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9 A brief history of the BSA Museum Study Collection

9 A brief history of the BSA Museum Study Collection

Authors :
Michael Loy
Source :
Archaeological Reports. 68:221-248
Publication Year :
2022
Publisher :
Cambridge University Press (CUP), 2022.

Abstract

The BSA Museum houses a study collection of artefacts donated to the BSA and collected by its members up to the 1960s. The collection provides a valuable resource for teaching and research, enabling scholars to gain first-hand familiarity with objects from a range of material types (including ceramics, metals, stone, terracotta) dating from the Neolithic through to the Late Byzantine period. The collection comprises some 4,000 individual artefacts and over 46,000 sherds of pottery, objects that have been displayed in different parts of the BSA premises over the past 130 years. Of the whole collection, various small sections have been published in the Annual of the BSA. What has been lacking, however, is a narrative about the museum itself: where its objects came from, who studied them, how the collection as a whole has been catalogued and organized. This paper tells that story: from the collection’s humble beginnings, with the first donation of just a few sherds in 1892, through to recently completed digitization and public engagement projects.

Subjects

Subjects :
Archeology
Classics

Details

ISSN :
20414102 and 05706084
Volume :
68
Database :
OpenAIRE
Journal :
Archaeological Reports
Accession number :
edsair.doi...........00c33a3b7941f5f4d33b6fbc7dbb70e2
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1017/s0570608422000035