G R H Wright

Biographic Data

ID269801
NAMEG R H Wright
GIVEN NAMESG R H
FAMILY NAMEWright
SIGNATUREWRIGHT G R H
AFFILIATIONSLaboratoire Informatique d'Avignon
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS41
TOTAL CITATIONS20
AUTHOR COUNT41
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1884
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2006
H-INDEX3

  • James Hamilton in Tripoli, 1855–1856. The strange sequel to Wanderings in North Africa

    Open AccessG R H WrightARTICLELibyan Studies2006References: 2

    A short note was published in the 1999 volume of Libyan Studies with the title ‘Cyrene. Other Men's Memories’. This note proceeded on the circumstances that virtually all early participants in the exploration and excavation of Cyrene, being adventurous men in an expansive age, carried memories of Cyrene to distant parts of the world. James Hamilton, the author of the travel-book, Wanderings in North Africa was included in the roll call of these m…

  • Siegecraft and spoliation, c. 500 BC

    Open AccessG R H Wright, D White et al.ARTICLELibyan Studies2005References: 6

    At some date shortly after the Persian conquest of Egypt (525 BC) a Persian army dispatched by the satrap of Egypt, Aryandes, was encamped on the Lykaian Hill outside the city of Cyrene, threatening its capture. How far hostilities had advanced is not known, but very soon the army abandoned its position and marched off on the return way to Egypt (Herodotus IV, 16–67, 200–203). Herodotus' account is an involved story how the Persian force came to …

  • Syria-Palestine

    Dominique Collon, A R Millard et al.CHAPTER2003

  • Cyprus

    Paul Astrom, Joan Breton Connelly et al.CHAPTER2003

  • A far-flung memory of Cyrene

    Open AccessG R H WrightARTICLELibyan Studies2003References: 2

    Some years ago when a tribute to Richard Goodchild was planned to appear in Libyan Studies , the writer prepared a short note on memories of Cyrene by the 19th century founders of Cyrenaean Archaeology. At that time he was unable to obtain information as anticipated concerning Capt. E. A. Porcher R. N., and reluctantly omitted Porcher from the assembly. Recently, by a curious coincidence, information concerning Porcher's career has come to his no…

  • A Token of Personal Religion brought to Cyrene c. 525 BC

    Open AccessG R H WrightARTICLELibyan Studies2002References: 4

    This paper reconsiders a scarab seal inscribed in the Cypriote syllabary and acquired at Cyrene in the mid-nineteenth century by the French consul Vattier de Bourville. The circumstances and period of its acquisition rule out the possibility of forgery, and the scarab is stylistically datable to the late sixth century BC. The flight of Queen Pheretima to Cyprus, and her subsequent return to Cyrene, are suggested as a possible context in which the…

  • Assur Field I 1990

    G R H WrightARTICLEAnatolica2000

  • Some Byzantine bronze objects from Beycesultan

    Open AccessG R H WrightARTICLEAnatolian Studies2000References: 5

    The British Institute excavations carried out during the 1950s at Beycesultan by the head-waters of the Meander near modern Çivril (figs 1-3) may not now be of great moment in scholarly enquiry. The overriding reason for this is, of course, that no epigraphic material of any description came to hand. The excavations are, however, of note in connection with the progress and development of field archaeology - its aims and methods. They must be abou…

  • Classical Landscape with Ruins

    G R H WrightARTICLEAnatolica1999

  • Cyrene

    Open AccessG R H WrightARTICLELibyan Studies1999Cited by: 3References: 3

    Richard Goodchild was much concerned for the men who had preceeded him in connection with the discovery and rebirth of Cyrene. It seems, therefore, a fitting contribution to his memory to deal in their memories: the memories of Cyrene evoked by antipodal circumstances such men came to experience in their subsequent careers. The curtain is raised on half a dozen of these men who took all the chances offered by the 19th-century world, so full of op…

  • Apollonia's East Fort and the Strategic Deployment of Cut-Down Bedrock for Defensive Walls

    Open AccessD White, Debbie Elizabeth White et al.ARTICLELibyan Studies1998Cited by: 1References: 16

    Apollonia's East Fort, set on a promontory overlooking the sea east of the walled town, is part of a series of outlying fortresses guarding access to the port and Cyrene. Excavated by the University of Michigan in 1967, the fort is dated by coins and pottery to the second half of the fourth or first quarter of the third century BC. A striking design feature is its use of cut-down bedrock for the lower wall levels. The same technique is employed f…

  • The Khazne at Petra. Its nature in the light of its name

    G R H WrightARTICLESyria1997

    L'appellation traditionnelle du Khazne àPétra n'est pas une fantaisie des bédouins mais la transmission par eux de l'appellation grecque des tombeaux des héros, ÔT|oap(K, que l'on trouve déjà chez Pausanias pour désigner le torn- beau-tholos de Mycènes, nommé par lui 'Trésor d'Atrée'. Les bédouins ont dû emprunter cette dénomination aux Byzantins, au temps où le tombeau était abandonné depuis longtemps

