Museum

Staatliche Antikensammlungen und Glyptothek München

Munich, Germany

Museum in Munich. 8 people in the register connected with it.

The Cypriot collection

Recke's 2012 German survey lists the holding as sculpture, Early Cypriot to Cypro-Archaic pottery and terracottas, with war losses; no total is given in the entry (2012)

Recke 2012, p. 112

History

  1. 1872
    Acquires 31 vases from the Cesnola collection (Recke's provenance list).

    Luigi Palma di CesnolaRecke 2012, p. 112

  2. 1875
    Four Cypriot vases bought in Paris through Hofmann.

    ParisHofmannRecke 2012, p. 112

  3. March 1876
    Curator Heinrich Brunn draws up an inventory of about 90 vases labelled 'Cypern, Sammlung Cesnola' (inv. 2029-2120); Masson notes that no. 2121 (also 8068) is expressly an 1876 purchase in Paris. Cesnola's own list (via J. T. Johnston) names the 'Royal Museum at Munich' among institutions given specimens free.

    Heinrich BrunnLuigi Palma di CesnolaMasson 1996Cesnola 1878, p. 548

  4. 1904
    Friedrich Wilhelm von Bissing gives four vases from Enkomi.

    Friedrich Wilhelm von BissingRecke 2012, p. 112

  5. 1906
    Gift from the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, of 28 terracottas.

    Recke 2012, p. 112

  6. 1911
    Takes over nine Cypriot vessels from the Bayerisches Nationalmuseum.

    Recke 2012, p. 112

  7. 1929
    F. Buschor gives one Cypriot vase.

    F. BuschorRecke 2012, p. 112

  8. 1968
    Exhibition 'Schätze aus Zypern' in Munich (cited by Recke as the exhibition catalogue).

    Recke 2012, p. 112

People

8 people

Staff and members · 4

Donors and lenders · 4

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.Olivier Masson (1996). “La dispersion des antiquités chypriotes: les deux collections Cesnola”. Cahiers du Centre d'Études Chypriotes 25, 3-32. Online
  3. 3.L. P. di Cesnola (1878). Cyprus: Its Ancient Cities, Tombs, and Temples.