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Peter Julius Loytved

fl. 1878–1912 · Denmark

Collector at Beirut, probably the Danish consul there, who sold a Cypriot jug to the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek in 1886 and once owned a Cypriot double herm of Hermes-Thoth.

Biography

J. Loytved, probably the Danish consul Peter Julius Loytved, sold the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek in Copenhagen a Cypriot jug in 1886, and a Cypriot double herm of Hermes-Thoth was photographed while in his possession. He was listed as the royal Danish vice-consul at Beirut in the membership lists of the Deutscher Palaestina-Verein5, and in 1889 the Danish writer C. Henrik Scharling named him as Danish consul there4.

The jug, a Plain White vessel with a figure holding an oinochoe (Ny Carlsberg I.N. 955), was bought by J. Loytved at Beirut in 1886 and sold to the museum in the same year6. Adolf Furtwaengler wrote that Theodor Schreiber photographed the double herm while it was still in Konsul Loytved's possession; it later belonged to Dr Sobernheim in Berlin1. M.-L. Buhl wrote on him as an antiquarian in 19928. A Roman portrait in the Glyptotek is recorded as acquired in 1891 from the Loytved collection7.

Life and work

  1. 1889
    Named as the Danish consul in Beirut by the Danish travel writer C. H. Scharling (host to his party before the Hauran journey).

    BeirutC. Henrik Scharling (1890). Hauran: Reisebilder aus Palaestina. p. 96, p. 96

  2. 1891
  3. 1895–1904
    Photographs by Th. Schreiber of a limestone/marble double herm (Hermes-Thoth) from Cyprus taken while Konsul Loytved owned it; later in the Berlin collection of Dr Sobernheim and published by R. Foerster (JdI 19, 1904).

    Adolf Furtwaengler (1912). Kleine Schriften, vol. 2

  4. 1912
    Kleine Schriften (1912) (1912) reported: Owned the double herme from Cyprus; the Cypriot origin was given by him at the time: «als dieselbe noch im Besitze von Konsul Loytved sich befand»

    Kleine Schriften (1912), p. 379

  5. Undated
    Purchased the glass vessel and lid in Cyprus from the collection later acquired by the Glyptotek

    Olof Vessberg; Alfred Westholm, The Swedish Cyprus Expedition, Vol. IV, Part 3: The Hellenistic and Roman Periods in Cyprus (1956)

  6. Undated

Through their hands

2 records

Came from

Sellers not named1886
Peter Julius Loytved

Went to

Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek
SaleWho objects came from and went to, as the sources record it
  1. 1886

    PurchaseJ. Loytved bought the jug in Beirut in 1886.

    cruche Plain White VIINo. I.N. 955BeyrouthVandenabeele 1994, p. 24

  2. n.d.

    SaleJ. Loytved sold the jug to the museum in the same year he bought it.

    Sold to Ny Carlsberg Glyptotekcruche Plain White VII I.N. 955No. I.N. 955Vandenabeele 1994, p. 24

Connections

2 people

Objects

Mentioned in

5 mentions

Documents · 2

Institutions · 1

Sources

  1. 1.Adolf Furtwaengler (1912). Kleine Schriften, vol. 2.
  2. 2.Wilhelm von Landau (1893). Beitraege zur Altertumskunde des Orients.
  3. 3.Galil et al. (2012). The Ancient Near East in the 12th-10th Centuries BCE. 310.
  4. 4.C. Henrik Scharling (1890). Hauran: Reisebilder aus Palaestina. p. 96.
  5. 5.Deutscher Palaestina-Verein (1884). “Zeitschrift des Deutschen Palaestina-Vereins vol. 6-7 (member list)”. Zeitschrift des Deutschen Palaestina-Vereins, p. 662.
  6. 6.Frieda Vandenabeele (1994). “Ohnefalsch-Richter - Cesnola: ou la recherche des cruches à terres cuites tenant une oinochoe”. Cahiers du Centre d'Études Chypriotes 22, 19-31.
  7. 7.Typologische Untersuchungen zur Dichter- und Denkerikonographie in roemischen Darstellungen von der mittleren Kaiserzeit (catalogue entry: 'Erworben 1891 aus der Sammlung Loytved'). p. 258.
  8. 8.M.-L. Buhl (1992). “Some Western-Asiatic Bronze Figurines and a Few Remarks on Julius Loytved as an Antiquarian”. Acta Archaeologica 48.
  9. 9.Kleine Schriften (1912).
  10. 10.Olof Vessberg; Alfred Westholm, The Swedish Cyprus Expedition, Vol. IV, Part 3: The Hellenistic and Roman Periods in Cyprus (1956).
  11. 11.Adolf Furtwaengler, 1912, Kleine Schriften, vol. 2, leaf 389.
  12. 12.Furtwängler, Adolf, 1853-1907; Sieveking, Johannes; Curtius, Ludwig, 1874-1954, Kleine Schriften (1912).
  13. 13.Verein von Altertumsfreunden im Rheinlande, Bonner Jahrbücher : Jahrbücher des Vereins von Alterthumsfreunden im Rheinlande (1895).

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