Alan Wace
British archaeologist (1879-1957) · United Kingdom · On the map · Academics · Died at 78
Alan John Bayard Wace was an English archaeologist who served as director of the British School at Athens (BSA) between 1914 and 1923. He excavated widely in Thessaly, Laconia, and Egypt, and at the Bronze Age site of Mycenae in Greece.
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French troops at the Beulé Gate in 1917, during the Allied occupation of Athens![Figurine, known as the "Ivory Triad", found by Wace on the citadel of Mycenae in 1939, called "the most remarkable of all Mycenaean ivories" by Waterhouse in 1986[54]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/76/Mycenaean_figurine_of_female_deities_and_child_at_the_National_Archaeological_Museum_of_Athens_on_October_6%2C_2021.jpg/1280px-Mycenaean_figurine_of_female_deities_and_child_at_the_National_Archaeological_Museum_of_Athens_on_October_6%2C_2021.jpg)
Figurine, known as the "Ivory Triad", found by Wace on the citadel of Mycenae in 1939, called "the most remarkable of all Mycenaean ivories" by Waterhouse in 1986[54]
Arthur Evans was a prominent critic of Wace's ideas about the relationship between Minoan and Mycenaean civilisation, which were dubbed the "Helladic Heresy".
British soldiers in Cairo, 1943: Wace conducted intelligence work in the city after his evacuation from Greece.About this person
He was also an authority on Greek textiles and a prolific collector of Greek embroidery.
Country
United Kingdom
Category
Academics
Type
Academic
Status
Deceased
Dates
Lived 1879 to 1957 · aged 78
