Kyle Meredith Phillips Jr. (May 20, 1934, Cabot, Vermont – August 7, 1988, Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania) was a leading

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Etruscologist. Phillips was educated at

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(A.B. ''cum laude'' 1956) and

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(M.A. 1959, Ph.D. 1962). At Princeton he studied with

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. In 1962 he joined the faculty of

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. Having excavated with the Princeton team at

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in Sicily, Phillips decided to start a new project. Based on advice from

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, Phillips embarked on the excavation of an

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center at

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near

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in 1966. Here Phillips discovered a monumental complex whose interpretation remains controversial, despite ongoing fieldwork. From 1973 he was joined by his student Erik Nielsen in directing the project.De Puma, Richard D., Ingrid E. M. Edlund-Berry, and Lucy Shoe Meritt. "Kyle Meredith Phillips, Jr., 1934-1988." American Journal of Archaeology 93, no. 2 (1989): 239-40. Accessed April 5, 2021. http://www.jstor.org/stable/505091. In 1994 a monograph entitled ''Murlo and the Etruscans. Art and society in Ancient Etruria'' appeared in Phillips's honor. The book, which has many contributions by Etruscologists, includes a list of his publications and a posthumously published article.

Selected works

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Necrology

* De Puma, Richard D., Ingrid E. M. Edlund-Berry, and Lucy Shoe Meritt. "Kyle Meredith Phillips, Jr., 1934-1988." American Journal of Archaeology 93, no. 2 (1989): 239-40. Accessed April 5, 2021. http://www.jstor.org/stable/505091.

References

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