Ancient CyprusAncient Cyprus

Scholar · Epigrapher

Mrs E. Dohan

fl. 1926–1950 · United States

American scholar and epigrapher, active 1926–1950. Wrote with R. G. Kent.

Life and work

  1. 1926
    With Professor R. G. Kent, published in AJA xxx (1926), pp. 249-258 an inscribed bowl (Mitford no. 138) and 28 inscribed sherds (Philadelphia M.5686, M.5687) acquired 'some years before' by the University Museum, Philadelphia, and said to come from a sanctuary near Tremithousha; they read the syllabic texts as late as c. 50 BC.

    PhiladelphiaMitford 1980Mitford 1950, p. 2

  2. 1931
    Bert Hodge Hill led a small University Museum team investigating a cemetery at Lapithos, the first organised American fieldwork on Cyprus; Davis cites Dohan 1932 for it.

    LapithosDavis 1989

  3. 1932
    Published 'The Cyprus Expedition', University Museum Bulletin 4(1), pp. 12-15/16 (page range given as 12-15 by Davis 1989 and 12-16 by Given 2025).

    PhiladelphiaDavis 1989Given 2025

  4. 1950
    T. B. Mitford (CQ 44, 1950, pp. 97-106) re-examined the Dohan and Kent evidence and corrected their chronology: Kafizin belongs to the reigns of Ptolemy Euergetes and Philopator, not to the Cyprus of Cicero.

    Mitford 1980Mitford 1950, p. 2

Connections

3 people
R. G. KentTerence Bruce MitfordBert Hodge HillMrs E. Dohan
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Objects

  • Inscribed Kafizin bowl (Mitford 1980 no. 138), outer text beginning 'Nymphe ... Onesagoras son of Philounios, the dekatephoros ...'

    From Kafizin, said to be from a sanctuary near TremithoushaUniversity Museum, Philadelphiaby 1926Mitford 1980Mitford 1950, p. 2

  • 28 inscribed Kafizin sherds (19 alphabetic Greek, 9 syllabic)

    From KafizinUniversity Museum, Philadelphia M.5686 (syllabic) and M.5687 (alphabetic), as printed by Mitfordby 1926Mitford 1980

Sources

  1. 1.Terence B. Mitford (1980). The Nymphaeum of Kafizin: The Inscribed Pottery. Berlin and New York, Walter de Gruyter.
  2. 2.T. B. Mitford (1950). “Kafizin and the Cypriot Syllabary”. The Classical Quarterly 44, 97-106. Online
  3. 3.Thomas W. Davis (1989). “A History of American Archaeology on Cyprus”. The Biblical Archaeologist 52, 163-169. Online
  4. 4.Michael Given (2025). “Over the landscape, in the landscape? Knowledge and agency in Cypriot archaeology, 1870-1910”. Empire & Excavation: Critical perspectives on archaeology in British-period Cyprus, 1878-1960. Leiden, Sidestone Press.
  5. 5.E. H. Dohan, R. G. Kent (1926). “New Inscriptions from Cyprus”. American Journal of Archaeology 30, 249-258. Online
  6. 6.E. H. Dohan (1932). “The Cyprus Expedition”. University Museum Bulletin 4, 12-15.