Dealer · Collector
Athanasios Rhousopoulos
fl. 1860–1905 · Greece
Athens dealer and collector of the later nineteenth century whose coins, among them a gold hemistater of Pumiathon of Kition, were sold by Hirsch in 1905.
Biography
A gold hemistater of Pumiathon from Kition was once in the collection of Athanasios Rhousopoulos, an Athens dealer. The Classical Numismatic Group's catalogue for its Triton XIX sale (2016) gives its provenance as the Consul Weber and Rhousopoulos collections4. His coins were sold by Hirsch on 15 May 1905, in sale XII, where the Kition piece was lot 40294.
Yannis Galanakis, in the American Journal of Archaeology (2013), names him and Palaiologos as the two Athens dealers who sold groups of objects with recorded find contexts in the 1860s and 1870s3. Susan Sherratt records Amorgos cist-grave pottery and a dagger sold by him to Arthur Evans for the Ashmolean Museum, but the same AJA article connects Evans's 1893 Amorgian groups with Palaiologos1,3. Sherratt also notes that a stamp-cylinder seal which the Ashmolean bought in 1889 from Greville Chester had been obtained by Chester from Rhousopoulos in Athens2. His dates of birth and death are not recorded.
Life and work
- by 1889A stamp-cylinder seal bought by the Ashmolean from Greville Chester in 1889 had been purchased by Chester at least from Rhousopoulos in Athens.
Connections
3 peopleSales, gifts & bequests
- Sold to Sir Arthur John Evanscist grave E pots and dagger from Amorgos; AE 263 (1893.80) jug with cutaway neck Susan Sherratt, 2000, Catalogue of Cycladic Antiquities in the Ashmolean Museum: The Captive Spirit, p. 66; Yannis Galanakis; Susan Sherratt, Catalogue of Cycladic Antiquities in the Ashmolean Museum: The Captive Spirit (2000), p. 66; Susan Sherratt, Catalogue of Cycladic Antiquities in the Ashmolean Museum: The Captive Spirit (2000), p. 2091893
- Sold to Greville John ChesterprobablySusan Sherratt, 2000, Catalogue of Cycladic Antiquities in the Ashmolean Museum: The Captive Spirit, vol. 2 (Illustrations), p. 40
Scholarship
- Collection catalogued by Jacob HirschAuctions-Catalog XIII: Greek coins from his estate Wikipedia (de), 2026, Jacob Hirsch1905
Sources
- 1.Susan Sherratt (2000). Catalogue of Cycladic Antiquities in the Ashmolean Museum: The Captive Spirit. pp. 66, 209.
- 2.Susan Sherratt (2000). Catalogue of Cycladic Antiquities in the Ashmolean Museum: The Captive Spirit, vol. 2 (Illustrations). p. 40.
- 3.Yannis Galanakis (2013). “Early Prehistoric Research on Amorgos and the Beginnings of Cycladic Archaeology”. American Journal of Archaeology 117.2, 181-205. Online
- 4. (2016). Classical Numismatic Group, Triton XIX (Sessions 3, 4). leaf 35.
- 5. (1897). “Revue archéologique, July 1897”. p. 90.
- 6.Susan Sherratt, 2000, Catalogue of Cycladic Antiquities in the Ashmolean Museum: The Captive Spirit.
- 7.Susan Sherratt, 2000, Catalogue of Cycladic Antiquities in the Ashmolean Museum: The Captive Spirit, vol. 2 (Illustrations).
- 8.Susan Sherratt, Catalogue of Cycladic Antiquities in the Ashmolean Museum: The Captive Spirit (2000).
- 9.Wikipedia (de), 2026, Jacob Hirsch.
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