Scholar · Archaeologist
Robert L. Scranton
fl. 1962–1979
Scholar and archaeologist, active 1962–1979. Worked at Kourion, Sanctuary of Apollo Hylates. Worked with Diana Buitron.
Life and work
- July 1962Cleaning the Street area of the Sanctuary of Apollo Hylates for his 'final survey', first noted an inscribed paving-block (Mitford's inscription), which had doubtless been uncovered in 1947.
KourionMitford 1971
- 1967Published The Architecture of the Sanctuary of Apollo Hylates at Kourion, summarising the University of Pennsylvania Museum excavations (McFadden, aided by Bert Hodge Hill, 1934-1953).
- 1971Mitford's Inscriptions of Kourion quotes Scranton's architectural reconstruction of the Temple of Apollo, the Kourion Gate and the South Building exedrae as the basis for restoring several building inscriptions.
- 1979During new work on the Temple of Apollo, studied the fallen blocks on the north side and proposed a reconstruction of the north and west walls; they had fallen in a violent earthquake and stayed in situ. The Department of Antiquities undertook to rebuild the building.
KourionKarageorghis 1980
Connections
3 peopleScholarship
- Corresponded with Terence Bruce Mitford1962
- Published material of George H. McFadden1967
Colleagues & contacts
- Worked with Diana Buitron1979
Sources
- 1.T. B. Mitford (1971). The Inscriptions of Kourion. Philadelphia, American Philosophical Society.
- 2.V. Karageorghis (1980). “Chronique des fouilles et découvertes archéologiques à Chypre en 1979”. Bulletin de correspondance hellénique 104.
- 3.Eric M. Meyers (ed.) (1997). The Oxford Encyclopedia of Archaeology in the Near East. New York, Oxford University Press.
- 4.Benjamin Costello IV (2014). Architecture and Material Culture from the Earthquake House at Kourion, Cyprus. Oxford, Archaeopress.
- 5.R. Scranton (1967). “The Architecture of the Sanctuary of Apollo Hylates at Kourion”. Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, New Series 57, 3-85.