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Ellen F. Macnamara

fl. 1982–1991

Scholar and donor, active 1982–1991. Gave to British Museum; worked with Fulvia Lo Schiavo and David Ridgway.

Life and work

  1. 1984–1987
    Co-authored the 1984 study of the Santa Maria in Paulis bronze hoard in Sardinia, deriving its tripod-stand from Late Cypriot III metalworking, and in 1987 gave the British Museum an iron dirk said to be from Cyprus.

    Pietro Maria Militello; Hakan Öniz, SOMA 2011: Proceedings of the 15th Symposium on Mediterranean Archaeology held at the University of Catania 3-5 March 2011 (2015), p. 1064

  2. 1985
    Scholar who studied tripod-stands of Cypriot origin or inspiration found in Sardinia (1985), gave a bucchero aryballos to the British Museum in 1985 and assisted researchers there.

    Philip P. Betancourt; Susan C. Ferrence, Metallurgy: Understanding How, Learning Why: Studies in Honor of James D. Muhly (2011), p. 55

  3. 1987
    Presented a dirk or short sword, said to be from Cyprus and probably made there, to the British Museum (accession 1987.11-9.1).

    The British Museum, Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities Selected Acquisitions, 1980–1992 (1994), p. 244

  4. 1987
    Gave an object ('dirk', reg. 1987,1109.1) to the British Museum.

    British Museum collection online, 'dirk', reg. 1987,1109.1

  5. Undated
    Presented a bucchero piriform aryballos, second half of the 7th century B.C., to the British Museum.

    Selected Roman and Italian acquisitions in the Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities, British Museum, 1980-1992 (1995), p. 233

  6. Undated
    Gave invaluable assistance in the British Museum, where the author could see the stone figure from Karpathos.

    Stone Sculpture in Chalcolithic Cyprus (1991), p. 149

  7. Undated
    Derived the Santa Maria tripod-stand from the metalworking tradition of Late Cypriot III Cyprus.

    Miriam S. Balmuth, Studies in Sardinian Archaeology, Volume II: Sardinia in the Mediterranean (1986), p. 174

Through their hands

1 record
  1. n.d.

    GiftMacnamara presented an iron dirk to the British Museum.

    Gave to British MuseumNo. GR 1987.11-9.1Tatton-Brown 1989, p. 132Tatton-Brown 1989, p. 142

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Institutions · 1

  • British Museum

    Gave · 1985

    Tatton-Brown 1989, p. 132; Tatton-Brown 1989, p. 142

Sources

  1. 1.V. Tatton-Brown (ed.) (1989). Cyprus and the East Mediterranean in the Iron Age: Proceedings of the Seventh British Museum Classical Colloquium, April 1988. London, British Museum Publications.
  2. 2.P. P. Betancourt (ed.), S. C. Ferrence (ed.) (2011). Metallurgy: Understanding How, Learning WhY: Studies in Honor of James D. Muhly. INSTAP Academic Press.
  3. 3.Philip P. Betancourt; Susan C. Ferrence, Metallurgy: Understanding How, Learning Why: Studies in Honor of James D. Muhly (2011).
  4. 4.Selected Roman and Italian acquisitions in the Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities, British Museum, 1980-1992 (1995).
  5. 5.Stone Sculpture in Chalcolithic Cyprus (1991).
  6. 6.Pietro Maria Militello; Hakan Öniz, SOMA 2011: Proceedings of the 15th Symposium on Mediterranean Archaeology held at the University of Catania 3-5 March 2011 (2015).
  7. 7.The British Museum, Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities Selected Acquisitions, 1980–1992 (1994).
  8. 8.Miriam S. Balmuth, Studies in Sardinian Archaeology, Volume II: Sardinia in the Mediterranean (1986).
  9. 9.British Museum collection online, 'dirk'.

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