Curator

R. W. Hamilton

fl. 1935–1972

Curator, active 1935–1972. Employed Hector Catling.

Life and work

1930s
Stanley-Price: for the Cyprus Museum curator post filled in the early 1930s, 'R.W. Hamilton, Chief Inspector of Antiquities in Palestine' was one of three internal Colonial Office 'Promotion' candidates and would have accepted if he could keep his £850 salary.
NicosiaStanley-Price 2025
1966
As Keeper of the Ashmolean Museum, approved H. W. Catling's application to the Visitors for sabbatical leave and supported his Leverhulme Foundation application for Kouklia (Palaepaphos) study expenses; Catling's Cyprus work followed in 1967.
OxfordCatling 2020

Connections

2 people

Fieldwork & employment

Employed Hector Catling1966–1967

Scholarship

Corresponded with James Alfred Brew1972

Colleagues & contacts

Connected with James Alfred Brew1972

On Ancient Cyprus

1 page

Cypriot Plank Figures: Three Necks, or One Neck and Two Locks of HairArticle

Sources

1.H. W. Catling (2020). Kouklia: Late Bronze Age and Early Iron Age Tombs at Palaepaphos 1951-1954. Oxford, BAR Publishing.
2.Nicholas Stanley-Price (2025). “Colonial society and the dismissal of John Hilton, first Director of Antiquities in Cyprus”. Empire & Excavation: Critical perspectives on archaeology in British-period Cyprus, 1878-1960, 109-126.