Museum director

Froelich Rainey

fl. 1955–1956

Museum director, active 1955–1956. Worked with John Lawrence Angel and G. Roger Edwards.

Life and work

  1. 1955–1956
    With G. Roger Edwards, thanked by J. L. Angel for 'their parts in arranging shipment of the skulls to Philadelphia' (eight Sotira skulls, reconstructed in Angel's laboratory at Jefferson Medical College in the academic year 1955-56).

    PhiladelphiaDikaios 1961

  2. 1955
    Thanked as Director by the Youngs for the University Museum's facilities and for undertaking the publication of 'Terracotta Figurines from Kourion in Cyprus'.

    Young & Young 1955

  3. Undated
    As Director of the University Museum 'gave official sanction to the project' of Dikaios's Sotira excavation (for the Curium Expedition, whose Director was B. H. Hill and Field Director G. McFadden) and 'always gave me his wholehearted support' (Dikaios). The Curium Expedition funded and published the work; Megaw lent Dikaios's services.

    SotiraDikaios 1961

Connections

3 people
Porphyrios DikaiosJohn Lawrence AngelG. Roger EdwardsFroelich Rainey
FieldworkScholarshipColleagues

Fieldwork & employment

Scholarship

Colleagues & contacts

Sources

  1. 1.P. Dikaios (1961). Sotira. Philadelphia, University Museum, University of Pennsylvania.
  2. 2.John Howard Young, Suzanne Halstead Young (1955). Terracotta Figurines from Kourion in Cyprus. Philadelphia, University Museum, University of Pennsylvania.