Edith Eccles
{{short description|British classical archaeologist}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}}
{{Infobox scientist
|name = Edith Eccles
|image =
|image_size = 250px
|birth_date = {{Birth date|1910|10|8|df=yes}}
|birth_place = Liverpool
|death_date = {{Death date and age|1977|6|24|1910|10|8|df=yes}}
|death_place =
|nationality = British
|field = Archaeology
|work_institutions = British School at Athens
Bryn Mawr College
|alma_mater = Royal Holloway, University of London
|doctoral_advisor =
|doctoral_students =
|known_for = Excavations at Knossos and Arkalochori
|influences =
|influenced =
|awards = Mary Paul Collins Scholarship in Archaeology, Bryn Mawr College
}}
Edith Eccles (8 October 1910 in Liverpool – 24 June 1977) was a British classical archaeologist who did work at the British School at Athens and worked with Sir Arthur Evans at Knossos on Crete in the 1930s.{{cite book|last=Marinatos|first=Nanno|date=2015|title=Sir Arthur Evans and Minoan Crete: Creating the Vision of Knossos|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=G6IcBgAAQBAJ&pg=PA201|location=London; New York|publisher=I. B. Tauris|page=205|isbn=978-1-78076-811-3}} She studied at Royal Holloway, University of London.
Career
During the 1930s she was a friend of Mercy Money-Coutts who worked and travelled with her in Greece and beyond.[http://www.brown.edu/Research/Breaking_Ground/bios/Seiradaki_Mercy%20Money-Coutts.pdf Elizabeth Schofield, Mercy Money-Coutts Seiradaki (1910-1993)]. Retrieved 16 September 2024 She remained active after the diagnosis of multiple sclerosis that ultimately ended her life.{{cite web|url=http://www.brown.edu/Research/Breaking_Ground/bios/Eccles_Edith.pdf|last1=Momigliano|first1=Nicoletta|authorlink=Nicoletta Momigliano|title=EDITH ECCLES (1910-1977)|accessdate=13 December 2016|publisher=Breaking Ground: Women in Old World Archaeology, Brown University}}
In 1935, Eccles assisted the archaeologist Spyridon Marinatos with excavations at the cave sanctuary of Arkalochori. She maintained a strong professional relationship with Marinatos throughout her life, which is documented through letters published in 2015.
In 1936, Eccles attended Bryn Mawr College as the Mary Paul Collins Fellow in Archaeology. At that time, she worked on illustrations for Arthur Evans's publication of their excavations at Knossos.{{cite book|author=Sir Arthur Evans|title=The Palace of Minos at Knossos, Volume IV, Part I|url=http://digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/diglit/evans1935?sid=f75ed38931c23bd0ed6e7c8891e6cb38|date=1935|publisher=Macmillan and Co.|page=347|doi=10.11588/DIGLIT.1117 }} Eccles studied Greek Archaeology under Mary Hamilton Swindler, whilst researching gems and seal stones of the Late Minoan and Mycenean periods.{{cite news|date=14 October 1936|title=Graduates Acclaim Plan for Exchange|url=http://repository.brynmawr.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1563&context=bmc_collegenews|newspaper=The College News|location=Bryn Mawr and Wayne, PA|access-date=12 December 2016}}
Selected works
- Eccles, Edith. "The Seals and Sealings." Annual of the British School at Athens vol. 40(1940): 43–49.{{Cite journal |last=Eccles |first=Edith |date=November 1940 |title=§ 6. The Seals and Sealings |url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/annual-of-the-british-school-at-athens/article/abs/6-the-seals-and-sealings/DCF9FA3EEB6E1B6CAB18B5415986E394 |journal=Annual of the British School at Athens |language=en |volume=40 |pages=43–49 |doi=10.1017/S0068245400004937 |issn=2045-2403|url-access=subscription }}
- Hutchinson, R. W., Edith Eccles and Sylvia Benton. "Unpublished Objects from Palaikastro and Praisos. II." The Annual of the British School at Athens, vol. 40(1939): 38–59. [https://www.jstor.org/stable/30096709].
References
{{Reflist}}
{{authority control}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Eccles, Edith}}
Category:British classical archaeologists
Category:Academics from Liverpool
Category:Alumni of Royal Holloway, University of London
Category:Deaths from multiple sclerosis
Category:People with multiple sclerosis
Category:Neurological disease deaths in the United Kingdom
Category:Bryn Mawr College alumni
Category:English archaeologists
Category:Minoan archaeologists
Category:Archaeologists of the Bronze Age Aegean
Category:20th-century British archaeologists
Category:British women archaeologists
Category:British scientists with disabilities
{{UK-archaeologist-stub}}