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Herbert A. Cahn

fl. 1963–2022

Collector and numismatist, active 1963–2022. Sold to Rosemary Lois and George Lois; gave to British Museum.

Life and work

  1. 1969
    His Basel collection included a fragmentary krater rim perhaps by Kleitias; he wrote the catalogue Kunstwerke der Antike for Münzen und Medaillen auction 40 (1969).

    Lauren Adams, Orientalizing Sculpture in Soft Limestone from Crete and Mainland Greece (1978), p. 152

  2. 1983
    Gave the British Museum a fragment of a Caeretan black-figure hydria in 1983 and worked on the coinage of Knidos.

    The British Museum, Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities Selected Acquisitions, 1980–1992 (1994), p. 244

  3. 2022
    Basel collector and numismatist whose collection held Attic vase fragments and a Cypriot Late Bronze Age milk bowl, sold at Hindman in 2022.

    Hindman Auctions., Ancient Art & Natural History. A Cabinet Of Curiosities. Hindman Auctions, Oct 2022.

  4. Undated
    Owner of the Cahn collection in Basel, which holds fragments of Attic red-figure vases with unattested satyr and maenad names, attributed to the Sotades Painter and Dinos Painter.

    Marion True; Conrad M. Stibbe; Janet Burnett Grossman; William A. P. Childs; Dyfri Williams; Diana Buitron-Oliver; Martin Robertson; Gene Waddell; Lucilla Burn; Anneliese Kossatz-Deißmann, Greek Vases in the J. Paul Getty Museum Volume 5 (1991), p. 139

  5. Undated
  6. Undated
    Prepared a study of the coinage of Knidos and supplied information on inscribed coins.

    L. H. JEFFERY, THE LOCAL SCRIPTS OF ARCHAIC GREECE

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  8. Undated
    Sold an object ('Terracotta neck-amphora (jar)', inv. 2010.147) to Rosemary Lois in 1973; now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

    Metropolitan Museum of Art collection online, 'Terracotta neck-amphora (jar)', inv. 2010.147

  9. Undated
    Owned an object ('Terracotta neck-amphora (jar)', inv. 2010.147) in 1964–1973, now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

    Metropolitan Museum of Art collection online, 'Terracotta neck-amphora (jar)', inv. 2010.147

Connections

2 people

Sales, gifts & bequests

Mentioned in

3 mentions

Sources

  1. 1.Hindman Auctions., Ancient Art & Natural History. A Cabinet Of Curiosities. Hindman Auctions, Oct 2022..
  2. 2.Marion True; Conrad M. Stibbe; Janet Burnett Grossman; William A. P. Childs; Dyfri Williams; Diana Buitron-Oliver; Martin Robertson; Gene Waddell; Lucilla Burn; Anneliese Kossatz-Deißmann, Greek Vases in the J. Paul Getty Museum Volume 5 (1991).
  3. 3.The Early Black-Figured Pottery of Attika in Context (<i>c</i>. 630-570 BCE) (2011).
  4. 4.L. H. JEFFERY, THE LOCAL SCRIPTS OF ARCHAIC GREECE.
  5. 5.The British Museum, Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities Selected Acquisitions, 1980–1992 (1994).
  6. 6.Lauren Adams, Orientalizing Sculpture in Soft Limestone from Crete and Mainland Greece (1978).
  7. 7.Giampaolo Graziadio; Riccardo Guglielmino; Valeria Lenuzza; Salvatore Vitale, Φιλική Συναυλία: Studies in Mediterranean Archaeology for Mario Benzi (2013).
  8. 8.Metropolitan Museum of Art collection online, 'Terracotta neck-amphora (jar)'.

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