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Curator · Scholar

J. Lesley Fitton

fl. 2000–2016

Curator and scholar, active 2000–2016. Worked for British Museum; worked with Veronica Tatton-Brown and Thomas Kiely.

Life and work

  1. 2000
    Co-curated with Louise Schofield the redisplay of the British Museum's Aegean Bronze Age gallery, which showed Cypriot Minoan and Mycenaean pottery and the contents of Enkomi Tomb 93.

    LondonKiely 2017

  2. 2001
    Contributed 'Excavations in Cyprus and the Mycenaean Question' on the late-19th-century reception of Cypriot Bronze Age material and the dating of Mycenaean pottery.

    Tatton-Brown 2001

  3. 2001
    Read and commented on Veronica Tatton-Brown's earlier draft of her paper listing the British Museum archives of Cyprus excavations (acknowledged there).

    LondonTatton-Brown 2001

  4. 2009
    Thanked by Crewe, then a curator in the Department of Greece and Rome, as the department colleague who made her time there pleasant, during work digitising the 1896 Enkomi material.

    LondonCrewe 2009

  5. 2012
    Thanked among British Museum staff behind loans of 19th-century finds to the City of Gold exhibition at Princeton.

    Childs et al. 2012

  6. 2016
    Thanked by Merrillees as Keeper of the Department, whose policy let Kiely supply copies of the department's archive documents on the Sargon stele provenance research.

    LondonMerrillees 2016

Connections

3 people
Thomas KielyVeronica Tatton-BrownLouise SchofieldJ. Lesley Fitton
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Sources

  1. 1.J. Lesley Fitton (2001). “Excavations in Cyprus and the 'Mycenaean Question'”. Cyprus in the 19th Century AD, 149-152. Oxbow.
  2. 2.J. L. Fitton (1995). The Discovery of the Greek Bronze Age. London.
  3. 3.Veronica Tatton-Brown (ed.) (2001). Cyprus in the 19th Century AD: Fact, Fancy and Fiction. Oxford, Oxbow.
  4. 4.T. Kiely (2017). “Britain and the archaeology of Cyprus II: 1914 to the present day”. Cahiers du Centre d'Études Chypriotes 47, 253-310. Online
  5. 5.Robert Stuart Merrillees (2016). “Studies on the provenances of the stele of Sargon II from Larnaca (Kition) and the two so-called Dhali (Idalion) silver bowls in the Louvre”. Cahiers du Centre d'Études Chypriotes 46, 349-386. Online
  6. 6.Lindy Crewe (2009). “Feasting with the dead? Tomb 66 at Enkomi”. Ancient Cyprus in the British Museum: Essays in Honour of Veronica Tatton-Brown, 27-.
  7. 7.W. A. P. Childs (ed.), J. S. Smith (ed.), J. M. Padgett (ed.) (2012). City of Gold: The Archaeology of Polis Chrysochous, Cyprus. Princeton, Princeton University Art Museum.
  8. 8.Giampaolo Graziadio. The Earliest Production of Aegean-Type Pottery in Cyprus.