Alan Wace
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Alan John Bayard Wace was an English archaeologist, who served as director of the British School at Athens (BSA) between 1914 and 1923. He excavated widely in Thessaly, Laconia and Egypt and at the Bronze Age site of Mycenae in Greece. He was also an authority on Greek textiles and a prolific collector of Greek embroidery.
Wace at Asine in 1922
Drawings of potsherds from the sites of Tsangli and Rakhmani in Thessaly, from Wace and Thompson's Prehistoric Thessaly
French troops at the Beulé Gate during the 1917 occupation of Athens
Figurine, known as the "Ivory Triad", found by Wace on the citadel of Mycenae in 1939, called "the most remarkable of all Mycenaean ivories" by Waterhouse in 1986
British School at Athens
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The British School at Athens (BSA) is an institute for advanced research, one of the eight British International Research Institutes supported by the British Academy, that promotes the study of Greece in all its aspects. Under UK law it is a registered educational charity, which translates to a non-profit organisation in American and Greek law. It also is one of the 19 Foreign Archaeological Institutes defined by Hellenic Law No. 3028/2002, "On the Protection of Antiquities and Cultural Heritage in General," passed by the Greek Parliament in 2002. Under that law the 17 accredited foreign institutes may perform systematic excavation in Greece with the permission of the government.
The library of the BSA
The Heraion of Perachora, excavated by the British School at Athens during the 1930s
Robert Carr Bosanquet (centre), Richard MacGillivray Dawkins (left) and Charles Trick Currelly (right) at Roussolakkos, 1903-1905