Nicholas Stanley‐Price
Biographic Data
| ID | 5405662 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nicholas Stanley‐Price |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nicholas |
| FAMILY NAME | Stanley‐Price |
| SIGNATURE | PRICE N S |
| AFFILIATIONS | French School at Athens |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 18 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Illicit excavation and the sale of ‘duplicate’ antiquities
In 1932, the departing Governor of Cyprus, Sir Ronald Storrs, gave Rupert Gunnis a title and salary as ‘Inspector of Antiquities’ in recognition of his aide-de-camp’s active role since 1926 as a member of the Cyprus Museum Committee. Gunnis had encroached on the responsibilities of the Curator, Menelaos Markides, whom he disdained, by re‐organising the Museum’s collections, investigating reports of illicit excavation and purchasing significant ar…
Intrigue and Feud in Colonial Cyprus
In response to criticism about the state of the monuments there, the British government in 1935 set up a Department of Antiquities in its colony of Cyprus. The instability of its first two years owed much to local intrigues and feuds that the colonial governor, Sir Richmond Palmer, failed to resolve. His equivocal stance was tested when, immediately following a visit to the island in 1936, David Talbot Rice, the Watson Gordon Professor of Fine Ar…
Power and Impunity in 1930s Colonial Cyprus
Britain's systems of imperial administration provided ample opportunity for self-seeking individuals to exploit. I argue that the career of Rupert Gunnis (1899–1965) in colonial Cyprus is one such case, in which even local laws were transgressed with impunity. His initial position as Aide-de-Camp to the Governor, Sir Ronald Storrs (1926–1932), established him as an influential member of the small British colonial community, affording him a power …
Memorial sculpture in the Protestant Cemetery at Rome
The funerary sculpture in the Protestant Cemetery in Rome, the heart of Catholicism, has been little studied. A new inventory of monuments lists over 130 works for which the sculptor, architect or bronze foundry, either Italian or non-Italian, has been identified. Many new identifications, often based on previously unrecorded inscriptions, have brought to light the work of well-documented foreign sculptors who had settled in Rome either temporari…
Theophilus Mogabgab of Famagusta
Theophilus Mogabgab joined the new Department of Antiquities of Cyprus in 1935 with responsibility for Famagusta. George Jeffery, the island’s Curator of Ancient Monuments, had previously rejected him as a possible successor for being unqualified (Mogabgab was essentially autodidact). It was Mogabgab’s deep knowledge and enthusiasm for preserving Famagusta – inspired by his Syrian family’s claim of Crusader origins – and his surveying skills that…
The Old Cemetery for Foreigners in Rome with a new Inventory of its burials
From at least 1716 until formal closure of the Cemetery in 1822, non-Catholic foreigners dying in Rome were usually buried adjacent to the Pyramid of Gaius Cestius in Testaccio. Some 80 stone monuments in the Old Cemetery were systematically recorded in the 1980s. To these can now be added a similar number of burials known from travel accounts and archival sources. This new, combined Inventory of 157 entries provides notes on the life and death i…
Claude Delaval Cobham before Cyprus
C.D. Cobham a rédigé la plupart de son œuvre scientifique quand il était Commissaire à Larnaca, un poste important dans l’administration britannique de l’île. Contrairement à de nombreux cadres supérieurs employés en 1878 par Sir Garnet Wolseley, il n’avait aucun grade militaire, ni aucune expérience diplomatique. Une enquête sur les antécédents de Cobham en Angleterre montre qu’à l’été 1878 il menait une vie paisible d’érudit dans le comté du De…
Flying to the Emirates
During the 1930s Dubai and Sharjah in the Trucial States (now the United Arab Emirates) were regular stops on Imperial Airways’ England – India route. But in early 1947 the successor British airline British Overseas Airways Corporation discontinued service to them. The local market for air travel connecting the Gulf shaikhdoms, which were de facto British protectorates, was undermined just as the expanding oil industry most needed reliable schedu…
Illicit Excavation
The prosecution in Cyprus of an Italian citizen for illicit excavation in 1878 is a very early case in modern cultural heritage law. In taking over from the Ottoman empire the administration of Cyprus in June 1878, Britain inherited the Ottoman legal system, including its 1874 law on antiquities. Four months later, the British arrested Alessandro Palma di Cesnola for flouting a newly announced ban on excavation. The evidence of official, confiden…
The Palaeolithic, preservation and the public
The caves and open sites of the Palaeolithic lack the monumental remains that attract visitors to many later prehistoric and historic sites, and they tend to be more difficult to preserve and interpret successfully to the public. These issues are examined through a comparison of three very different sites, in China, Tanzania and Portugal, two of which have been accorded World Heritage status
