Hector Catling

1. 1951
   Arrived in Cyprus with Joan du Plat Taylor's mission to Myrtou-Pigadhes; with his wife Elizabeth visited many sites over two years, registering sites from the Department's archives and reporting new surface finds to it.

   CyprusKarageorghis 2012, p. 9

2. 1952
   Helped G. R. H. Wright draft the preliminary report on the Kouklia-Evreti tombs III-XI, assisted by Angeliki Pieridou of the Department.

   KoukliaCatling 2020

3. 1953
   Presented sherds and a lithic to the Ashmolean (AN1953.822 from Denia-Mali; AN1953.1249.c from Tersephanou, Arpera).

   OxfordMuseumMuseum

4. 1955
   Megaw established an Archaeological Survey Branch in the Department of Antiquities and made Catling its head, with Kyriakos Nicolaou as assistant and technicians; first campaign covered c. 100 square miles around Cape Krommyon and located about 400 sites, two-thirds previously unrecorded.

   CyprusKarageorghis 2012, p. 9Megaw 1955

5. 1956
   Internal security situation prevented him pressing on with field work; indexing of sites from publications and museum records continued.

   CyprusMegaw 1956

6. 1957
   The survey team, joined by K. Nicolaou, resumed field work in the western Kyrenia coastal strip.

   KyreniaMegaw 1957

7. 1958
   Mitford invited him to study and publish all the British Expedition's Kouklia tombs; autumn 1958 to spring 1959 first full work period, with Megaw approving local leave for Kouklia.

   KoukliaCatling 2020

8. 1959
   Left Cyprus; K. Nicolaou continued the Survey.

   CyprusDikaios 1962

9. 1960
   Appointed Assistant Keeper of Antiquities at the Ashmolean; the Department permitted him to export some 3500 provenanced survey sherds and other items (Neolithic to Roman), giving the Ashmolean the largest study collection of provenanced Cypriot sherds outside the island; he also created the Myres Gallery of Ancient Cyprus.

   OxfordKiely 2017

10. 1964
    Cypriot Bronzework in the Mycenaean World (Oxford), from his doctoral research; Merrillees calls it his magnum opus.

    OxfordKarageorghis 2012, p. 9Merrillees 2012, p. 12

11. 1966–1967
    A funded sabbatical for Kouklia study was frustrated by a dispute over publication rights (Merrillees's account); Hamilton, Keeper, had approved sabbatical leave and Catling worked at Kouklia 1966-69 with Leverhulme, St Andrews and British Academy grants.

    OxfordMerrillees 2012, p. 13Catling 2020

12. 1971
    Left Oxford to become Director of the British School at Athens (to 1989).

    AthensCatling 2020

13. 1975
    Ancient Cyprus, the Ashmolean's Cypriot collection guide, with Ann Brown (2nd ed. 1986); with Brown also the 1980 'Additions to the Cypriot collections in the Ashmolean Museum, 1963-77' (Opuscula Atheniensia XIII).

    OxfordKiely 2017

14. 1985
    Last visit to Cyprus, presenting 'Cypriot Bronzework - East or West?' at the Nicosia symposium 'Cyprus between the Orient and Occident'.

    NicosiaMerrillees 2012, p. 11

15. 2007–2013
    Fourth and last phase of work on the Kouklia tombs with Institute for Aegean Prehistory grants; heart failure from Christmas 2009 slowed him; dictated last letter to Karageorghis 24 January 2013.

    OxfordCatling 2020Karageorghis 2012, p. 10

16. 15 February 2013
    Died at Langford near Oxford; his son Richard Catling, academic executor, edited the Kouklia volumes (BAR, 2020).

    LangfordKarageorghis 2012, p. 9Catling 2020

• White Painted jug, neck handle and shoulder fragment (MC II-III potsherd), 9.7 cm

  From Denia-MaliAshmolean Museum, Oxford AN1953.8221953Museum

• Chert blade or scraper, uncertain date (surface find)

  From Tersephanou, Arpera Chiftlik, LarnacaAshmolean Museum, Oxford AN1953.1249.c1953Museum

• Plain Ware potsherd, rim fragment, Byzantine

  From Diorios, KyreniaAshmolean Museum, Oxford AN1958.7821958Museum

• Terracotta relief plaque of draped female figure with bead-moulding frame, Hellenistic, 12 x 6.5 cm

