The Work of the British School at Athens, 2012–2013

2013 ◽  
Vol 59 ◽  
pp. 3-10 ◽  
Author(s):  
Catherine Morgan
Keyword(s):  
British Museum ◽  
Museum Studies ◽  
Seventh Century ◽  
Early 20Th Century ◽  
Outdoor Activity ◽  
University Of Oxford ◽  
British School ◽  
The University ◽  
Of Greece

The School's archaeological programme in 2012–2013 included fieldwork, museum studies (notably a project led by Robin Barber to complete the publication of material from early 20th-century excavations at Phylakopi now held in the National Museum in Athens) and many individual and group projects housed at Knossos and in the Fitch Laboratory. Following the success of the conference Interpreting the Seventh Century BC, in December 2011, a further workshop in December 2012 on Thessalian sanctuaries and cults, organized in collaboration with the University of Oxford, brought together 24 speakers, including many colleagues from Thessalian ephoreias and the University of Thessaly, to present new data and reflections. Maria Stamatopoulou comments further on material presented at this meeting in her contribution to this year's AG below. In London, collaboration with colleagues in the British Museum's Department of Greece and Rome resulted in a very popular study day on Knossos: from Labyrinth to Laboratory in November 2012 (now published online at www.bsa.ac.uk). This will soon be followed (on 2 November 2013) by a further collaboration in a British Museum Classical Colloquium on Archaeology Behind the Battle Lines: Macedonia 1915–1919, also in partnership with the Archaeological Museum of Thessaloniki.Among our ongoing field projects, I begin with discussion of the excavation at Koutroulou Magoula in Thessaly directed by Nina Kyparissi-Apostolika (Director Emerita, EPSNE) and Yannis Hamilakis (Southampton), which in 2012 sought to clarify activity in the area of two Neolithic buildings uncovered in 2011 (Fig. 2). One of these buildings had been mostly destroyed in later periods, although evidence of outdoor activity includes hearths and in situ deposits.

A Late Iron Age Cast Bronze Head Probably from Chepstow

1992 ◽  
Vol 72 ◽  
pp. 54-75
Author(s):  
J. V. S. Megaw ◽  
M. Ruth Megaw ◽  
Robert Trett
Keyword(s):  
Iron Age ◽  
British Museum ◽  
National Museum ◽  
Art Gallery ◽  
University Of Oxford ◽  
Late Iron Age ◽  
The University

In November 1987 a bronze highly stylized animal head was shown to me in my capacity as Curator of Newport Museum (figs. 1–3). The head which appeared to be of late Iron Age date is described below. The owner agreed to lend the piece to the Museum for conservation. The investigations included two separate metal analyses, carried out independently by Dr J. P. Northover at the University of Oxford and by R. Jones at the University of Wales, Cardiff. A black bituminous substance from horn cores on the head was analysed by C. Heron also at Cardiff; these analyses are reported below (Appendices 1–3). Additional advice was given by Dr H. N. Savory F.S.A., formerly Keeper of Archaeology at the National Museum of Wales, and by Dr I. M. Stead F.S.A. at the British Museum. Replicas were made for Newport Museum and the British Museum before the head was returned to the owner in August 1988. In July 1989, the head was purchased at auction by the Newport Museum and Art Gallery for £5,800 (Sotheby's: Antiquities,Monday 10 July and Tuesday 11 July 1989, Lot 403).

Alkylated Stereogenic Centers: The Jia Synthesis of (−)-Goniomitine

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Douglass F. Taber
Keyword(s):  
Organic Chemistry ◽  
Bimetallic Catalyst ◽  
The Other ◽  
Wild Type Enzyme ◽  
Enantiomerically Pure ◽  
Unsaturated Lactone ◽  
University Of Oxford ◽  
Stereogenic Centers ◽  
The University

