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Excavator · Cataloguer · Archaeologist

P. L. O. Guy

fl. 1931–1938

Excavator and cataloguer, active 1931–1938. Worked with Clarence Fisher and Einar Nilson Gjerstad.

Life and work

  1. 1931
  2. 1934
    Directed the 1934 Megiddo excavations of Stratum VI in Area CC, recovering bronzes, baths and pottery, and wrote letters to Breasted describing the finds.

    Timothy P. Harrison; Douglas L. Esse; Andrew Graham; Ronald G. V. Hancock; Patricia Paice, Megiddo 3: Final Report on the Stratum VI Excavations (2004), p. 9

  3. 1938
    With Engberg, excavated and published the Megiddo tombs (1938), among them a grave on the eastern slope that held a Cypriot Bichrome bowl.

    Matthew J. Adams; Eran Arie; Eric H. Cline; Israel Finkelstein; Norma Franklin; Mario A.S. Martin; David Ussishkin, Megiddo V: The 2004-2008 Seasons (2013), p. 725

  4. 1938
    Excavated Tomb 1101A at Megiddo and published the Mycenaean sherds and group in their 1938 report, dating the group to Early Iron I.

    Penelope A. Mountjoy, A Mycenaean Vase from Megiddo (2008), p. 13

  5. 1938
    Excavated and published the Megiddo tombs (Tombs 63, 73, 80, 877, 912) in 1938, reporting the Aegean and Iron Age pottery found in them.

    The Aegean Pottery at Megiddo: An Appraisal and Reanalysis (1998), p. 1998

  6. 1938
    Excavated at Tell Abu Hawam and its cemeteries and published The Megiddo Tombs (1938), which includes a tomb find with a Cypriot-type hook.

    Revising Tell Abu Hawam (1985), p. 70

  7. 1938
    Published The Megiddo Tombs (1938), which includes a tomb find with a Cypriot-type hook.

    Hans-Günter Buchholz, Ugarit, Zypern und Ägäis: Kulturbeziehungen im zweiten Jahrtausend v.Chr. (1999), p. 129

  8. Undated
  9. Undated
    Excavated and published Megiddo Eastern Cemetery Tomb 26 slender ovoid jars, noting their likely original decoration in blue, red and black.

    Manfred Bietak, Ägypten und Levante / Egypt and the Levant, Volume XIX (2009), p. 214

  10. Undated
    Succeeded Fisher as director of the Megiddo excavations, extending the work on the tombs; he took a building with Cypriot-style capitals for a private house.

    Librairie Paul Geuthner, Syria Revue Dart Oriental Et Darcheologie Tome.12 (1931)

  11. Undated
    Extended the investigation of tombs at Tell el-Mutesellim spanning Early Bronze to early Iron Age; suggested a temple with Cypriot-style chapiteaux was a private house.

    Syria revue Dʼart oriental et Dʼarcheologie tome.12 (1931)

  12. Undated
    Published the Megiddo LB-EI tomb finds of similar gold mouthpieces (tombs 39, 62, 912B) but gave little information on their circumstances.

    John F. Brug, A Literary and Archaeological Study of the Philistines (1985), p. 153

  13. Undated
    Named with Proto-Aeolic capital (approximately half of a capital, reconstructed, from Megiddo) — not Cypriot in itself; the page compares its central triangle design to Cypriote capitals

    New Proto-Aeolic Capitals Found in Israel (1976)

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13 mentions

Documents · 11

Sources

  1. 1.Matthew J. Adams; Eran Arie; Eric H. Cline; Israel Finkelstein; Norma Franklin; Mario A.S. Martin; David Ussishkin, Megiddo V: The 2004-2008 Seasons (2013).
  2. 2.Varda Sussman, Oil-Lamps in the Holy Land: Saucer Lamps From the beginning to the Hellenistic period Collections of the Israel Antiquities Authority (2007).
  3. 3.Penelope A. Mountjoy, A Mycenaean Vase from Megiddo (2008).
  4. 4.Israel Finkelstein; David Ussishkin; Eric H. Cline; Matthew J. Adams; Eran Arie; Norma Franklin; Mario A.S. Martin, Megiddo V: The 2004-2008 Seasons, Volume II (2013).
  5. 5.Manfred Bietak, Ägypten und Levante / Egypt and the Levant, Volume XIX (2009).
  6. 6.The Aegean Pottery at Megiddo: An Appraisal and Reanalysis (1998).
  7. 7.Librairie Paul Geuthner, Syria Revue Dart Oriental Et Darcheologie Tome.12 (1931).
  8. 8.Timothy P. Harrison; Douglas L. Esse; Andrew Graham; Ronald G. V. Hancock; Patricia Paice, Megiddo 3: Final Report on the Stratum VI Excavations (2004).
  9. 9.Syria revue Dʼart oriental et Dʼarcheologie tome.12 (1931).
  10. 10.John F. Brug, A Literary and Archaeological Study of the Philistines (1985).
  11. 11.Revising Tell Abu Hawam (1985).
  12. 12.Hans-Günter Buchholz, Ugarit, Zypern und Ägäis: Kulturbeziehungen im zweiten Jahrtausend v.Chr. (1999).
  13. 13.New Proto-Aeolic Capitals Found in Israel (1976).

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