Lilian Hamilton Jeffery

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L. H. Jeffrey

FBA
Born(1915-01-05)5 January 1915
Westcliff-on-Sea, Essex, England
Died29 September 1986(1986-09-29) (aged 71)
AwardsFellow of the British Academy, 1965
Academic background
Alma materNewnham College, Cambridge
University of Oxford (DPhil, 1951)
Academic work
DisciplineClassics
Sub-disciplineGreek epigraphy
InstitutionsLady Margaret Hall, Oxford
Notable worksThe Local Scripts of Archaic Greece

Lilian Hamilton "Anne" Jeffery, FBA (5 January 1915 – 29 September 1986) was a British archaeologist, classical philologist and epigraphist best remembered for her 1961 work The Local Scripts of Archaic Greece. Building on the work of Adolf Kirchhoff and , Jeffery surveyed the development of the Greek alphabet from its adoption down to the fifth century BC and in so doing established the chronology of archaic inscriptions.

Early life[]

Lilian (Anne) Jeffery was born at Westcliff-on-Sea to, Thomas Theophilus Jeffery, a schoolmaster and lecturer in Classics, and Lilian Mary Hamilton.[1] She was educated at Cheltenham Ladies' College and in 1933 won a Major Classical scholarship to Newnham College, Cambridge where she studied under Jocelyn Toynbee.[2]

Career[]

She won the Walton Studenship to the British School at Athens in 1937, where she contributed to the work of on the sculptural fragments of the Acropolis, co-publishing with him the 1949 book Dedications from the Athenian Akropolis.[3] She served in the WAAF during World War II; part of her duties included intelligence interpretation of aerial photographs.[4]

In 1946 she took up the position of research fellow at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, where she remained for the rest of her career apart from a period of research at the Institute of Advanced Studies at Princeton from September 1951 to June 1952.[5] Her archaeological work included field study with the British School at Old Smyrna (Bayrakli) in 1949. She also made major contributions to the study of Attic grave monuments[6] and the epigraphical edition project Inscriptiones Graecae i3.[7] From 1955 until 1961 she was an editor of the Annual of the British School at Athens.[8] She was made a Fellow of the British Academy in 1965.[9]

Her archive is preserved at the Centre for the Study of Ancient Documents, Oxford, digitised and published online.[10]

Selected works[]

  • ed. with Antony E. Raubitschek, Dedications from the Athenian Akropolis: A catalogue of the inscriptions of the 6. and 5. centuries B. C. (1949)
  • 'Demiourgoi in the Archaic period' Archeologia classica (1973–1974) 25–26:319–330.
  • Local Scripts of Archaic Greece: A Study of the Origin of the Greek Alphabet and Its Development from the Eighth to the Fifth Centuries B.C. (1961)
  • Archaia grammata, some ancient Greek views. (1967)
  • 'Poinikastas and poinikazen, BM 1969, 4–2.1: a new archaic inscription from Crete.' Kadmos, (1970) 9:118–154
  • 'An Archaic Greek Inscription from Crete' The British Museum Quarterly, (1971) 36:24–29
  • Lykios son of Myron: the epigraphic evidence in Στήλη Τόμος Εις Μνήμην Νικολάου Κοντολέοντος (1971)
  • Archaic Greece: The City States, c.700-500 B.C. (1976)
  • Some Nikai-statues at Olympia in the late fifth century B.C. (1979)
  • Inscriptiones Graecae/ Vol. 1, Inscriptiones Atticae Euclidis anno anteriores; ediderunt David Lewis et Lilian Jeffery, adiuvante Eberhard Erxleben. Fasc. 2, Dedicationes, catalogi, termini, tituli sepulcrales, varia, tituli Attici extra Atticam reperti, addenda. (1994)

References[]

  1. ^ "Epigraphic Sources for Early Greek Writing". University of Oxford. Retrieved 5 February 2018.
  2. ^ "Epigraphic Sources for Early Greek Writing". University of Oxford. Retrieved 5 February 2018.
  3. ^ "Dedications from the Athenian Akropolis".
  4. ^ "Epigraphic Sources for Early Greek Writing". University of Oxford. Retrieved 5 February 2018.
  5. ^ "Lilian Hamilton Jeffrey on the IAS website".
  6. ^ Published in BSA, lvii (1962), 115–53.
  7. ^ IG i3 fasc. 2, with Jeffery's major contribution, was completed and published shortly before D.M. Lewis's death in 1994.
  8. ^ "Epigraphic Sources for Early Greek Writing". University of Oxford. Retrieved 5 February 2018.
  9. ^ Lewis, David (1987). "Lilian Hamilton Jeffrey, 1915–1986" (PDF). Proceedings of the British Academy. 73.
  10. ^ "The Anne Jeffery Archive".

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