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Archaeologist · Excavator · Scholar

Robert J. Braidwood

fl. 1937–1960 · United States

American archaeologist and excavator, active 1937–1960. Worked with Oriental Institute, University of Chicago.

Life and work

  1. 1941
    In a letter of 1941: «I can easily run something up with Dikaios when the war is over»

    Penn Museum Archives, Kourion Expedition records (PU-Mu 1050), Box 1, folder 12, p. 9

  2. 1948
    In the Kourion expedition papers of 1948: «I wonder if there have been any further developments in the matter of Bob Braidwood.»

    Penn Museum Archives, Kourion Expedition records (PU-Mu 1050), Box 1, folder 16, p. 88

  3. 1952
  4. 1958
  5. Undated
    Surveyed and dug soundings in the Plain of Antioch, whose sequence Schaeffer used to date Cypriot and Syrian pottery, and published the seals from Tell Judaidah.

    Schaeffer, Claude F.A., Stratigraphie comparee et chronologie de lʼ Asie occidentale (1948)

  6. Undated
    Excavated the Simiriyan site (Cyprus-linked Bronze Age ceramic series compared with Ras Shamra); his sondages are cited as the basis for dating.

    Schaeffer, Claude F.a., Stratigraphie Comparee Et Chronologie De L Asie Occidentale (1948)

  7. Undated
    Assigned the Tell Judaidah seals to stratum VI and allowed publication of a 14th–13th-century cylinder seal from the site.

    Part III. Catalogue (1947), p. 138

  8. Undated
    Credited for permission to publish a cylinder seal photograph from Tell Judaidah, plain of Antioch, fourteenth-thirteenth century B.C.

    Archaeology Spring 1960: Vol 13 Iss 1 (1960)

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Documents · 3

Sources

  1. 1.Schaeffer, Claude F.A., Stratigraphie comparee et chronologie de lʼ Asie occidentale (1948).
  2. 2.Schaeffer, Claude F.a., Stratigraphie Comparee Et Chronologie De L Asie Occidentale (1948).
  3. 3.Part III. Catalogue (1947).
  4. 4.Archaeology Spring 1960: Vol 13 Iss 1 (1960).
  5. 5.Penn Museum Archives, Kourion Expedition records (PU-Mu 1050), Box 1, folder 12.
  6. 6.Penn Museum Archives, Kourion Expedition records (PU-Mu 1050), Box 1, folder 16.
  7. 7.Collège de France, Paris, Fonds Claude Schaeffer (34 CDF), 34 CDF art. 168-2, «[Correspondance entre Schaeffer et Braidwood à propos de la venue d'élève de Braidwood, Robert Dyson, sur le chantier de Schaeffer]», 1 December 1952of 4, Collège de France, Paris, Fonds Claude Schaeffer (34 CDF), 34 CDF art. 168-4, «[Lettre du Subcommittee on the Near and Middle East à Schaeffer à propos d'un nouveau procédé de datation développé par le professeur W. F. Libby et le docteur J. R. Arnold]», undatedof 4. Online
  8. 8.Collège de France, Paris, Fonds Claude Schaeffer (34 CDF), 34 CDF art. 169, «[Lettre de Schaeffer à Dikaios à propos des clefs de la maison des fouilles à Enkomi et de nouvelles découvertes à Ras Shamra et Jéricho]», 8 January 1958of 4. Online
  9. 9.Collège de France, Paris, Fonds Claude Schaeffer (34 CDF), 34 CDF art. 168-2, «[Correspondance entre Schaeffer et Braidwood à propos de la venue d'élève de Braidwood, Robert Dyson, sur le chantier de Schaeffer]», 1 December 1952. Online

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