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The Dal Pozzo-Albani Drawings of Classical Antiquities Notes on Their Content and Arrangement

THE history of the great collection of drawings of classical antiquities which was assembled by Cassiano dal Pozzo and later collectors has been frequently and fairly fully discussed in archaeological literature of the last eighty years.1 With the exception of thirty drawings seen at Windsor as recently as 1905 and now no longer in the collection, the Dal Pozzo-Albani drawings fill about fifteen large volumes in the Royal Library at Windsor Castle and two even larger volumes in the Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities of the British Museum. The drawings of classical sculptures of all types are concentrated in ten of the Windsor volumes and number 834 separate drawings, many elaborately colored and highly finished. To this material may be added over 500 drawings of antiquities of all types in the volumes preserved in the British Museum, hereinafter designated as Franks (see p. 19 below).

The Dal Pozzo-Albani Drawings of Classical Antiquities: Notes on Their Content and Arrangement

The Dal Pozzo-Albani Drawings of Classical Antiquities: Notes on Their Content and Arrangement

En græsk pyxis fra Homers tidsalder

A Greek Pyxis from the age of HomerThe collection of Oriental and Classical Antiquities at the university of Århus (see "Kuml" 1952, p. 107) has acquired in the past year a number of additional antiquities, one of which is the geometrical pyxis shown in fig. 1 (entire height 13,8 cms., diam. 15,1 cms.). This piece of pottery is especially remarkable for the horse figure on its lid, which is mainly intact and gives an idea of Greek modelling in about the first half of the 8th century B. C. Like other pyxides of that type it has two pairs of holes bored through the edge of the lid into the rim of the receptacle. These holes prove that the lid and the receptacle belong together. Probably they served for fastening strings for suspension so that the bottom of the vase, which is decorated with concentric stripes and a central star, was visible from below.The place of discovery of the vase is unknown, but style and clay point towards Attica. It may have been found in a grave such as that illustrated in fig. 2, which is from the same period and also contains a horse-pyxis.Kristian Jeppesen

En jydsk antiksamling

A Collection of Oriental and Classical Antiquities in Jutland Between 1784 and 1803 there existed at Aarhus an interesting private museum of antiquities and coins belonging to the ex-premier 0. Høegh Guldberg, Lord Lieutenant of Aarhus County; the majority of the objects contained therein are now in the National Museum in Copenhagen. When in 1949 a chair of classical archaeology was inaugurated in the University of Aarhus three of Guldberg's antiques, figs. 1 and 2, returned to Aarhus. This time they formed part of a type collection of objects from the ancient Mediterranean and West-Asiatic cultures which was deposited by the National Museum to serve as study material in the University courses. In 1951 the classical antiquities and casts belonging to the Art Museum at Aarhus were transferred to the University; the antiquities were formerly in the possession of the sculptor Vilhelm Bissen who is said to have acquired them in Italy (One of them is illustrated in fig. 3).In addition the University Collection has received a number of gifts and has purchased other specimens in the art market. Among the more important recent acquisitions the first to be mentioned is an Egyptian mummy of the 21st dynasty with its mummy-board and coffin, figs. 4 and 5; according to the inscriptions it is the remains of the priestess Ta-ba-set of Amon's temple at Thebes, and it presumably came from the Deir al-Bahri cache. Western Asia is represented by an Astarte figurine from Central Syria, fig. 6, which is of the same type as local works of art of the period 1900-1750 B.C. The Attic kylix with a red-figured interior picture, fig. 7a-b, is reported to have been found at Athens in 1860 or 1866; its shape and decoration date it to the late archaic period and make an attribution to the Pithos Painter plausible. A group of pottery and a few iron objects, fig. 8 a-e, seem to have been taken from a 7th century tomb in South or Central Etruria; Etruscan, too, is the jug fig. 9, of the late 7th century B.C. A late archaic bearded terracotta head, evidently Tarentine, fig. 10, and a kantharos of Gnathia ware or rather a related Central Italian manufacture, fig. 11, close the enumeration; the latter specimen was found in the Baths of Nero at Rome, a statement which is likely to mean that the cup belonged to a Hellenistic burial in a lower stratum.At the end of the article the collection of casts is briefly dealt with. It was mainly acquired in the years 1877-1906, most of it under the supervision of the famous art-historian Julius Lange, who died in 1896.P.J. Riis

Guides to the Danish National Museum: Department of Oriental and Classical Antiquities. Egypt, Western Asia, Greece and Rome. Pp. 108, 32 pl. Copenhagen: Danish National Museum, 1950. Price not given.

