Henry William Waddington

Henry William Waddington copied the Greek inscriptions that the 1862 French mission to Cyprus brought back. Marangou describes him as a French Orientalist and politician of English origin, born in 1826 and dead in 1894¹. He had been in Syria for about a year when he wrote to Melchior de Vogüé from Homs on 7 November 1861³. Ernest Renan could not continue his Phoenician mission and passed it to Vogüé, who went with Waddington and the architect Edmond Duthoit. They landed at Larnaca, in January 1862 by Marangou's dating, and stayed about four months, with excavations at Dali, Athienou, Amathus and Salamis^1,2. Duthoit did the digging at Athienou alone after Vogüé and Waddington left for Beirut⁷.

Mitford writes that in 1862 he travelled "as a professed epigraphist", added many inscriptions from Kourion and revised those already known⁶. Hogarth, by contrast, says that Waddington, like most travellers, went no farther than Salamis¹⁰. His readings from the Paphos district (nos. 2792, 2795, 2801 and 2802) were later checked by the Journal of Hellenic Studies team of 1888¹¹. They appeared in the third volume of Le Bas and Waddington's Voyage archéologique (1870)¹³.

Duthoit found a Greek inscription at Polis tis Chrysochou, and Waddington handed it to the Louvre; Wilhelm Froehner noted on 29 July 1868 that it showed Arsinoe to be Chrysochou⁵. On 27 February 1869 Waddington asked at the Louvre for a second Cypriot inscription that he had sent in March 1868 and for whose carriage to Marseille he had paid. Froehner recorded that it did not appear to have entered the museum⁵.