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Henry Hunter Calvert died at his family house at Çannakale 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.

Table of Contents
Introduction ;

Catalogue ;
Baetica ;
Brindisi ;
Thasos ;
Chios ;
Kos ;
Knidos ;
Rhodes ;
Pamphylia ;
Egypt ;

Comment ;
Kos and Knidos ;
Rhodes ;
Unprovenanced ;

Index of names ;
Rhodian seconday stamps ;

Symbols (Rhodian unless otherwise stated) ;

Plates ;

Bibliography

Henry Hunter Calvert’s Collection of Amphora

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      Publisher Archaeopress
      Published 4 June 2020
      ISBN-13 9781789696431
      978-1789696431
      ISBN-10 1789696437
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Henry Hunter Calvert died at his family house at Çannakale 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.

      Table of Contents
      Introduction ;

      Catalogue ;
      Baetica ;
      Brindisi ;
      Thasos ;
      Chios ;
      Kos ;
      Knidos ;
      Rhodes ;
      Pamphylia ;
      Egypt ;

      Comment ;
      Kos and Knidos ;
      Rhodes ;
      Unprovenanced ;

      Index of names ;
      Rhodian seconday stamps ;

      Symbols (Rhodian unless otherwise stated) ;

      Plates ;

      Bibliography

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