John W. Wong of Pfizer and Kurt Faber of the University of Graz used (Adv. Synth. Catal. 2014, 356, 1878) a wild-type enzyme to reduce the nitrile 1 to 2 in high ee. Takafumi Yamagami of Mitsubishi Tanabe Pharma described (Org. Process Res. Dev. 2014, 18, 437) the practical diastereoselective coupling of the racemic acid 3 with the inexpensive pantolactone 4 to give, via the ketene, the ester 5 in high de. Takeshi Ohkuma of Hokkaido University devised (Org. Lett. 2014, 16, 808) a Ru/Li catalyst for the enantioselective addition of in situ generated HCN to an N-acyl pyrrole 6 to give 7 in high ee. Yujiro Hayashi of Tohoku University found (Chem. Lett. 2014, 43, 556) that an aldehyde 8 could be condensed with formalin, leading in high ee to the masked aldehyde 9. Stephen P. Fletcher of the University of Oxford prepared (Org. Lett. 2014, 16, 3288) the lactone 12 in high ee by adding an alkyl zirconocene, prepared from the alkene 11, to the unsaturated lactone 10. In a remarkable display of catalyst control, Masakatsu Shibasaki of the Institute of Microbial Chemistry and Shigeki Matsunaga of the University of Tokyo opened (J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2014, 136, 9190) the racemic aziridine 13 with malonate 14 using a bimetallic catalyst. One enantiomer of the aziridine was converted specifically to the branched product 15 in high ee. The other enantiomer of the aziridine was converted to the regioisomeric opening product. Kimberly S. Peterson of the University of North Carolina at Greensboro used (J. Org. Chem. 2014, 79, 2303) an enantiomerically-pure organophosphate to selec­tively deprotect the bis ester 16, leading to 17. Chunling Fu of Zhejiang University and Shengming Ma of the Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry showed (Chem. Commun. 2014, 50, 4445) that an organocatalyst could mediate the brominative oxi­dation of 18 to 19. The ee of the product was easily improved via selective crystalliza­tion of the derived dinitrophenylhydrazone. James P. Morken of Boston College developed (Org. Lett. 2014, 16, 2096) condi­tions for the allylation of an allylic acetate such as 20 with 21, to deliver the coupled product 22 with high maintenance of ee.

scholarly journals Nicolas Coldstream (1927–2008)

2009 ◽  
Vol 104 ◽  
pp. 1-8
Author(s):  
Gerald Cadogan
Keyword(s):  
Graduate Students ◽  
Classical Archaeology ◽  
British School ◽  
University College ◽  
The Mediterranean ◽  
Sanctuary Of Demeter ◽  
The University ◽  
Of Greece

Nicolas Coldstream, archaeologist of Greece and the Mediterranean in the 9th and 8th centuries bc, was born in India, educated in England, and carried out the research for his first masterpiece Greek Geometric Pottery (1968) while Macmillan Student at the British School at Athens (1957–60). In 1960 he began a long career at the University of London, culminating with the Yates Chair of Classical Archaeology at University College. Renowned as a teacher, he drew many graduate students, especially from Greece and Cyprus. As a prolific scholar, he also wrote Geometric Greece (1977), many articles, several reports on excavations including The Sanctuary of Demeter at Knossos (1973), the Knossos North Cemetery (1996) with Hector Catling, and Kythera (1972) with George Huxley, as well as the revised editions of his two fundamental monographs.O Nicolas Coldstream, αρχανολόγος της Ελλάδας και της Μεσογείου του 9ου και 8ου αιώνα π.Χ., γεννήθηκε στην Ινδία, σπούδασε στην Αγγλία και πραγματοποίησε έρευνα για την πρώτη του εξαιρετική μονογραφία Greek Geometric Pottery (1968) ως Macmillan Student της Βρετανικής Σχολής Αθηνών (1957–1960). Το 1960 ξεκίνησε την πολύχρονη σταδιοδρομία του στο Πανεπιστήμιο του Λονδίνου, αποκορύφωμα της οποίας υπήρξε η εκλογή του στην έδρα Yates της Κλασικής Αρχαιολογίας στο University College. Διάσημος πανεπιστημιακός δάσκαλος, προσέλκυσε πολλούς μεταπτυχνακούς φοιτητές, ιδιαίτερα από την Ελλάδα και την Κύπρο. Επιστήμονας με μεγάλο ερευνητικό και συγγραφικό έργο, δημοσίευσε επίσης τη μονογραφία Geometrie Greece (1977), πλήθος άρθρων και αρκετές ανασκαφικές εκθέσεις μεταξύ των οποίων The Sanctuary of Demeter στην Κνωσό (1973), Knossos North Cemetery (1996) με τον Hector Catling, Kythera (1972) με τον George Huxley, καθώς επίσης και τις ανατεωρημένες εκδόσεις των δύο βασικών μονογραφιών του.

