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)

Tatton-Brown 2001, pp. 137-138

History

  1. 1767
    Giovanni 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

  2. 1891–1896
    Mgr 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.

    CortonaGuido CorbelliTatton-Brown 2001, p. 137

  3. 1931
    Luigi 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.

    CortonaLuigi PancraziTatton-Brown 2001, p. 138

  4. 1955
    V. G. Botti classified the Egyptian collection, including the supposedly Cypriot Corbelli vases.

    CortonaTatton-Brown 2001, nn. 19

People

5 people

Staff and members · 2

Donors and lenders · 3

Objects

Sources

  1. 1.Veronica Tatton-Brown (ed.) (2001). Cyprus in the 19th Century AD: Fact, Fancy and Fiction. Oxford, Oxbow.
  2. 2.Giovanni Mariti (1909). Travels in the Island of Cyprus. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press.