Alan John Bayard Wace (13 July 1879 – 9 November 1957) was an English archaeologist.
Biography
Wace was educated at
Shrewsbury School
Shrewsbury School is a public school (English independent boarding school for pupils aged 13 –18) in Shrewsbury.
Founded in 1552 by Edward VI by Royal Charter, it was originally a boarding school for boys; girls have been admitted into ...
and
Pembroke College, Cambridge.
He was director of the
British School at Athens (1914–1923), Deputy Keeper in the Department of Textiles in the
Victoria and Albert Museum
The Victoria and Albert Museum (often abbreviated as the V&A) in London is the world's largest museum of applied arts, decorative arts and design, housing a permanent collection of over 2.27 million objects. It was founded in 1852 and nam ...
(1924–1934), the second
Laurence Professor of Classical Archaeology
The Laurence Professorship of Classical Archaeology at the University of Cambridge was established in 1930 as one of the offices endowed by the bequest of Sir Perceval Maitland Laurence.University of Cambridge
The University of Cambridge is a public collegiate research university in Cambridge, England. Founded in 1209 and granted a royal charter by Henry III in 1231, Cambridge is the world's third oldest surviving university and one of its most pr ...
(1934–1944) and professor at the
Farouk I University in Egypt (1943–1952).
Among Wace's field projects were those at
Sparta
Sparta ( Doric Greek: Σπάρτα, ''Spártā''; Attic Greek: Σπάρτη, ''Spártē'') was a prominent city-state in Laconia, in ancient Greece. In antiquity, the city-state was known as Lacedaemon (, ), while the name Sparta referre ...
,
Mycenae
Mycenae ( ; grc, Μυκῆναι or , ''Mykē̂nai'' or ''Mykḗnē'') is an archaeological site near Mykines in Argolis, north-eastern Peloponnese, Greece. It is located about south-west of Athens; north of Argos; and south of Corinth. ...
,
Troy
Troy ( el, Τροία and Latin: Troia, Hittite: 𒋫𒊒𒄿𒊭 ''Truwiša'') or Ilion ( el, Ίλιον and Latin: Ilium, Hittite: 𒃾𒇻𒊭 ''Wiluša'') was an ancient city located at Hisarlik in present-day Turkey, south-west of Ç ...
,
Thessaly
Thessaly ( el, Θεσσαλία, translit=Thessalía, ; ancient Thessalian: , ) is a traditional geographic and modern administrative region of Greece, comprising most of the ancient region of the same name. Before the Greek Dark Ages, The ...
,
Corinth
Corinth ( ; el, Κόρινθος, Kórinthos, ) is the successor to an ancient city, and is a former municipality in Corinthia, Peloponnese (region), Peloponnese, which is located in south-central Greece. Since the 2011 local government refor ...
, and
Alexandria
Alexandria ( or ; ar, ٱلْإِسْكَنْدَرِيَّةُ ; grc-gre, Αλεξάνδρεια, Alexándria) is the second largest city in Egypt, and the largest city on the Mediterranean coast. Founded in by Alexander the Great, Alexandri ...
. Along with
Carl Blegen
Carl William Blegen (January 27, 1887 – August 24, 1971) was an American archaeologist who worked at the site of Pylos in Greece and Troy in modern-day Turkey. He directed the University of Cincinnati excavations of the mound of Hisarlik ...
, Wace carried out important work on the decipherment of
Linear B tablets.
Elizabeth (Lisa) Bayard French, was Wace's daughter.
Works
*''Prehistoric Thessaly'' (1912).
*''The nomads of the Balkans : an account of life and customs among the Vlachs of northern Pindus''(1913).
*''Excavations at Mycenae'' (1923).
*''Chamber tombs at Mycenae'' (1932).
*''The Sarcophagus of Alexander the Great in Farouk University Bulletin of the Faculty of Arts, Volume IV'' (1948).
*''Mycenae, an Archaeological History and Guide'' (1949).
*''A Companion to Homer'' (1962).
*''The Marlborough Tapestries'' (reprinted 1968).
References
Obituaries
*
Carl Blegen
Carl William Blegen (January 27, 1887 – August 24, 1971) was an American archaeologist who worked at the site of Pylos in Greece and Troy in modern-day Turkey. He directed the University of Cincinnati excavations of the mound of Hisarlik ...
, "Alan John Bayard Wace (1879–1957)", ''American Philosophical Society Yearbook'' (1958), 162–71.
*
Sinclair Hood
Martin Sinclair Frankland Hood, FBA (31 January 1917 – 18 January 2021), generally known as Sinclair Hood, was a British archaeologist and academic. He was Director of the British School of Archaeology at Athens from 1954 to 1962, and led t ...
, 'Alan John Bayard Wace', ''Gnomon'' 30 (1958), 158–9.
Alan John Bayard Wace ''The Times'', 11 November 1957
External links
British archaeologists
English classical scholars
People educated at Shrewsbury School
Alumni of Pembroke College, Cambridge
1879 births
1957 deaths
Scholars of Mycenaean Greek
People from Cambridge
Laurence Professors of Classical Archaeology
Directors of the British School at Athens
People associated with the Victoria and Albert Museum
Archaeologists of the Bronze Age Aegean
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