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Scholar · Archaeologist

P. Vincent

fl. 1600–1943

Scholar and archaeologist, active 1600–1943. Worked with Horsfield.

Life and work

  1. 1600
    Dated all painted pottery sherds from the Late Bronze Age tomb to between 1600 and 1200 BC.

    Vol 42: Annales du Service des Antiquités de l'Égypte (1943) (1943)

  2. 1909
    Scholar of Palestinian archaeology who published the Ophel tomb finds from Jerusalem in Jérusalem sous la terre, dated the painted pottery from a Late Bronze Age tomb at Byblos to 1600–1200 BC, and suggested a Cypriot model for a tambourine-holding figure from Gezer (1909).

    Palestine Exploration Fund : quarterly statement (1869)

  3. 1932
    Co-authored an early study of the Baluʿa Stele with Horsfield in 1932.

    The Genesis of Moab: A Proposal (2011), p. 147

  4. Undated
  5. Undated
    Cited as comparing a large Jerusalem edifice with Sendjirli dwellings and suggesting the jar-handles' Jewish origin.

    Cobern, Camden McCormack, 1855-1920, Recent explorations in the Holy Land and Kadesh-Barnea, the "lost oasis" of the the Sinaitic peninsula (1914)

  6. Undated
    Published a ceramic classification scheme (Cananaean, Israelite, Jewish-Hellenistic pottery) cited in the Jericho/Palestine excavation discussion; no Cyprus-specific action stated.

    Zeitschrift des Deutschen Palästina-Vereins 1913: Vol 35-36 (1913)

  7. Undated
    Contrasts the more noble character of Anath with Kadesh, Astarte and other mother-goddesses, a point about Cypriot religious figures at Idalium context.

    Stanley A. Cook, M.A. Litt.D., The Religion Of Ancient Palestine In The Light Of Archaeology (1930)

  8. Undated
    Argued for a Semitic theory of the Susa II pottery connections, cited in a footnote-style reference on Middle Bronze ceramic links including Cyprus.

    Cadbury, Henry J., Annual of the American Schools of Oriental Research vol.9: for 1927-1928 (1929)

  9. Undated
    Cited as one of the scholars whose arguments prompted a Semitic theory of the origin of the Susa II-related pottery fabric; no Cyprus-specific action stated.

    The annual of the American schools of oriental research (1920)

  10. Undated
    Published the Ophel tomb bowl from Jerusalem excavations in Jérusalem sous la terre, judging it an Egyptian import and the other tomb vases Canaanite.

    C. Leonard Woolley, La Phénicie et les peuples égéens (1921), p. 179

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2 people

Mentioned in

4 mentions

Sources

  1. 1.Palestine Exploration Fund : quarterly statement (1869).
  2. 2.Bill Finlayson; Steven Mithen; Sam Smith; Israel Finkelstein; Oded Lipschits; Margaret O'Hea; Vassos Karageorghis; David E. Graves; Scott Stripling; S. Y. Waksman, Levant Volume 43 Number 2 Autumn 2011 (2011).
  3. 3.The Genesis of Moab: A Proposal (2011).
  4. 4.Cobern, Camden McCormack, 1855-1920, Recent explorations in the Holy Land and Kadesh-Barnea, the "lost oasis" of the the Sinaitic peninsula (1914).
  5. 5.Zeitschrift des Deutschen Palästina-Vereins 1913: Vol 35-36 (1913).
  6. 6.Stanley A. Cook, M.A. Litt.D., The Religion Of Ancient Palestine In The Light Of Archaeology (1930).
  7. 7.Cadbury, Henry J., Annual of the American Schools of Oriental Research vol.9: for 1927-1928 (1929).
  8. 8.The annual of the American schools of oriental research (1920).
  9. 9.Vol 42: Annales du Service des Antiquités de l'Égypte (1943) (1943).
  10. 10.C. Leonard Woolley, La Phénicie et les peuples égéens (1921).
  11. 11.مجلة سوريا للفنون والاثار 5.
  12. 12.Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres (France), Le Journal des sçavans (1928).

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