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MIDDLETON, SHEILA HOEY, Engraved Gems From Delmatia, Oxford University Committee for Archeology, Oxford, 1991
This catalogue of more than 300 gems and sealings from Delmatia brings together the 19th Century collections of Sir John Gardner Wilkinson and Sir Arthur Evans. The major part of this catalogue is devoted to the gems collected by Arthur Evans before he began excavating in Knossos. His collection is now scattered in Europe and America, but a substantial part of it remains in the Ashmolean Museum at Oxford, where he was Keeper. The Ashmolean also had the sealings which he made from the gems, and using them, it has been possible to trace and identify more of the original gems. The major part of this catalogue is devoted to describing engraved gems which Sir Arthur Evans acquired in Delmatia, Yugoslavia, during his time spent in the Balkans from 1875 to 1882. Many of the gems in his collection have now been scattered though seventy are still in Oxford. Others are now in public and private collections.
Sir John Gardner Wilkinson, the Egyptologist, left his collection of over 50 gems from Delmatia to Harrow School Museum where they now are. They are described in full, together with a short appendix on his gems from other places. Sheila Hoey Middleton, a graduate of Victoria University New Zealand, studied Art History at University in Florence and Oxford. She started working on gems from Delmatia after three and a half year's stay in Belgrade with her diplomat husband. |
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