Ancient CyprusAncient Cyprus

Restorer / conservator · Scholar

Monica Bardswell

fl. 1936–1939 · United Kingdom

British conservator and scholar, active 1936–1939. Worked at Salamis. Worked for John Hilton; studied under E. W. Tristram.

Life and work

  1. 1936
    While in Cyprus accompanying her scientist husband, volunteered her expertise; the conservation of mural paintings was entrusted to her under Hilton's Antiquities Department. Described as a pupil and then colleague of E. W. Tristram, authority on English medieval wall-paintings.

    CyprusStanley-Price 2025, p. 117

  2. 1938–1939
    Published 'A visit to some of the Maronite villages of Cyprus' (Eastern Churches Quarterly 3, 1938-9, 304-8); Metcalf cites her for Maronite village distribution (adds Karpasia and Kythrea).

    Metcalf 2009

  3. 1939
    With G. Sotiriou, published 'The Byzantine paintings in the water cistern, Salamis, Cyprus', Antiquaries' Journal 19/4, 443-5.

    SalamisMetcalf 2009

Connections

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Fieldwork & employment

Scholarship

Sources

  1. 1.Nicholas Stanley-Price (2025). “Colonial society and the dismissal of John Hilton, first Director of Antiquities in Cyprus”. Empire & Excavation: Critical perspectives on archaeology in British-period Cyprus, 1878-1960, 109-126.
  2. 2.D. M. Metcalf (2009). Byzantine Cyprus 491-1191. Nicosia, Cyprus Research Centre.
  3. 3.M. Bardswell (1938/1939). “A visit to some of the Maronite villages of Cyprus”. The Eastern Churches Quarterly 3, 304-308.
  4. 4.M. Bardswell, G. Sotiriou (1939). “The Byzantine paintings in the water cistern, Salamis, Cyprus”. Antiquaries Journal 19, 443-445.