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Lucio Mariani

fl. 1894–1901

Archaeologist and scholar, active 1894–1901.

Life and work

  1. 1897–1901
    Italian archaeologist who published in the American Journal of Archaeology (1897, cited also as 1901) the vases from the tombs of Courtes and Erganos in Crete, classifying Geometric and Cypriote-type vases among them, and who made discoveries in Crete in the 1890s, where Evans records him being asked the price of a bronze chariot group.

    The Annual of the British School at Athens 1906-1907: Iss 13

  2. Undated
    Author of the article on the Courtes and Erganos vases from Cyprus and Crete, citing Cretan and Cypriot vase comparisons and the Mycenaean style of Courtes tomb finds.

    Archaeological Institute of America, American journal of archaeology (1885)

  3. Undated
    Author of the article on the vases of Erganos and Courtes in Cyprus, describing and classifying Geometric and Cypriote vases from Courtes.

    American journal of archaeology : the journal of the Archaeological Institute of America (1897)

  4. Undated
    Was asked 180 francs by the owner of a silver/bronze chariot group at Ena-Inatos; Evans notes the owner asked Mariani for the price, implying a dealer or buyer of antiquities in Crete.

    Ann Brown; Keith Bennett, Arthur Evans's Travels in Crete 1894-1899 (2001), p. 59

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Sources

  1. 1.The Annual of the British School at Athens 1906-1907: Iss 13.
  2. 2.Archaeological Institute of America, American journal of archaeology (1885).
  3. 3.American journal of archaeology : the journal of the Archaeological Institute of America (1897).
  4. 4.Ann Brown; Keith Bennett, Arthur Evans's Travels in Crete 1894-1899 (2001).

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