Excavator · Traveller / antiquarian · Donor · author
J. Theodore Bent
1852–1897 · United Kingdom
British excavator and traveller. Gave to British Museum; excavated with Ferdinand Dümmler.
Life and work
- 1884Wrote the paper 'Researches among the Cyclades' in this 1884 Journal volume; the passage gives no Cypriot activity for him.
- 1885–1886Received grants for excavations in 1885 and 1886, gave a terracotta mask to the British Museum and recorded rock-cut tombs on Telos and Karpathos with ware like that from Cyprus.
- 1886Presented a large limestone figure from Pigadia on Karpathos to the British Museum in 1886 and excavated at Antiparos.
- 1887–1901Cited by Hall (1901) as having excavated, with Dümmler's work, early graves in the Cyclades and in Cyprus that held primitive copper weapons and rough pottery; also found an inscription on Thasos in 1887.
Harry Reginald Hall, The Oldest Civilization of Greece: Studies of the Mycenaean Age (1901)
- 1887Found an inscription at Thasos in 1887, discussed by Rev. E. L. Hicks; mentioned as context, not Cypriot material.
- 1890Named in 1 record of the CVAR (Costas and Rita Severis Foundation, Nicosia) collections (1 as creator), of England, 1890.
- UndatedExcavated the prehistoric necropolis on Antiparos, whose vases went to the British Museum.
- UndatedExcavated the prehistoric necropolis on the island of Antiparos, whose prehistoric antiquities are now provisionally displayed in the British Museum.
- UndatedFound vases in the ancient necropolis of Antiparos, which were provisionally exhibited at the British Museum; the passage ties him to Aegean rather than Cypriot finds.
- UndatedDug up hand-made vases from the prehistoric necropolis on Antiparos; the collection is provisionally placed in the British Museum. Cyprus tie is indirect.
DR. HENREY SCHLIEMAN, TIRYNS THE PREHISTORIC PALACE OF THE KING OF TIRYNS (1886)
- UndatedDug up hand-made vases from the prehistoric necropolis on the island of Antiparos, now in a collection provisionally placed in the British Museum.
- UndatedNamed with hand-made vases (Antiparos, not Cyprus)
Tiryns. The prehistoric palace of the kings of Tiryns, the results of the latest excavations; (1885)
- UndatedDug up a collection of prehistoric hand-made vases from the prehistoric necropolis on the island of Antiparos, now provisionally in the British Museum; Antiparos is Greek, not Cypriot, so this tie is outside Cyprus.
- UndatedDug up hand-made vases from the prehistoric necropolis on the island of Antiparos, now in the collection provisionally placed in the British Museum.
- UndatedExcavated prehistoric vessels in the ancient necropolis on the island of Antiparos; his collection is provisionally displayed at the British Museum.
- UndatedExcavated early graves in the Cyclades and in Cyprus, finding primitive copper and stone weapons and pottery, dated to pre-Mycenaean times.
- UndatedExcavated a series of early graves in the Cyclades and Cyprus, with Dümmler, whose primitive finds were shown to predate Mycenaean culture.
- UndatedPublished a new copy of inscription no. 3494 in the Journal of Hellenic Studies, vol. 6.
- UndatedExcavated a series of early graves in the Cyclades and in Cyprus, containing primitive copper and stone weapons and rough pottery.
- UndatedExcavated Cycladic jar A. 301 at Antiparos.
- UndatedIndex entry cites Bent, J. T., p. 174, in connection with Antiparos; the passage gives no detail of his activity.
Pat Getz-Gentle, Stone Vessels of the Cyclades in the Early Bronze Age (1996), p. 397
- UndatedPassed to a museum large limestone figure found at Pigadia, Karpathos
Review of Aegean Prehistory I: The Islands of the Aegean (1992), p. 750
- UndatedMade a voyage with his wife along the south coast of Asia Minor and described 'discoveries in Asia Minor'; the passage does not place him in Cyprus.
- UndatedExplored and recorded rock-cut tombs on the islands of Telos and Karpathos, noting Cyrenaic ware similar to what came from Cyprus.
