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Expedition member · Scholar

Lucy Talcott

fl. 1931–1955

Expedition member and scholar, active 1931–1955. Excavated at Lapithos-Vrysi tou Barba. Worked with Dorothy Hannah Cox and Virginia Randolph Grace.

Life and work

  1. 1931
    Staff member (with Virginia Grace and the architect Dorothy H. Cox) of the University Museum of Pennsylvania team that opened additional tombs at the Lapithos cemetery (Vrysi tou Barba), under the general direction of Bert Hodge Hill; 38 tombs in all, tomb 806A with an imported Minoan jar published by Grace.

    LapithosHerscher 1975, p. 39

  2. 1934
    Listed, from Athens, among the subscribers to The Swedish Cyprus Expedition, vol. I.

    AthensGjerstad et al. 1934

  3. 1946
    Thanked by George H. McFadden for verifying an Agora amphora parallel (Agora Inv. P 11295) cited in the Kourion Ayios Ermoyenis tomb publication.

    KourionMcFadden 1946

  4. 1955
    Named by the Youngs among Agora staff (with Margaret Crosby and Professor and Mrs Homer Thompson) who made finds and advice available for Terracotta Figurines from Kourion.

    Young & Young 1955

Connections

6 people
George H. McFaddenBert Hodge HillVirginia Randolph GraceDorothy Hannah CoxHomer A. ThompsonMargaret CrosbyLucy Talcott
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On Ancient Cyprus

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Sources

  1. 1.E. Herscher (1975). “New Light from Lapithos”. The Archaeology of Cyprus: Recent Developments, 39-60. Park Ridge, N.J., Noyes Press.
  2. 2.E. Gjerstad, J. Lindros, E. Sjöqvist, A. Westholm (1934). The Swedish Cyprus Expedition: Finds and Results of the Excavations in Cyprus 1927-1931, Vol. I (text). Stockholm, The Swedish Cyprus Expedition.
  3. 3.George H. McFadden (1946). “A Tomb of the Necropolis of Ayios Ermoyenis at Kourion”. American Journal of Archaeology 50, 449-489.
  4. 4.John Howard Young, Suzanne Halstead Young (1955). Terracotta Figurines from Kourion in Cyprus. Philadelphia, University Museum, University of Pennsylvania.
  5. 5.B. A. Sparkes (2003). “Lucy Talcott”. Breaking Ground: Women in Old World Archaeology (Brown University). Online