Ancient CyprusAncient Cyprus

Expedition member · Scholar

Robert Harold Johnston

fl. 1971–1980 · United States

American expedition member and scholar, active 1971–1980. Worked at Idalion. Worked with Reuben G. Bullard.

Life and work

  1. 1971
    With R. Bullard spent twelve to sixteen hours a day investigating known and remote sites island-wide (geology, ancient and modern mines, slag heaps, modern potters, clay beds, brickmakers).

    CyprusStager et al. 1974

  2. 1971
    At the end of the 1971 season 15 boxes of clay samples and one crate of folk pottery were shipped to his laboratory at the Rochester Institute of Technology. One sample (an off-white marine-sediment clay from a road cut on the Nicosia-Famagusta road) was thought a candidate source for Late Bronze Age white slip (milkbowl) ware.

    Rochester, New YorkStager et al. 1974

  3. 1971–1972
    Visited folk potters at Kornos and Phini during the summers of 1971 and 1972 to document traditional potters' wheels, tournettes and bats, with implications for ancient potters.

    Kornos and PhiniStager et al. 1974

  4. 1974
    Published 'The Cypriot Potter' as chapter VII of the first Idalion preliminary report.

    IdalionStager et al. 1974Stager & Walker 1989

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Sources

  1. 1.L. E. Stager (ed.), A. Walker (ed.), G. E. Wright (ed.) (1974). American Expedition to Idalion, Cyprus: First Preliminary Report, Seasons of 1971 and 1972. American Schools of Oriental Research.
  2. 2.Lawrence E. Stager (ed.), Anne M. Walker (ed.) (1989). American Expedition to Idalion, Cyprus, 1973-1980. Chicago, Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago.
  3. 3.R. H. Johnston (1974). “The Cypriot Potter”. American Expedition to Idalion, Cyprus: First Preliminary Report, 130-139.