Alan Wace

Alan John Bayard Wace (13 July 1879 – 9 November 1957) was an English archaeologist.[1][2]

Alan Wace
Wace in 1922
Born13 July 1879
Cambridge, England
Died9 November 1957(1957-11-09) (aged 78)
Athens, Greece
NationalityEnglish
ChildrenElizabeth French
Academic background
Alma materPembroke College, Cambridge
Academic work
DisciplineArchaeologist
Institutions

Biography

Wace was educated at Shrewsbury School and Pembroke College, Cambridge.[3] 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). He was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 1945.[4]

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. Elizabeth (Lisa) Bayard French, was Wace's daughter.

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).
  • The Sarcophagus of Alexander the Great in Farouk University Bulletin of the Faculty of Arts, Volume IV (1948).
  • Mycenae, an Archaeological History and Guide (1949).
  • A Companion to Homer (1962).
  • The Marlborough Tapestries at Blenheim Palace and their Relation to Other Military Tapestries of the War of the Spanish Succession (reprinted 1968).

References
  1. David Gill, 'Wace, Alan John Bayard (1879–1957)', Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004, accessed 1 June 2007
    • F. H. Stubbings, "Alan John Bayard Wace, 1879–1957", Proceedings of the British Academy, 44 (1958), 263–80.
  3. "Wace, Alan John Bayard (W898AJ)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
  4. "APS Member History". search.amphilsoc.org. Retrieved 28 March 2023.

Obituaries
  • 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

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