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Glenn Edward Markoe
1951–2012
American art historian (1951-2012) whose 1985 catalogue of Phoenician bronze and silver bowls is the standard corpus for the decorated bowls found in Cyprus.
Biography
Glenn Markoe's 1985 catalogue Phoenician Bronze and Silver Bowls from Cyprus and the Mediterranean is the corpus cited for the decorated metal bowls from Idalion, Amathus and the Cesnola Collection. He was born in New York City in 1951 and died in Kenwood, Ohio, in 20129.
The book, published by the University of California Press, lists bowls from Greece, Crete, Cyprus, Rhodes, Sicily, Italy, Anatolia, Iran and Israel7. Its Cyprus entries include Cy1 and Cy2, two bowls with Phoenician inscriptions from the hoard found at Ambelliri, Idalion, in 18498. Vassos Karageorghis wrote in 1999 that Markoe had published over seventy surviving examples2.
Markoe dated the silver bowls to the first quarter of the seventh century BC, earlier than Einar Nilson Gjerstad did. Karageorghis preferred Markoe's date2. Hermary gave the same split for Cesnola Collection bowl 74.51.4557, which Markoe placed in the early seventh century and Gjerstad in the early sixth3. Franklin (2016) used his division of the symposium bowls into phases4.
Life and work
- 1985Published the corpus of Phoenician bronze and silver bowls, with a Cyprus section (catalogue numbers Cy1, Cy2 are the Ambelliri, Idalion bowls found in 1849; Cy3, Cy5 also cited); the corpus covers bowls from Greece, Crete, Cyprus, Rhodes, Sicily, Italy, Anatolia, Iran and Israel plus unprovenanced pieces.
BerkeleyMarkoe 1985Review of G. Markoe,…The Punic Mediterranean: Identities…
- 1999Karageorghis reports that Markoe published more than seventy surviving decorated metal bowls and writes: 'I regard Gjerstad's date as too late and prefer Markoe's dating' (first quarter of the seventh century BC for the Cypriot silver bowl).
- 2000Hermary notes that Markoe dates the Cesnola Collection silver bowl 74.51.4557 to the early seventh century BC, against Gjerstad's early sixth.
- 2012Died at Kenwood, Ohio.
Kenwood, OhioWikidata/GND authority record: Glenn…
Objects
Silver bowl from the Cesnola Collection with date discussion (Markoe: early 7th c. BC)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York 74.51.4557Hermary 2000, p. 68
Discussed in documents
- Karageorghis (1999). A Cypriot Silver Bowl Reconsidered: I. The Iconography of the DecorationStudied the bowls and proposed a date
- Franklin (2016). Ethnicity and musical identity in the lyric landscape of early CyprusClassified symposium bowls into phases
- López-Ruiz (2021). Phoenicians and the Making of the MediterraneanScholar of Phoenician art and workshops
Also named in
Sources
- 1.G. Markoe (1985). Phoenician Bronze and Silver Bowls from Cyprus and the Mediterranean. University of California Press, Berkeley and Los Angeles.
- 2.V. Karageorghis (1999). “A Cypriot Silver Bowl Reconsidered”.
- 3.A. Hermary (2000). “Déesse plutôt que reine ? A propos d'une coupe en argent de la collection Cesnola”.
- 4.J. C. Franklin (2016). “Ethnicity and Musical Identity in the Lyric Landscape of Early Cyprus”.
- 5.C. López-Ruiz (2021). Phoenicians and the Making of the Mediterranean.
- 6.“The Connected Iron Age: Interregional Networks in the Eastern Mediterranean 900-600 BCE”.
- 7.“Review of G. Markoe, Phoenician Bronze and Silver Bowls (JSTOR 10.2307/505297)”.
- 8.“The Punic Mediterranean: Identities and Identification from Phoenician Settlement to Roman Rule”.
- 9.Wikidata/GND authority record: Glenn Markoe. Online