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Harry Reginald Holland Hall

1873–1930 · United Kingdom

British Museum Egyptologist who catalogued the Cypriot scarabs from Enkomi and Amathus and dated the Enkomi and Maroni faience to the earlier thirteenth century BC.

Biography

Harry Reginald Holland Hall, an Egyptologist at the British Museum, wrote on Cyprus from the museum and the study. He was born in Rome on 30 September 1873 and died in London on 13 October 19301. His Catalogue of Egyptian Scarabs etc. in the British Museum (1913) includes scarabs from Enkomi and Amathus4.

His The Civilization of Greece in the Bronze Age (1923) discusses Enkomi pottery and faience5. In 1928, in "Minoan Fayence in Mesopotamia" in the Journal of Hellenic Studies, he dated the Enkomi and Maroni faience to the earlier thirteenth century BC6.

Life and work

  1. 1928
    Wrote to Arthur Evans on 20 Apr 1928 of his plans to visit Cyprus (Ashmolean, AJE/1/1/1/68/6).

    Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford, Sir Arthur Evans Archive, GB/1648/AJE/1/1/1/68/6, «Letter from Henry R. Hall», 20/04/1928

  2. 1949
  3. 1963
    author cited in C.A.H. vol. 2 in Claude Schaeffer's papers (Collège de France), 1 document, 1963.

    Collège de France, Paris, Fonds Claude Schaeffer (34 CDF), 34 CDF art. 136-2, «[Carnet de fouilles Enkomi 1963 Courtois]», 1963of 380

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Sources

  1. 1.“Henry Hall (Egyptologist), authority record”. Wikidata. Online
  2. 2.H. R. Hall (1901). The Oldest Civilization of Greece.
  3. 3.H. R. Hall (1914). Aegean Archaeology.
  4. 4.H. R. Hall (1913). Catalogue of Egyptian Scarabs etc. in the British Museum.
  5. 5.H. R. Hall (1923). The Civilization of Greece in the Bronze Age. p. 224.
  6. 6.H. R. Hall (1928). “Minoan Fayence in Mesopotamia”. Journal of Hellenic Studies 48, p. 74.
  7. 7. (1928). Journal of Egyptian Archaeology.
  8. 8.Meyers et al. (1997). The Oxford Encyclopedia of Archaeology in the Near East. p. 4.
  9. 9.F. H. Marshall (1911). Catalogue of the Jewellery, Greek, Etruscan and Roman, British Museum.
  10. 10. (1923). The Near East vols 23-24.
  11. 11.Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford, Sir Arthur Evans Archive, GB/1648/AJE/1/1/1/68/6, «Letter from Henry R. Hall», 20/04/1928. Online
  12. 12.Collège de France, Paris, Fonds Claude Schaeffer (34 CDF), 34 CDF art. 136-2, «[Carnet de fouilles Enkomi 1963 Courtois]», 1963of 380. Online
  13. 13.Collège de France, Paris, Fonds Claude Schaeffer (34 CDF), 34 CDF art. 168-1, «["Contribution fo Enkomi I, Text, Preliminary Report on the Cyprus Department of Antiquities excavations at Enkomi, The Bronze Statue of a Horned God" annoté et commenté par Schaeffer]», 1949of 438. Online
  14. 14.H.R. Hall, THE CIVILIZATION OF GREECE IN THE BRONZE AGE (1928).
  15. 15.H. R. Hall, The Civilization of Greece in the Bronze Age (1923).
  16. 16.1928, The journal of Egyptian archaeology, obituary notice.
  17. 17.The journal of Egyptian archaeology (1928).
  18. 18.Meyers et al., 1997, The Oxford Encyclopedia of Archaeology in the Near East.
  19. 19.American Journal of Archaeology 1930: Vol 34 Iss 4 (1930).
  20. 20.Eric M. Meyers; William G. Dever; Carol L. Meyers; James D. Muhly; Dennis Pardee; James A. Sauer, The Oxford Encyclopedia of Archaeology in the Near East (1997).
  21. 21.Minoan Fayence in Mesopotamia (1928).
  22. 22.H. R. Hall, 1901, The Oldest Civilization of Greece: Studies of the Mycenaean Age.
  23. 23.Hall, Harry Reginald Holland, 1873- [from old catalog], The oldest civilization of Greece: studies of the Myceanaean age (1901).
  24. 24.H. R. Hall, 1914, Aegean Archaeology: an introduction to the archaeology of prehistoric Greece.
  25. 25.Seager, Richard B., author, Excavations on the island of Pseira, Crete (1910).

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