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Mr. Ayer

fl. 1917 · United States

American collector and donor, active in 1917.

Life and work

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    His collection of Egyptian vessels, amphorae and ostraca, which included Cypriot pottery, was shown at the Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago; his Etruscan jewellery is also published.

    Field Museum Of Natural History Report Series Vol.5 Nos. 3-6 (1917)

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    Collected vessels of the Prehistoric Empire, Ptolemaic and Roman times, amphorae and ostraca that are now displayed in one Egyptian case; the passage also lists Cypriote pottery in the adjacent case.

    Field Museum Of Natural History Report Series Vol.5; Nos. 3-6 (1917)

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    Collected vessels, amphorae and ostraca of Prehistoric, Ptolemaic and Roman times, including Cypriote pottery, now displayed in the Egyptian collection's re-organized cases at the Chicago Natural History Museum.

    Chicago Natural History Museum; Chicago Natural History Museum. Report of the director to the Board of Trustees; Chicago Natural History Museum. Report series, Report

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    Passed to a museum Etruscan jewelry: bullae, diadem fragment, disc pendant, earrings, necklaces, scarab finger rings from the Ayer collection

    Adriana Calinescu, Ancient Jewelry and Archaeology (1996), p. 250

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Sources

  1. 1.Field Museum Of Natural History Report Series Vol.5 Nos. 3-6 (1917).
  2. 2.Field Museum Of Natural History Report Series Vol.5; Nos. 3-6 (1917).
  3. 3.Chicago Natural History Museum; Chicago Natural History Museum. Report of the director to the Board of Trustees; Chicago Natural History Museum. Report series, Report.
  4. 4.Adriana Calinescu, Ancient Jewelry and Archaeology (1996).

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