Colonial official · Collector
Major B. Seager
fl. 1879–1891 · United Kingdom
British colonial official and collector, active 1879–1891. Collected at Limassol and Amathus. Sold to Alexander Stuart Murray; bought from Georges (Georgos) N. Lanitis.
Life and work
- c. 1890At Ohnefalsch-Richter's telegram from Limassol, sent a high sum for a lot of antiquities; O-R brought back 17 stone pieces and 4 gold laminae, all 'found at Amathus'
LimassolHermary 1990, n. 12
- 1891British Museum acquires only the four gold laminae from him; Hermary does not know what became of the 17 stone pieces
Connections
4 peopleSales, gifts & bequests
- Bought from Georges (Georgos) N. Lanitis1890
- Represented by Max Ohnefalsch-Richter1890
- Sold to Alexander Stuart Murray
Fieldwork & employment
- Employed by Garnet Joseph Wolseley1879
- Employed Max Ohnefalsch-Richter
Scholarship
- Corresponded with Alexander Stuart Murray
Objects
Seventeen stone pieces said to come from Amathus
From Amathusc. 1890Hermary 1990, n. 12
Painted clay horned animal from Hagia Paraskevi, 'formerly in the possession of Major Seager'
From Hagia ParaskeviOhnefalsch-Richter 1893, p. 372
Sources
- 1.Antoine Hermary (1990). “Ohnefalsch-Richter à Amathonte”. Cahiers du Centre d'Études Chypriotes 13, 21-26.
- 2.Max Ohnefalsch-Richter (1893). Kypros, the Bible and Homer. London, Asher & Co.. Online
- 3.Veronica Tatton-Brown (ed.) (2001). Cyprus in the 19th Century AD: Fact, Fancy and Fiction. Oxford, Oxbow.
- 4.Nicholas Stanley-Price (2018). “Illicit excavation: the trial of Alessandro Palma di Cesnola in Cyprus in 1878”. The Antiquaries Journal 98, 297-317.