Scholar · Other
F. C. Penrose
fl. 1886–1891
Scholar, active 1886–1891. Received gifts from Antonino Salinas.
Life and work
- 1886Director of the British School at Athens from 1886; in the Transactions of the Royal Institute of British Architects he doubted that the excavated plan at Palaepaphos was the real temple of Aphrodite.
Annual of the British school at Athens no.2 (session-1895-6)
- 1886–1887Director of the British School at Athens 1886–1887.
- UndatedExpressed doubt, in the Transactions of the Royal Society of British Architects, that the excavated plan at the Paphian temple was the real temple of Aphrodite, linking it to Solomon's temple plan.
Louis Dyer, Studies of the gods in Greece at certain sanctuaries recently excavated ... (1891)
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2 peopleSales, gifts & bequests
- Received from Antonino Salinassmall casts of a terracotta The Collection of Terracotta Figurines in the British School at Athens (2006), p. 2711886
Colleagues & contacts
- Succeeded by Ernest Arthur GardnerDirector of the British School at Athens Revue archéologique (Chronique d'Orient), 1888, Chronique: the new Director of the English School at Athens; Cyprus; British School at Athens, 1906, Annual of the British School at Athens, no. 12: list of Directors of the School 1886-19061887
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3 mentionsDocuments · 1
- Studies of the Gods in Greece
Dyer 1891
- People · 2listed under Connections
Sources
- 1.Annual of the British school at Athens no.2 (session-1895-6).
- 2.Louis Dyer, Studies of the gods in Greece at certain sanctuaries recently excavated ... (1891).
- 3.Annual of the British school at athens (1896).
- 4.Revue archéologique (Chronique d'Orient), 1888, Chronique: the new Director of the English School at Athens; Cyprus; British School at Athens, 1906, Annual of the British School at Athens, no. 12: list of Directors of the School 1886-1906.
- 5.The Collection of Terracotta Figurines in the British School at Athens (2006).
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