Museum

Akademisches Kunstmuseum Bonn

Bonn, Germany

Museum in Bonn; part of Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn. 5 people in the register connected with it.

The Cypriot collection

13 limestone sculptures, 93 ceramics, 20 terracottas, metal and 1 coin (stater of Euelthon, Salamis); plus over 30 vessels given in 1976 or 1980 (2012)

Recke 2012

History

  1. 1891–1892
    Acquired from Max Ohnefalsch-Richter finds from his excavations, especially the Lambertis necropolis at Tamassos (1889), Alambra, Larnaka, Dali and Amathus.

    TamassosMax Ohnefalsch-RichterRecke 2012

  2. 1894
    Finds of Ohnefalsch-Richter's 1894 Lambertis excavation, paid for by the Virchow-Stiftung, are now in Bonn (and in Berlin, Nicosia and Cambridge).

    TamassosMax Ohnefalsch-RichterRecke 2012

  3. 1902
    Cypriot pieces bought for the university collection on the Athens art market and from the trade in Cairo.

    Athens; CairoRecke 2012

  4. 1908
    Cypriot pieces acquired from the Athens trade ('1908 KH Athen').

    AthensRecke 2012

  5. 1976
    The Department of Antiquities, Nicosia, gave over 30 vessels, described as duplicates without known findspot, from the Bronze Age to the Byzantine period.

    NicosiaRecke 2012

  6. 1980
    Exhibition 'Schätze aus Zypern. 8 Jahrtausende, Neolithikum bis Mittelalter' at the Akademisches Kunstmuseum, 5 Nov - 7 Dec 1980, catalogue by C. Grunewald; included German finds from Old Paphos and Tamassos.

    BonnRecke 2012

  7. 1996
    M. Aspris published a Cypriot plate showing a loom, from the collection, in Bonner Jahrbücher 196.

    BonnRecke 2012

People

5 people

Staff and members · 4

Sellers and consignors · 1

Objects

  • Aegean-type pottery vessel from Ayia Paraskevi (cat. no. 59)

    229from Ayia ParaskeviGraziadio

Sources

  1. 1.Matthias Recke (2012). “Deutschland und das antike Zypern. Beiträge zur Geschichte einer archäologischen Disziplin”. Cahiers du Centre d'Études Chypriotes 42.
  2. 2.Giampaolo Graziadio. The Earliest Production of Aegean-Type Pottery in Cyprus.
  3. 3.Max Ohnefalsch-Richter (1893). Kypros, the Bible and Homer. London, Asher & Co.. Online
  4. 4.Salomon Reinach (1891). Chroniques d'Orient.