T B Mitford
Biographic Data
| ID | 1190091 |
|---|---|
| NAME | T B Mitford |
| GIVEN NAMES | T B |
| FAMILY NAME | Mitford |
| SIGNATURE | MITFORD T B |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of St Andrews |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 20 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1939 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Euphrates frontier (Roman)
From the northern plains of Syria and Samosata, the Roman frontier stretched for almost 500 miles up the Euphrates valley and over the Pontic mountains to the Black Sea at Trapezus (Trabzon). Eastward along the coast a chain of protected anchorages extended to Sebastopolis and the foothills of the Caucasus. Adopting lines encountered during the Mithradatic Wars, and developed during Nero's Armenian campaigns, the frontier was constructed by Vespa…
Euphrates frontier (Roman)
From the northern plains of Syria and Samosata, the Roman frontier stretched for almost 500 miles up the Euphrates valley and over the Pontic mountains to the Black Sea at Trapezos (Trabzon) (Figure 1).
Some Inscriptions from the Cappadocian Limes
Since the hurried journey of Hogarth and Yorke in 1894, the Euphrates limes has remained virtually unexplored, and uncertainty has continued to surround its geography and organization. The basic structure, established under Vespasian and consolidated by Hadrian, and many of the details of its course, can now be located on the ground. Three legionary fortresses—at Satala (Plate IV, 1), Melitene and Samosata, with legionary vexillations (replaced u…
Biliotti's Excavations at Satala
Alfred Biliotti, British vice-consul at Trebizond, spent nine days at Satala in 1874. He is well known as an enquiring and meticulous observer. The account of his visit, in a consular paper in the British Museum, remains by far the best description of the legionary fortress, and holds several items of particular interest. Biliotti was able to record at leisure structural remains in an altogether better state of preservation than is true today. Hi…
The Cities of the Eastern Roman Provinces
The Inscriptions of Kourion
Three Milestones of Western Cyprus
Akestor, King of Paphos
Journal Article AKESTOR, KING OF PAPHOS Get access T. B. Mitford T. B. Mitford University of St. Andrews Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies, Volume 10, Issue 1, December 1963, Pages 27–30, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.2041-5370.1963.tb00293.x Published: 12 March 2010
Sites Old and New in Rough Cilicia
In June 1961 the writers gave three weeks to exploring the country in the neighbourhood of Alânya, the ancient Coracesium, and Gazipaşa, formerly Selinti, the ancient Selinus. This region proved to be rewarding; and we hope to pursue our investigations both there and to the east of Anamur in future years—the more so since our predecessors have been few and often hampered by the difficulties of the terrain. Some indeed, like Beaufort, travelled al…
The Hellenistic inscriptions of Old Paphos
The ruins of Old Paphos are now occupied by the village of Kouklia, some 10 miles to the south-south-east of (New) Paphos which lies below Ktima in western Cyprus. Since Old Paphos capital of an ancient city-kingdom, was alike the ecumenical centre of Aphrodite-worship and the ἰερόν of New Paphos, capital of Cyprus for the Ptolemies seemingly from the outset of the second century B.C., its Hellenistic inscriptions are relatively abundant. These I…
Further Contributions to the Epigraphy of Cyprus
Ptolemy Son of Pelops
Ptolemy son of Pelops
Paphian Inscriptions Hoffmann Nos. 98 and 99
A Cypriot Oath of Allegiance to Tiberius
My friend Mr. M. R. Popham, of the Government of Cyprus, was kind enough to inform me in a letter dated 9th July, 1959, of his discovery in the village of Nikoklia, some 2 km. to the north of Kouklia, site of the ancient Palaipaphos, of this important inscription. A slab of fine white marble, 0·545 m. high, 0·605 m. wide, and 0·08 m. thick (pl. x), found during the spring of 1959 in the renovation of a floor of the village church and removed on 3…
Three Inscriptions of Marium
THREE INSCRIPTIONS OF MARIUM T. B. Mitford T. B. Mitford St. Andrews Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies, Volume 5, Issue 1, December 1958, Pages 58–60, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.2041-5370.1958.tb00613.x Published: 12 March 2010
Excavations at Kouklia (Old Paphos), Cyprus, 1950
