Colonial official · Antiquities official · Donor

H. L. Thompson

fl. 1885–1894 · United Kingdom

British colonial official and antiquities official, active 1885–1894. Worked at Paphos district, Kouklia (Palaepaphos) and Polis tes Chrysochou. Gave to Cyprus Museum; worked with John Arthur Ruskin Munro.

Life and work

1885
Presented to the Cyprus Museum a Hellenistic marble statuette/statue from Nea Paphos confiscated by the Cyprus Government (cat. 6212: 'Confiscated by the Cyprus Government, and presented by Mr. H. Thompson, Commissioner of Paphos'). Reinach's 1885 chronicle also reports a marble statuette from Paphos given by him.
Nea PaphosMyres & Ohnefalsch-Richter 1899, cat. 6212 Reinach 1891, p. 171
13 February 1889
Assigned the Fund's boundaries at Polis tes Chrysochou; on 14 April 1889 he arrived and the division of the Poli finds with the Government was carried out. Thanked in the report as 'Mr. Thompson of Papho'.
Polis tes ChrysochouMunro & Tubbs 1890

Connections

2 people

Colleagues & contacts

Worked with John Arthur Ruskin Munro1889–1890
Met John Linton Myres1894

Objects

Hellenistic marble statue/statuette (torch-bearer?, 4th-3rd c. BC style), confiscated by the Cyprus Government
From Nea PaphosCyprus Museum 6212by 1899Myres & Ohnefalsch-Richter 1899, cat. 6212

Sources

1.E. A. Gardner, D. G. Hogarth, M. R. James, R. Elsey Smith (1888). “Excavations in Cyprus, 1887-88”. Journal of Hellenic Studies 9, 147-271.
2.J. A. R. Munro, H. A. Tubbs (1890). “Excavations in Cyprus, 1889: Second Season's Work: Polis tes Chrysochou; Limniti”. Journal of Hellenic Studies 11, 1-99.
3.J. L. Myres, M. Ohnefalsch-Richter (1899). A Catalogue of the Cyprus Museum. Oxford, Clarendon Press.
4.Salomon Reinach (1891). Chroniques d'Orient.