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Epigrapher · Scholar

G. A. Cooke

fl. 1894–1896 · United Kingdom

Clergyman; Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford, active 1894–1896.

Life and work

  1. January 1896
    Published in the Academy the Phoenician inscriptions of two stelae from Myres's 1894 Larnaka (Kition, Turabi) excavation: the stele of Arish (BM no. 31; Academy no. 1238, 25 Jan. 1896) and the stele of 'Abd-ashtar (Cyprus Museum 6231; Academy no. 1237, Jan. 1896). Myres notes that Cooke 'hopes to discuss it at greater length elsewhere'.

    OxfordMyres 1897, p. 172Myres & Ohnefalsch-Richter 1899, no. 6231

  2. 1896
    Published the Phoenician inscription on the inscribed marble bowl fragment from the Bátsalos sanctuary (Ashmolean), recovered in 1894 for the Cyprus Exploration Fund.

    OxfordMyres & Ohnefalsch-Richter 1899

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Scholarship

Objects

  • Phoenician marble stele of Arish (four-sided obelisk, gable top), from the 1894 Larnaka excavation

    From Larnaka (Kition)British Museum No. 31 (as exhibited in 1897)1894Myres 1897, p. 172

  • Limestone stele with pediment, Phoenician inscription (iv-iii c.), chariot(?) outline

    From Larnaka (Kition)Cyprus Museum 62311894Myres & Ohnefalsch-Richter 1899, no. 6231

Sources

  1. 1.J. L. Myres (1897). “Excavations in Cyprus in 1894”. Journal of Hellenic Studies 17, 134-173. Online
  2. 2.J. L. Myres, M. Ohnefalsch-Richter (1899). A Catalogue of the Cyprus Museum. Oxford, Clarendon Press.
  3. 3.Rev. G. A. Cooke (1896). The Academy.
  4. 4.G. A. Cooke (1903). A Text-book of North-Semitic Inscriptions. Oxford.