2 The Jia Family’s Fortune Coldly Appraised by an Antique Dealer

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1953 ◽  
Vol 73 ◽  
pp. 138-139
Author(s):  
D. E. L. Haynes

Pl. V and figs. 1–3 illustrate a small inscribed portrait-herm recently acquired by the Trustees of the British Museum, to whom thanks are due for permission to publish it here. It was discovered in 1948 in the lumber-room of a Kentish antique-dealer, but nothing more is known of its history. The material is a coarse-grained, rather grey marble which resembles specimens from Proconnesus. The total height of the herm is 22 inches (56 cm.); from the top of the inscription panel to the top of the head measures 8 ½ inches (21.5 cm.). The tip of the nose part of a cloak thrown over one of the shoulders, more probably the left, since this is the shoulder over which the cloak is normally draped. The notch, to judge from its position, was part of the lowest linea transversa on the left flank. In its general pose the figure must have been close to the type of the Belvedere Hermes. From shoulder to fork it measured roughly 21·5 inches (541·5 cm.), from which we may estimate that the complete figure stood just over 4 feet high (11·20 m.).


1951 ◽  
Vol 44 (1) ◽  
pp. 25-34 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. M. R. Cormack

The leaden tablet, on which this defixio is written, was presented to the University of Reading by Dr. W. H. Buckler, F.B.A., who bought it in Constantinople from an antique-dealer, who gave Claudiopolis in Bithynia (the modern Bulu) as its provenance. The number of defixiones from Asia Minor is comparatively small (K. Preisendanz in his ‘Die griechischen und lateinischen Zaubertafeln,’ Archiv f. Papyrusforschung, ix, 1930, 119–154, mentions thirteen from Caria, two from Phrygia, and one from Pontus), and, if this tablet really comes from Claudiopolis, it is the first, so far as I know, to be reported from this region.


2017 ◽  
pp. 185-191
Author(s):  
Ivanna Fetsko

All cultures of the world is being developed in a close relationship, because any cultural isolation factors adversely affect their existence and undermines gains each individual link. The result of this interaction is the appearance of borrowed concepts, symbols and foreign language vocabulary in languages of different nations. Borrowing is quite logical and natural and predictable as no language can do own stocks lexical stock and must borrow lexical items and be a source of new vocabulary for other languages. The article determined museology terms in terms of their origin, the main source languages and ways of borrowing in foreign term unit in Ukrainan museology term system are identified. It was revealed that museology term system is historically conditioned set of terms; the basic structure consist of foreign-language loans. Much of tokens foreign origin, used for the purpose of nomination in museology term system, borrowed in the Ukrainian language from Greek (hliptoteka, catalog, thesaurus, etc.), Latin (artifact, exhibit, restoration, etc.), French (doublet, tourniquets and so on.), German (outline, of curiosities, etc.), Italian (props, graffiti, etc.), English (note, stand, etc.). so long before the formation of the modern UTM. Genetic peculiarity of terminology has a large number of hybrid terms, indicating that the assimilation of foreign units simultaneously with the aspirations of native speakers to use national elements: ekspozytsiynyk, collectibles, relikviynist (from the Latin root.). It also noted the presence of mixed structures of two languages, which actively operate in museology term system created by combining bases or term elements: Greek + Latin (demography, phillumeny, etc.); + Greek French (avtohid, portrait etc.); French + Latin (Disinfection et al.); Latin Greek + (codicology et al.); Latin + French (valorization etc.). National terms are less than other languages and hybrid terms. Depending on the nature of the process term lexicon borrowing in a foreign language can be divided into direct and indirect. Direct loans are term units that they learned terminological studied directly with language-producer, eg., From Latin: antique dealer, exhibitor, memorial and others. By indirect loans are tokens that entered the museology term system through the intermediary language. For example, through French from Latin included the following terms: amulet, crossbow, replica, etc .; French Italian Gallery, dog, etc .; German with French: poster template so on. Attracting loans allows Ukrainian term system organically fit into the global scientific context. Coming in term system, foreign units undergo appropriate phonetic, morphological and semantic adaptation, and promotes the enrichment of modern Ukrainian museology term system. The use of foreign term units in Ukrainian museology are motivated and helps avoid repetitions, replacing multi-toslivnoho one-word name or for its consolidation and foreign term unit different semantic nuances.


2018 ◽  
Vol 24 ◽  
pp. 79-97
Author(s):  
Anna Lebet-Minakowska

Szymon Rabinowicz – rediscovered In 1935, the National Museum in Krakow began collecting Jewish handicraft with the aim of establishing the “Judaica department”. Until WWII (1939), numerous objects were purchased with the help of antique shops and private individuals. One of the main sources (or even the most important) was Szymon Rabinowicz, a Jewish antique dealer. Surprisingly, although his work was very important for the preservation of Jewish culture, very little was known about him – he was virtually anonymous. Even worse: many legends about him that were spread among old curators of the Museum turned out to be completely untrue. It was only about 75 years after his death that it became possible to reconstruct his life. Now we know that he was born in Frysztak (near Strzyżów, Poland) on 16 December 1895. He arrived in Podgórze in 1914 or 1917 and settled there. During WWI (1914–1917), he served in the Austro-Hungarian army on the Russian front, but was killed by the Germans either in the Krakow Ghetto or during the transport from KL Plaszow to the Death Camp in Treblinka, in 1942.


