Sinclair Hood

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Martin Sinclair Frankland Hood (born January 31, 1917 in Queenstown , Ireland - † January 18, 2021 ), commonly known as Sinclair Hood , was a British classical archaeologist who was the director of the British School of Archeology in Athens from 1954 to 1962 (BSA ) and directed the excavations in Knossos from 1957 to 1961 .

Life

Hood was born in Queenstown (now Cobh) in the south of Ireland, the only son of Martin Hood and his wife Frances (née Winants). His mother was American and his father was a Corvette Captain in the Royal British Navy , but died when Hood was two years old.

Hood attended Harrow School in London . He then studied at Magdalen College , Oxford . In 1938 he received a degree in modern history . As a pacifist, he refused during the Second World War the military service on grounds of conscience ; he was then used in civil defense (Civil Defense) in London. In 1939 he obtained his Master of Arts (MA) from Oxford.

After the war he studied at the University of London with Kathleen Kenyon and Vere Gordon Childe . In 1947 he made his diploma in Prehistoric European Archeology .

He then received a scholarship from 1947–1948 and 1951–1953 at the British School of Archeology in Athens. From 1948 to 1949 he was a fellow at the British Institute of Archeology in Ankara.

From 1949 to 1951 Hood was assistant director of the British School at Athens ; from 1954 to 1962 he served as its director.

In 1969 he was Geddes-Harrower Visiting Professor of Greek Art and Archeology at the University of Aberdeen , 1973 Norton Lecturer for the Archaeological Institute of America , 1981 Visiting Fellow at the British School at Athens. In the winter of 1981/82 he was a Guest Scholar at the J. Paul Getty Museum in Malibu.

Hood married in 1957 Rachel Simmons (1931-2016), an archaeologist at the British School at Athens, who worked on the excavations in Chios. The couple had children Martin, Mary and Dictynna Hood.

In 1953 he became a member of the Society of Antiquaries of London , and in 1981 a member of the British Academy . He died in January 2021, two weeks before his 104th birthday.

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Hood worked mainly in Greece and Turkey, but also in Palestine, which was then under the League of Nations mandate . Hood was involved in a large number of excavations (‡ as director or co-director of the excavations):

In the years 1950–1951, 1953–1955, 1957–1961, 1973 and 1987 the British School in Athens dug in Knossos under his direction, continuing the work of Arthur Evans . The excavations at Knossos and the scientific publications on the Minoan culture can be regarded as the main work of Hood. For the island of Chios , the excavations of the British School in Athens together with John Boardman in the years 1938–1955 in Emporio and Agio Gala opened up a glimpse into three thousand years of pre-, early and Byzantine history.

Publications (selection)

A list of all of Hood's publications can be found in his 1994 Festschrift on pages XX – XXV.

  • (1958) (with D. Smollett and P. de Jong): Archaeological Survey of the Knossos Area . London: British School at Athens.
  • (1967): The Home of the Heroes: The Aegean Before the Greeks . London: Thames & Hudson.
  • (1967) (edited by Arthur Evans; edited together with Mark Cameron) Knossos Fresco Atlas . Farnborough, Hants: Gregg.
  • (1971) (Eds.): The Minoans: Crete in the Bronze Age . ( Ancient Peoples and Places , vol. 75). London: Thames & Hudson. 239 pp.
  • (1978): The Arts in Prehistoric Greece . (The Pelican History of Art, vol. 42). Harmondsworth: Penguin Books (most recent reprint New Haven, Connecticut [et al.]: Yale University Press, 1994). ISBN 0-300-05287-1 , ISBN 978-0-300-05287-9 .
  • (1981) (with David Smyth) Archaeological Survey of the Knossos Area; with a Section on the Physical Environment of Knossos Area by Neil Roberts . London: British School at Athens. (The British School of Archeology at Athens. Annual of the British School at Athens, Supplementary vol. No. 14). 2nd revised and expanded edition.
  • (1981): (with William Taylor) The Bronze Age Palace at Knossos: Plan and Sections . London: British School at Athens (The British School of Archeology at Athens. Annual of the British School at Athens, Supplementary vol. No. 13).
  • (1981/82) (with contributions by Juliet Clutton-Brock and Perry G. Bialor): Excavations in Chios 1938–1955: Prehistoric Emporio and Ayio Gala . Vol. I-II. Oxford: Alden Press (The British School of Archeology at Athens. London: Thames and Hudson, Annual of the British School at Athens, Supplementary vol. No. 15-16).
  • (1989) (with Michael Ballance, John Boardman and Spencer Corbett): Excavations in Chios 1952–1955: Byzantine Emporio . London: Thames and Hudson (The British School of Archeology at Athens. Annual of the British School at Athens, Supplementary vol. No.20).
  • (2011): (with contributions by Gerald Cadogan): Knossos Excavations 1957–61: Early Minoan . (The British School of Archeology at Athens. Annual of the British School at Athens, Supplementary vol. No. 46). London: British School at Athens. ISBN 978-0-904887-64-8 , 0-904887-64-2.
  • (2020) (edited by Lisa Maria Bendall): The Masons' Marks of Minoan Knossos (= BSA Supplementary Volume 49). 2 volumes, British School at Athens, Athens 2020, ISBN 978-0-904887-71-6 .

Festschrift

  • Don Evely, Helen Hughes-Brock, Nicoletta Momigliano (eds.): Knossos: A Labyrinth of History. Papers Presented in Honor of Sinclair Hood . Oxbow Books [u. a.], Oxford 1994 (frontispiece: portrait photo; p. XIX short biography; p. XX-XXV list of publications).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ “Έφυγε” στα 104 χρόνια του ένας από τους κορυφαίους της Κρητικής αρχαιολογίας. In: candiadoc.gr. January 19, 2021, accessed January 19, 2021 (Greek).
personal data
SURNAME Hood, Sinclair
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hood, Martin Sinclair Frankland (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British Classical Archaeologist
DATE OF BIRTH January 31, 1917
PLACE OF BIRTH Queenstown , Ireland
DATE OF DEATH January 18, 2021