    LapithosRobertson 1975, p. 39

  2. November 1953
    Excavated on the Kourion acropolis a three-room metal-working establishment, possibly a mint, of the fifth century AD, for the Pennsylvania University Museum; this followed the April 1953 death of G. H. McFadden, Assistant Field Director of the Curium expedition.

    KourionMegaw 1954

  3. 1955
    Identified the coins (and dated the finds) from Kourion for the publication of the Kourion terracotta figurines, and was to publish them with the other Kourion coins.

    KourionYoung & Young 1955

  4. 1959
    Published Coins from the Excavations at Curium, 1932-1953 (American Numismatic Society, Numismatic Notes and Monographs 145), covering coins from the Pennsylvania excavations; Metcalf notes the monograph omits eight Islamic coins from the episcopal basilica.

    New YorkRogge et al. 2019Dikaios 1962Metcalf 2009

Connections

4 people
George H. McFaddenBert Hodge HillVirginia Randolph GraceLucy TalcottDorothy Hannah Cox
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Fieldwork & employment

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Sources

  1. 1.N. Robertson (ed.) (1975). The Archaeology of Cyprus: Recent Developments. Park Ridge, N.J., Noyes Press.
  2. 2.A. H. S. Megaw (1954). “Archaeology in Cyprus, 1953”. Journal of Hellenic Studies 74. Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies.
  3. 3.P. Dikaios (1962). “Archaeology in Cyprus, 1959-61”. Archaeological Reports 8, 32-46. Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies. Online
  4. 4.Thomas W. Davis (1989). “A History of American Archaeology on Cyprus”. The Biblical Archaeologist 52, 163-169. Online
  5. 5.John Howard Young, Suzanne Halstead Young (1955). Terracotta Figurines from Kourion in Cyprus. Philadelphia, University Museum, University of Pennsylvania.
  6. 6.S. Rogge (ed.), Ch. Ioannou (ed.), Th. Mavrojannis (ed.) (2019). Salamis of Cyprus: History and Archaeology from the Earliest Times to Late Antiquity. Münster, Waxmann.
  7. 7.D. M. Metcalf (2009). Byzantine Cyprus 491-1191. Nicosia, Cyprus Research Centre.
  8. 8.Dorothy Hannah Cox (1959). Coins from the Excavations at Curium, 1932-1953. New York, American Numismatic Society.