Elizabeth Douglas Van Buren

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Elizabeth Douglas Van Buren (birth name Elizabeth Mary Douglas ; born October 18, 1881 in London , † September 5, 1961 in Rome ) was a British classical and Near Eastern archaeologist .

Elizabeth Douglas grew up in Linden Gardens, her grandmother's London home. After studying in Rome from 1909 to 1911, where she was a member of the British School at Rome , she studied art history and archeology at Girton College from 1911 to 1912 . From 1912 she lived again in Rome, where she married the archaeologist Albert William Van Buren (1878-1968) on August 19, 1914 , who had worked at the American School of Classical Studies from 1908 (later the American Academy in Rome ).

Elizabeth Van Buren initially dealt in particular with ancient terracottas, which were used as cladding for archaic buildings in Italy and Greece. Later she turned more to the figurative art of Mesopotamia as a research focus. From 1933 she was a corresponding member of the German Archaeological Institute and also an elected member of the Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies .

Fonts (selection)

  • Figurative Terra-cotta Revetments in Etruria and Latium in the VI. and V. Centuries BC London 1921 full text .
  • Archaic fictile revetments in Sicily and Magna Graecia . New York 1923 full text .
  • Greek Fictile Revetments in the Archaic Period. London 1926.
  • Clay Figurines of Babylonia and Assyria . New Haven / Oxford 1931 ( Yale Oriental Researches 26).
  • Foundation Figurines and Offerings . Berlin 1931 full text (PDF; 10.9 MB).
  • The Flowing Vase and the God with Streams . Berlin 1933.
  • The Fauna of Ancient Mesopotamia as Represented in Art . Rome 1939.
  • The rosette in Mesopotamian style . In: Journal of Assyriology . 45, 1939, pp. 99-107.
  • The Cylinder Seals of the Pontifical Biblical Institute . Rome 1940 ( Analecta Orientalia 21).
  • Symbols of the Gods in Mesopotamian Art . Rome 1945.
  • The Dragon in Ancient Mesopotamia . In: Orientalia . 15, 1946, pp. 1-45.

literature

  • Katherine A. Geffcken: The History of the Collection . In: Larissa Bonfante, Helen Nagy (editor): The Collection of Antiquities of the American Academy in Rome . Ann Arbor, Michigan 2015, ISBN 978-0-472-11989-9 , pp. 21-85 (on Elizabeth Douglas Van Buren especially pp. 40-54).

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personal data
SURNAME Van Buren, Elizabeth Douglas
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Douglas, Elizabeth (maiden name); Douglas, Elizabeth Mary; Van Buren, Elizabeth Mary Douglas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British Classical and Near Eastern Archaeologist
DATE OF BIRTH October 18, 1881
PLACE OF BIRTH London
DATE OF DEATH 5th September 1961
Place of death Rome