Ure Museum of Greek Archeology

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Entrance room of the Ure Museum

The Ure Museum of Greek Archeology is the University of Reading's archaeological collection as part of its Department of Classics.

history

The archaeologist Percy N. Ure , who has worked at Reading University since 1911, founded the museum in 1922. The collection grew through donations and is now considered the fourth largest collection of Greek ceramics in Great Britain.

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The museum houses a collection of around 2000 antiquities from the Greek, Etruscan and Roman civilizations of the Mediterranean, in particular Greek and Etruscan ceramics and terracottas. Other exhibits include prehistoric ceramics, Greek and Roman metal and stone objects. The museum also has a collection of Egyptian antiquities, which range from the predynastic to the Roman period, including objects that Hilda Petrie donated to the university in 1909. Approx. 300 antique vases are on permanent loan from the Reading Museum in the Ure Museum.

literature

  • Percy N. Ure, Annie Dunman Ure: Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum . Great Britain 12: University of Reading 1 . Oxford University Press, London 1954 ( digitized version ).
  • Annie Dunman Ure: Recent acquisitions by the Museum of Greek Archeology, University of Reading. In: Archaeological Reports. Volume 9, 1962-63, pp. 56-62.
  • Amy C. Smith: Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum. Great Britain 23: Reading Museum Service (Reading Borough Council) 1. Oxford University Press, Oxford 2007, ISBN 0-19-726389-5 .
  • Amy C. Smith, AL Harris: Recent Acquisitions and Conservation of Antiquities at the Ure Museum, University of Reading 2004–2008. In: Archaeological reports. Volume 54, 2008, pp. 175-185.
  • Sadie Pickup, Marianne Bergeron, Jennifer M. Webb: Cypriote antiquities in Reading. The Ure Museum at the University of Reading and The Reading Museum (Reading Borough Council) (= Corpus of Cypriote antiquities. Volume 30). Åström, Uppsala 2015, ISBN 978-91-7081-201-9 .

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Coordinates: 51 ° 26 '28.7 "  N , 0 ° 56" 43.8 "  W.