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Thomas Burgon

fl. 1809–1977 · United Kingdom

British collector and scholar, active 1809–1977. Sold to British Museum.

Life and work

  1. 1809
  2. 1813
    Wrote a memoir in the Transactions of the Royal Society of Literature on the geometric pottery of Mycenae and Tiryns, a ware also found in Cyprus; his collection, formed in Athens from 1813, entered the British Museum.

    Rayet, Olivier (1847-1887), Histoire de la céramique grecque (1888), p. 222

  3. 1828–1832
    Collector whose collection included the Melos terracottas (C 69-74) obtained in Melos in 1828 and 1832

    H. B. Walters, Catalogue of the Terracottas in the Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities, British Museum (1903), p. 196

  4. 1841
    Named in British Museum acquisition records: sold 14 objects; is named as previous owner of 1 object (1841).

    British Museum collection online, reg. 1841,B.2190; 1841,B.2238; 1841,B.3269; 1841,B.3713

  5. 1977
    Owned an object ('bottle', reg. 1977,1011.85), now in the British Museum.

    British Museum collection online, 'bottle', reg. 1977,1011.85

  6. Undated
    Collected antiquities in Athens and the Greek islands from about 1809, including braziers, a gold signet ring and a gold pendant; the British Museum bought his vases in 1842.

    Dyfri Williams; Jack Ogden, Greek Gold Jewellery of the Classical World (1994), p. 51

  7. Undated
  8. Undated
    Owned gold signet ring (R2/R3 comparandum, not Cypriot)

    Die goldenen Siegelringe der Ägäischen Bronzezeit (2018)

  9. Undated
    Offered or sold Greek vases

    The builder (1842)

  10. Undated
    Named among scholars whose glances at vase collections in the British Museum, Leyden and Copenhagen were less sharp than the author's classification of painted Greek pottery.

    Akademie der Wissenschaften in Wien. Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaften Klasse, Sitzungberichte (1848)

  11. Undated
    Wrote an excellent memoir in the Transactions of the Royal Society of Literature on geometrical pottery found at Mycenae and Tiryns, which is also found in Cyprus.

    Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of London (1843)

Mentioned in

1 mention

Documents · 1

Sources

  1. 1.Dyfri Williams; Jack Ogden, Greek Gold Jewellery of the Classical World (1994).
  2. 2.Hellenistic braziers in the British Museum: trade contacts between ancient Mediterranean cities (2001).
  3. 3.Die goldenen Siegelringe der Ägäischen Bronzezeit (2018).
  4. 4.The builder (1842).
  5. 5.Rayet, Olivier (1847-1887), Histoire de la céramique grecque (1888).
  6. 6.Akademie der Wissenschaften in Wien. Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaften Klasse, Sitzungberichte (1848).
  7. 7.Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of London (1843).
  8. 8.British Museum collection online, 'bottle'.
  9. 9.British Museum collection online.
  10. 10.H. B. Walters, Catalogue of the Terracottas in the Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities, British Museum (1903).

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