1945 ◽  
Vol 65 ◽  
pp. 38-44 ◽  
Author(s):  
Semni Papaspyridi Karouzou

The showcases of the antique-dealers in Odos Pandrosou are full of little lekythoi which were painted for the tombs of humble men of the people, and which to-day are destined for modest purchasers or for the Inspectors of the Archaeological Section of the Ministry of Education, while for more important purchasers there are hidden away somewhere else works of much greater value. It is seldom that we are stopped by the art or the subject of one of these lekythoi.In 1943 when I was making an inventory of the stock of one antique-dealer—that which was on show—I picked out one lekythos which the owner gladly presented to the National Museum (Plate IVa, Figs, 1 and 2). From the funeral pyre the surface of the vase has taken a brown-grey colour, and the many joins show that it had been thrown to be broken and burnt with the dead body.A curious male figure wrapped in a himation up to the top of the head, so that only the -eye and the upper part of the head remain free, walks rapidly to the left, raising one leg vigorously. He lifts his himation with his hand to help him move. High boots cover his legs to a point just below the knee. The hanging wreath does not appear to be related to the interpretation of the picture, but is taken from the commonplaces of funeral lekythoi, especially white ones.


1958 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
pp. 127-156 ◽  
Author(s):  
James Mellaart

The village of Hacilar is situated in the Vilayet of Burdur in South-west Anatolia, about 25 km. west of Burdur itself on the main road to Yeşilova and Denizli. The chalcolithic site lies about 1·5 km. west of the village and just beyond the orchards, which are irrigated by a plentiful spring at the foot of a great limestone crag which overlooks the village. It is this spring which since neolithic times has been the main reason for more or less continuous occupation in this region. Apart from the neolithic and early chalcolithic site at Hacılar there is a large Early Bronze Age mound on the northern outskirts and a classical site to the south-west of the village.The prehistoric site is an inconspicuous mound, about 150 metres in diameter, rising to a height of not more than 1·50 m. above the level of the surrounding fields (Fig. 1 and Pl. XXIXa). The entire surface of the mound is under cultivation and a series of depressions show the holes made by a local antique-dealer in search of painted pots and small objects. About 1 km. west of the site runs the Koca Çay, the ancient Lysis, and on the eastern scarp of this river valley lies the cemetery of the Early Bronze Age settlement. Not a single burial has yet been found in the chalcolithic or neolithic levels of our site and it is therefore not unreasonable to suggest that its cemetery also may eventually be located there.


1936 ◽  
Vol 36 ◽  
pp. 1-4
Author(s):  
Alex Philadelpheus

Early in August 1937 the fragments of a marble Kouros were conveyed in three packing-cases to the National Museum at Athens from Paris, where Greek police officials had received it from M. Roussos, an antique dealer who had been resident in that city for some time. It was subsequently confirmed that this statue had been smuggled out of Greece by sea a few years ago from Anavysos near Laurion, a district whose sparsely populated coast-line has been for years the scene of a systematic traffic in antiques.


Paleo-aktueel ◽  
2019 ◽  
pp. 23-29
Author(s):  
Hannie Steegstra

Saved for Science? (Summary, already written in 2008 by Jay Butler). Especially in northern France, much has been lost in the course of the wars that devastated the area, but much has been saved too. Particularly intriguing among the saved Bronze Age objects are the bronze casting moulds, which in prehistoric times must have been common objects, but which are now scarce because most examples would have been sacrificed to the smith’s ever-ready melting pot. One such object, a finely preserved half-mould for a socketed axe (of the Plainseau family, with slight plastic imitation wings) is in the possession of the Noordbrabants Museum in ’s-Hertogenbosch. It was purchased by the museum in 1962, for the sum of 50 Dutch guilders, from a reputable Eindhoven antique dealer, Dirven, in that city. The museum records state only that it was found in the north of France or in Belgium. A not uninteresting part of the work of a researcher working on the Bronze Age is the tracking down of missing finds: for example, a half-mould for a socketed axe, said to have been found in the surroundings of Amiens, which was seen, described and (well) drawn by Henri Breuil before 1902. This half-mould was said to be part of a hoard of bronze implements, which included spearheads, pins and socketed axes. Also belonging to the hoard was a core (also of bronze) for casting socketed axes.


1952 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 381-383
Author(s):  
Paul Wittek

Thanks to the kindness of Dr. Andreas Tietze I have at my disposal the illustrated catalogue recently issued by the Istanbul antique dealer Nurettin Yatman (“Eski Istanbul”, Meşrutiyet cadd. 185, Beyoǧlu). It shows among others, in a reproduction just readable by a practised and self-sacrificing eye, an Ottoman document (wrongly ascribed to the fifteenth century) with a richly decorated, wonderfully executed ṭurā(apparently in various colours) of Murad III (1574–1595). An “imperial cypher” of such splendour may, indeed, be expected in an “imperial letter” (nāme-i Tumāyūn) to a foreign sovereign, for such is this document of March 1580, addressed to the Doge of Venice. On the other hand, the eleven lines of the text are written in ordinary dīvānī without calligraphic pretensions; this may be due to the fact that the letter was, as we shall see, to be presented not by a messenger of the sultan but by an agent of the person in whose favour it was issued.


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