Ancient CyprusAncient Cyprus

Museum staff · Archaeologist

Olga Tufnell

fl. 1926–1932 · United Kingdom

British museum staff member and archaeologist, active 1926–1932. Worked with Rupert Forbes Gunnis; wrote with Joan du Plat Taylor.

Life and work

  1. 23 February 1930
    Wrote a letter describing a Sunday sale in the Cyprus Museum saleroom to some 300 American tourists from the cruise ship Homeric, with about 20 helpers; the sale made 75 pounds 10 shillings in an hour and a half, which she says would let the museum afford some excavating. Flat bowls to be used as ashtrays sold best. Quoted from Green and Henry 2021, p. 139.

    NicosiaStanley-Price 2025, n. 75Green & Henry 2021, p. 139

  2. 1930
    Co-published with J. du Plat Taylor 'A Pottery Industry in Cyprus', Ancient Egypt part IV, pp. 119-122.

    Stager et al. 1974

Connections

2 people

Scholarship

Colleagues & contacts

On Ancient Cyprus

4 pages

Sources

  1. 1.Nicholas Stanley-Price (2025). “Illicit excavation and the sale of 'duplicate' antiquities: Rupert Gunnis and the Cyprus Museum, 1926-1932”. Cahiers du Centre d'Études Chypriotes 55, 269-301. Online
  2. 2.J. du Plat Taylor, O. Tufnell (1930). “A Pottery Industry in Cyprus”. Ancient Egypt, 119-122.
  3. 3.L. E. Stager (ed.), A. Walker (ed.), G. E. Wright (ed.) (1974). American Expedition to Idalion, Cyprus: First Preliminary Report, Seasons of 1971 and 1972. American Schools of Oriental Research.
  4. 4.J. D. M. Green (ed.), R. Henry (ed.) (2021). Olga Tufnell's 'Perfect Journey': letters and photographs of an archaeologist in the Levant and Mediterranean. London, UCL Press.