Scholar · Expedition member · Cataloguer
Jane C. Waldbaum
fl. 1973–2020
Archaeologist of the Near East, active 1973–2020. Excavated at Idalion. Worked with American Expedition to Idalion.
Life and work
- 1973–1978Listed among the American Expedition to Idalion staff as Metals Historian, and among area supervisors for 1973, 1974, 1976 and 1978.
IdalionStager & Walker 1989
- 1989Wrote 'Metalwork from Idalion, 1971-1980' in AEI 1973-1980: a catalogue of 86 metal objects (copper alloy, iron, lead, gold, silver); about 25 came from Gjerstad's dump on the West Acropolis and so lack context. She notes there is no evidence for continuous metallurgy at the site, though 4th-century BC copper-smelting installations were excavated on the West Terrace.
IdalionStager & Walker 1989
- 2020H. W. Catling thanks 'Dr. J. C. Waldbaum' for advice on the iron objects from the Kouklia (Palaepaphos) tombs excavated 1951-54, in the posthumous 2020 publication.
On Ancient Cyprus
4 pages- Under a KilogramArticle
- Arms and Armour of Iron Age CyprusCompendium
- Copper Metallurgy in Ancient CyprusCompendium
- Gold, Silver, Tin, Arsenic and Iron in Ancient CyprusCompendium
Sources
- 1.Lawrence E. Stager (ed.), Anne M. Walker (ed.) (1989). American Expedition to Idalion, Cyprus, 1973-1980. Chicago, Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago.
- 2.H. W. Catling (2020). Kouklia: Late Bronze Age and Early Iron Age Tombs at Palaepaphos 1951-1954. Oxford, BAR Publishing.
- 3.J. C. Waldbaum (1983). Metalwork from Sardis: The Finds Through 1974. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press.