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Archaeologist · Scholar · Cataloguer

R. Stillwell

fl. 1954–1971 · United States

American archaeologist and scholar, active 1954–1971. Excavated at Kourion. Dug for Pennsylvania University Museum; worked with G. Roger Edwards.

Life and work

  1. 1954
    Carried out 'supplementary investigations' at the Kourion theatre to establish the limits and character of the original Hellenistic building, as the Curium expedition under R. Edwards wound up most of its work; Stillwell was to publish the theatre, the adjoining bath building and annexes with mosaic floors, and the House of the Achilles mosaic. The expedition's finds were divided, with notable additions to the Cyprus Museum.

    KourionMegaw 1954, p. 31

  2. February 1961
    Published 'Kourion: The Theater' in Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 105.1 (Feb. 1961), pp. 37-78. In the same period the Department of Antiquities reconstructed thirteen rows of the theatre's seats for performances by the National Theatre of Greece.

    KourionDikaios 1962, p. 44Mitford 1971IV 2014

  3. 1971
    Mitford relies on Stillwell's study for the theatre and reports his suggestion, from the modest scale of the inscribed entablature fragments, of a 'façade in keeping with the restricted size of the theater retained from the Hellenistic and early Roman phases'; on Nero's dedication he concludes that Nero in fact did little more than rebuild the stage.

    KourionMitford 1971

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Sources

  1. 1.A. H. S. Megaw (1954). “Archaeology in Cyprus, 1954”. Archaeological Reports 1, 28-34. Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies.
  2. 2.P. Dikaios (1962). “Archaeology in Cyprus, 1959-61”. Archaeological Reports 8, 32-46. Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies. Online
  3. 3.T. B. Mitford (1971). The Inscriptions of Kourion. Philadelphia, American Philosophical Society.
  4. 4.Benjamin Costello IV (2014). Architecture and Material Culture from the Earthquake House at Kourion, Cyprus. Oxford, Archaeopress.
  5. 5.R. Stillwell (1961). “Kourion: The Theater”. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 105, 37-78.