Ancient CyprusAncient Cyprus

Scholar

T. B. L. Webster

fl. 1948–1973

Scholar, active 1948–1973. Worked with Vassos Karageorghis.

Life and work

  1. 1959
    Identified a small terracotta mask found in the Salamis theatre cavea as the principal slave of New Comedy (Pollux no. 27), as reported by Karageorghis.

    SalamisKarageorghis 1960

  2. 1964
    Co-author with J. Rogers Davis of Cesnola Terracottas in the Stanford University Museum (SIMA XVI, Lund). A 1974 catalogue's publisher notice says Webster completed and modified Davis's catalogue of the Stanford terracottas; the Stanford material is Cesnola duplicates.

    LundKarageorghis & Amyx 1974

  3. 1973
    Identified the mask of a moulded terracotta figurine of a seated bald slave (Cyprus Museum inv. 1973/V-28/1, provenance unknown) as that of the cook (Pollux no. 25).

    NicosiaKarageorghis 1974

  4. 1973
    Thanked by Karageorghis among those who gave valuable information on items of the Pierides Collection for the catalogue.

    LarnacaKarageorghis 1973

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Sources

  1. 1.V. Karageorghis (1960). “Chronique des fouilles et découvertes archéologiques à Chypre en 1959”. Bulletin de correspondance hellénique 84.
  2. 2.V. Karageorghis (1974). “Chronique des fouilles et découvertes archéologiques à Chypre en 1973”. Bulletin de correspondance hellénique 98.
  3. 3.V. Karageorghis (1973). Cypriote Antiquities in the Pierides Collection, Larnaca, Cyprus. Athens, Ekdotiki Hellados.
  4. 4.V. Karageorghis, D. A. Amyx (1974). Cypriote Antiquities in San Francisco Bay Area Collections. Göteborg.
  5. 5.J. Rogers Davis, T. B. L. Webster (1964). Cesnola Terracottas in the Stanford University Museum. Lund.
  6. 6.Eva Rystedt (2010). “Review of V. Karageorghis, A Lifetime in the Archaeology of Cyprus (2007)”.