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Scholar

Erica Cruikshank Dodd

fl. 1961–2009

Scholar, active 1961–2009.

Life and work

  1. 1961
    Published Byzantine Silver Stamps (Dumbarton Oaks Studies 7), a corpus of imperial control stamps with an excursus on the comes sacrarum largitionum by J. P. C. Kent. Nos. 58-66 are cited for the Lambousa/Kyrenia-district silver, nos. 33 and 54 for cross-monogram plates.

    Washington, D.C.Leader 2000Childs et al. 2012, p. 164

  2. 1961
    Dated the group of control stamps on the nine David plates (Lambousa treasure) to 613-629/30, which fixes their making at the end of the Persian war (Metcalf: 628/30); Leader says no. 54 and the David plates carry stamps from the earlier part of Heraclius's reign, and that Stylianou and Stylianou also attribute Dodd nos. 37-39 to the hoard though Dodd is less certain of their provenance.

    Metcalf 2009Leader 2000

  3. 1961
    Dalton (1906) had already read the control stamps on the five seized dishes (twelve stamps, six forms, names such as Kosmas, Sisinnios, Komitas, Scholastikos, John, Theodoros, Theocharistos, and monograms of Phocas and others) and could not date them; Dodd's corpus supplied the dating. Metcalf adds that a separate set of three ivy-wreath plates has stamps of an earlier variety (Heraclius bust variety 5 rather than 6c) and a different group of five officials.

    Dalton 1906Metcalf 2009, p. 54

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Sources

  1. 1.E. C. Dodd (1961). Byzantine Silver Stamps. Washington, Dumbarton Oaks.
  2. 2.D. M. Metcalf (2009). Byzantine Cyprus 491-1191. Nicosia, Cyprus Research Centre.
  3. 3.Ruth E. Leader (2000). “The David Plates Revisited: Transforming the Secular in Early Byzantium”. The Art Bulletin 82, 407-427. College Art Association. Online
  4. 4.W. A. P. Childs (ed.), J. S. Smith (ed.), J. M. Padgett (ed.) (2012). City of Gold: The Archaeology of Polis Chrysochous, Cyprus. Princeton, Princeton University Art Museum.
  5. 5.Annemarie Weyl Carr, Laurence J. Morrocco (1991). A Byzantine Masterpiece Recovered: The Thirteenth-Century Murals of Lysi, Cyprus. Austin, University of Texas Press, with the Menil Foundation.
  6. 6.Ormonde M. Dalton (1906). “A second silver treasure from Cyprus”. Archaeologia 60, 1-24. Online
  7. 7.D. M. Metcalf (2009). Byzantine Cyprus 491-1191. Nicosia, Cyprus Research Centre.