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Greek and Roman sculpture and inscriptions from Cyrene: recent joins and proposed associations, including a ‘new” private portrait statue, and some recent epigraphic discoveries1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 March 2015

Neil Adams
Neil Adams*
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Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities, The British Museum
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Abstract

This article presents a number of joins and associations recently made in the Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities at the British Museum on sculpture excavated by Robert Murdoch Smith and Edwin Augustus Porcher during their expedition to Cyrene in 1861. The connections were made during an on-going programme within the Greek and Roman Department to provenance and, wherever possible, join the large collection of fragmentary sculpture originating from the big excavations of the 19th century. In addition, some tentative associations between sculpture in the British Museum and others still at Cyrene will be proposed, and some recent epigraphic discoveries made during a visit to the site will also be presented.

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Libyan Studies , Volume 34 , 2003 , pp. 43 - 64
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Copyright © Society for Libyan Studies 2003

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The author would like to thank the following for their ongoing help, support and advice: The Society for Libyan Studies for a generous financial award which enabled a visit to Cyrene in May 2003; Abdulkadir Muzzeini and his team at the Department of Antiquities at Shahat for their kind assistance during the author's visit; Prof. Emanuela Fabricotti and the Italian Archaeological Mission for accommodating the author in the Casa Parisia and assisting in obtaining access to the antiquities at Cyrene; Dr Dyfri Williams and Dr Susan Walker, Keeper and Deputy Keeper respectively of the Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities at the British Museum for granting the author special leave to undertake some of the research presented here; and Dr Elizabeth Savage, editor of this journal for her patience and assistance with this article.

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