Guides to the Danish National Museum: Department of Oriental and Classical Antiquities. Egypt, Western Asia, Greece and Rome. Pp. 108, 32 pl. Copenhagen: Danish National Museum, 1950. Price not given.

An Archaeological Survey of the Classical Antiquities of the Island of Chios Carried out between the Months of March and July 1938

Although Chios and its antiquities have been visited and described by many travellers from the earliest times, it is only recently that any serious archaeological investigations have been carried out in the island, and up to the present only two sites have been thoroughly excavated. Dr. Kourouniotis, who carried out the first excavation on Chios, gives a list, in ἈρΧ. Δελτ. I, p. 64, of the more important references to the island up to the time of that article, and for a complete list the reader is referred to the Bibliography of Chios by Dr. Philip Argenti (Oxford, Clarendon Press).Since Dr. Kourouniotis wrote there have been several articles published in various periodicals, almost all on the epigraphy of Chios, and his list should now be supplemented by the following: Plassart and Picard, BCH XXXVII 193; A. Reinach, REG XXII pp. 193–4; Rehm, Gnomon II p. 124; Evangelides Ἀpχ· Δελτ. IX παράρτημα p. 51; Αρχ· Δελτ. XI παράρτημα 23 (and cf. Keil, Jahreshefte XIV p. 54); Arch. Anz. XLV p. 144; Peek, Ἀρχ. Ἐφ.

Danish National Museum, Department of Oriental and Classical Antiquities. Catalogue of Terracottas, Cypriote, Greek, Etrusco-Italian and Roman. By Niels Breitenstein.

Previous articleNext article No AccessBook ReviewsDanish National Museum, Department of Oriental and Classical Antiquities. Catalogue of Terracottas, Cypriote, Greek, Etrusco-Italian and Roman. By Niels Breitenstein.Hetty GoldmanHetty Goldman Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUS Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by American Journal of Archaeology Volume 46, Number 2April–June 1942 The journal of the Archaeological Institute of America Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.2307/499402 Copyright © 1942 by the Archaeological Institute of America. All rights reserved.PDF download Crossref reports no articles citing this article.

Sir Arthur Evans: Gifts to the Ashmolean Museum

SIR ARTHUR EVANS has presented to the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, of which he was keeper for a period of twenty-five years ending in 1908, his unique collection of Minoan sealstones and gems, gold rings and jewels, as an accession to the recently rearranged ‘Minoan Room’. The collection, as is recalled by the Oxford correspondent of The Times of February 2, is “far-famed and unrivalled”, embracing every period and class of the Minoan gem-cutter's art—prisms, button-seals, cylinders and ring bezels in steatite, cornelian, ivory and other materials, engraved with pictographs, scenes of ritual, bullfighting and other sports. Among the rings is the famous great gold ring of Nestor, the group of gold beads known as the Treasure of Thisbe, all engraved with scenes of ritual, combat and ancient legend. Since Sir Arthur began his archaeological explorations in Crete in the early nineties of the last century, both while he was keeper of the Museum and after, he has been liberal in contributing to its collections examples of the objects discovered by him in his excavations. With this latest gift, the Ashmolean collection of Minoan antiquities becomes the most important and the most complete outside Crete itself. Recent alterations of the Museum, in which the largest archaeological gallery has been divided into three sections, have made it possible for Sir Arthur, with the assistance of Miss Mercy Money-Coutts, to make a new installation of Cretan antiquities, in which the older collections have been supplemented by groups of casts, numerous photographs, diagrams and water-colour drawings, with figurines, smaller antiquities and pottery which he has transferred to the Museum from his private cabinets. His benefactions have not, however, been confined to the donation of antiquities from Crete. They include classical antiquities, large series of Greek, Roman and Anglo-Saxon coins, and other objects, as well as the great collections of stone and bronze implements, Anglo-Saxon jewellery and other material which belonged to his father, the late Sir John Evans.

