Joan du Plat Taylor

Joan Mabel Frederica du Plat Taylor

Early life and education

Joan Mabel Frederica Du Plat Taylor was born in Glasgow, Scotland on 26 June 1906. Her parents were Colonel St. John Louis Hyde du Plat Taylor and Alice Home-Purves and her grandfather was Colonel John Lowther du Plat Taylor CB VD (1829 – 5 March 1904). She had no formal training, but became one of the first maritime archaeologists. From 1931 until 1939 she was Assistant Curator at the Cyprus Museum. In Cyprus she excavated a Late Bronze Age mining site at Apliki and a temple of the same period in Myrtou-Pigades. Then from 1940 to 1970 she was a librarian at the Institute of Archaeology.^[2]

Nautical archaeology

She campaigned to bring

She personally funded a grant to support publication of nautical archaeological research. Since her death, the award has continued to be given by the Nautical Archaeology Society as the Joan du Plat Taylor Award.

Selected publications

• Taylor, Joan du Plat; Tufnell, Olga (1930). "A pottery industry in Cyprus". Ancient Egypt. 4: 119–122.
• Taylor, Joan Du Plat (1932). "A Thirteenth Century Church in Nicosia, Cyprus". Antiquity. 6 (24): 469–471.
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• Taylor, Joan du Plat (1933). "A Water Cistern with Byzantine Paintings, Salamis, Cyprus". The Antiquaries Journal. 13 (2): 97–108.
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  • Taylor, Joan du Plat; (1935). "Hoard of Medieval Coins from Tripoli Bastion", Report of the Department of Antiquities, Cyprus, 22–24.
• Taylor, Joan Du Plat (1938). "Medieval Graves in Cyprus". Ars Islamica. 5 (1): 55–87.
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• Taylor, Joan du Plat (1952). "A Late Bronze Age settlement at Apliki, Cyprus". The Antiquaries Journal. 32 (3–4): 133–167.
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• Taylor, Joan Du Plat (1959). "The Cypriot and Syrian Pottery from Al Mina, Syria". Iraq. 21 (1): 62–92.
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• Taylor, Joan du Plat (1964). "Motya: A Phoenician Trading Settlement in Sicily". Archaeology. 17 (2): 91–100.
• World Underwater Federation (1965). du Plat Taylor, Joan (ed.). Marine Archaeology: developments during sixty years in the Mediterranean. Crowell.