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Dorothy Burr Thompson

1900–2001 · United States

American classical archaeologist of Bryn Mawr whose 1958 review of the Youngs' Kourion figurines called the Kourion coroplasts "boors", as Erin Walcek Averett quotes her.

Biography

Dorothy Burr Thompson reviewed John Howard Young and Suzanne Halstead Young's Terracotta Figurines from Kourion in Cyprus twice, in the American Journal of Philology in 1956 and in the American Journal of Archaeology in 19582,3. Erin Walcek Averett quotes it as saying that the Kourion coroplasts "had absolutely no artistic sense, no feeling for scale, no understanding of fundamental plastic principles. They were boors", and cites it as an instance of the long-held view that Cypriot terracottas were unworthy of study beside those of mainland Greece1.

She was an archaeologist and art historian at Bryn Mawr College, born at Philadelphia on 19 August 1900 and dead at Hightstown on 10 May 20014.

Life and work

  1. 1900

    1. 19 August

      Born in Philadelphia.

      PhiladelphiaWikidata/GND. Dorothy Burr Thompson (authority record)

  2. 1956

    1. Review of J. H. Young and S. H. Young, Terracotta Figurines from Kourion in Cyprus.

      Dorothy Burr Thompson (1956). Review of Young & Young, Terracotta Figurines from Kourion in Cyprus. American Journal of Philology 77, 301-304, pp. 301-304

  3. 1958

    1. Second review of the same book, judging that the Kourion coroplasts "had absolutely no artistic sense ... They were boors" (quoted by Averett).

      KourionDorothy Burr Thompson (1958). Review of Terracotta Figurines from Kourion in Cyprus by J. H. Young and S. H. Young. American Journal of Archaeology 62(2), 238-240, pp. 238-240; Erin Walcek Averett (2021). The Iron Age Terracotta Figurines from Cyprus. Darby and de Hulster (eds), Iron Age Terracotta Figurines from the Southern Levant in Context (Brill, CHANE 125), 310-352, p. 1

  4. 2001

    1. 10 May

      Died at Hightstown.

      HightstownWikidata/GND. Dorothy Burr Thompson (authority record)

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Studied1

  • Dorothy Burr Thompson had handled the terracotta bust and discussed its style.

    Terracotta bust called “Arsinoe”No. No. 1013Thompson 1956, p. 304

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Documents · 4

Sources

  1. 1.Erin Walcek Averett (2021). “The Iron Age Terracotta Figurines from Cyprus”. Darby and de Hulster (eds), Iron Age Terracotta Figurines from the Southern Levant in Context (Brill, CHANE 125), 310-352.
  2. 2.Dorothy Burr Thompson (1956). “Review of Young & Young, Terracotta Figurines from Kourion in Cyprus”. American Journal of Philology 77, 301-304. Online
  3. 3.Dorothy Burr Thompson (1958). “Review of Terracotta Figurines from Kourion in Cyprus by J. H. Young and S. H. Young”. American Journal of Archaeology 62(2), 238-240. Online
  4. 4.Wikidata/GND. Dorothy Burr Thompson (authority record). Online
  5. 5.Dorothy Burr Thompson, 1956, Review of Terracotta Figurines from Kourion in Cyprus by J. H. Young and S. H. Young.

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