  • Tombs at the Oasis of Jeghbub

    Open AccessG R H WrightARTICLELibyan Studies1997Cited by: 1References: 1

    The Libyan Department of Antiquities has begun to investigate the many chamber tombs cut into the rock scarps surrounding the oasis of Jeghbub (=Jarabub/Gerabub). Some notice of this work was given at the Congress of Cyrenaican Studies in Rome (1996) by the Director of the Department. This communication called to mind a visit to Jeghbub made more than forty years ago. The visit afforded occasion for a brief investigation of these tombs, which bec…

  • Beycesultan 1954

    Open AccessG R H WrightARTICLEAnatolian Studies1997Cited by: 1References: 3

    It was a great privilege in the early stages of a connection with archaeological field work to be asked by Seton Lloyd to return to the British Institute in Ankara to take charge of the architectural recording of the excavations planned for Beycesultan in July 1954. Several years previously I had assisted Seton Lloyd as field architect at Sultan Tepe and in the interim had been concerned ( inter alia ) with Byzantine buildings (in Cyprus). Thus i…

  • A Funeral Offering near Euesperides

    Open AccessG R H WrightARTICLELibyan Studies1995References: 1

    Immediately following the conclusion of the Ashmolean Excavations at Euesperides (Spring 1954) investigations were made at a locality c. 1 km to the south of the site and close by the (then) modern road to Benina Airport in order to determine possible survivals of undisturbed burials in a region long known as an ancient cemetery area. These investigations immediately lighted on an interesting deposit of pottery and terracotta jewellery from the l…

  • A Note on the Temple of Zeus at Cyrene and its Re-Erection

    Open AccessG R H WrightARTICLELibyan Studies1994Cited by: 1References: 1

    During the course of work in Cyrenaica extending over the 1950s and 1960s I was asked by the late Richard Goodchild, then Controller of Antiquities, to note and comment on any architectural features which I felt to have special significance. In this way, across the years, I handed over to him various short notes with drawings of miscellaneous items that I had observed. Of one such observation a copy has come to hand recently among old papers. Whi…

  • The Martyrion by the City Wall at Apollonia

    Open AccessG R H WrightARTICLELibyan Studies1993Cited by: 1

    A small Christian monument of centralised plan built against the West Wall of Apollonia was excavated and slightly restored by the Libyan Department of Antiquities under the directorship of the late Professor Goodchild during the sixties. In 1967 the present writer, then architect to the Michigan Apollonia Expedition, was commissioned to make a set of drawings of the monument as a basis for its publication by Professor Goodchild to appear in the …

  • C.N. Johns

    Open AccessG R H WrightARTICLELibyan Studies1993

    Cedric Norman ('Dick') Johns was born on October 14th 1904; after completing his education at Cambridge, in the twenties of this century he went out as a young man to Palestine to teach in the Anglican Cathedral School of St George's in Jerusalem. This was an adventurous start in life but it soon led to another, (then) even more out of the way occupation. Through a spare time interest and participation in local archaeological activities Johns was…

  • Architectural Details from the Asklepeion at Balagrae (Beida)

    Open AccessG R H WrightARTICLELibyan Studies1992Cited by: 3References: 1

    Drawings made in 1958 of the Beida Sanctuary peristyle afford a basis for comment on characteristic architectural developments in Cyrenaica, seen as part of the Oriental Hellenistic world. Since this complex is dated epigraphically to Hadrianic times it offers information on the chronological compass of forms and motifs which are well established at a much earlier period (3rd century BC). Notable features are the mixing of elements from different…

  • African Demons and Dead Egyptians

    G R H Wright, Garland WrightARTICLEAzania Archaeological Research in…1987

    This paper, which is slightly unusual for Azania but not outside its scope, is offered in memory of Neville Chittick, the late editor of this journal and Director of the British Institute in Eastern Africa. G.R.H. Wright was Neville's archaeological companion on his first expedition overseas. He has pursued a broad interest in Near Eastern archaeology and the history of religions. The author has not had the opportunity of undertaking his own fiel…

  • Ö. Tunca, L'architecture religieuse protodynastique en mesopotamie

    G R H WrightARTICLEZeitschrift für Assyriologie und…1986

    Article Ö. TUNCA, L'architecture religieuse protodynastique en mesopotamie. was published on February 1, 1986 in the journal Zeitschrift für Assyriologie und Vorderasiatische Archäologie (volume 76, issue 2)

  • The Monumental City Gate in Palestine and its Foundations

    G R H WrightARTICLEZeitschrift für Assyriologie und…1984

    Article The Monumental City Gate in Palestine and its Foundations was published on January 1, 1984 in the journal Zeitschrift für Assyriologie und Vorderasiatische Archäologie (volume 74, issue 2)

  • Sausage shaped clay objects — no problem

    G R H WrightARTICLEZeitschrift für Assyriologie und…1983

  • Dumuzi At the Court of David

    G R H WrightARTICLENumen1981

  • Ptolemaic Remains from Kalabsha Temple Reconstituted on Elephantine Island (1974–1975)

    Open AccessG R H WrightARTICLEThe Journal of Egyptian Archaeology1977