Ancient CyprusAncient Cyprus

Donor · Scholar

John Davidson Beazley

fl. 1925–1989 · United Kingdom

Professor of classical archaeology, Oxford, active 1925–1989. Gave to Ashmolean Museum; wrote with Donna Carol Kurtz.

Life and work

  1. 1956
    His publication in AJA 55 of the Marion stele fragment in the Paphos District Museum (dated about 440 BC or a little earlier) is cited by Megaw; a joining fragment reached the Cyprus Museum in 1956.

    PolisMegaw 1956

  2. 1963
    Karageorghis sent him a photograph of the larger of two red-figure fragments acquired by the Cyprus Museum; he named the Bologna 322 Painter.

    Karageorghis 1964

Connections

4 people
Vassos KarageorghisE. J. ForsdykeDonna Carol KurtzJohn HiltonJohn Davidson Beazley
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Scholarship

Colleagues & contacts

Objects

On Ancient Cyprus

2 pages

Sources

  1. 1.Ashmolean Museum online collection records AN1925.613, AN1966.1470, AN1966.596. Ashmolean Museum. Online
  2. 2.A. H. S. Megaw (1956). “Archaeology in Cyprus, 1956”. Archaeological Reports 3, 24-31. Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies.
  3. 3.V. Karageorghis (1964). “Chronique des fouilles et découvertes archéologiques à Chypre en 1963”. Bulletin de correspondance hellénique 88.
  4. 4.John Howard Young, Suzanne Halstead Young (1955). Terracotta Figurines from Kourion in Cyprus. Philadelphia, University Museum, University of Pennsylvania.
  5. 5.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
  6. 6.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.
  7. 7.J. D. Beazley, D. C. Kurtz (1989). Some Attic Vases in the Cyprus Museum.