Elizabeth Errington


Elizabeth Errington is a specialist on the archaeology of Gandhara and the collections of Charles Masson, and a numismatist specialising in Asian coins.

Biography

Errington grew up in Potchefstroom in South Africa and gained a diploma at the Johannesburg School of Art in 1967. Subsequently she worked as a graphic designer in South Africa and London. Errington entered the School of Oriental and African Studies in 1977 and gained her B.A. Honours in Near and Middle East History and Archaeology in 1980. Errington then worked part-time on her PhD from 1980-1987 on 19th-century archaeology in Gandhara and Afghanistan entitled: The Western Discovery of the Art of Gandhara and the Finds of Jamalgarhi.
Errington worked for the British Institute of Persian Studies in 1988 preparing the catalogue of the Ghubayra Excavations, Iran, for publication.
After her PhD at the School of Oriental and African Studies, Errington worked on the "Crossroads of Asia" exhibition and catalogue at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, 1992. She then joined the Department of Coins and Medals at the British Museum, working with Joe Cribb, Helen Wang, Vesta Sarkhosh Curtis, and Robert Bracey on Asian coins, making a significant contribution to Silk Road Numismatics.
A major project - the Charles Masson Project - is now coming to fruition, with two volumes already in print and a third in progress.
Errington is an advisor to Oxford University's Gandhara Connections project.

Publications

Catalogues resulting from the Masson Project
Selected Other Publications