Committee of the Cyprus Museum

The Committee of the Cyprus Museum was established in 1882, it acted as a governing body for the newly established Cyprus Museum. It has been succeeded by the Department of Antiquities, Cyprus.

History

The workings of the Committee were regulated by the Antiquities Law of 1905. According to the Law of 1905, the members of the Committee were to be elected by the private donors that funded the Committee.[1] The Committee was abolished by the creation of the Department of Antiquities in 1934. Its funding came from the government and private donors, the government gave grants for excavations across the island.[2]

The Committee was tasked with conducting excavations throughout the island and organising the collections of the Cyprus Museum. Additionally it granted a scholarship to Menelaos Markides to study archaeology at Oxford.[3] In 1913 the Committee gained a government grand to conduct excavations in Lapithos, under archaeologists, John Linton Myres, Menelaos Markides and Leonard H. D. Buxton.[3]

Members

The Committee was headed by the British High Commissioner.[4] Its founding members were John Linton Myres, Claude Delaval Cobham. Ex oficio member was the archbishop of Cyprus. Other members included prominent scholars of Cypriot studies including Simos Menardos, L.Z. Pierides, Eustathios Konstantinides and his brother Pascal (Paschalis) Constantinides.[2][5]

See also

• Department of Antiquities, Cyprus

References

1. Roueché, Charlotte (2001). "The Prehistory of the Cyprus Department of Antiquities". British School at Athens Studies. 8: 155–166. ISSN 2159-4996.
2. Merrillees, Robert Stuart (2005). "Towards a fuller history of the Cyprus Museum". Cahiers du Centre d’Études Chypriotes. 35 (1): 191–214. doi:10.3406/cchyp.2005.1482.
3. Myres, John L. (1940). "Excavations in Cyprus, 1913". The Annual of the British School at Athens. 41: 53–104. ISSN 0068-2454.
4. Polignosi. "Αρχαιοτήτων Τμήμα". www.polignosi.com. Retrieved 2023-06-06.
5. Bounia, Theopisti Stylianou-Lambert, Alexandra (2016-05-10). The Political Museum: Power, Conflict, and Identity in Cyprus. New York: Routledge. doi:10.4324/9781315521053. ISBN 978-1-315-52105-3.