The High Commission of the Republic of Cyprus, UCL Institute of Archaeology & The British Museum cordially invite you to the lecture
“Cyprus in the Middle Bronze Age: New evidence from the Anglo-Cypriot excavations at Lapithos in 1913” by Dr Jennifer M. Webb Adjunct Professor, Department of Archaeology, La Trobe University, Melbourne & Senior Research Fellow, Department of History and Archaeology, University of Cyprus 4 April 2019, 18:30 High Commission of Cyprus, 13 St. James’s Square, SW1Y 4LB
Attendance is free; RSVP HERE
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The lecture inaugurates the symposium: Cypriot Archaeology, Pre-Modern Material Culture and Cultural Heritage in the UK Friday, 5 April 2019 Auditorium G6 and A.G. Leventis Gallery, Institute of Archaeology University College London
Registration for the symposium HERE
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This event is financially supported by the
High Commission of Cyprus in the UK – Cultural Section and the
European Commission Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (Project ReCyPot, No. MSCA-IF 747339).
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Dr Jennifer Webb is Adjunct Professor in the Department of Archaeology and History at La Trobe University in Melbourne, Australia, and Senior Research Associate in the Department of Archaeology and History of the University of Cyprus. She is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities and of the Society of Antiquaries, London. She was made a Member of the Order of Australia in 2017 for ‘significant service to education, particularly to archaeology, as an academic, researcher and author’. Jenny studied at the University of Melbourne and the British School at Athens and received her PhD in 1988. She has co-directed Australian excavations at Marki, Deneia and Politiko in Cyprus and published both these and older excavations at Ambelikou in 1942 and Karmi in 1962. She is currently conducting research on 80 Early and Middle Bronze Age tombs excavated in 1913 and 1917 at Lapithos. She has also published collections of Cypriot antiquities in Australia and the UK and written many papers and book chapters on the archaeology of Bronze Age Cyprus. Jenny is also co-editor of a monograph series called Studies in Mediterranean Archaeology, which is dedicated to the archaeology of all periods in the Mediterranean region.
