Cyrene's<i>Thea</i>figure discovered in the Necropolis

Reynolds, Joyce; Thorn, James Copland

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“…J.-C. de bases inscrites au nom du défunt, le plus souvent masculin, attestant qu'il ne s'agit nullement d'un substitut du mort mais d'une représentation générique vraisemblablement divine. Ses rares attributs permettent de l'associer à l'iconographie de Perséphone (Beschi 1972, 335–336) bien qu'elle ne reçut probablement jamais de nom (Reynolds et Thorn 2005). Un anonymat qui résonne comme un écho à l'aprosopie.…”

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Les sculptures funéraires de Cyrénaïque sur le marché de l'art

Belzic

2017

Libyan Stud

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In the course of my research on Cyrenaican funerary sculptures, such as the remarkable ‘Mourning Women’ and ‘Funerary Divinities’ and the distinctive local funerary portraits, I realised to my dismay that a large part of this archaeological material has been or is currently on sale on the international art market. The number of sales of these sculptures on the art market demonstrates the extent of looting over the past twenty years in the Greek necropoleis of Libya. These sales show in particular that the degree of tomb destruction has increased exponentially during the past ten years. This preliminary discussion has three main objectives: 1) to alert and to inform the world about this destruction in order to help end the looting; 2) to describe the operational modes of the illicit trade in antiquities on the art market; and 3) to study and document these sculptures, which are important evidence for understanding the culture and history of ancient Cyrenaica.

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Les sculptures funéraires de Cyrénaïque sur le marché de l'art

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2017

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James Copland Thorn, FSA

2008

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Thorn's sadly premature death on 22 December 2007 came about after a long and heroic struggle against diabetes accompanied by gradual blindness and a host of debilitating related illnesses. On a happier note the photo appearing in a 1958 issue of the Gazette and Post catches him at the age of nearly 16, carefully poised behind a desk, holding a medieval tile in his right hand, a pen in his left. The 22-point headline loudly exclaims, 'SWOTS? WELL, YES; BUT WE HAVE FUN'. Leaving aside the dated journalese and Jim's unexpectedly natty attire, the article today seems remarkably prescient. The acting curator at the Gunnersbury Park Museum, Miss Rhoda Bickerdike, is quoted as saying, 'James Thorn over there has reconstructed some thirteenth and fourteenth century tiles, excavated at Northolt'. But what became a virtually lifelong commitment to archaeology already had its genesis in trips at the age of ten to museums throughout the London area, in particular the British Museum. During the bitterly cold winter of 1962-63 Jim dug at Winchester Palace in Southwark, and he met his future wife, Dorothy, on a series of rescue digs in the same area in 1963. Two years later saw them both featured in the article, 'The Searchers, Dedicated to Digging up London's Past' in the 15 February 1965 edition of the Evening News and Star. In 1964, in a decision which was to shape much of his subsequent career, Jim began pottery drawing lessons at the Bishopsgate Institute in Liverpool Street. By the mid-1960s Jim was employed in writing and illustrating articles for The London Archaeologist. In 1966 he became an archaeological illustrator for the Royal Commission for Historic and Ancient Monuments, later English Heritage, off Regent Street, where he was mainly occupied with drawing pottery and architectural features. Jim was called upon to draw the scorched remains of Hampton Court after the fire in 1986. In 1987 he joined the British Museum's Department of Medieval and Later Antiquities where he was to remain happily for the next ten years until failing eyesight caused him to retire. Jim's involvement with Libya started in the summer of 1981 when he came out to Cyrene to assist the University of Pennsylvania's Museum in its final study season of the Extramural Sanctuary of Demeter and Persephone. During his relatively brief stay he accomplished two things for us. The first was the completion of a remarkable portfolio of detailed drawings of

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Cyrene'sTheafigure discovered in the Necropolis

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Les sculptures funéraires de Cyrénaïque sur le marché de l'art

Les sculptures funéraires de Cyrénaïque sur le marché de l'art

James Copland Thorn, FSA

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