John Howard Young

John Howard Young and Suzanne Halstead Young catalogued the terracotta figurines from the University Museum's excavations at Kourion, most of them from the sanctuary of Apollo Hylates, in a book published in Philadelphia in 1955³. They began the study in 1939; the war interrupted it for nearly a decade, and the book includes finds to the end of the 1948 season³. The preface speaks of "our Director, Mr. Bert Hodge Hill", and the volume is dedicated to George H. McFadden³.

In summer 1946, with McFadden's permission, the Youngs made a last investigation of the Votive Deposit area at the sanctuary, digging under the deposit's rubble wall and in a pit in the adjoining building³. Samples of local and other clays from the excavations went to the United States with the permission of the Director of Antiquities, A. H. S. Megaw, for micropetrographic analysis at Johns Hopkins³. The Chronique des fouilles of 1963 reports that soundings at the Kourion stadium were made from 1939 by the Pennsylvania mission under "Professeur J. H. Young"; they were not published, and Young dated the stadium to the Roman period, probably the 2nd century AD¹. Megaw reviewed the figurine book in 1956 as a major event for the study of Archaic and later Cypriot terracottas².