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Excavator · Museum staff · Scholar

Judith Dobell

Judith Dobell Stylianou

fl. 1930–1997 · United Kingdom

British excavator and museum staff member, active 1930–1997. Excavated at Ayios Philon (Karpas). Married to Andreas Stylianou; worked with Joan du Plat Taylor and Eleanor Stewart.

Life and work

  1. 1930s
    One of three English volunteers at the Cyprus Museum (with Eve Dray and Rowena de Marchemund) who helped with 'rescue' digs, and checked photographs and recorded and catalogued stone tools and pottery.

    NicosiaPowell 2013

  2. April 1937
    In the spring of 1937, in du Plat Taylor's third season in the Karpas, Judith Dobell worked with her at Ayios Philon while Eve Dray and Margaret (Kim) Collingridge dug Hellenistic tombs at Aphendrika.

    KarpasPowell 2013

  3. 1968–1969
    With Andreas Stylianou traced the son of one of the finders of the second Lambousa treasure (jewellery in a pot under a floor, plates walled in a niche, found in February 1902 per Leader n. 7); Merrillees calls their survey of the local evidence for both hoards 'the most exhaustive and authentic'.

    KaravasLeader 2000Merrillees 2009

  4. 1969
    With Andreas Stylianou, 'The treasures of Lambousa' (in Stylianou and Harmanta, Karavas, 1969, pp. 45-111; in Greek with English preface and summary), listing the find of the two Lambousa silver hoards and the local anecdotal evidence.

    Leader 2000Merrillees 2009

  5. 1985
    With Andreas Stylianou, The Painted Churches of Cyprus (London: Trigraph, 1985; Nicosia, Leventis Foundation, 2nd ed. 1997).

    Toumazou et al. 2011Childs et al. 2012

Connections

5 people
Andreas StylianouEleanor StewartJoan du Plat TaylorMargaret CollingridgeRowena de MarchemundJudith Dobell
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Colleagues & contacts

Sources

  1. 1.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
  2. 2.Judy Powell (2013). Love's Obsession: The Lives and Archaeology of Jim and Eve Stewart. Kent Town, South Australia, Wakefield Press.
  3. 3.R. S. Merrillees (2009). “The modern history of the first Lambousa treasure of Byzantine silverware from Cyprus”. The Antiquaries Journal 89, 389-403. Online
  4. 4.Ruth E. Leader (2000). “The David Plates Revisited: Transforming the Secular in Early Byzantium”. The Art Bulletin 82, 407-427. College Art Association. Online
  5. 5.M. K. Toumazou (ed.), P. N. Kardulias (ed.), D. B. Counts (ed.) (2011). Crossroads and Boundaries: The Archaeology of Past and Present in the Malloura Valley, Cyprus.
  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.A. Stylianou, J. Stylianou (1969). “The treasures of Lambousa”. Karavas, 45-111. Athletic Union of Karavas.
  8. 8.A. Stylianou, J. A. Stylianou (1985). The Painted Churches of Cyprus: Treasures of Byzantine Art. London, Trigraph.