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Archaeologist · Museum director

Paolo Orsi

1859–1935 · Italy

Director of the Syracuse museum, whose excavation reports left out a Cypriot Base Ring juglet from tomb 7 at Thapsos, according to Alberti.

Biography

A Cypriot Late Bronze Age Base Ring juglet lay in tomb 7 at Thapsos in Sicily, and Paolo Orsi left it out of his reports. Alberti writes that this was "a documented habit" of Orsi's with items, and adds that a separate study reports the juglet identified in the tomb's inventory by G. Graziadio7.

Orsi was born at Rovereto on 18 October 1859 and died there on 8 November 19351. A 1902 article in the Revue archéologique calls him director of the museum of Syracuse and says that his excavations in the mountain zone of Pantalica modified the thesis of Patroni on the Sicanes and Sicules2. He was not a dealer or collector of Cypriot antiquities.

Life and work

  1. by 2008
    Alberti (2008) says Orsi omitted from his reports the Cypriot Base Ring juglet from Thapsos tomb 7, 'a documented habit' of Orsi in omitting items; a separate study reports the juglet identified by G. Graziadio in the tomb's inventory.

    ThapsosG. Alberti (2008). La ceramica eoliana della facies del Milazzese: Studio crono-tipologico e culturale sulla base dei dati editi da Filicudi, Lipari, Panarea, Salina, p. 111

In the field

1 record

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Connections

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6 mentions

Sources

  1. 1.Wikidata (2026). “Paolo Orsi (Q1394882)”. Online
  2. 2.Revue archéologique (1902). “Revue archéologique, 3e série, t. 40 (on Sicanes and Sicules)”. Revue archéologique.
  3. 3.R. Leighton; R. M. Albanese Procelli (2019). “Pantalica in the Sicilian Late Bronze and Iron Ages”. p. 66.
  4. 4.D. Tanasi; C. Veca (2019). “Incontri e Mobilità nel Mediterraneo preistorico”.
  5. 5.F. Lo Schiavo et al. (1985). “Late Cypriot Imports to Italy and their Influence on Local Bronzework”. p. 2.
  6. 6.H. Chisholm (ed.) (1910). “Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th ed.”.
  7. 7.G. Alberti (2008). La ceramica eoliana della facies del Milazzese: Studio crono-tipologico e culturale sulla base dei dati editi da Filicudi, Lipari, Panarea, Salina.
  8. 8.W. Deonna (1912). “Article in Revue d'ethnographie et de sociologie”. Revue d'ethnographie et de sociologie.
  9. 9.F. Lo Schiavo, E. Macnamara, L. Vagnetti (1985). “Late Cypriot Imports to Italy and their Influence on Local Bronzework”. Papers of the British School at Rome 53, 1-71.
  10. 10.various, The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A dictionary of arts, sciences, literature and general information - Constantine Pavlovich to Demidov (1910).
  11. 11.Chisholm, Hugh, 1866-1924, The encyclopædia britannica; a dictionary of arts, sciences, literature and general information (1910).
  12. 12.F. Lo Schiavo et al., 1985, Late Cypriot Imports to Italy and their Influence on Local Bronzework.

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