Lucilla Burn

Biographic Data

ID5406036
NAMELucilla Burn
GIVEN NAMESLucilla
FAMILY NAMEBurn
SIGNATUREBURN L
AFFILIATIONSBritish Museum
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS8
TOTAL CITATIONS19
WORKS AS AUTHOR8
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1994
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2012
H-INDEX1

  • The Dam Hill bronzes

    Lucilla Burn, Nicholas Moore et al.ARTICLEJournal of the History of…2012

    The ‘Dam Hill’ bronzes are a Roman bronze jug (oinochoe) and shallow dish (patera) belonging to Trinity College, Cambridge, currently on long-term loan to the Fitzwilliam Museum. In the last twenty-five years evidence has come to light that shows the objects were dug up in the outskirts of Cambridge in 1709. This article traces the story of the gradual rediscovery of the origins of the bronzes, and introduces the eighteenth-century antiquaries wh…

  • Introduction

    Lucilla BurnARTICLEJournal of the History of…2012

    THE following essays present aspects of the collection history of the Greek, Roman and Etruscan antiquities in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge. These have grown out of a collaborative research project that underpinned the 2010 redisplay of classical antiquities at the Fitzwilliam (Fig. 1). A grant awarded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council enabled museum curators and conservators to work together with colleagues in the Faculty of Class…

  • Recent Acquisitions of Greek, Roman and Cypriot Antiquities at the Fitzwilliam Museum 2001–2006

    Open AccessLucilla BurnARTICLEArchaeological Reports2007References: 2

    The Fitzwilliam Museum, founded through the bequest of Richard, 7 th Viscount Fitzwilliam of Merrion (1745–1816), is the principal museum and art gallery of the University of Cambridge. The Museum's collection of Greek, Roman and Cypriot antiquities grew steadily throughout the 19 th and 20 th centuries by gift, bequest, excavation and purchase, and is today one of the finest such collections in the United Kingdom outside London

  • Vase painters

    D C Kurtz, Elizabeth Moignard et al.CHAPTER2003

  • Inching into the worlds of ancient Greek pottery

    Open AccessLucilla Burns, Lucilla BurnARTICLEAntiquity2002

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  • The Cyrenaican Prehistory Project 2008

    Open AccessG Barker, Laura Basell et al.ARTICLELibyan Studies2000Cited by: 18References: 14

    The second (2008) season of fieldwork of the Cyrenaican Prehistory Project has significantly advanced understanding of the Haua Fteah stratigraphy and of the archaeology and geomorphology of the landscape in which the cave is located. The excavations of the McBurney backfill have reached a total depth of 7.5 m below the present ground surface, the depth at which two human mandibles were found in the 1950s excavations. Reconnaissance at the Hagfet…

  • Sir William Hamilton and the Greekness of Greek vases

    Lucilla BurnARTICLEJournal of the History of…1997

    SIR WILLIAM HAMILTON AND THE GREEKNESS OF GREEK VASES Get access Journal of the History of Collections, Volume 9, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 241–252, https://doi.org/10.1093/jhc/9.2.241 Published: 01 December 1997

  • Hellenistic Terracotta Figures of Cyrenaica

    Open AccessLucilla Burn, L M BurnARTICLELibyan Studies1994Cited by: 1References: 1

    Terracotta figures have been uncovered in vast quantities in the cemeteries of the Greek cities of Cyrenaica from the mid-nineteenth century onwards. While the terracottas from more recent excavations have of course remained in Libya, the majority of those brought to light in the nineteenth century are now divided between the national museums of three European capitals: Paris, Madrid and London. The Louvre collection is the largest of the three, …