Antiquities official · Museum director
Aziz Ogan
1888–1956 · Türkiye
Turkish antiquities official and museum director. Worked at Izmir (Smyrna). Worked for Istanbul Archaeological Museums.
Life and work
- 28 June 1923The Directorate of Antiquities wrote to him, as Inspector of Antiquities in Izmir, about the fire-ruined collections of the Evangelical School; the Izmir Museum then excavated the debris and found 185 copper coins (Kurt 2016, quoted)
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- 1924Izmir Archaeology Museum acquired a Hellenistic naiskos back panel (Izmir History and Art Museum Inv. 000.884) that had been in the Evangelical School
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- 15 February 1927Izmir Archaeology Museum opened to the public (date as argued by Rous, Laugier and Martinez); his 1927 guide to it (Turkish ed. 'Izmir', French 'Smyrne') names no Cypriot piece and does not mention the Evangelical School collection
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Sources
- 1.Robert S. Merrillees (2017). “Cypriote antiquities in Late Ottoman Istanbul and Smyrna - II: Cypriote antiquities in the Greek Evangelical School Museum and their Trading in Late Ottoman Smyrna (Modern Izmir)”. Cahiers du Centre d'Études Chypriotes 47, 121-164. Online
- 2.A. Ogan (1927). Guide to the archaeological museum, Izmir / Smyrne.
- 3.M. Savino (2015). “Aziz Ogan and the Development of Archaeological Museums in the Turkish Republic”. Museum History Journal 8, 88-101.