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Murray McClellan

Murray C. McClellan

fl. 1987–2005

Professor of Classical Art, Boston University, active 1987–2005. Excavated at Kalavasos-Kopetra (with Sirmata) and Kalavasos-Mangia. Excavated with Marcus Rautman; worked for Boston University.

Life and work

  1. 1987–1993
    Directed, with Marcus Rautman, the University of Missouri-Columbia / University of Pennsylvania fieldwork at the Byzantine site of Kalavasos-Kopetra: intensive survey in 1987, excavations 1988-91 (small three-aisled gypsum basilica at Sirmata, late 6th century AD, destroyed mid-7th, probably in the Arab raids). The site had been identified by the Vasilikos Valley Project in 1978.

    KalavasosSteel 1997-1998, p. 142Herscher 1995, p. 290

  2. 1988
    Co-authored (with P. J. Russell and I. A. Todd) 'Kalavasos-Mangia: rescue excavations at a Late Bronze Age cemetery', RDAC 1988, 201-222.

    KalavasosGraziadio

  3. 1989–1995
    With M. L. Rautman published the Kopetra season reports (RDAC 1989, 157-66; RDAC 1991, 225-36) and 'Where have all the farmers gone? The Cypriot countryside in the seventh to tenth centuries' (1995), whose finding of no evidence for those centuries Metcalf calls negative evidence.

    Metcalf 2009Metcalf 2009, p. 63

  4. 1997–1998
    Co-curated with Pamela Russell the Cypriote exhibition for the 50th anniversary of the Ringling Museum, Sarasota, with Aaron H. De Groft as Ringling Project curator; he and Russell (and Pamela Gaber) studied the Ringling's Cypriote material, producing a complete inventory and photographic record.

    SarasotaKarageorghis 2001

  5. 2003
    Contributed to Rautman's A Cypriot Village of Late Antiquity: Kalavasos-Kopetra in the Vasilikos Valley (JRA Supplementary Series 52).

    Papuci-Władyka 2020

  6. 2005
    Co-author (with D. Baird, C. McCartney, A. South and I. A. Todd) of the 'Artifacts' chapter in Todd (ed.), Vasilikos Valley Project: Excavations at Kalavasos-Tenta, vol. II (SIMA 71:7).

    KalavasosWinkelmann 2020

Connections

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Marcus RautmanIan A. ToddDouglas BairdPamela RussellAaron H. De GroftMurray McClellan
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On Ancient Cyprus

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Sources

  1. 1.Louise Steel (1997-1998). “Archaeology in Cyprus 1987-1997”. Archaeological Reports 44, 137-149.
  2. 2.Ellen Herscher (1995). “Archaeology in Cyprus”. American Journal of Archaeology 99, 257-294.
  3. 3.V. Karageorghis (2001). “The Cypriote collection in the Ringling Museum, Sarasota (Florida)”. Cahiers du Centre d'Études Chypriotes 31.
  4. 4.Giampaolo Graziadio. The Earliest Production of Aegean-Type Pottery in Cyprus.
  5. 5.D. M. Metcalf (2009). Byzantine Cyprus 491-1191. Nicosia, Cyprus Research Centre.
  6. 6.E. Papuci-Władyka (ed.) (2020). Interdisciplinary Research of the Jagiellonian University in Nea Paphos UNESCO World Heritage Site (2011-2015): First Results.
  7. 7.Christine Winkelmann (2020). The Neolithic and Chalcolithic Figurines of Cyprus. Münster, Zaphon.
  8. 8.M. C. McClellan, P. J. Russell, I. A. Todd (1988). “Kalavasos-Mangia: rescue excavations at a Late Bronze Age cemetery”. Report of the Department of Antiquities, Cyprus, 201-222.
  9. 9.M. C. McClellan, M. L. Rautman (1989). “The 1987 and 1988 field seasons of the Kalavasos-Kopetra Project”. Report of the Department of Antiquities, Cyprus, 157-166.
  10. 10.M. C. McClellan, M. L. Rautman (1991). “The 1990 field season at Kalavasos-Kopetra”. Report of the Department of Antiquities, Cyprus, 225-236.
  11. 11.M. C. McClellan, M. L. Rautman (1995). “Where have all the farmers gone? The Cypriot countryside in the seventh to tenth centuries”. Visitors, Immigrants, and Invaders in Cyprus, 85-86. Albany, NY.
  12. 12.M. Rautman (2003). A Cypriot Village of Late Antiquity. Kalavasos-Kopetra in the Vasilikos Valley. Portsmouth, RI.
  13. 13.Douglas Baird, Carole McCartney, Murray C. McClellan, Alison South et al. (2005). “Artifacts”. Vasilikos Valley Project. Excavations at Kalavasos-Tenta, Vol. II, 18-322. Sävedalen.