Alan Wace
British archaeologist

Alan Wace

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British archaeologist
A.K.A.
Alan John Bayard Wace, A. J. B. Wace
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Birth:
13 July 1879(Cambridge)
Death:
9 November 1957(Athens)
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Alan John Bayard Wace (13 July 1879 in Cambridge, England – 9 November 1957, in Athens, Greece) was an English archaeologist.
Wace was educated at Shrewsbury School and Pembroke College, Cambridge. He was director of the British School at Athens (1914-1923), Deputy Keeper in the Department of Textiles in the Victoria and Albert Museum (1924-1934), the second Laurence Professor of Classical Archaeology at University of Cambridge (1934-1944) and professor at the Farouk I University in Egypt (1943-1952).
Among Wace's field projects were those at Sparta, Mycenae, Troy, Thessaly, Corinth, and Alexandria. Along with Carl Blegen, Wace carried out important work on the decipherment of Linear B tablets.

Works

  • Prehistoric Thessaly (1912).
  • The nomads of the Balkans : an account of life and customs among the Vlachs of northern Pindus(1913).
  • Excavations at Mycenae (1923).
  • Chamber tombs at Mycenae (1932).
  • Mycenae, an Archaeological History and Guide (1949).
  • A Companion to Homer (1962).
  • The Marlborough Tapestries (reprinted 1968).

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  • Carl Blegen, "Alan John Bayard Wace (1879–1957)", American Philosophical Society Yearbook (1958), 162–71.
  • Sinclair Hood, ‘Alan John Bayard Wace’, Gnomon 30 (1958), 158–9.
  • Alan John Bayard Wace. The Times, 11 November 1957