The Penrose Memorial Library

1904 ◽  
Vol 10 ◽  
pp. 232-242
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Vice Presidents ◽  
British School ◽  
Crown Prince ◽  
Public Instruction ◽  
The University ◽  
Of Greece

The new Library of the British School at Athens, built as a memorial to the late Francis Cranmer Penrose, first Director of the School, was formally opened by H.R.H. the Crown Prince of Greece at a meeting held on Saturday, April 8th, 1905, at 3.30 p.m. There were present their Majesties the King and Queen of the Hellenes, the Crown Prince and Princess, Prince and Princess Nicholas, Prince Andreas of Greece, Princess Louis of Battenberg, and the members of their suites, the British Minister, Sir Francis Elliot, K.C.M.G., and Lady Elliot, and the diplomatic representatives of France, Germany, Roumania, Russia, and the United States, Mr. C. Carapanos, Minister of Public Instruction, Prof. Spyridion Lambros, Rector of the University, Dr. Cavvadias, Ephor-General of Antiquities, the Hon. Reginald Walsh, British Consul, and many other members of the official world of Athens. Practically all the Vice-Presidents and most of the members of the Committee of the Congress including all the Directors of the foreign schools attended, besides many other scholars and archaeologists.

Peter Astbury Brunt 1917–2005

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Crawford
Keyword(s):  
Roman Empire ◽  
University Of Oxford ◽  
Political Views ◽  
British School ◽  
The University ◽  
Administrative Tasks ◽  
Ancient Slavery ◽  
Previous Autumn

Peter Astbury Brunt (1917–2005), a Fellow of the British Academy, served in the Ministry of Shipping (later War Transport), alongside his undergraduate contemporary and friend, Basil Dickinson. After his release from the Ministry, he took up at the beginning of 1946 a Senior Demyship at Magdalen College, to which he had been elected the previous autumn, and the Craven Fellowship that had been awarded to him in 1939, choosing as a topic for research the relations between governed and governors in the Roman Empire, and set off for the British School at Rome. It was Roman Stoicism that claimed more and more of Brunt's attention. He was happy to admit the influence on his thinking of Geoffrey de Ste Croix, despite the differences in their political views. One of the themes that occupied Brunt during the period from 1951 to 1968 was that of ancient slavery. During his seventeen years in the University of Oxford, he undertook major administrative tasks both for his college and for the university.

A Catalogue of Books printed between 1498 and 1700 now in the Library of the British School at Athens

1978 ◽  
Vol 73 ◽  
pp. 189-211
Author(s):  
Dennis E. Rhodes
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
West Indies ◽  
Royal Society ◽  
Boarding School ◽  
The West ◽  
British School ◽  
The Government ◽  
University Of Göttingen ◽  
The University ◽  
Of Greece

The nucleus of the collection of books printed before 1701 which are now in the Library of the British School at Athens was left by the distinguished historian of Greece, George Finlay ( 1799–1875), whose name the library still bears. His father, John Finlay (1757–1802), a Major in the Royal Engineers and a Fellow of the Royal Society, who had seen service in the West Indies, was already a book-collector, and many of the books contain his printed label. He was in charge of the Government Powder Mills at Faversham in Kent when his second son, George, was born there on 21 December 1799. Three years later John Finlay died, and in 1806 or 1807 Mrs. Finlay married Alexander MacGregor, a Liverpool merchant. George was put into a boarding school for some years at Everton, Liverpool; and it was here, in 1815, when he was not yet sixteen, that we have the first evidence of his love of books, for he bought in that year at least one seventeenth-century edition. He was later moved to Glasgow to live with an uncle, and afterwards spent some time at the University of Göttingen.

Correlations between composition and provenance of Mycenaean and Minoan pottery

1963 ◽  
Vol 58 ◽  
pp. 94-115 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. W. Catling ◽  
E. E. Richards ◽  
A. E. Blin-Stoyle
Keyword(s):  
Research Laboratory ◽  
British Museum ◽  
Director General ◽  
Potential Importance ◽  
British School ◽  
History Of Art ◽  
History Of ◽  
University College London ◽  
University Museum ◽  
The University

