Ancient CyprusAncient Cyprus

Epigrapher

G. B. Gray

fl. 1896

Epigrapher, active in 1896. Worked at Larnaca-Patsalos.

Life and work

  1. 1 February 1896
    Published a note in The Academy (no. 1239) on a Phoenician-inscribed marble bowl-rim fragment found on the surface of the Batsalos site at Larnaka in Myres's 1894 excavations; the stone is in the Ashmolean Museum. Myres cites it ('cf.') after giving the first publication in Academy no. 1237.

    LarnacaMyres 1897, p. 173

Connections

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Scholarship

Objects

  • Part of the rim of a bowl of slightly bluish, perhaps Syrian marble, with a Phoenician inscription ('... his lord, the son of Melgarth, the son of Mikal ...')

    From Larnaca, Batsalos site, surfaceAshmolean Museum, Oxford1894Myres 1897, p. 173

Sources

  1. 1.J. L. Myres (1897). “Excavations in Cyprus in 1894”. Journal of Hellenic Studies 17, 134-173. Online
  2. 2.G. B. Gray (1896). The Academy no. 1239.