Kyle Meredith Phillips, Jr.

Poggio Civitate and Murlo

Kyle Meredith Phillips, Jr. (May 20, 1934, Cabot, Vermont – August 7, 1988, Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania) was a leading American Etruscologist.^[1]

Phillips was educated at Bowdoin College (A.B. cum laude 1956) and Princeton University (M.A. 1959, Ph.D. 1962). At Princeton he studied with Erik Sjöqvist. In 1962 he also joined the faculty of Bryn Mawr College. Having excavated with the Princeton team at Morgantina in Sicily, Phillips decided to start a new project. Based on advice from Ranuccio Bianchi Bandinelli, Phillips embarked on the excavation of an Etruscan center at Poggio Civitate near Murlo, Siena in 1966.^[2] Here Phillips discovered a monumental complex whose interpretation remains controversial, despite ongoing fieldwork. In 1994 a monograph entitled Murlo and the Etruscans. Art and society in Ancient Etruria appeared in Phillips's honor.^[3] The book, which has many contributions by Etruscologists, includes a list of his publications and a posthumously published article.

Selected works

• Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum. [United States of America]. The Ella Riegel Memorial Museum, Bryn Mawr College. (1971) by Ann Harnwell Ashmead and Kyle Meredith Phillips ISBN 0-691-03535-0.
• Classical Vases : Excluding Attic Black-Figure, Attic Red-Figure and Attic White Ground, Catalogue of the Classical Collection, Museum of Art Rhode Island School of Design, (1976) by Ann Harnwell Ashmead and Kyle Meredith Phillips, Jr., dedicated to Richmond Lattimore and Richard Stillwell, Library of Congress No. 76-45537.
• The Barberini mosaic: sunt hominum animaliumque complures imagines (1981).
• In the Hills of Tuscany: Recent Excavations at the Etruscan Site of Poggio Civitate (Murlo, Siena) (1993).

References

1. Richard, De Puma (1989). "Necrology". American Journal of Archaeology. 93: 239–40.
2. Kyle Meredith Phillips (1 January 1993). In the Hills of Tuscany: Recent Excavations at the Etruscan Site of Poggio Civitate (Murlo, Siena). University Museum, University of Pennsylvania. ISBN 978-0-934718-96-7.
3. Richard Daniel De Puma; Jocelyn Penny Small (1994). Murlo and the Etruscans: Art and Society in Ancient Etruria. Univ of Wisconsin Press. pp. 29–. ISBN 978-0-299-13910-0.