In June and July 1950 a trial excavation of four weeks' duration was carried out at the site of Old Paphos (Palaepaphos) in Cyprus, a city renowned for its Temple of Aphrodite, erected, it was said, to commemorate her legendary birth off-shore from the foam of the sea, and her landing there. The site is occupied today by the small village of Kouklia, and lies on a bluff of soft limestone dropping steeply to a coastal plain which here narrows to t…
Kafizin and the Cypriot Syllabary
The late Sir George Hill in the first volume of his monumental History of Cyprus remarks that the Cypriot syllabary is found in use until the third century B.C. This, it may be noted, is the traditional opinion which for some sixty years has stood the test of time. I read therefore with interest on p. 330 of the same volume, among the addenda , that ‘pottery with incised inscriptions, discovered in 1939 in an excavation four miles from Nicosia, s…
Notes on Some Published Inscriptions of Roman Cyprus
In their preface to Vol. X of the Cambridge Ancient History the editors promise that in Vol. XI will be found a ‘survey of the several provinces during the two centuries that end with the Antonines.’ The student of Roman Cyprus cannot be advised to turn to this volume, because he will there find no mention of Cyprus whatsoever, even as a word in the index. This neglect—for such, indeed, it seems—is indicative not only of the quite literal insular…
Milestones in Western Cyprus
In western Cyprus the chief line of communication from the mountainous nature of the country has always been coastal. We may recognise three systems: the modern motor highway, the Turkish road, the Roman road. Maps published in 1885 from the excellent survey of the late Lord Kitchener are the only reputable authority for the second of these. From it the first diverges considerably, in the main through an exaggerated fondness for easy gradients (f…
Kafizin and the Cypriot Syllabary
The late Sir George Hill in the first volume of his monumental History of Cyprus remarks that the Cypriot syllabary is found in use until the third century B.C. This, it may be noted, is the traditional opinion which for some sixty years has stood the test of time. I read therefore with interest on p. 330 of the same volume, among the addenda , that ‘pottery with incised inscriptions, discovered in 1939 in an excavation four miles from Nicosia, s…
Some Inscriptions from the Cappadocian Limes
Since the hurried journey of Hogarth and Yorke in 1894, the Euphrates limes has remained virtually unexplored, and uncertainty has continued to surround its geography and organization. The basic structure, established under Vespasian and consolidated by Hadrian, and many of the details of its course, can now be located on the ground. Three legionary fortresses—at Satala (Plate IV, 1), Melitene and Samosata, with legionary vexillations (replaced u…
Further Contributions to the Epigraphy of Cyprus
Paphian Inscriptions Hoffmann Nos. 98 and 99
Excavations at Kouklia (Old Paphos), Cyprus, 1950
In June and July 1950 a trial excavation of four weeks' duration was carried out at the site of Old Paphos (Palaepaphos) in Cyprus, a city renowned for its Temple of Aphrodite, erected, it was said, to commemorate her legendary birth off-shore from the foam of the sea, and her landing there. The site is occupied today by the small village of Kouklia, and lies on a bluff of soft limestone dropping steeply to a coastal plain which here narrows to t…
Milestones in Western Cyprus
In western Cyprus the chief line of communication from the mountainous nature of the country has always been coastal. We may recognise three systems: the modern motor highway, the Turkish road, the Roman road. Maps published in 1885 from the excellent survey of the late Lord Kitchener are the only reputable authority for the second of these. From it the first diverges considerably, in the main through an exaggerated fondness for easy gradients (f…
Notes on Some Published Inscriptions of Roman Cyprus
In their preface to Vol. X of the Cambridge Ancient History the editors promise that in Vol. XI will be found a ‘survey of the several provinces during the two centuries that end with the Antonines.’ The student of Roman Cyprus cannot be advised to turn to this volume, because he will there find no mention of Cyprus whatsoever, even as a word in the index. This neglect—for such, indeed, it seems—is indicative not only of the quite literal insular…
Kafizin and the Cypriot Syllabary
The late Sir George Hill in the first volume of his monumental History of Cyprus remarks that the Cypriot syllabary is found in use until the third century B.C. This, it may be noted, is the traditional opinion which for some sixty years has stood the test of time. I read therefore with interest on p. 330 of the same volume, among the addenda , that ‘pottery with incised inscriptions, discovered in 1939 in an excavation four miles from Nicosia, s…
