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Museum director · Antiquities official · Numismatist

Antonino Salinas

fl. 1874–1911 · Italy

Italian museum director and antiquities official, active 1874–1911. Gave to F. C. Penrose.

Life and work

  1. 1886
    Director of the Royal Museum of Palermo who gave Francis Penrose small casts of a terracotta in 1886.

    The Collection of Terracotta Figurines in the British School at Athens (2006), p. 271

  2. 1908
    Member in 1908 of the commission of professors that examined the objects chosen from the Cyprus collection and gave a favourable opinion to the Ministry; also wrote on Sicilian coins, inscriptions and the Byzantine necklaces of the Palermo Museum.

    Dalton, O. M. (Ormonde Maddock), 1866-1945. n 85381285, Byzantine art and archaeology (1911)

  3. Undated
    Cited as author of publications (1876, 1883, 1893) on Sicilian Christian inscriptions, including the Selinunte deacon epitaph of Ausanius.

    Pietro Maria Militello; Hakan Öniz, SOMA 2011: Proceedings of the 15th Symposium on Mediterranean Archaeology held at the University of Catania 3-5 March 2011 (2015), p. 739

  4. Undated
    Member of the commission of professors that examined the chosen objects from the Cyprus collection and gave a favourable opinion to the Ministry.

    Adolfo e Angiolo Orvieto, Il Marzocco 1908 (1908)

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Sources

  1. 1.Dalton, O. M. (Ormonde Maddock), 1866-1945. n 85381285, Byzantine art and archaeology (1911).
  2. 2.Pietro Maria Militello; Hakan Öniz, SOMA 2011: Proceedings of the 15th Symposium on Mediterranean Archaeology held at the University of Catania 3-5 March 2011 (2015).
  3. 3.Adolfo e Angiolo Orvieto, Il Marzocco 1908 (1908).
  4. 4.The Collection of Terracotta Figurines in the British School at Athens (2006).

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