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Giulio Jacopi

fl. 1928–1972 · Italy

Italian archaeologist (1898-1978), Superintendent of Rhodes and museum director in the late 1920s, who published Cypriot-type finds from Ialysos and Kameiros and acquired Cypriot vases.

Biography

Giulio Jacopi (1898-1978) was Superintendent of Rhodes from 1927 to 1930 and director of its Archaeological Museum, according to Scoduto1. The finds he published from the island include Cypriot pottery and sculpture.

He worked at Ialysos and Kameiros. Buchholz cites his Ialysos finds of 1929 and his exploration of Kameiros in Clara Rhodos VI-VII (1933), both with objects of Cypriot type2. From 1928 to 1930 he directed the work at Kameiros, including the acropolis, and in 1932/33 he published the "votive deposit" there, more than 350 objects grouped, by his own admission, arbitrarily from the acropolis and a nearby temple; the finds included Cypriot limestone statuettes3,4.

Scoduto writes that Jacopi added to the museum's collection of vases by exchanges with the Cyprus Museum and by "some purchases from the local antiquaries" in Cyprus1. Which dealers sold to Rhodes, and which vases passed from Nicosia, is not recorded.

Life and work

  1. 1928
    As director of the Rhodes museum added to its vase collection by exchanges with the Cyprus Museum and by purchases from local antiquaries in Cyprus (Scoduto 2010, text read in the Internet Archive copy, in the discussion of the museum's acquisitions; Scoduto dates Jacopi's 1928 remarks on the museum, not the exchanges).

    RhodesRisario Scoduto (2010). Il ritorno dei Cavalieri a Rodi. Eugenio Maria Falcone Editore

  2. 1932–1933
    Published the votive deposit ('La stipe votiva', Clara Rhodos VI-VII, pp. 279-365) of the Kameiros acropolis and Temple A (excavated 1928-1930), more than 350 objects, including Cypriot limestone statuettes.

    KameirosProceedings of the International Archaeological Conference (2023). Religion and Cult in the Dodecanese during the First Millennium BC

  3. 1972

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Sources

  1. 1.Risario Scoduto (2010). Il ritorno dei Cavalieri a Rodi. Eugenio Maria Falcone Editore.
  2. 2.H.-G. Buchholz (1999). Ugarit, Zypern und Aegaeis. 354.
  3. 3.Proceedings of the International Archaeological Conference (2023). Religion and Cult in the Dodecanese during the First Millennium BC.
  4. 4.G. Jacopi (1932). “La stipe votiva dell'acropoli di Rodi (Clara Rhodos)”.
  5. 5.Collège de France, Paris, Fonds Claude Schaeffer (34 CDF), 34 CDF art. 169, «[Réponse de Schaeffer à la lettre de Karageorghis du 24 janvier 1972]», 1 February 1972of 6. Online

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