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Scholar

Virginia Webb

fl. 1860–2017

Scholar, active 1860–2017.

Life and work

  1. 1860
    Photographed the Kamiros double vase held by the British Museum (BM 1860,0404.75) for this publication.

    Interpreting the Seventh Century BC (2017), p. 72

  2. 1899–1903
    Interpreted the faience figurine from the 1899–1903 Naucratis excavations as an offering of vessel contents to the goddess.

    Fenici a Naucratis? (2017), p. 40

  3. 1978
    Wrote on double-head vases in Archaic Greek Faience (1978), a series to which a vase formerly in Berlin belongs.

    Olivier Masson; Antoine Hermary, Les fouilles d'Ohnefalsch-Richter à Idalion en 1894 (1988), p. 12

  4. Undated
    Virginia Webb studied the type of faience perfume vase at length.

    V. Karageorghis, 1988, Blacks in Ancient Cypriot Art, p. 30

  5. Undated
    Author of Archaic Greek Faience (1978), cited for double-head faience vases including one excavated by Ohnefalsch-Richter at Idalion in 1894 and later in Berlin.

    G.C. IOANNIDES, ΑΦΙΕΡΩΜΑ ΣΤΟ ΒΑΣΟ ΚΑΡΑΓΙΩΡΓΗ / Studies in Honour of Vassos Karageorghis (1992), p. 229

  6. Undated

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4 mentions

Sources

  1. 1.V. Karageorghis, 1988, Blacks in Ancient Cypriot Art.
  2. 2.G.C. IOANNIDES, ΑΦΙΕΡΩΜΑ ΣΤΟ ΒΑΣΟ ΚΑΡΑΓΙΩΡΓΗ / Studies in Honour of Vassos Karageorghis (1992).
  3. 3.Andrée Feghali Gorton, Egyptian and Egyptianizing Scarabs: A Typology of Steatite, Faience and Paste Scarabs from Punic and other Mediterranean Sites (1996).
  4. 4.Interpreting the Seventh Century BC (2017).
  5. 5.Olivier Masson; Antoine Hermary, Les fouilles d'Ohnefalsch-Richter à Idalion en 1894 (1988).
  6. 6.Fenici a Naucratis? (2017).

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