Ancient CyprusAncient Cyprus

Excavator · Collector

Major Chard

fl. 1883–1885 · United Kingdom

British excavator and collector, active 1883–1885. Excavated at Kourion (Episkopi). Excavated with John William Williamson; employed Max Ohnefalsch-Richter.

Life and work

  1. 1883
    Given an unlimited excavation permit; Ohnefalsch-Richter was for some time appointed government supervisor of his digs at his own insistence, but was recalled in December 1883 to set up the Nicosia museum, after which the digs continued with no government or museum control (Ohnefalsch-Richter's account).

    Ohnefalsch-Richter 1886, p. 196

  2. 1883
    Hellenistic tombs at Kourion dug by Messrs. Williamson & Co. and by Major Chard, with Ohnefalsch-Richter as Government Inspector; Cyprus Museum nos. 2843, 3121, 3135, 3173 are listed under this entry.

    KourionMyres & Ohnefalsch-Richter 1899

  3. 1883
    Reinach: in 1883 Major Chard collected many statuettes at Episkopi (Curium); part was claimed by the Cyprus Museum.

    EpiskopiReinach 1891

Connections

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Fieldwork & employment

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Sources

  1. 1.J. L. Myres, M. Ohnefalsch-Richter (1899). A Catalogue of the Cyprus Museum. Oxford, Clarendon Press.
  2. 2.Salomon Reinach (1891). Chroniques d'Orient.
  3. 3.M. Ohnefalsch-Richter (1886). “Das Museum und die Ausgrabungen auf Cypern seit 1878”. Repertorium für Kunstwissenschaft 9.
  4. 4.T. Kiely, R. S. Merrillees (2012). “The archaeological interests of Samuel Brown, government engineer, and his circle of acquaintances in late nineteenth-century Cyprus”. Cahiers du Centre d'Études Chypriotes 42, 245-272. Online