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M.S.F. Hood
fl. 1952–1988 · United Kingdom
British excavator and scholar, active 1952–1988.
Life and work
- 1972An International Archaeological Symposium held sessions with lectures by Marinatos, Pecorella, Vermeule, Catling and Hood on Aegean, Cypriot and Mycenaean archaeology.
- 1972Hood discussed the final phase of the Mycenaean period in Cyprus, focusing on comparative pottery from Cyprus, Troy and the Peloponnese.
- 1973Excavator in Crete who gave the paper 'Mycenaean settlement in Cyprus and the coming of the Greeks' at the 1973 Nicosia symposium and owned Schliemann's album of Mycenae figurines.
An Early Cypriot III Vase from the Palace at Knossos (1983), p. 4
- 1973Contributed paper 'Mycenaean settlement in Cyprus and the coming of the Greeks' to the 1973 Nicosia symposium.
Bryan Feuer, Mycenaean Civilization: An Annotated Bibliography Through 2002 (2004), p. 134
- 1978Excavator at Knossos who reported a Cypriot ivory-headed pin from the Ayios Ioannis tomb and argued in 1978 that a vase from Enkomi might be a Cypriot imitation of an Aegean vase.
- 1978Argued in 1978 that the Enkomi vase might be a Cypriot imitation of an Aegean vase.
- UndatedM.S.F. Hood put forward the idea for the programme and supplied its first series of samples.
R. E. Jones, 1986, Greek and Cypriot Pottery: A Review of Scientific Studies, p. 10
- UndatedExcavated or reported on the undisturbed Ayios Ioannis Tomb with a conical ivory-headed pin of Cypriot origin, LM II-SM.
- UndatedReported debris from ivory working recovered from LM IB levels in the Royal Road excavations at Knossos.
- UndatedSuggested that bronze plates found in the Tombe dei Nobili at Phaistos are parts of armoured belts or corslets.
- UndatedConducted recent excavations in Crete whose results Evans used on the Early Minoan period.
- UndatedGave kind co-operation for the plates of the Khaniale Tekke tombs publication.
- UndatedOwned Mycenae figurines illustrated in Schliemann's Album
The Development of Mycenaean Terracotta Figurines (1971), p. 181
Sources
- 1.R. E. Jones, 1986, Greek and Cypriot Pottery: A Review of Scientific Studies.
- 2.Lyvia Morgan, The Miniature Wall Paintings of Thera: A Study in Aegean Culture and Iconography (1988).
- 3.Vyron Antoniadis, Knossos and the Near East: A Contextual Approach to Imports and Imitations in Early Iron Age Tombs (2017).
- 4.Joseph W. Shaw; Maria C. Shaw, Kommos: An Excavation on the South Coast of Crete Volume I Part II The Kommos Region and Houses of the Minoan Town Part I (1996).
- 5.C. Gallou; M. Georgiadis; G. M. Muskett, Dioskouroi: Studies presented to W.G. Cavanagh and C.B. Mee on the anniversary of their 30-year joint contribution to Aegean Archaeology (2008).
- 6.Michael Ventris; John Chadwick; Alan J. B. Wace, Documents in Mycenaean Greek: Three Hundred Selected Tablets from Knossos, Pylos and Mycenae with Commentary and Vocabula (1973).
- 7.An Early Cypriot III Vase from the Palace at Knossos (1983).
- 8.Bryan Feuer, Mycenaean Civilization: An Annotated Bibliography Through 2002 (2004).
- 9.R. A. Crossland; Ann Birchall, Bronze Age Migrations in the Aegean: Archaeological and Linguistic Problems in Greek Prehistory (1973).
- 10.The Annual of the British School at Athens 1954: Iss 49.
- 11.The Development of Mycenaean Terracotta Figurines (1971).
- 12.Press and Information Office, Republic of Cyprus, press release of 27 March 1972, «Αι Εργασίαν του Διεθνούς Αρχαιολογικού Συμποσίου».
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