Museum
Museo dell'Accademia Etrusca e della Città di Cortona (MAEC)
Cortona, Italy · founded 1728
Museum in Cortona, founded 1728. 5 people in the register connected with it.
The Cypriot collection
two small groups of Cypriot vases: five from the Corbelli collection (one certainly Cypriot Base Ring jug, others of doubtful origin) and nine from the Pancrazi collection (2001)
History
- 1767Giovanni Mariti reports that he gave some of the KOINON KYPRION Roman Imperial coins found at Kition in 1767 to the museum of the Etruscan Academy at Cortona.
CortonaGiovanni MaritiMariti 1909
- 1891–1896Mgr Guido Corbelli, Apostolic Delegate in Alexandria from 1888, sent his Egyptian antiquities in three shipments; four of the five Cypriot vases came with the 1894 shipment (160 objects) and a fifth two years later. The vases were probably bought on the Alexandria antiquities market, and are a by-product of Egyptian collecting.
- 1931Luigi Pancrazi, member of the Academy since 1923, donated nine Cypriot vases (originally his wife's, of the Gozzi family of Turin) with Graeco-Roman material; some were misclassified as Etruscan, Greek or Roman.
- 1955V. G. Botti classified the Egyptian collection, including the supposedly Cypriot Corbelli vases.
CortonaTatton-Brown 2001, nn. 19
People
5 peopleStaff and members · 2
- V. G. Botticurator (1894–1955) · author of catalogue of its Egyptian collection (external)Tatton-Brown 2001, nn. 251955
- V. G. Bottiother (1955–1955)Tatton-Brown 2001, nn. 19
Donors and lenders · 3
- Giovanni Maritidonor (1767–1767) · recipient of his gift of coins · gave objectsMariti 19091767
- Guido Corbellidonor (1891–1896) · donor of Egyptian collection incl. Cypriot vases · gave objectsTatton-Brown 2001, p. 1371891–1903
- Luigi Pancrazidonor (1931–1931) · member (1923–1974) · member (elected 1923); librarian 1945-1974 · gave objectsTatton-Brown 2001, p. 138Tatton-Brown 2001, p. 1381923–1931
Objects
Base Ring jug with lenticular body, funnel rim and ribbon handle
3289via Guido Corbelli1891–1896Tatton-Brown 2001
Double painted vase, LBA, perhaps a Palestinian product in Egyptian style
264via Guido Corbelli1891–1896Tatton-Brown 2001
Nine Cypriot vases: Red Polished III bowl, two Base Ring I juglets, Mycenaean stirrup jar, Cypro-Archaic amphora and jug, and others
via Luigi Pancrazi1931Tatton-Brown 2001
Sources
- 1.Veronica Tatton-Brown (ed.) (2001). Cyprus in the 19th Century AD: Fact, Fancy and Fiction. Oxford, Oxbow.
- 2.Giovanni Mariti (1909). Travels in the Island of Cyprus. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press.