Ancient CyprusAncient Cyprus

Epigrapher · Scholar

R. G. Kent

fl. 1926–1950

Epigrapher and scholar, active 1926–1950. Wrote with Mrs E. Dohan.

Life and work

  1. 1926
    With Mrs E. Dohan, published in AJA xxx (1926), pp. 249-258 the University Museum, Philadelphia's inscribed Kafizin bowl (Mitford no. 138) and 28 inscribed sherds, said to come from a sanctuary near Tremithousha; their reading put the syllabic texts as late as c. 50 BC.

    PhiladelphiaMitford 1980Mitford 1950, p. 2

  2. 1950
    T. B. Mitford (CQ 44, 1950, pp. 97-106) corrected the Dohan and Kent chronology: Kafizin belongs to the time of Ptolemy Euergetes and Philopator, not to the Cyprus of Cicero.

    Mitford 1980Mitford 1950, p. 2

Connections

2 people

Scholarship

Colleagues & contacts

Objects

  • Inscribed Kafizin bowl (Mitford no. 138) and 28 inscribed sherds, studied and published by Kent and Dohan

    From Kafizin, said to be from a sanctuary near TremithoushaUniversity Museum, Philadelphia sherds M.5686 and M.5687 as printed by Mitfordby 1926Mitford 1980

Sources

  1. 1.Terence B. Mitford (1980). The Nymphaeum of Kafizin: The Inscribed Pottery. Berlin and New York, Walter de Gruyter.
  2. 2.T. B. Mitford (1950). “Kafizin and the Cypriot Syllabary”. The Classical Quarterly 44, 97-106. Online
  3. 3.E. H. Dohan, R. G. Kent (1926). “New Inscriptions from Cyprus”. American Journal of Archaeology 30, 249-258. Online