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Alan Wace
Alan John Bayard Wace (13 July 1879 in Cambridge, England – 9 November 1957, in Athens, Greece) was an English
archaeologist.[1][2]

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).

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.

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).
Mycenae, an Archaeological History and Guide (1949).
A Companion to Homer (1962).
The Marlborough Tapestries (reprinted 1968).

Necrology
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 (https://web.archive.org/web/20110116090809/http://www.vam.ac.uk/collections/periods_styl
es/features/history/staff_obituaries/textiles/wace/index.html). The Times, 11 November 1957

References
1. David Gill, ‘Wace, Alan John Bayard (1879–1957)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press,
2004, accessed 1 June 2007
2. *F. H. Stubbings, "Alan John Bayard Wace, 1879–1957", Proceedings of the British Academy, 44 (1958), 263–80.
3. "Wace, Alan John Bayard (W898AJ)" (http://venn.lib.cam.ac.uk/cgi-bin/search-2016.pl?sur=&suro=w&fir=&firo=c&cit=
&cito=c&c=all&z=all&tex=W898AJ&sye=&eye=&col=all&maxcount=50). A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of
Cambridge.

Academic offices
Laurence Professor of Classical
Preceded by Succeeded by
Archaeology Cambridge University
Arthur Bernard Cook Arnold Walter Lawrence
1934 - 1944

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