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Reference - SLS/D26/4
Extent - 16 files and 22 items
Calm Format - Document
Calm Format - Photograph
Scope
'The series contains: correspondence, expedition notes, papers, publications and photographs related to work carried out by John Cassels on Cyrene cemetaries and tombs during 1953 and 1954. Records are also present concerning the subsequent publication "The Cemetaries at Cyrene". The series was originally labelled "Cassels Archive".'
Biographical history
'John Cassels carried out excavation work on Cyrene tombs in 1952 and 1953. A young graduate of Trinity College, Cambridge, Cassels who was awarded a Rome Scholarship wrote to Cedric N. Johns proposing an expedition to Cyrene to evolve a typology of tombs. His fieldwork primarily took place between November 1953 and January 1954 with the help of Abdulhamid Abdussaid. During this period, Cassels classified and recorded 1,271 significant tombs around Cyrene, and redesignated the areas of the necropolis, also studying comparative tombs at Saf Saf, Messa, Ras el Hilal, Mghernes and Tolmeita. He filled six quarto notebooks, which were used heavily by Thorn, and completed a photographic survey of the more significant tombs, primarily in the Northern was Western Necropolis, and a few in the Eastern.', As a result of Cassels work at Cyrene, he published "The Cemetaries of Cyrene" in Papers of the British School at Rome 23 (1955), pp. 1-43.', Source: James Copland Thorn, "The Necropolis of Cyrene: Two Hundred Years of Exploration", (L\'erma di Bretschneider, 2005).'
Notes - Catalogued, Access by appointment. Letter of introduction required.
Former Reference - D26/4; Reference - SLS/D26/4;
Within this series:
Correspondence. » see more
Cyrene Expedition Notebooks. » see more
Papers and Publications. » see more
Photographs. » see more
Tracings of Tomb N. 1 and Temple Tomb at Messa. » see more