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Scholar

Penelope Mountjoy

fl. 1986–2020

Scholar, active 1986–2020. Worked with Hector Catling; wrote with Hans Mommsen.

Life and work

  1. 2001
    With H. Mommsen published NAA results on Mycenaean pottery from Qantir-Piramesse, Egypt; Graziadio cites her note there that FS 48 jars are uncommon in Syria-Palestine.

    Graziadio

  2. 2015
    With H. Mommsen published NAA of Aegean-style IIIC pottery from 11 Cypriot and various Near Eastern sites; Graziadio credits Mountjoy and Mommsen with showing that in late LC IIC the Simple Style and Rude/Pastoral Style were first made in Cyprus.

    Graziadio

  3. 2018
    Her monograph 'Decorated Pottery in Cyprus and Philistia in the 12th Century BC. Cypriot IIIC and Philistine IIIC' (Vienna, 2018) is cited as a monumental publication bearing on the Kouklia tomb volume.

    Catling 2020

  4. by 2020
    Gave Catling advice on the Kouklia Mycenaean pottery, let him draw on her forthcoming study of Decorated Late Cypriot III Ware, and in the catalogue assigned or commented on dates of pieces (for example LH IIIC Early Phase 2 for AX:10, LC IIIA for a plain kylix; from photographs for AIV:119).

    PalaepaphosCatling 2020

Connections

2 people

Scholarship

Colleagues & contacts

On Ancient Cyprus

6 pages

Sources

  1. 1.H. W. Catling (2020). Kouklia: Late Bronze Age and Early Iron Age Tombs at Palaepaphos 1951-1954. Oxford, BAR Publishing.
  2. 2.Giampaolo Graziadio. The Earliest Production of Aegean-Type Pottery in Cyprus.
  3. 3.P. A. Mountjoy (2018). Decorated Pottery in Cyprus and Philistia in the 12th Century BC. Cypriot IIIC and Philistine IIIC. Vienna.
  4. 4.P. A. Mountjoy, H. Mommsen (2015). “Neutron Activation Analysis of Aegean-Style IIIC pottery from 11 Cypriot and various Near Eastern sites”. Ägypten und Levante 25, 421-508.
  5. 5.P. A. Mountjoy, H. Mommsen (2001). “Mycenaean Pottery from Qantir-Piramesse, Egypt”. Annual of the British School at Athens 96, 123-155.