Scholar · Archaeologist
Max Mallowan
fl. 1925–1974
Scholar and archaeologist, active 1925–1974. Worked with Vassos Karageorghis.
Life and work
- 1953His Near Eastern work (Brak/Chagar Bazar stamp seals, Iraq 9; toggle-pin chronology, Iraq 9) is used by P. Dikaios as comparanda for Khirokitia engraved pebbles, a fish amulet, and the dating of Philia toggle-pins; Dikaios records Mallowan's own opinions ('Professor Mallowan thinks...').
KhirokitiaDikaios 1953
- 1950sThe University of Sydney (Nicholson Museum) paid £1000 for a group of ivories from Max Mallowan's excavations at Nimrud, as part of the Nicholson's sponsorship of excavations in Cyprus, Jericho and Nimrud (non-Cypriot material).
SydneyPowell 2013
- 1958J. R. B. (Jim) Stewart and R. Merrillees, on a trip to England, 'called on Max Mallowan at the Institute of Archaeology in London' while working on Cypriot material amongst Petrie's collection at UCL.
LondonPowell 2013
- c. 1960Recommended Judy Birmingham as a Near Eastern lecturer at Sydney (Stewart's enlarged department).
SydneyPowell 2013
- 1967–1970Among the international colleagues named by V. Karageorghis who 'were eager to help and advice in matters of their specialization' on the Salamis necropolis publications (Excavations in the Necropolis of Salamis I-III, last vol. 1970), with Edith Porada and Richard Barnett, 'and all those who wrote appendices'.
SalamisKarageorghis 2019
Connections
4 peopleScholarship
- Corresponded with Porphyrios Dikaiospossibly1953
- Published material of Vassos Karageorghis1967–1974
Colleagues & contacts
- Met James Rivers Barrington Stewart1958
- Connected with Judy Birmingham1960
- Worked with Vassos Karageorghis1967–1970
On Ancient Cyprus
1 pageSources
- 1.V. Karageorghis (2019). “Excavating at Salamis: 1952-1974. Reminiscences and Remarks”. Salamis of Cyprus: History and Archaeology from the Earliest Times to Late Antiquity, 25-. Waxmann.
- 2.Judy Powell (2013). Love's Obsession: The Lives and Archaeology of Jim and Eve Stewart. Kent Town, South Australia, Wakefield Press.
- 3.P. Dikaios (1953). Khirokitia: Final Report on the Excavation of a Neolithic Settlement in Cyprus on Behalf of the Department of Antiquities, 1936-1946. Oxford, Oxford University Press.