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Seymour de Ricci

fl. 1900–1927

Scholar and epigrapher, active 1900–1927.

Life and work

  1. 1900–1911
    Scholar and reviewer who summarised the Revue archéologique note on vandalism in Cyprus (1900) and a Bammeville inscription from Palaepaphos (1911), commented on rings of the kind found in Syria and Cyprus (1908), and obtained coins of Demetrios Poliorketes from a lot of mainly Cilician issues.

    La Diana (Loire), Bulletin de la Diana (1908-04), p. 35

  2. 1903
    Wrote on Queen Berenice III in Revue archéologique 1903, citing the Cyprus inscription at p. 55 without fixing its date.

    Bernard Haussoullier; Harald Ingholt, Inscriptions grecques de Syrie (1924), p. 318

  3. 1910
    Reviewed the University of Pennsylvania Museum Journal (1910) and commented on the Breccia publication of the Cypriot inscription.

    Revue archéologique (1911)

  4. Undated
    Wrote a memoir on the Palermo table, of which four new fragments had just been published; the passage does not tie him to Cyprus.

    Figaro : journal non politique (1917-04-05), p. 10

  5. Undated
    Obtained coins nos. 40ε, ζ and η from a large lot composed mainly of Cilician issues.

    Edward T. Newell, The Coinages of Demetrius Poliorcetes (1927)

  6. Undated
    Obtained coins nos. 40, 40 and 6 from a large lot of mainly Cilician issues.

    Newell, Edward T., The Coinage Of Demetrius Poliorcetes (1927)

  7. Undated
    Reviewer who summarized the Revue archéologique note on the 'vandalisme à Chypre' and other items; the passage gives only his reviewing initials S. R.

    Revue des revues et publications d'académies relatives à l'antiquité classique 25.1900

  8. Undated
    Reviewed the Museum Journal of the University of Pennsylvania; the passage notes a Bammeville catalogue inscription from Palaeo-Paphos transcribed in it.

    Ernest Leroux, Revue Archeologique (quatrieme Serie Tome.17) (1911)

  9. Undated
    Owned Papyrusfragment aus dem 3. Jahre des Hakoris; further papyrus fragments entrusted for study, deposited at the Egyptological Institute of the University of Strasbourg

    Assyriologische Veröffentlichungen der Yale-Universität (1922), p. 399

  10. Undated
    Excavated an object ('figurine', inv. AM 1339); now in Musée du Louvre.

    Musée du Louvre collection online, 'figurine', inv. AM 1339

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Sources

  1. 1.La Diana (Loire), Bulletin de la Diana (1908-04).
  2. 2.Figaro : journal non politique (1917-04-05).
  3. 3.Edward T. Newell, The Coinages of Demetrius Poliorcetes (1927).
  4. 4.Newell, Edward T., The Coinage Of Demetrius Poliorcetes (1927).
  5. 5.Revue des revues et publications d'académies relatives à l'antiquité classique 25.1900.
  6. 6.Ernest Leroux, Revue Archeologique (quatrieme Serie Tome.17) (1911).
  7. 7.Revue archéologique (1911).
  8. 8.Bernard Haussoullier; Harald Ingholt, Inscriptions grecques de Syrie (1924).
  9. 9.Assyriologische Veröffentlichungen der Yale-Universität (1922).
  10. 10.Musée du Louvre collection online, 'figurine'.
  11. 11.Seymour de Ricci, 1912.

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