Paul Rotha and the Making of Strand Films’ Air Outpost (1937)
The short documentary Air Outpost is one of three films commissioned from Strand Films by Imperial Airways in 1936-37 and produced by Paul Rotha. It focused on one overnight stop on the airline’s India service: the airfield and town of Sharjah in the Trucial States (now the United Arab Emirates). British policy in the Gulf carefully controlled access to the Trucial States by Westerners, so the release of a documentary about this region was unprec…
Of the Past, for the Future
Who owns the past? Heritage rights and responsibilities in a multicultural world Ghent, Belgium, 22–25 March 2006
(2006). Who owns the past? Heritage rights and responsibilities in a multicultural world Ghent, Belgium, 22–25 March 2006. Conservation and Management of Archaeological Sites: Vol. 8, No. 1, pp. 39-41
Reburial of archaeological sites
(2004). Reburial of archaeological sites: A colloquium organized by the Getty Conservation Institute, the National Park Service (Intermountain Region) and ICCROM Santa Fe, New Mexico, 17–21 March 2003. Conservation and Management of Archaeological Sites: Vol. 6, No. 3-4, pp. 133-135
The decision to shelter archaeological sites Three case-studies from Sicily
The decision to provide a protective shelter for exposed archaeological remains is illustrated by examining case studies of three sites in Sicily that were provided with protective measures in the 1950s. The three protective shelters were designed by the same architect, Franco Minissi, for the sites of Gela, the Villa Romana del Casale (Piazza Armerina) and Heraclea Minoa. His work on protective shelters is viewed in the broader context of the de…
Conservation and management of prehistoric rock art sites on the World Heritage List
A meeting of managers of prehistoric rock art sites inscribed on the World Heritage List was held at the Côa Valley Archaeological Park in Portugal in May 1999. Site managers from Africa, the Americas, Australia and Europe discussed issues of site protection, visitor management and interpretation to the public. The following report summarizes the experience reported at the symposium, which has led to the proposal to create an international networ…
The Palaeolithic, preservation and the public
Preventive Measures and Recovery
Reburial of archaeological sites
(2004). Reburial of archaeological sites: A colloquium organized by the Getty Conservation Institute, the National Park Service (Intermountain Region) and ICCROM Santa Fe, New Mexico, 17–21 March 2003. Conservation and Management of Archaeological Sites: Vol. 6, No. 3-4, pp. 133-135
Preventive Measures and Recovery
The Palaeolithic, preservation and the public
Conservation and management of prehistoric rock art sites on the World Heritage List
A meeting of managers of prehistoric rock art sites inscribed on the World Heritage List was held at the Côa Valley Archaeological Park in Portugal in May 1999. Site managers from Africa, the Americas, Australia and Europe discussed issues of site protection, visitor management and interpretation to the public. The following report summarizes the experience reported at the symposium, which has led to the proposal to create an international networ…
The decision to shelter archaeological sites Three case-studies from Sicily
The decision to provide a protective shelter for exposed archaeological remains is illustrated by examining case studies of three sites in Sicily that were provided with protective measures in the 1950s. The three protective shelters were designed by the same architect, Franco Minissi, for the sites of Gela, the Villa Romana del Casale (Piazza Armerina) and Heraclea Minoa. His work on protective shelters is viewed in the broader context of the de…
Reburial of archaeological sites
(2004). Reburial of archaeological sites: A colloquium organized by the Getty Conservation Institute, the National Park Service (Intermountain Region) and ICCROM Santa Fe, New Mexico, 17–21 March 2003. Conservation and Management of Archaeological Sites: Vol. 6, No. 3-4, pp. 133-135
Who owns the past? Heritage rights and responsibilities in a multicultural world Ghent, Belgium, 22–25 March 2006
(2006). Who owns the past? Heritage rights and responsibilities in a multicultural world Ghent, Belgium, 22–25 March 2006. Conservation and Management of Archaeological Sites: Vol. 8, No. 1, pp. 39-41
Of the Past, for the Future
The Palaeolithic, preservation and the public
The caves and open sites of the Palaeolithic lack the monumental remains that attract visitors to many later prehistoric and historic sites, and they tend to be more difficult to preserve and interpret successfully to the public. These issues are examined through a comparison of three very different sites, in China, Tanzania and Portugal, two of which have been accorded World Heritage status
Paul Rotha and the Making of Strand Films’ Air Outpost (1937)
