Henry Hunter Calvert’s Collection of Amphora Stamps and that of Sidney Smith Saunders
By (author) Alan Johnston
Paperback (Published)
(June 2020)
ISBN: 9781789696431
6.93 x 9.69 inches
Price: $35.00
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Henry Hunter Calvert was a British consul in Alexandria from 1857 to 1882, at which date he and many others fled from the riots in the city. The consulate was sacked, destroying Calvert’s collections, but an annotated list of the Greek amphora stamps had been sent to the British Museum, published here for the first time.
Henry Hunter Calvert died at his family house at Cannakale in 1880 a few months after escaping from the rioting in Alexandria where he was British consul. The consulate was sacked and his collections destroyed. He had however sent an annotated list of his Greek amphora stamps to the British Museum, presumably to Charles Newton, with whom he and his brother Frank had frequent correspondence. This list was forgotten until the present writer ‘found’ it in a box-file in the Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities (its title at the time). Henry Hunter Calvert’s Collection of Amphora Stamps and that of Sidney Smith Saunders publicly presents that material.
Introduction ; Catalogue ; BaeticaBrindisiThasosChiosKosKnidosRhodesPamphyliaEgyptKos and KnidosRhodesUnprovenancedRhodian seconday stamps Catalogue ;
BaeticaBrindisiThasosChiosKosKnidosRhodesPamphyliaEgypt Comment ;
Kos and KnidosRhodesUnprovenanced Index of names ;
Rhodian seconday stamps Symbols (Rhodian unless otherwise stated) ;
Plates ;
Bibliography
Alan Johnston is Emeritus Reader in Classical Archaeology at University College London. He has published widely on Greek archaeology, notably ceramics and epigraphy, having contributed to excavation reports from Aigina, Antikythera, Gravisca, Kition, Kommos and Kythera. Recently he has been working at the British Museum with the Naukratis Project team and on a catalogue of amphora stamps in the collection, and this publication is an offshoot of that work.
- By (author) Alan Johnston
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