Excavator · Archaeologist
Walter Andrae
fl. 1300–1935 · Germany
German excavator and archaeologist, active 1300–1935. Worked for Deutsche Orient Gesellschaft; worked with Jennifer M. Webb and Sir Arthur John Evans.
Life and work
- 1904Excavated at Ashur and Kar Tukulti-Ninurta in 1904–14 for the Deutsche Orient-Gesellschaft; his Minoan-type faience from Ashur was identified as counterparts of Enkomi finds, and he agreed with Evans to publish it separately.
- 1932Found at Assur a faience vase of the 9th–8th centuries whose Cypriot origin was recognised by R. Hall (published 1932).
Librairie Paul Geuthner, Syria Revue D’art Oriental Et D’archeologie Tome.13 (1932)
- 1935Cited for a publication on the later Ishtar temples at Assur (Leipzig, 1935); the passage gives no Cyprus-specific action.
- UndatedExcavated Ashur for the Deutsche Orient-Gesellschaft, where he found faience vessels compared with Cypriot finds from Enkomi and Maroni.
- UndatedDiscovered the Kala'at Sherkat (Ashur) find of Minoan faience including a woman's head cup, which he would date not earlier than 1300 BC, and planned to publish.
H.R. Hall, THE CIVILIZATION OF GREECE IN THE BRONZE AGE (1928)
- UndatedExcavator at Ashur whose finds (Nos. 116361, 116362, 116374) include Minoan-style fayence vessels related to Cypriot examples from Enkomi and Maroni.
- UndatedRecently discovered the Minoan faience find at Kala'at Sherkat (Ashur), Assyria, whose objects went to the British Museum and which he would date not earlier than 1300.
h. r. hall, the civilization of greese in the bronze age (1923)
- UndatedDiscoverer of the Kala'at Sherkat (Ashur) find that included Minoan-type faience objects linked to Cyprus; he would date the find not earlier than 1300.
H. R. Hall, The Civilization of Greece in the Bronze Age (1923), p. 226
- UndatedWas to publish the glazed ware from Kala'at Sherkat, held in the British Museum, which the writer compares with Enkomi rhyton finds.
Cambridge At The University Press, The Cambridge Ancient History Vol Xi (1931)
- UndatedDiscovered the Minoan-type fayence objects at Kala'at Sharkat, the ancient Assyrian city of Ashur, for the Deutsche Orient Gesellschaft; agreed with Evans to publish them separately.
- UndatedDiscovered and excavated Assyrian fayence objects at Qal'at Sharqat (Ashur) for the Deutsche Orient-Gesellschaft, objects comparable to the Enkomi fayence; he agreed to publish them separately.
- UndatedExcavated mainly at Ashur and Kar Tukulti-Ninurta during 1904–14; material acquired after capture in Iraq in WWI went to the museum (ANE 1922–8–12).
- UndatedFound a faience vase with a head, of Cypriot origin, in a stratum at Assur.
Connections
3 peopleScholarship
- Corresponded with Harry Reginald Holland Halldate of the Sherkat find H.R. Hall, THE CIVILIZATION OF GREECE IN THE BRONZE AGE (1928); H. R. Hall, The Civilization of Greece in the Bronze Age (1923), p. 2261300–1928
Colleagues & contacts
- Worked with Jennifer M. WebbMinoan fayence objects from Ashur Macmillan, Journal Of Hellenic Studies Vol.48 (1928)1923
- Worked with Sir Arthur John EvansAshur fayence objects Minoan Fayence in Mesopotamia (1928), p. 641923
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Sources
- 1.Hall, H.r., Civilization Of Greece In The Bronze Age (1928).
- 2.H.R. Hall, THE CIVILIZATION OF GREECE IN THE BRONZE AGE (1928).
- 3.Macmillan, Journal Of Hellenic Studies Vol.48 (1928).
- 4.h. r. hall, the civilization of greese in the bronze age (1923).
- 5.H. R. Hall, The Civilization of Greece in the Bronze Age (1923).
- 6.Cambridge At The University Press, The Cambridge Ancient History Vol Xi (1931).
- 7.Minoan Fayence in Mesopotamia (1928).
- 8.lxix, 295 p., The journal of Hellenic studies.
- 9.University of Michigan. Center for Chinese Studies; Freer Gallery of Art; University of Michigan. Department of the History of Art, Ars orientalis; the arts of Islam and the East (1954).
- 10.Ann Searight; Julian Reade; Irving Finkel; Kenneth Kitchen; Marcel Marée; Shahrokh Razmjou, Assyrian Stone Vessels and Related Material in the British Museum (2008).
- 11.مجلة سوريا للفنون والاثار 13.
- 12.Librairie Paul Geuthner, Syria Revue D’art Oriental Et D’archeologie Tome.13 (1932).
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