  From Pyla-ViklaAshmolean Museum, Oxford AN1960.6491960Museum

• Karageorghis (1960). Chronique des fouilles et découvertes archéologiques à Chypre en 1959Conducted soundings and surveys
• Karageorghis (1969). The Ancient Civilization of CyprusDirected the archaeological survey
• Snodgrass (1971). The Dark Age of Greece: An archaeological survey of the eleventh to the eighth centuries BCCypriot daggers and ironwork discussed
• Overbeck and Swiny (1972). Two Cypriot Bronze Age Sites at Kafkallia (Dhali)Cited on sites and axes
• Birmingham (1973). The Cypriot Bronze Age: Some Recent Australian Contributions to the Prehistory of CyprusSurveyed Bronze Age sites in Cyprus
• Buchholz and Karageorghis (1973). Prehistoric Greece and Cyprus: An Archaeological HandbookStudied Cypriot bronzework
• Merrillees (1973). The Cypriot Bronze AgeSurveyed Cypriot Bronze Age sites
• Merrillees (1973). Settlement, sanctuary and cemetery in Bronze Age CyprusCompiled a Bronze Age site catalogue
• Frankel (1974). Middle Cypriot White Painted Pottery: An Analytical Study of the DecorationAssociated with Survey and Ashmolean material
• Holmes (1975). The Foreign Trade of Cyprus during the Late Bronze AgeDiscusses pottery production and metal imports
• Karageorghis (1976). View from the Bronze Age: Mycenaean and Phoenician Discoveries at KitionPublished the Oxford statuette
• Waldbaum (1978). From Bronze to Iron: The Transition from the Bronze Age to the Iron Age in the Eastern MediterraneanInterpreted Cypriot smiths' hoards
• Schiavo et al. (1985). Late Cypriot Imports to Italy and their Influence on Local BronzeworkStudied Cypriot bronzework and tripod-stands
• Karageorghis (1989). A Late Bronze Age mould from Hala Sultan TekkéWrote on stand figures and casting
• Burdajewicz (1990). The Aegean Sea Peoples and Religious Architecture in the Eastern Mediterranean at the Close of the Late Bronze AgeProposes a cult function for the Enkomi Tower
• Crouwel (1991). Mycenaean Pictorial Pottery from Cyprus in OxfordCollected the surface material
• Fortenberry (1991). Single greaves in the Late Helladic periodStudied the Enkomi greaves
• Immerwahr (1993). The Mycenaean Pictorial Style 50 years laterStudied Pictorial pottery and its fabric
• Keswani (1993). Models of local exchange in Late Bronze Age CyprusProposed a tripartite settlement system
• Fortin (1995). A Cluster of Middle Cypriot III to Late Cypriot I Fortified Sites on the Ayios Sozomenos PlateauSurveyed the plateau sites in the 1950s
• Cayla (1996). À propos de Kouklia-Paphos, site de XylinosPlanned publication of British mission tombs
• Webb and Frankel (1999). Characterizing the Philia Facies: Material Culture, Chronology, and the Origin of the Bronze Age in CyprusRecorded site distributions and pottery
• Buchholz and Matthäus (2003). Zyprische Bronzeschalen der geometrischen und archaischen Periode. Eine Studie zu Typologie, Chronologie, Epigraphik und kultureller Außenwirkung zyprischen Metallhandwerks des frühen ersten Jahrtausends v. Chr.Discussed Aegean-Cypriot contacts and finds
• Negbi (2005). Urbanism on Late Bronze Age Cyprus: LC II in retrospectStudied Cypriot bronzework
• Fourrier (2008). Légendes de fondation et hellénisation de Chypre. Parcours historiographiqueEmphasised cultural amalgamation and continuity
• Killian (2008). Hellenistic, Roman, and Medieval PhlamoudhiSurveyed the region in the 1950s
• Crewe (2009). Feasting with the dead? Tomb 66 at EnkomiDated and classified metal finds
• Knapp (2009). Representations: Female figurines and social identity on protohistoric CyprusInterprets the Bomford statuette
• Gagné (2012). Middle Cypriot White Painted Ware: A Study of Pottery Production and Distribution in Middle Bronze Age CyprusSurveyed sites and collected sherds
• Knapp (2013). Revolution within evolution: the emergence of a 'secondary state' on protohistoric Bronze Age CyprusAdvocates careful identification of imports
• Papasavvas (2013). Cypriot metalwork of the Late Bronze AgeProposed a votive use for miniature ingots
• Steel (2013). Cyprus during the Late Bronze AgeProposes a settlement hierarchy
• Satraki (2019). Alambra: From "A Middle Bronze Age Settlement in Cyprus" to a Royal DistrictSurveyed the Yialias valley
• Steel (2023). Transforming landscapes: Exploring the creation of a sacred landscape in north-east Cyprus at the beginning of the Late Bronze AgeFirst identified Vounari as an isolated fort

Also named in

• Russell. A Middle Cypriot jug from Kommos, Crete
• Megaw (1953). Archaeology in Cyprus, 1952
• Negbi (1972). Contacts between Byblos and Cyprus at the end of the third millennium B.C.
• Bolger (1991). Early Red Polished Ware and the origin of the 'Philia Culture'
• Hadjichristophi (2004). Topographie du centre de Chypre au cours de l'Antiquité tardive
• Andreou (2019). Gray economics in Late Bronze Age Cyprus

• A Cypriot Jar in the Mycenaean StyleArticle
• Bernard Knapp and the Cyprus He Keeps RewritingArticle
• Mycenaean Pots and the End of the Bronze AgeArticle
• The Bull Was a Newcomer: A Two-Headed Bronze Age Vase from CyprusArticle
• The Judge, the Escape, and a Chocolate Box of Six-Thousand-Year-Old SherdsArticle
• Walls and WarArticle
• Agios SozomenosSite
• AlambraSite
• Arms and Armour of Iron Age CyprusCompendium
• Baskets and Basket-Handled VesselsCompendium
• Combed WareCompendium
• Copper Metallurgy in Ancient CyprusCompendium
• Earthquakes in Ancient CyprusCompendium
• Mycenaean Imports and Local ImitationsCompendium
• Neolithic CyprusCompendium
• Pottery Kilns and Firing in Ancient CyprusCompendium
• Triple Crossing LinesCompendium
• Village Life in Early Bronze Age CyprusCompendium
• Village Life in Late Bronze Age CyprusCompendium
• Weapons of Bronze Age CyprusCompendium
• White Painted Wheelmade WareCompendium