Excavations at Kouklia (Old Paphos), Cyprus, 1950
In June and July 1950 a trial excavation of four weeks' duration was carried out at the site of Old Paphos (Palaepaphos) in Cyprus, a city renowned for its Temple of Aphrodite, erected, it was said, to commemorate her legendary birth off-shore from the foam of the sea, and her landing there. The site is occupied today by the small village of Kouklia, and lies on a bluff of soft limestone dropping steeply to a coastal plain which here narrows to t…
Three Inscriptions of Marium
THREE INSCRIPTIONS OF MARIUM T. B. Mitford T. B. Mitford St. Andrews Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies, Volume 5, Issue 1, December 1958, Pages 58–60, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.2041-5370.1958.tb00613.x Published: 12 March 2010
Ptolemy Son of Pelops
Ptolemy son of Pelops
Paphian Inscriptions Hoffmann Nos. 98 and 99
A Cypriot Oath of Allegiance to Tiberius
My friend Mr. M. R. Popham, of the Government of Cyprus, was kind enough to inform me in a letter dated 9th July, 1959, of his discovery in the village of Nikoklia, some 2 km. to the north of Kouklia, site of the ancient Palaipaphos, of this important inscription. A slab of fine white marble, 0·545 m. high, 0·605 m. wide, and 0·08 m. thick (pl. x), found during the spring of 1959 in the renovation of a floor of the village church and removed on 3…
The Hellenistic inscriptions of Old Paphos
The ruins of Old Paphos are now occupied by the village of Kouklia, some 10 miles to the south-south-east of (New) Paphos which lies below Ktima in western Cyprus. Since Old Paphos capital of an ancient city-kingdom, was alike the ecumenical centre of Aphrodite-worship and the ἰερόν of New Paphos, capital of Cyprus for the Ptolemies seemingly from the outset of the second century B.C., its Hellenistic inscriptions are relatively abundant. These I…
Further Contributions to the Epigraphy of Cyprus
Sites Old and New in Rough Cilicia
In June 1961 the writers gave three weeks to exploring the country in the neighbourhood of Alânya, the ancient Coracesium, and Gazipaşa, formerly Selinti, the ancient Selinus. This region proved to be rewarding; and we hope to pursue our investigations both there and to the east of Anamur in future years—the more so since our predecessors have been few and often hampered by the difficulties of the terrain. Some indeed, like Beaufort, travelled al…
Akestor, King of Paphos
Journal Article AKESTOR, KING OF PAPHOS Get access T. B. Mitford T. B. Mitford University of St. Andrews Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies, Volume 10, Issue 1, December 1963, Pages 27–30, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.2041-5370.1963.tb00293.x Published: 12 March 2010
Three Milestones of Western Cyprus
The Cities of the Eastern Roman Provinces
The Inscriptions of Kourion
Some Inscriptions from the Cappadocian Limes
Since the hurried journey of Hogarth and Yorke in 1894, the Euphrates limes has remained virtually unexplored, and uncertainty has continued to surround its geography and organization. The basic structure, established under Vespasian and consolidated by Hadrian, and many of the details of its course, can now be located on the ground. Three legionary fortresses—at Satala (Plate IV, 1), Melitene and Samosata, with legionary vexillations (replaced u…
Biliotti's Excavations at Satala
Alfred Biliotti, British vice-consul at Trebizond, spent nine days at Satala in 1874. He is well known as an enquiring and meticulous observer. The account of his visit, in a consular paper in the British Museum, remains by far the best description of the legionary fortress, and holds several items of particular interest. Biliotti was able to record at leisure structural remains in an altogether better state of preservation than is true today. Hi…
Euphrates frontier (Roman)
From the northern plains of Syria and Samosata, the Roman frontier stretched for almost 500 miles up the Euphrates valley and over the Pontic mountains to the Black Sea at Trapezos (Trabzon) (Figure 1).
Euphrates frontier (Roman)
From the northern plains of Syria and Samosata, the Roman frontier stretched for almost 500 miles up the Euphrates valley and over the Pontic mountains to the Black Sea at Trapezus (Trabzon). Eastward along the coast a chain of protected anchorages extended to Sebastopolis and the foothills of the Caucasus. Adopting lines encountered during the Mithradatic Wars, and developed during Nero's Armenian campaigns, the frontier was constructed by Vespa…
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