Susan M. Hopkins

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Susan M. Hopkins
Born
Susan Mary Sullivan

1900
Died1969
NationalityAmerican
Known forExcavations at Dura Europos
Academic background
Alma materUniversity of Wisconsin
Academic work
DisciplineArchaeology

Susan M. Hopkins (1900–69) was an archaeologist known for her work on the excavations at Dura-Europos.

Biography[]

Hopkins was born in 1900 in Eau Claire, Wisconsin. She studied at Cedar Falls Teachers College in Iowa and the University of South Dakota before transferring to the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she graduated in 1923 with a thesis on 'Social Origins in Lucretius'.[1][2] Subsequently she was appointed as a scholar in Classics for 1924-25 and assistant in Classics for the year 1925-26.[3][4] In 1926 she married the archaeologist Clark Hopkins and moved with him to New Haven, CT, where she took classes at Yale University with Michael Rostovtzeff.[5][6] In the summer of 1928 Hopkins and her husband attended the summer schools of the American Academy in Rome and the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, and afterwards joined an excavation at Olynthus, where Hopkins catalogued finds, in particular the terracottas.[7]

Archaeology at Dura Europos[]

Hopkins was part of the French-American excavations at Dura-Europos alongside her husband Clark Hopkins, who was the assistant director for second season in 1928-29 and field director from 1937-31.[8] Her catalogues of small finds during the fifth to tenth seasons of the excavation have been described as “the most complete and most accurate record of the artefacts of Dura that exists”.[9] She contributed to the study of coins, pottery and inscriptions at the site, including study of the Greek inscriptions from the Temple of Artemis Azzanathkona.[10][7] Hopkins was also responsible for housekeeping, overseeing the kitchen and supplies, and organising staff housing, as well as looking after her daughter, Mary Sue, who joined her parents on site from 1932.[7]

Letters written by Hopkins to friends and family members during the excavations, describing Hopkins' work, day-to-day life at the excavations and her impressions of her travels around Europe and the Middle East were collected in a volume edited by Norma Goldman and Bernard Goldman, published in 2011.[11]

References[]

  1. ^ "The Badger Vol. [XXXVIII] 1924 - Full view - UWDC - UW-Madison Libraries". search.library.wisc.edu. Retrieved 2021-09-22.
  2. ^ Hopkins, Susan M. (2011). My Dura-Europos : the letters of Susan M. Hopkins, 1927-1935. Bernard Goldman, Norma Goldman. Detroit [Mich.]: Wayne State University Press. p. 28. ISBN 978-0-8143-3588-8. OCLC 695683643.
  3. ^ "Glenn Frank (1925-1937) : Minutes of the University of Wisconsin Board of Regents (232 Documents) - Full view - UWDC - UW-Madison Libraries". search.library.wisc.edu. Retrieved 2021-09-22.
  4. ^ "Edward Asahel Birge (1921-1925) : Minutes of the University of Wisconsin Board of Regents (99 Documents) - Full view - UWDC - UW-Madison Libraries". search.library.wisc.edu. Retrieved 2021-09-22.
  5. ^ "The Wisconsin alumni magazine Volume 28, Number 1 Nov. 1926 - Full view - UWDC - UW-Madison Libraries". search.library.wisc.edu. Retrieved 2021-09-22.
  6. ^ "The Wisconsin alumni magazine Volume 28, Number 2 Dec. 1926 - Full view - UWDC - UW-Madison Libraries". search.library.wisc.edu. Retrieved 2021-09-22.
  7. ^ a b c Hopkins, Susan M. (2011). My Dura-Europos : the letters of Susan M. Hopkins, 1927-1935. Bernard Goldman, Norma Goldman. Detroit [Mich.]: Wayne State University Press. pp. 3–7. ISBN 978-0-8143-3588-8. OCLC 695683643.
  8. ^ Whitfield, Susan (2019-04-24). "Lost in the Desert: Stein at Dura-Europos". Silk Road Digressions. Retrieved 2021-08-26.
  9. ^ Baird, J. A. (2018). Dura-Europos. Bloomsbury Academic. p. 42. doi:10.5040/9781474204194.ch-003. ISBN 978-1-4725-2211-5.
  10. ^ Morey, C. R. (1931). "Review of The Excavations at Dura-Europos". The Art Bulletin. 13 (3): 398–398. doi:10.2307/3050805. ISSN 0004-3079.
  11. ^ "My Dura-Europos | Wayne State University Press". www.wsupress.wayne.edu. Retrieved 2021-08-26.
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