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Curator · Cataloguer

R. A. Higgins

fl. 1956–2001

Curator and cataloguer, active 1956–2001. Wrote with Lucilla Burn.

Life and work

  1. 21 January 1956
    Wrote to J. Mainwaring Baines, Keeper of Hastings Museum and Art Gallery, about Brassey-collection objects (letter in the Brassey Archives, Hastings Museum).

    LondonTaylor 2001, n. 31

  2. 1957
    Asked by Mainwaring Baines to examine a small group of Brassey objects at Hastings; identified a Bull Figure as 'Cypriot, 1450 BC', one of two heads as Cypriot 4th century BC (the smaller as Sicilian, doubting a Cyprus origin), three dancing figures said to be from Vounous (2000-1800 BC), a plank figure said to be from Kourion, and a horse figurine.

    HastingsTaylor 2001, p. 244

  3. 1983
    Suggested the subject of E. S. Goring's research thesis on Late Cypriot gold jewellery; thanked in her acknowledgements ('Dr R Higgins has been my inspiration for many years').

    Goring 1983

  4. 2001
    Co-published with Lucilla Burn the Catalogue of Greek Terracottas in the British Museum, Vol. III (a corpus of Hellenistic terracottas including many items from Cyprus).

    LondonKiely 2017Dissinger 2017

Connections

3 people
Elizabeth Sarah GoringJohn Manwaring BainesLucilla BurnR. A. Higgins
Scholarship

Scholarship

Colleagues & contacts

Sources

  1. 1.Lou Taylor (2001). “Lady Brassey, 1870-1886: traveller, writer, collector, educator, woman of means and the fate of her Cypriot artefacts”. Cyprus in the 19th Century AD: Fact, Fancy and Fiction, 239-247. Oxford, Oxbow.
  2. 2.T. Kiely (2017). “Britain and the archaeology of Cyprus II: 1914 to the present day”. Cahiers du Centre d'Études Chypriotes 47, 253-310. Online
  3. 3.Elizabeth Sarah Goring (1983). “Late Cypriot Goldwork, vol. 1”. PhD thesis, Bedford College, University of London.
  4. 4.Alicia Marie Dissinger (2017). “Cypro-Archaic Bird Iconography: Types, Uses, and Meanings”. University of Virginia.
  5. 5.R. A. Higgins (1980). Greek and Roman Jewellery. London, Methuen.
  6. 6.L. Burn, R. A. Higgins (2001). Catalogue of Greek Terracottas in the British Museum, Vol. III. London, British Museum Press.
  7. 7.R. A. Higgins (1963). Greek Terracotta Figurines. London, Trustees of the British Museum.