Curator · Cataloguer · Scholar
F. Pryce
F. N. Pryce
fl. 1926–1931 · United Kingdom
British curator and cataloguer, active 1926–1931.
Life and work
- 1926Co-author with Smith of the Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum, Great Britain 1, British Museum fascicule 2 (1926); fascicule 1 (1925) was by Smith.
LondonKiely 2017, p. 15
- 1928Cited by Counts (2011) for a 1928 discussion of the Cypriot 'Pan' (Opaon Melanthios) statuettes.
- 1930In 1930 H. B. Walters(?), Keeper of Greek and Roman Antiquities, recommended a Cypriot gallery, possibly in response to Pryce's ongoing research; unclear if carried out.
LondonKiely 2017, p. 18
- 1931Published Catalogue of Sculpture in the Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities of the British Museum, vol. 1 part 2, 'Cypriote and Etruscan Sculpture' (London); the last of the BM's material-based Cypriot catalogues, it catalogues the limestone sculpture, including statues from Idalion on display in the North Gallery. Pryce called Cyprus a 'stagnant backwater into which the odds and ends of the culture of neighbouring nations strayed at intervals'.
On Ancient Cyprus
2 pagesSources
- 1.F. N. Pryce (1931). Cypriote and Etruscan Sculpture, in Catalogue of Sculpture in the Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities of the British Museum, Vol. 1, part 2. London.
- 2.T. Kiely (2017). “Britain and the archaeology of Cyprus II: 1914 to the present day”. Cahiers du Centre d'Études Chypriotes 47, 253-310. Online
- 3.Cornelius Vermeule (1972). Art of Ancient Cyprus. Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
- 4.M. K. Toumazou (ed.), P. N. Kardulias (ed.), D. B. Counts (ed.) (2011). Crossroads and Boundaries: The Archaeology of Past and Present in the Malloura Valley, Cyprus.