Ancient CyprusAncient Cyprus

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Stanley Casson

1889–1944 · United Kingdom

Oxford archaeologist. Gave to Ashmolean Museum; acted for Cyprus Museum, Nicosia.

Life and work

  1. May 1935
    Gunnis, Inspector of Antiquities, wrote privately to Casson at Oxford (and Sir George Hill at the British Museum) about excavating the Miliou Neolithic site he had found on 12 May 1935; both immediately disclaimed interest. Gunnis's Appendix 1 statement cites Casson; the Government replied it was told on the best authority that neither Casson nor the BM had any such desire.

    MiliouStanley-Price 2025

  2. 1936
    Presented a limestone head of a beardless male votary with leaf-wreath (Hellenistic, 13 x 8 cm) to the Ashmolean.

    OxfordMuseum 2026

  3. 1937
    Published Ancient Cyprus: Its Art and Archaeology (London, Methuen).

    LondonCasson 1937

Connections

1 person

Scholarship

Objects

  • Head of beardless male votary with leaf-wreath, limestone, Hellenistic

    Ashmolean Museum, Oxford AN1936.5971936Museum 2026

Sources

  1. 1.Ashmolean Museum, Oxford (2026). Head of beardless male votary with leaf-wreath, AN1936.597 (credit line: Presented by Mr S. Casson, 1936). Online
  2. 2.Ashmolean Museum, Oxford (2026). Diorite burnisher or sling stone, AN1935.695.
  3. 3.Nicholas Stanley-Price (2025). “Illicit excavation and the sale of 'duplicate' antiquities: Rupert Gunnis and the Cyprus Museum, 1926-1932”. Cahiers du Centre d'Études Chypriotes 55, 269-301. Online
  4. 4.N. Robertson (ed.) (1975). The Archaeology of Cyprus: Recent Developments. Park Ridge, N.J., Noyes Press.
  5. 5.T. Kiely (2017). “Britain and the archaeology of Cyprus II: 1914 to the present day”. Cahiers du Centre d'Études Chypriotes 47, 253-310. Online
  6. 6.Veronica Tatton-Brown (ed.) (2001). Cyprus in the 19th Century AD: Fact, Fancy and Fiction. Oxford, Oxbow.
  7. 7.George H. McFadden, Erik Sjöqvist (1954). “A Late Cypriote III Tomb from Kourion Kaloriziki No. 40”. American Journal of Archaeology 58, 131-142. Archaeological Institute of America. Online
  8. 8.S. Casson (1937). Ancient Cyprus: Its Art and Archaeology. London, Methuen.