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Scholar · Cataloguer

Ernesto Schiaparelli

fl. 1878–1893 · Italy

Italian scholar and cataloguer, active 1878–1893. Catalogued the collection of Riccardo Colucci.

Life and work

  1. 1878
    Catalogued the Cypriot antiquities donated in 1870-1871 by the Italian consul Riccardo Colucci, then housed in the Museo Egizio at Florence; his report and inventory of 1878 do not mention Paphos as the findspot.

    FlorencePaolo 2012

  2. 1893
    Published a note on the Egyptian antiquities of the Cortona museum (the Corbelli group and the 18th-century nucleus). The Cypriot vases of the Etruscan Academy of Cortona arrived inside the Corbelli collection; Schiaparelli's note concerned the first, 1891, Egyptian shipment.

    CortonaTatton-Brown 2001Tatton-Brown 2001, n. 23

Connections

3 people
Riccardo ColucciGuido CorbelliG. F. GamurriniErnesto Schiaparelli
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Sources

  1. 1.S. Di Paolo (2012). “From Italy to Cyprus and back again. Completed research and ongoing projects”. Cahiers du Centre d'Études Chypriotes 42, 325-346.
  2. 2.E. Schiaparelli (1878). “Report and inventory of the Colucci collection of Cypriot antiquities”. Museo Egizio, Florence.
  3. 3.E. Schiaparelli (1893). “Le antichità egiziane del Museo di Cortona”. Giornale della Società Asiatica Italiana 7, 317-338.
  4. 4.Veronica Tatton-Brown (ed.) (2001). Cyprus in the 19th Century AD: Fact, Fancy and Fiction. Oxford, Oxbow.
  5. 5.Eric M. Meyers (ed.) (1997). The Oxford Encyclopedia of Archaeology in the Near East. New York, Oxford University Press.