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Georg Karo

1872–1963 · Germany

Archaeologist. Sold to Akademisches Kunstmuseum Bonn; worked with Arvanitopoulos.

Life and work

  1. 1900
    Supplied Körte a photograph of Louvre A 246, a Cypriot bucchero basin, as evidence for the Cypriot origin of a basin from Gordion Tumulus III

    G. Körte; A. Körte (1904). Gordion: Ergebnisse der Ausgrabung im Jahre 1900

  2. 1953
    author cited in footnotes (Die Schachtgräber von Mykenai) in Claude Schaeffer's papers (Collège de France), 1 document, 1953.

    Collège de France, Paris, Fonds Claude Schaeffer (34 CDF), 34 CDF art. 179, «[Tiré à part "De Midea à Salamis de Chypre à propos de deux coupes d'or et d'argent"]», 1953of 28

  3. Undated

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Sources

  1. 1.Authority record (Wikidata / GND). Online
  2. 2.G. Leroux (1913). Lagynos.
  3. 3.G. Körte; A. Körte (1904). Gordion: Ergebnisse der Ausgrabung im Jahre 1900.
  4. 4.J. Thimme (1977). Art and Culture of the Cyclades in the Third Millennium B.C.. 509.
  5. 5.G. Karo (1930). Die Schachtgräber von Mykenae.
  6. 6.Collège de France, Paris, Fonds Claude Schaeffer (34 CDF), 34 CDF art. 179, «[Tiré à part "De Midea à Salamis de Chypre à propos de deux coupes d'or et d'argent"]», 1953of 28. Online
  7. 7.Collège de France, Paris, Fonds Claude Schaeffer (34 CDF), 34 CDF art. 242, «[Cahier de notes concernant Chypre, Gaza, Jéricho, l'Egypte, la Syrie (chronologies)]», undatedof 107. Online
  8. 8.Jahrbuch des Kaiserlich Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts (1886).
  9. 9.Sigrid Deger-Jalkotzy; Irene S. Lemos, Ancient Greece: From the Mycenaean Palaces to the Age of Homer (2006).

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