Collector · Dealer
W. C. Hall
Rev. W. C. Hall
fl. 1949–1950 · United Kingdom
Clergyman, active 1949–1950. Sold to British Museum.
Life and work
- 1949–1950Acquired other items at the sale of the contents of Heydon Hall, Norfolk (Bulwer's family home) in the same year he contacted the British Museum about the tablet; the tablet is not in the sale catalogue
Heydon Hall, NorfolkKiely & Merrillees 2012
- 1950Sold the Cypro-Syllabic clay tablet formerly owned by Sir Henry Bulwer to the British Museum
Connections
2 peopleColleagues & contacts
- Connected with Henry Ernest Gascoyne Bulwerprobably1949–1950
- Connected with Terence Bruce Mitfordprobably1949
Objects
Clay tablet with an important Cypro-Syllabic inscription, c. 400-300 BC, given to Bulwer by Col. W. J. Massy and published by Meister in 1910
British Museum1950Kiely & Merrillees 2012
Sources
- 1.T. Kiely, R. S. Merrillees (2012). “The archaeological interests of Samuel Brown, government engineer, and his circle of acquaintances in late nineteenth-century Cyprus”. Cahiers du Centre d'Études Chypriotes 42, 245-272. Online