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John Marshall

1862–1928 · United Kingdom

British museum buyer and agent. Worked at Rome. Gave to Antikensammlung der Universität Leipzig; worked with Edward Perry Warren.

Life and work

  1. 1889
    Moved with Edward Perry Warren to Lewes House, Sussex

    Lewescontributors

  2. 1903
    Became the Metropolitan Museum's purchasing agent in Rome, at Edward Robinson's invitation

    Romecontributors

  3. 1908
    With Warren gave Leipzig University's Antikensammlung a terracotta kouros statuette ('aus Naukratis?') listed among its Cypriot holdings

    LeipzigRecke 2012, p. 111

  4. 15 February 1928
    Died; buried with Warren and Mary Bliss at Bagni di Lucca per the plan described

    contributors

Connections

2 people

Family

Colleagues & contacts

Objects

  • Terracotta kouros statuette ('aus Naukratis?'), listed in Recke's survey of Cypriot antiquities in German collections

    Antikensammlung der Universität Leipzig1908Recke 2012, p. 111

Sources

  1. 1.Matthias Recke (2012). “Deutschland und das antike Zypern. Beiträge zur Geschichte einer archäologischen Disziplin”. Cahiers du Centre d'Études Chypriotes 42.
  2. 2.Wikipedia contributors. “John Marshall (died 1928)”. Wikipedia. Online