Geometry of Greek Vases. Attic Vases in the Museum of Fine Arts analysed according to the principles of Proportion discovered by Jay Hambidge. By L. D. Caskey, Curator of Classical Antiquities. Pp. xi + 235, with numerous diagrams in the text. Boston, 1922.

Geometry of Greek Vases. Attic Vases in the Museum of Fine Arts analysed according to the principles of Proportion discovered by Jay Hambidge. By L. D. Caskey, Curator of Classical Antiquities. Pp. xi + 235, with numerous diagrams in the text. Boston, 1922.

Ancient Italy and Modern Borneo: a Study in Comparative Culture

The valuable work of Messrs. Hose & McDougall on the ‘Pagan Tribes of Borneo“ was published in 1912, and contains an account of the methods of divination practised by some of these peoples. In compiling it the authors had been led to consult Smith's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, so striking did the parallelism appear between the augural practices of Borneo and those of ancient Italy. And they were not mistaken; the parallelism is even stronger than they suspected, and induced me to write a notice of the book in the Journal of Roman Studies, in order to call the attention of students to the subject. Since then I have again gone carefully through the work, and noted a number of other points in which the habits of the one people remind me of the other. It seems worth while to bring these together.

Three Sculptured Stelai in the Possession of Lord Newton at Lyme Park

The recent Exhibition of works of Greek art held at the Burlington Fine Arts Club—although necessarily limited to comparatively small objects—has been sufficient to prove that the traditional wealth of our English collections of classical antiquities still remains a fact. The Exhibition, moreover, has had its use in eliciting information as to works of art on a larger scale, hitherto unknown and unrecorded, that had escaped the vigilance of Waagen and of Conze, of Michaelis and of Furtwängler, and even of our English archaeologists. Thus it was that when the Exhibition was little more than planned I learnt from the well known sculptor, Countess Feodora Gleichen, that there existed at Lyme Park, Lord Newton's Cheshire seat, three fine sculptured Stelai from the best period of Attic art. I am grateful to the owner for granting me permission to publish these inedited works in this Journal, which ought indeed to be the official gazette of the English collections. I have unfortunately been unable to avail myself as yet of Lord Newton's further permission to study the originals. But as photographs of the Stelai are now extant, I have thought it wiser not to postpone the publication for fear that it might be anticipated elsewhere. The information kindly given me by Lord Newton himself has facilitated the discussion and interpretation of the Stelai which, for the rest, are perfectly straightforward examples of their class.

Book Review: Harper's Dictionary of Classical Literature and Antiquities

Book Review: Harper's Dictionary of Classical Literature and Antiquities

Book Review: Atlas of Classical Antiquities.

Book Review: Atlas of Classical Antiquities.

Atlas of Classical Antiquities. By Schreiber and W. C. F. Anderson.

Previous articleNext article FreeReviews and Notices of BooksAtlas of Classical Antiquities. By Schreiber and W. C. F. Anderson.A. M.A. M. Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUS Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by Volume 10, Number 1January–March 1895 Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.2307/496516 Views: 5Total views on this site Journal History This article was published in The American Journal of Archaeology and of the History of the Fine Arts (1885-1896), which is continued by American Journal of Archaeology (1897-present). Copyright © 1895 by the Archaeological Institute of America. All rights reserved.PDF download Crossref reports no articles citing this article.

Seyffert's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities - A Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, Mythology, Religion, Literature and Art, from the German of DrOscar Seyffert, revised and edited, with additions, by H. Nettleship and J. E. Sandys, with more than 450 Illustrations. London: Swan Sonnenschein & Co.1891. 21s.

