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Numismatist

Philip Grierson

fl. 1955–1992

Numismatist, active 1955–1992. Catalogued the collection of Dumbarton Oaks.

Life and work

  1. 1955
    Published 'The Kyrenia Girdle of Byzantine Medallions and Solidi', on the gold girdle from the Lambousa treasure (now Dumbarton Oaks); suggested 609/10 as a possible concealment date for the girdle.

    LambousaLeader 2000, n. 8Metcalf 2009

  2. 1961
    Published 'The Date of the Dumbarton Oaks Epiphany Medallion' (DOP 15), cited by Leader with the girdle for coins of 583 and 584.

    Leader 2000, n. 8

  3. 1968
    Published DOC vol. 2 (Phocas to Theodosius III) of the Dumbarton Oaks Byzantine coin catalogue.

    Stewart et al. 2014

Objects

  • Gold marriage girdle with four medallions of six solidi of Maurice and solidi (second Lambousa treasure)

    From LambousaDumbarton OaksLeader 2000, n. 8Metcalf 2009

Sources

  1. 1.Philip Grierson (1955). “The Kyrenia Girdle of Byzantine Medallions and Solidi”. Numismatic Chronicle 15, 55-70.
  2. 2.Philip Grierson (1961). “The Date of the Dumbarton Oaks Epiphany Medallion”. Dumbarton Oaks Papers 15, 221-224.
  3. 3.P. Grierson (1968). Catalogue of the Byzantine Coins in the Dumbarton Oaks Collection and in the Whittemore Collection, vol. 2: Phocas to Theodosius III. Washington, DC, Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection.
  4. 4.Philip Grierson (1973). Catalogue of the Byzantine Coins in the Dumbarton Oaks Collection and in the Whittemore Collection, III: Leo III-Nicephorus III, 717-1081. Washington, DC, Dumbarton Oaks.
  5. 5.Ruth E. Leader (2000). “The David Plates Revisited: Transforming the Secular in Early Byzantium”. The Art Bulletin 82, 407-427. College Art Association. Online
  6. 6.D. M. Metcalf (2009). Byzantine Cyprus 491-1191. Nicosia, Cyprus Research Centre.
  7. 7.C. A. Stewart (ed.), T. W. Davis (ed.), A. Weyl Carr (ed.) (2014). Cyprus and the Balance of Empires: Art and Archaeology from Justinian I to the Coeur de Lion. CAARI / ASOR.
  8. 8.Annemarie Weyl Carr, Laurence J. Morrocco (1991). A Byzantine Masterpiece Recovered: The Thirteenth-Century Murals of Lysi, Cyprus. Austin, University of Texas Press, with the Menil Foundation.