John Percival Droop

John Percival Droop ( October 4, 1882 , † September 26, 1963 ) (pronounced "Drope") was a British classical archaeologist .

Life

Droop came from a Dutch family. The Dutch pronunciation of his name was also held in England. His education, which he completed in 1904, he received at Marlborough College and Trinity College , both in Cambridge . As a student, then as a member of the British School at Athens , he took part in their excavations in Sparta , Thessaly , Melos and Crete . In 1911 he was a participant in the British expedition to Egypt in Abydos , led by Thomas Eric Peet . With Peet he developed a dating system for predynastic Egyptian ceramics, which, however, was not taken into account by research. During the First World War he worked for the British Admiralty until he was offered a chair in Classical Archeology at Liverpool University in 1921 , where he taught until his retirement in 1948. During his Liverpool years he directed excavations in Chester , Bainbridge (North Yorkshire) and Lancaster . He also took part in the excavations in Niebla , Spain . From 1937 to 1948 he was editor of the Annals of Archeology and Anthropology .

The droop bowls were named after him.

Fonts (selection)

• Two Cyrenaic Kylikes. In: Journal of Hellenic Studies. 28, 1908, pp. 175-179.
• The dates of the vases called "Cyrenaic". In: Journal of Hellenic Studies. 30, 1910, pp. 1-34.
• Droop Cups and the Dating of Laconian Pottery. In: Journal of Hellenic Studies. 52, 1932, pp. 303-304.

literature

• Robert B. Todd (Ed.): The Dictionary of British Classicists. Volume 3: O - Z. Thoemmes Continuum, Bristol 2004, ISBN 1-85506-997-0 , sv

Web links

• Short biography in the Dictionary of Art Historians .