Seyffert's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities - A Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, Mythology, Religion, Literature and Art, from the German of DrOscar Seyffert, revised and edited, with additions, by H. Nettleship and J. E. Sandys, with more than 450 Illustrations. London: Swan Sonnenschein & Co.1891. 21s. - Volume 5 Issue 8

Some Museums of Northern Europe

The classical museums of the Baltic cities are among the least known in Europe, and the accounts of the objects they contain have hitherto been desultory or are not recent enough to be of sufficient value. The present paper is not intended as an exhaustive register of the classical antiquities of Copenhagen, Stockholm, and St. Petersburg, but only as a short notice of such among them as are of some archaeological importance, and about which nothing or not enough has as yet been said. Judgment on these is often precarious, because it is difficult to discover their ‘provenance’ or the circumstances of their discovery. Of the classical antiquities in the ‘Prindsen's Palast’ at Copenhagen a detailed account was given by Wieseler in the Göttingen Gelehrte Anzeigen of 1863 (pp. 1921—1952); but there is now much in the small museum which is not noticed in his account, and which therefore has probably been more recently acquired. To the archaic period belong certain terra-cottas from Santarin, found together with a few vases of the geometrical system of ornament; the latter have been published by Ross and noticed by Conze, but as far as I can discover the terra-cottas are still unpublished. Two of these are worth special attention: (1) a small slab showing a winged Gorgon in full flight, of which the execution well illustrates the development of the free figure from the relief. The body is worked on both sides, but the whole form shows the impress of the relief style in the same pose of the limbs as appears in the so-called Nike of Archermos, in the Nike of Olympia, and in the relief-figure found on the site of the Hyblean Megara. The form of all these suggests at once that the motive was originally designed for relief-work, perhaps for metal plates or terra-cotta slabs to be attached to a background.

Harrow School Museum.—(1) Catalogue of the Egyptian antiquities from the collection of the late Sir Gardner Wilkinson: by E. A. Wallis Budge, M.A. - (2) Catalogue of the Classical antiquities from the collection of the late Sir Gardner Wilkinson: by Cecil Torr, M.A. Harrow, 1887. London: D. Nutt. 18. each.

Harrow School Museum.—(1) Catalogue of the Egyptian antiquities from the collection of the late Sir Gardner Wilkinson: by E. A. Wallis Budge, M.A. - (2) Catalogue of the Classical antiquities from the collection of the late Sir Gardner Wilkinson: by Cecil Torr, M.A. Harrow, 1887. London: D. Nutt. 18. each. - Volume 1 Issue 9

Descriptive Catalogue of the Casts from Greek and Roman Sculpture: Boston Museum of Fine Arts. By Edward Robinson, Curator of Classical Antiquities. Boston, 1887.

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III.—Topographical Notices

The following descriptions of the position and present state of some of the most interesting places connected with the history of the Frank Principality are the result of a journey through the Peloponnese, made with the object of investigating the remains of that period. The ordinary routes through the peninsula, which are followed by tourists naturally anxious to visit the classical antiquities, lead to but few of those sites, and therefore it is almost necessary to undertake a special journey in order to explore them. No doubt the mediaeval fortifications of Patras, Corinth, Argos, and Nauplia, which are frequently visited, are among the finest in the country; but these, as we have seen, are but little associated with the history of the Principality, Patras and Corinth having followed for the most part an independent policy of their own, while Argos and Nauplia were attached as a fief to the dukedom of Athens, and remained in the hands of the family of Brienne even after their expulsion by the Catalans from their possessions in northern Greece. The same thing is true of the maritime fortresses of Modon and Coron in the south-west corner of the Peloponnese, for they were almost from the first in the hands of Venice. Hence the parts of the country which deserve especial attention in connection with this period are the north-western, the central, and the southern districts—or, to adopt the ancient names, Elis, Arcadia, and Laconia, together with the eastern portion of Messenia. The course of my own tour was from Corinth by way of Argos, Nikli (Tegea), and Mistra, to Monemvasia on the extreme south-east coast; thence by Passava in Maina and Kalamata through the pass of Makriplagi to Karitena and Akova in north-western Arcadia; and finally through Elis, visiting Khlemoutzi, Klarentza, and Andravida, to Patras. In what I have now to say, however, I prefer to invert this order, and to commence with the western portion, which formed the headquarters of the Principality. Some of the places to be noticed have been visited by Leake, others by Ernst Curtius; Buchon, also, who was indefatigable in every branch of his subject, made a journey in 1840 and 1841 in quest of these Frankish antiquities, an account of which is given in his interesting volume, entitled La Grèce continentale et la Morée. But the majority of the sites are so little known, and the subject has attracted so little attention, that a succinct account of them, which is the result of personal inspection, may not be without value.