William Hepburn Buckler FBA 1867-1952

William Hebpurn Buckler (FBA) was an American lawyer, diplomat and epigrapher. In 1910, some years after gaining an undergraduate degree at Trinity College Cambridge, he served as a field-archaeologist of the American Archaeological Expedition to Sardis, on the first large-scale archaeological investigation of the site.  By 1911 Buckler had become the epigraphist of the American excavation at Sardis. Over the course of many expeditions he would go on to become an expert in the Lydian language. Fiona Phillips is currently preparing digital scans of the material from Buckler's field expeditions to Sardis. This includes 3 notebooks, notes and photographs, slides and negatives, as well as some 50 squeezes of Lydian inscriptions, all of which are housed at the CSAD archive.