Henry Hunter Calvert's Collection of Amphora Stamps and that of Sidney Smith Saunders - Softcover

Alan Johnston

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1789696437 ISBN 13: 9781789696431

Publisher: Archaeopress, 2020

Synopsis

Henry Hunter Calvert died at his family house at Cannakale in 1880 a few months after escaping from the rioting in Alexandria where he was British consul. The consulate was sacked and his collections destroyed. He had however sent an annotated list of his Greek amphora stamps to the British Museum, presumably to Charles Newton, with whom he and his brother Frank had frequent correspondence. This list was forgotten until the present writer 'found' it in a box-file in the Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities (its title at the time). Henry Hunter Calvert's Collection of Amphora Stamps and that of Sidney Smith Saunders publicly presents that material.

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About the Author

Alan Johnston is Emeritus Reader in Classical Archaeology at University College London. He has published widely on Greek archaeology, notably ceramics and epigraphy, having contributed to excavation reports from Aigina, Antikythera, Gravisca, Kition, Kommos and Kythera. Recently he has been working at the British Museum with the Naukratis Project team and on a catalogue of amphora stamps in the collection, and this publication is an offshoot of that work.

Edition details

• Publisher: Archaeopress
• Publication date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1789696437
• ISBN 13: 9781789696431
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 118