Ancient CyprusAncient Cyprus

Scholar

J. L. Bruce

fl. 1929–1937 · United States

American scholar, active 1929–1937. Worked at Skouriotissa.

Life and work

  1. 1929
    Allegation: named with C. G. Gunther and Loukas Pierides as among leading personalities who 'came under suspicion' in spring 1929 official discussions about illegal export of antiquities; the Acting Governor had a report that American Cyprus Mines officials at Skouriotissa were exporting antiquities illegally. Suspicion only, nothing proven in the source.

    SkouriotissaStanley-Price 2025, nn. 51-52

  2. 1929
    AccusedStanley-Price (2025, para 20) writes that Bruce and Gunther 'came under suspicion' in 1929 discussions of illicit export; no charge or finding is reported there.

    Stanley-Price 2025

  3. 1937
    'Antiquities in the Mines of Cyprus', Appendix V in SCE III (pp. 639-671), on ancient mining tools and timbers

    unknown

Sources

  1. 1.Nicholas Stanley-Price (2025). “Illicit excavation and the sale of 'duplicate' antiquities: Rupert Gunnis and the Cyprus Museum, 1926-1932”. Cahiers du Centre d'Études Chypriotes 55, 269-301. Online
  2. 2.J. L. Bruce (1937). “Antiquities in the Mines of Cyprus”. The Swedish Cyprus Expedition III, Appendix V, 639-671.
  3. 3.unknown. “Slag analyses bibliography citing Bruce 1937”. scan 188-189.