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Suzanne Halstead Young

fl. 1939–1956

Co-author with John Howard Young of the 1955 University Museum monograph on the terracotta figurines excavated at Kourion by the Pennsylvania expedition between 1934 and 1948.

Biography

Suzanne Halstead Young is known from one book, Terracotta Figurines from Kourion in Cyprus, which she wrote with John Howard Young for the University Museum of the University of Pennsylvania in 1955. The Youngs had barely begun the study when war interrupted it in 1939, and it resumed almost ten years later; the book covers finds up to the 1948 season of the Pennsylvania expedition1. In the summer of 1946, with the permission of George H. McFadden, they re-examined the area of the Votive Deposit in the Sanctuary of Apollo Hylates. The text does not separate the two authors' shares. The preface thanks Bert Hodge Hill as "our Director" and A. H. S. Megaw, then Director of Antiquities, among others, and the book is dedicated to McFadden, who began the excavations at Kourion1.

Reviewing it, Dorothy Burr Thompson called it the first systematic study of ordinary Cypriot figurines from an excavation, and said about 3,000 pieces were chosen from some 10,000 fragments3. Megaw described it as "a major event"4. Her dates and any appointment she held are not recorded.

Life and work

  1. 1939
    Began the study of the Kourion terracotta figurines with John Howard Young; the war and its aftermath interrupted the work for almost a decade.

    CyprusYoung & Young 1955

  2. 1946
    In summer 1946, with George H. McFadden's permission, the authors ('we') made a final investigation of the Votive Deposit area at the Sanctuary of Apollo Hylates: digging under the rubble wall at its NE corner (figurine fragments joining catalogued pieces) and a pit in the adjoining building (bedrock at 65 cm). The text says 'we' and does not say which author dug.

    KourionYoung & Young 1955

  3. 1946
    McFadden thanks 'Dr. and Mrs. John Young' for useful information on the Ayios Ermoyenis necropolis (AJA 50). Not stated to be Suzanne Halstead Young.

    KourionMcFadden 1946, n. 1

  4. 1955
    Terracotta Figurines from Kourion in Cyprus published by the University Museum, with the aid of a grant from the Johnson Fund of the American Philosophical Society; c. 3,000 pieces selected from c. 10,000 fragments found by the Museum 1934-1948 (per Thompson's review). Dedicated to the memory of McFadden.

    PhiladelphiaYoung & Young 1955Thompson 1956, p. 301

  5. 1956
    Megaw (Archaeological Reports) calls the Youngs' book 'a major event for the study of archaic and later Cypriot terra-cottas'.

    Megaw 1956

Connections

8 people
Bert Hodge HillPorphyrios DikaiosArthur Hubert Stanley Meg…John Howard YoungGeorge H. McFaddenJ. S. LastReuben GoldbergOscar BroneerSuzanne Halstead Young
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Sources

  1. 1.John Howard Young, Suzanne Halstead Young (1955). Terracotta Figurines from Kourion in Cyprus. Philadelphia, University Museum, University of Pennsylvania.
  2. 2.George H. McFadden (1946). “A Tomb of the Necropolis of Ayios Ermoyenis at Kourion”. American Journal of Archaeology 50, 449-489.
  3. 3.Dorothy Burr Thompson (1956). “Review of Young & Young, Terracotta Figurines from Kourion in Cyprus”. American Journal of Philology 77, 301-304. Online
  4. 4.A. H. S. Megaw (1956). “Archaeology in Cyprus, 1956”. Archaeological Reports 3, 24-31. Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies.