Ancient CyprusAncient Cyprus

Donor

Sir Charles Leonard Woolley

1880–1960 · United Kingdom

Archaeologist. Gave to Ashmolean Museum, Oxford; employed Gregorios Antoniou.

Life and work

  1. 1906
    Presented a Middle Cypriot III composite flask with black wash and relief decoration (AN1896-1908.C.54) to the Ashmolean Museum.

    OxfordComposite flask with black…

  2. 1956
    Presented a Cypro-Geometric bichrome stemmed bowl (AN1956.1038) to the Ashmolean Museum.

    OxfordBichrome stemmed bowl, AN1956.1038

Connections

1 person

Fieldwork & employment

Objects

  • Composite flask with black wash and relief decoration, Middle Cypriot III (c.1750-c.1650 BCE), 26 cm

    From Cyprus (no findspot given)Ashmolean Museum, Oxford AN1896-1908.C.541906Composite flask with black…

  • Bichrome stemmed bowl, Cypro-Geometric (c.1050-c.750 BCE), 11 cm high

    Ashmolean Museum, Oxford AN1956.10381956Bichrome stemmed bowl, AN1956.1038

  • Base Ring I bowl, Late Cypriot I (c.1650-c.1550 BCE), 21.7 cm long

    From Larnaka-Laxia tou RiouAshmolean Museum, Oxford AN1896-1908.C.86c. 1890sBase Ring I bowl,…

On Ancient Cyprus

1 page

Sources

  1. 1.“Bichrome stemmed bowl, AN1956.1038”. Ashmolean Museum online collection. Online
  2. 2.“Composite flask with black wash and relief decoration, AN1896-1908.C.54”. Ashmolean Museum online collection. Online
  3. 3.“Base Ring I bowl, AN1896-1908.C.86”. Ashmolean Museum online collection. Online
  4. 4.Michael Given (2025). “Over the landscape, in the landscape? Knowledge and agency in Cypriot archaeology, 1870-1910”. Empire & Excavation: Critical perspectives on archaeology in British-period Cyprus, 1878-1960. Leiden, Sidestone Press.
  5. 5.“Leonard Woolley (Wikidata Q356134 / GND 122090632)”. Wikidata. Online
  6. 6.V. Karageorghis (1983). Palaepaphos-Skales: An Iron Age Cemetery in Cyprus.