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T. L. Donaldson

fl. 1817–1874 · United Kingdom

British collector and scholar, active 1817–1874. Received gifts from Luigi Palma di Cesnola; worked with Huyot.

Life and work

  1. 1839
    Author of Architectura Numismatica (London, 1839), cited for coins and Cypriot numismatic material.

    Frazer, James George, Sir, 1854-1941; Frazer, Lilly Grove, Lady, Adonis, étude de religions orientales comparées (1921)

  2. 1859
    Author of 'Architectura Numismatica' (London, 1859), discussing coin depictions of Cypriot temple architecture.

    Frazer, James George, 1854-1941, The golden bough : a study in magic and religion (1911)

  3. 1859
    Wrote Architectura Numismatica (London, 1859), discussing the Paphian shrine as shown on coins.

    James George Frazer, The Golden Bough-part -iv (adonis Attis Osiris -vol - I) (1914)

  4. 1859
    Wrote Architectura Numismatica (London, 1859), discussing Cypriot coin depictions of the Paphian temple with a figure.

    James George Frazer, Adonis Attis Osiris Vol I (1914)

  5. 1859
    Wrote Architectura Numismatica (1859), which discusses coins showing the Paphian shrine with pillars and cone.

    James George Frazer, Adonis Attis Osiris Vol I

  6. Undated
    Architect and antiquary who was given two terracotta heads from Larnaca by the American and British consuls there and exhibited them; he sketched at Priene and Miletus and illustrated the temple of Paphos on Cypriot coins in his Architectura Numismatica.

    British Archaeological Association. Central Committee; Archaeological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland. Central Committee; Royal Archaeological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland. Central Committee, The Archaeological journal

  7. Undated
    Made sketches at Priene and Miletus, now in the Library of the Institute of Architects; travelled with Huyot.

    Lethaby, W.R., Greek buildings (1908)

  8. Undated
    Made sketches at Priene and Miletus, now in the Library of the Institute of Architects, on one of which Huyot's presence is mentioned.

    Lethaby, W. R. (William Richard), 1857-1931, Greek buildings, represented by fragments in the British museum (1908)

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  10. Undated
    Proposed a restoration of the Treasury of Agamemnon at Mycenae using the stone fragments.

    Mémoires de la Société nationale des antiquaires de France (1817)

  11. Undated
    Published a figuration of the temple of Paphos on a Cypriot coin in his Architecture numismatica, cited by the reviewer as the source for the set's temple design.

    L'Émulation (1874)

  12. Undated
    Author of Architectura Numismatica, which discusses Cypriot coins showing the Paphian shrine; he also reported on two terracotta figurines from Cyprus in his possession.

    British Archaeological Association. Central Committee; Archaeological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland. Central Committee; Royal Archaeological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland. Central Committee, The Archaeological journal (1844)

  13. Undated
    Wrote Architectura Numismatica, cited for illustrations of the Paphos temple on coins.

    Frazer J G Adonis, Attis, Osiris; Studies In The History Of Oriental Religion 1907

  14. Undated
    Was given by an American two terracotta heads of small figures from Larnaca.

    The Archaeological journal

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Sources

  1. 1.British Archaeological Association. Central Committee; Archaeological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland. Central Committee; Royal Archaeological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland. Central Committee, The Archaeological journal.
  2. 2.Lethaby, W.R., Greek buildings (1908).
  3. 3.Lethaby, W. R. (William Richard), 1857-1931, Greek buildings, represented by fragments in the British museum (1908).
  4. 4.Mémoires de la Société nationale des antiquaires de France (1817).
  5. 5.L'Émulation (1874).
  6. 6.British Archaeological Association. Central Committee; Archaeological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland. Central Committee; Royal Archaeological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland. Central Committee, The Archaeological journal (1844).
  7. 7.Frazer, James George, 1854-1941, The golden bough : a study in magic and religion (1911).
  8. 8.Frazer, James George, Sir, 1854-1941; Frazer, Lilly Grove, Lady, Adonis, étude de religions orientales comparées (1921).
  9. 9.James George Frazer, The Golden Bough-part -iv (adonis Attis Osiris -vol - I) (1914).
  10. 10.James George Frazer, Adonis Attis Osiris Vol I (1914).
  11. 11.James George Frazer, Adonis Attis Osiris Vol I.
  12. 12.Frazer J G Adonis, Attis, Osiris; Studies In The History Of Oriental Religion 1907.
  13. 13.The Archaeological journal.

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