Bouke van der Meer

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L. Bouke van der Meer: Corpus Speculorum Etruscorum. The Netherlands. (1983)

Lammert Bouke van der Meer (* 1945 in Leeuwarden , Friesland ) is a Dutch classical archaeologist specializing in etruscology . Van der Meer is a leading authority on Etruscan religion .

Life

Van der Meer studied Classical Antiquity and Classical Archeology at the University of Groningen . He wrote his dissertation on the Etruscan urns from Volterra . Later he was professor of classical archeology at the University of Leiden .

Van der Meer published several books and numerous articles on Etruscan bronze mirrors with mythological scenes, the Agramer mummy bandage , Etruscan sarcophagi and the Etruscan collection in the Rijksmuseum van Oudheden . In 1983 he published a volume for the Netherlands on the Corpus Speculorum Etruscorum , an international research project for the publication of all preserved Etruscan bronze mirrors.

He made a significant contribution to the reading and interpretation of the bronze liver of Piacenza in 1987 in his work The Bronze Liver of Piacenza. Analysis of a polytheistic structure that takes into account almost all epigraphic , literary and archaeological sources. He also researched the use of travertine and the Domus Fulminata in Ostia Antica . His monograph Ostia speaks. Inscriptions, buildings and spaces in Rome's main port was published in 2012.

Van der Meer is a member of the Istituto Nazionale di Studi Etruschi ed Italici , the International Scientific Committee for the Corpus Speculorum Etruscorum and the Editorial Committee of Bulletin Antieke Beschaving . He is also one of the editors of the archaeological journal BABESCH .

Van der Meer is now retired and is currently working on bronze mirrors from the 4th century BC. Chr.

Publications (selection)

  • Ostia speaks. Inscriptions, buildings and spaces in Rome's main port. Peeters, Löwen 2012, ISBN 9789042927001 .
  • Etrusco ritu. Case studies in Etruscan ritual behavior. Monographs on Antiquity 2011, ISBN 9789042925380 .
  • Liber Linteus Zagrabiensis. The linen book of Zagreb. A comment on the longest Etruscan text. Monographs on Antiquity 2008, ISBN 9789042920248 .
  • Myths and more. On Etruscan stone sarcophagi. Monographs on Antiquity 2004, ISBN 9789042914995 .
  • Interpretatio Etrusca. Greek myths on Etruscan mirrors. Brill Academic Pub 1995, ISBN 9789050634779 .
  • The Stele of Lemnos and Etruscan origins. In: Oudheidkundige Mededelingen uit het Rijksmuseum van Oudheden te Leiden 72, 1992, pp. 61-70.
  • De Etrusken speak. Coutinho 1991, ISBN 9789062837977 .
  • The bronze liver of Piacenza. Analysis of a polytheistic structure. Amsterdam 1987, ISBN 9789070265410 .
  • Corpus Speculorum Etruscorum : The Netherlands. Volume 1. EJ Brill, Leiden 1983, ISBN 9004068325 .
  • Etruscan urns from Volterra. Studies on mythological representations . 2 volumes. Meppel 1978.
  • De Etrusken. Inleiding tot de verzameling Etruscan oudheden in het Rijksmuseum van Oudheden te Leiden. Staatsuitgeverij 1977, ISBN 9789012014731 .

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personal data
SURNAME Meer, Bouke van der
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Meer, Lammert Bouke van der (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch classical archaeologist specializing in etruscology
DATE OF BIRTH 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH Leeuwarden , Friesland