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Cataloguer · Epigrapher

Louisa MacDonald

fl. 1890–1898

Cataloguer and epigrapher, active 1890–1898. Catalogued the collection of Nicholson Museum.

Life and work

  1. 1898
    Published the catalogue of the Nicholson Museum's Greek and Etruscan vases (with Greek and Roman lamps), which included the Cypriot Mycenaean squat jug NM 98.02, presented by Sir Charles Nicholson in 1860; its provenance and mode of acquisition are unknown.

    SydneyBarker 2012Potts & Sowada 2004, p. 6

Objects

  • Late Cypriot Mycenaean squat jug (local imitation probably made in Cyprus), published in her 1898 catalogue

    Nicholson Museum, University of Sydney NM 98.021860Barker 2012

Sources

  1. 1.T. B. Mitford (1971). The Inscriptions of Kourion. Philadelphia, American Philosophical Society.
  2. 2.L. Macdonald (1890). Proceedings of the Society of Biblical Archaeology 13, 174-181.
  3. 3.L. MacDonald (1898). Catalogue of Greek and Etruscan Vases in the Nicholson Museum, University of Sydney.
  4. 4.Craig Barker (2012). Aphrodite's Island: The Cypriot Collection of the Nicholson Museum. Sydney, Nicholson Museum, University of Sydney.
  5. 5.D. Potts (ed.), K. Sowada (ed.) (2004). Treasures of the Nicholson Museum.