This investigation into the compositions of Minoan and Mycenaean pottery fabrics was carried out in Oxford at the Research Laboratory for Archaeology and the History of Art by permission of the Director, Dr. E. T. Hall. Mrs. E. E. Richards, co-author of this report, was in charge of the investigation, latterly with the assistance of Mrs. A. Millett. The potential importance of the work undertaken was first suggested by Mr. M. S. F. Hood, then Director of the British School at Athens. Mr. Hood has maintained lively interest in the investigation, and has made many valuable suggestions about the course it should take, as well as providing much of the sherd material. In this connexion we are greatly indebted to Dr. J. Papadimitriou, Director-General of Antiquities in Greece, for granting the necessary export permits. We are also grateful to Mr. M. R. Popham, for scraping selected sherds in the Herakleion Museum and in the Stratigraphical Museum at Knossos, and to Dr. N. Platon, then Ephor of Antiquities in Crete, for allowing this to be done. Sherds from Thebes in the University Museum, Reading, were loaned by Mrs. A. N. Ure; the Rev. Dr. A. J. Arkell provided a set of Mycenaean sherds from Tell el Amarna from the collections in University College, London. Fragments from Rhodes were given by the Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities in the British Museum through the kindness of Mr. D. E. L. Haynes and Mr. R. A. Higgins. Other sherds were provided from the reserve collection in the Ashmolean Museum. The sherds tested in the course of the investigation are now housed in the Ashmolean, with the exception of the group from Thebes (Reading).

The Excavations at Tall Chagar Bazar, and an Archaeological Survey of the Ḫabur Region, 1934–5

Iraq ◽  
1936 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-59 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. E. L. Mallowan
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Financial Support ◽  
British Museum ◽  
Financial Assistance ◽  
Archaeological Survey ◽  
British School ◽  
Generous Financial Support ◽  
University Museum ◽  
The University

The Archaeological Expedition to the Ḫabur region of N. Syria was under the auspices of the British Museum and of the British School of Archaeology in Iraq. For financial assistance we were greatly indebted to a number of scientific bodies and to individual subscribers. The British Museum made it possible for Mr. R. D. Barnett of the Department of Egyptian and Assyrian Antiquities to give us his valuable help, and generous financial support was forthcoming from the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, from the University Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Cambridge, and from the Auckland Museum, New Zealand. Our warmest thanks are also due to the munificence of individual subscribers among whom were Mr. Louis G. Clarke, Lord Latymer, Sir Charles Marston, and Mr. A. L. Reckitt.

The Apulia Expedition: An Interim Report

Antiquity ◽  
1950 ◽  
Vol 24 (94) ◽  
pp. 84-94 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. S. P. Bradford
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
Archaeological Record ◽  
Archaeological Investigation ◽  
Italian History ◽  
South Italy ◽  
University Of Oxford ◽  
British School ◽  
Set Up ◽  
The University ◽  
Comparable Size

The first (1949) season of archaeological reconnaissance on the Foggia Plain in South Italy has confirmed, in the most striking manner, the existence of one of the densest concentrations of ancient sites to be identified in Europe in an area of comparable size. For readers of ANTIQUITY, their nature had already been foreshadowed in these pages.These discoveries were first made from British air photographs taken in June 1945, which revealed the plans of settlements, farms, roads and field-systems existing below the surface of the ground or clearly visible to the air camera. They were distributed across 3000 years of Italian history, from the Neolithic to the Middle Ages, and illustrate from the archaeological record three principal stages in the rise of a European peasantry. This is a theme that affords ideal ground for the conjunction of Archaeology and Ethnology ; and it is appropriate that the Expedition should be based on the Pitt Rivers Museum at Oxford, which was founded on this very principle.Now, thanks to the Apulia Committee, set up under the auspices of the Society of Antiquaries and representing the University of Oxford and learned societies, it has been possible to proceed to the second and fundamental stage:—namely, to carry out the first systematic programme of archaeological investigation based on air photographic data ever conducted in Italy. This also included the first British excavations there for a number of years, with the permission and helpful co-operation of the Italian authorities, and the support of the British School at Rome.

scholarly journals Adventus Augusti: A Drawing Attributed to Giovanni Antonio da Brescia

1913 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
pp. 171-173
Author(s):  
Sidney Colvin
Keyword(s):  
British Museum ◽  
Marcus Aurelius ◽  
Private Source ◽  
British School

The drawing (reproduced on Plate XXXV.) to which I give this title and attribution was acquired for the British Museum from a private source in 1911, and is of particular interest from its relation to one of the sculptured panels which decorate the attic of the Arch at Constantine at Rome. The series to which this relief belongs has been fully and learnedly discussed by Mr. Stuart Jones (following Petersen and others) in Papers of the British School at Rome, vol. iii. pp. 251–268. Mr. Stuart Jones maintains, and may be regarded, I conceive, as having fairly established, the view that these reliefs were originally executed as part of a monument raised in celebration of the German and Sarmatian victories of Marcus Aurelius, A.D. 174, and that eight panels were removed thence by Constantine to decorate his own triumphal arch, where they remain in situ to this day, while three others of the same series are also extant in the Palazzo dei Conservatori.

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