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Veronica Seton-Williams

fl. 1930–1957 · United Kingdom

British excavator and archaeologist, active 1930–1957. Excavated at Myrtou-Pigadhes and Erimi. Dug for Ashmolean Museum; excavated with Joan du Plat Taylor.

Life and work

  1. 1933–1935
    Named with E. M. Guest as collaborator in Dikaios's Erimi excavations, final report published as 'The excavations at Erimi, 1933-1935', RDAC 1936.

    ErimiGiven 2025

  2. 1938
    With J. du Plat Taylor compiled the roneoed Classification of Pottery in the Cyprus Museum (Department of Antiquities, Nicosia), a classified handlist for the serious student, the only collection handbook between 1899 and Dikaios's 1947 Guide.

    NicosiaMerrillees 2005

  3. 1949–1951
    Excavated the Late Bronze Age sanctuary at Pigadhes near Myrtou with Miss J. du P. Taylor (who tested the site in 1949) for the Ashmolean Museum and the University of Sydney; a complex building round a courtyard with an altar, used about 1300 BC and in cult use to about 800. The Nicholson Museum, Sydney, was allocated pottery from the courtyard and several rooms.

    MyrtouMegaw 1951Barker 2012

  4. 1957
    Contributed 'The Lamps and Miscellaneous Objects' (pp. 75-79) to du Plat Taylor's Myrtou-Pigadhes: A Late Bronze Age Sanctuary in Cyprus (London), cited as M. V. Seton-Williams.

    Childs et al. 2012

Connections

3 people
Joan du Plat TaylorE. M. GuestPorphyrios DikaiosVeronica Seton-Williams
FieldworkScholarshipColleagues

Fieldwork & employment

Scholarship

Colleagues & contacts

Objects

  • Pottery from the courtyard and several rooms of the Myrtou-Pigadhes sanctuary

    From Myrtou-PigadhesNicholson Museum, University of Sydney1949–1951Barker 2012

On Ancient Cyprus

1 page

Sources

  1. 1.A. H. S. Megaw (1951). “Archaeology in Cyprus, 1949-1950”. Journal of Hellenic Studies 71, 258-260. Online
  2. 2.Craig Barker (2012). Aphrodite's Island: The Cypriot Collection of the Nicholson Museum. Sydney, Nicholson Museum, University of Sydney.
  3. 3.Robert Stuart Merrillees (2005). “Towards a fuller history of the Cyprus Museum”. Cahiers du Centre d'Études Chypriotes 35, 191-214. Online
  4. 4.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
  5. 5.W. A. P. Childs (ed.), J. S. Smith (ed.), J. M. Padgett (ed.) (2012). City of Gold: The Archaeology of Polis Chrysochous, Cyprus. Princeton, Princeton University Art Museum.
  6. 6.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.
  7. 7.Robert S. Merrillees (2017). “Cypriote antiquities in Late Ottoman Istanbul and Smyrna - II: Cypriote antiquities in the Greek Evangelical School Museum and their Trading in Late Ottoman Smyrna (Modern Izmir)”. Cahiers du Centre d'Études Chypriotes 47, 121-164. Online
  8. 8.M. V. Seton-Williams (1957). “The Lamps and Miscellaneous Objects”. Myrtou-Pigadhes: A Late Bronze Age Sanctuary in Cyprus, 75-79. London.
  9. 9.J. du Plat Taylor, V. Seton-Williams (1938). Classification of Pottery in the Cyprus Museum. Nicosia, Department of Antiquities, Cyprus.