The short documentary Air Outpost is one of three films commissioned from Strand Films by Imperial Airways in 1936-37 and produced by Paul Rotha. It focused on one overnight stop on the airline’s India service: the airfield and town of Sharjah in the Trucial States (now the United Arab Emirates). British policy in the Gulf carefully controlled access to the Trucial States by Westerners, so the release of a documentary about this region was unprec…
Claude Delaval Cobham before Cyprus
C.D. Cobham a rédigé la plupart de son œuvre scientifique quand il était Commissaire à Larnaca, un poste important dans l’administration britannique de l’île. Contrairement à de nombreux cadres supérieurs employés en 1878 par Sir Garnet Wolseley, il n’avait aucun grade militaire, ni aucune expérience diplomatique. Une enquête sur les antécédents de Cobham en Angleterre montre qu’à l’été 1878 il menait une vie paisible d’érudit dans le comté du De…
Flying to the Emirates
During the 1930s Dubai and Sharjah in the Trucial States (now the United Arab Emirates) were regular stops on Imperial Airways’ England – India route. But in early 1947 the successor British airline British Overseas Airways Corporation discontinued service to them. The local market for air travel connecting the Gulf shaikhdoms, which were de facto British protectorates, was undermined just as the expanding oil industry most needed reliable schedu…
Illicit Excavation
The prosecution in Cyprus of an Italian citizen for illicit excavation in 1878 is a very early case in modern cultural heritage law. In taking over from the Ottoman empire the administration of Cyprus in June 1878, Britain inherited the Ottoman legal system, including its 1874 law on antiquities. Four months later, the British arrested Alessandro Palma di Cesnola for flouting a newly announced ban on excavation. The evidence of official, confiden…
The Old Cemetery for Foreigners in Rome with a new Inventory of its burials
From at least 1716 until formal closure of the Cemetery in 1822, non-Catholic foreigners dying in Rome were usually buried adjacent to the Pyramid of Gaius Cestius in Testaccio. Some 80 stone monuments in the Old Cemetery were systematically recorded in the 1980s. To these can now be added a similar number of burials known from travel accounts and archival sources. This new, combined Inventory of 157 entries provides notes on the life and death i…
Theophilus Mogabgab of Famagusta
Theophilus Mogabgab joined the new Department of Antiquities of Cyprus in 1935 with responsibility for Famagusta. George Jeffery, the island’s Curator of Ancient Monuments, had previously rejected him as a possible successor for being unqualified (Mogabgab was essentially autodidact). It was Mogabgab’s deep knowledge and enthusiasm for preserving Famagusta – inspired by his Syrian family’s claim of Crusader origins – and his surveying skills that…
Memorial sculpture in the Protestant Cemetery at Rome
The funerary sculpture in the Protestant Cemetery in Rome, the heart of Catholicism, has been little studied. A new inventory of monuments lists over 130 works for which the sculptor, architect or bronze foundry, either Italian or non-Italian, has been identified. Many new identifications, often based on previously unrecorded inscriptions, have brought to light the work of well-documented foreign sculptors who had settled in Rome either temporari…
Intrigue and Feud in Colonial Cyprus
In response to criticism about the state of the monuments there, the British government in 1935 set up a Department of Antiquities in its colony of Cyprus. The instability of its first two years owed much to local intrigues and feuds that the colonial governor, Sir Richmond Palmer, failed to resolve. His equivocal stance was tested when, immediately following a visit to the island in 1936, David Talbot Rice, the Watson Gordon Professor of Fine Ar…
Power and Impunity in 1930s Colonial Cyprus
Britain's systems of imperial administration provided ample opportunity for self-seeking individuals to exploit. I argue that the career of Rupert Gunnis (1899–1965) in colonial Cyprus is one such case, in which even local laws were transgressed with impunity. His initial position as Aide-de-Camp to the Governor, Sir Ronald Storrs (1926–1932), established him as an influential member of the small British colonial community, affording him a power …
Illicit excavation and the sale of ‘duplicate’ antiquities
In 1932, the departing Governor of Cyprus, Sir Ronald Storrs, gave Rupert Gunnis a title and salary as ‘Inspector of Antiquities’ in recognition of his aide-de-camp’s active role since 1926 as a member of the Cyprus Museum Committee. Gunnis had encroached on the responsibilities of the Curator, Menelaos Markides, whom he disdained, by re‐organising the Museum’s collections, investigating reports of illicit excavation and purchasing significant ar…
History (13 works) · Archaeology (10 works) · Law (8 works) · Political science (8 works) · Ancient history (7 works) · Geography (6 works) · Cultural Heritage Management and Preservation (5 works) · Cyprus History, Politics, Society (5 works) · History (5 works) · Law (5 works)