Leyland Hugh Sackett FSA (13 August 1928 – 12 April 2020) was an archeologist credited with being among the discoverers of the Palaikastro Kouros.[1][2][3][4]

Education

Sackett attended Merton College at Oxford.[1]

Work

As an archeologist, Sackett co-directed excavations at Lefkandi (Mervyn Popham was the other co-director) and worked at Minoan Palaikastro and Roman Knossos in Crete.[5] His work at Lefkandi took place from 1962 to 1963 and 1964–1990, investigating Iron Age Greece.[1] His excavation work at Palaikastro took place from 1962 to 1963 and 1983–2020.

Additional work included excavations at Chios, Knossos, and Attica.[1]

His association with the British School at Athens began in 1954.[1] Sackett was assistant director of the school from 1961 to 1963 and later became a vice-president there.[5]

He taught classics and Greek archeology at the Groton School in Massachusetts for more than 60 years.[2] He was Groton's longest-serving faculty member.[3] Beginning in 1968 and until at least 2006, he was released from duties at Groton in the spring term in order to pursue his archeological work in Greece.[1]

Sackett received the Gold Medal of the Archaeological Institute of America.[5]

Personal life

Sackett married his wife Eleanor in 1995.[1] Sackett was the stepfather of Henry Davis, an attorney.[6]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Reyes, A.T. (12 May 2020). "News - In Memoriam: Leyland Hugh Sackett - Archaeological Institute of America AIA News". Archaeological Institute of America.
  2. 1 2 "Hugh Sackett, global authority on the archaeology of the Aegean – obituary". The Telegraph. 2 June 2020. Retrieved 7 July 2023.
  3. 1 2 "In Memory of Hugh Sackett, Groton's Longest-Serving Faculty Member". Groton School. 14 April 2020.
  4. ↑ "SALON". 22 April 2020. Retrieved 8 July 2023.
  5. 1 2 3 Cadogan, Gerald (December 2020). "Hugh Sackett (1928–2020)". The Annual of the British School at Athens. 115: 419–427. doi:10.1017/S0068245420000131.
  6. ↑ "Belle Burden And Henry Davis". The New York Times. 6 June 1999. Retrieved 7 July 2023.
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