Connections
1 personFieldwork & employment
- Excavated with Ferdinand Dümmlerearly graves in Cyprus and the Cyclades; early graves in the Cyclades and Cyprus Harry Reginald Hall, The Oldest Civilization of Greece: Studies of the Mycenaean Age (1901); Hall, H.r., Oldest Civilization Of Greece (1901)
Colleagues & contacts
- Worked with Ferdinand Dümmlerearly graves in Cyprus and the Cyclades Hall, H. R. (Harry Reginald), 1873-1930, The oldest civilization of Greece: studies of the Mycenaean age (1901)
Mentioned in
5 mentionsDocuments · 4
- Material and intellectual consequences of esteem for Cycladic figurines
1993
reported finds on travels in the Cyclades
Gill & Chippindale 1993
- Aegean Prehistory: A Review
Cullen 2001
- The Journal of Hellenic studies
1880
- The Oldest Civilization of Greece: Studies of the Mycenaean Age
Hall 1901
- People · 1listed under Connections
Sources
- 1.Schliemann, Henry, Tiryns; the Prehistoric Palace of the Kings of Tiryns, the results of the Latest Excavations (1886).
- 2.Schliemann, Heinrich, 1822-1890, Tiryns; der prähistorische palast der könige von Tiryns, ergebnisse der neuesten ausgrabungen (1886).
- 3.Schliemann, Heinrich (1822-1890), Tirynthe : le palais préhistorique des rois de Tirynthe : résultat des dernières fouilles (1885).
- 4.Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies (London, England), The Journal of Hellenic studies (1880).
- 5.DR. HENREY SCHLIEMAN, TIRYNS THE PREHISTORIC PALACE OF THE KING OF TIRYNS (1886).
- 6.Schliemann, Heinrich, 1822-1890; Adler, Felix, 1851-1933; Dörpfeld, Wilhelm, 1853-1940, Tiryns. The prehistoric palace of the kings of Tiryns, the results of the latest excavations; (1885).
- 7.Tiryns. The prehistoric palace of the kings of Tiryns, the results of the latest excavations; (1885).
- 8.Schliemann, Heinrich, 1822-1890; Adler, Felix, 1851-1933; Dörpfeld, Wilhelm, 1853-1940, Tiryns. The prehistoric palace of the kings of Tiryns, the results of the latest excavations.
- 9.Tiryns: The Prehistoric Palace of the Kings of Tiryns, the Results of the Latest Excavations | Heinrich Schliemann.
- 10.Tiryns: Der Prähistorische Palast der Könige von Tiryns, Ergebnisse der Neuesten Ausgrabungen | Heinrich Schliemann.
- 11.Harry Reginald Hall, The Oldest Civilization of Greece: Studies of the Mycenaean Age (1901).
- 12.Hall, H. R. (Harry Reginald), 1873-1930, The oldest civilization of Greece: studies of the Mycenaean age (1901).
- 13.Hall, H.r., Oldest Civilization Of Greece (1901).
- 14.Sammlung der griechischen Dialekt-Inschriften : von F. Bechtel [et al.] Hrsg. von Hermann Collitz (1899).
- 15.Hall, H. R. (Harry Reginald), 1873-1930, The oldest civilization of Greece : studies of the Mycenaean age (1901).
- 16.Tracey Cullen, Aegean Prehistory: A Review (2001).
- 17.Reynold Higgins, The Greek Bronze Age (1970).
- 18.Pat Getz-Gentle, Stone Vessels of the Cyclades in the Early Bronze Age (1996).
- 19.Review of Aegean Prehistory I: The Islands of the Aegean (1992).
- 20.Vol. XLIX, The journal of Hellenic studies.
- 21.The Athenaeum 1889-08-24: Iss 3226 (1889).
- 22.lxiv, 382 p., The journal of Hellenic studies.
- 23.Centre of Visual Arts and Research (CVAR), Costas and Rita Severis Foundation, Nicosia, online catalogue: ARF 00298, “The English Historical Review vol. V: The English in the Levant”, 1890-10. Online
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