Scholar · Epigrapher
W. H. Buckler
1867–1952 · United States
Specialist in ancient Roman inscriptions and civic law. Worked with Vivian Seymer and Charles Peers; wrote with H. J. Buxton.
Life and work
- 16 November 1932Invited with Buxton and Seymer to the Archaeological Joint Committee meeting in London, where a Department of Antiquities for Cyprus was formally proposed; the three 'had raised the alarm about the Byzantine monuments in Cyprus'. Peers, Hill, Myres and Clauson also attended.
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- 1933Published 'Frescoes at Galata, Cyprus', JHS 53, 105-10; also co-credited with Mrs Buckler and Seymer in the Asinou study and later (1946) cited for further work.
- 1934John Hilton, on Wace's advice, wrote to Buckler, whom he had met socially at Oxford, expressing interest in Cyprus; Beazley also gave Hilton's name to a visitor probably Buckler, who was enquiring about promising architects. Peers and Hill then interviewed Hilton, who accepted the Directorship on 9 August.
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- 1930sWith Harold Buxton (Bishop of Gibraltar) and Vivian Seymer travelled through Cyprus visiting historic monuments including the painted churches of the Troodos; the result was the first scholarly study of Byzantine frescoes on Cyprus.
- 1935After Hilton's dismissal Buckler forwarded to Hill an unsigned personal letter (from the wife of the government entomologist, Mrs H. M. Morris).
Connections
6 peopleScholarship
- Corresponded with George Hill1933–1935
- Wrote with H. J. Buxton1933
- Corresponded with John Hilton1934–1935
Colleagues & contacts
- Worked with Vivian Seymer1930–1933
- Worked with Charles Peers1932
- Worked with H. J. Buxton1932–1933
- Worked with W. D. Caröeprobably1933
On Ancient Cyprus
1 pageSources
- 1.C. A. Stewart (ed.), T. W. Davis (ed.), A. Weyl Carr (ed.) (2014). Cyprus and the Balance of Empires: Art and Archaeology from Justinian I to the Coeur de Lion. CAARI / ASOR.
- 2.Nicholas Stanley-Price (2025). “Colonial society and the dismissal of John Hilton, first Director of Antiquities in Cyprus”. Empire & Excavation: Critical perspectives on archaeology in British-period Cyprus, 1878-1960, 109-126.
- 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.D. M. Metcalf (2009). Byzantine Cyprus 491-1191. Nicosia, Cyprus Research Centre.
- 5.Eric M. Meyers (ed.) (1997). The Oxford Encyclopedia of Archaeology in the Near East. New York, Oxford University Press.
- 6.W. Buckler (1933). “Frescoes at Galata, Cyprus”. The Journal of Hellenic Studies 53, 105-110.
- 7.W. H. Buckler, D. M. Robinson (1932). Sardis VII: Greek and Latin Inscriptions, Part I. Leiden.