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Traveller / antiquarian · Epigrapher

Edmund Leycester

1810–1866 · United Kingdom

Royal Navy officer. Worked with Thomas Spratt.

Life and work

  1. 1849
    During Thomas Spratt's 1849 hydrographic survey of Cyprus, recorded numerous inscriptions, mostly alphabetic Greek but several in Cypro-Syllabic script.

    CyprusUlbrich & Kiely 2012

  2. 1849
    At Kourion copied the Ptolemy Eupator inscription (Mitford no. 39) and a pedestal in the Sanctuary of Apollo (Mitford no. 38 text group), both on large pedestals; the pedestal was later broken up for road-metal c. 1920 (per Mitford).

    KourionMitford 1971

  3. 1863
    His copies were published by J. Hogg in Transactions of the Royal Society of Literature 7 (1863), pp. 385-388 'after Leycester'.

    Mitford 1971

Connections

2 people

Scholarship

  • Material published by J. Hogg1849–1863

Colleagues & contacts

Sources

  1. 1.Anja Ulbrich, Thomas Kiely (2012). “Britain and the Archaeology of Cyprus. I. The long 19th century”. Cahiers du Centre d'Études Chypriotes 42. Online
  2. 2.T. B. Mitford (1971). The Inscriptions of Kourion. Philadelphia, American Philosophical Society.