British Museum, kontophoroi & academia

 Salvete Omnes,

a short entry -  

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  Perhaps one of the greatest achievements of our, very maligned these days, Western Civilization is the invention of the institution of  museum and its use for public enlightenment, stud, use  and enjoyment.

... the first public museum might have been the Capitoline Hill site, today occupied by the Capitoline Museums, in Rome, where in 1471 His Holy See pope Sixtus VI made available to the public the ancient Roman & Greek bronze sculptures. 

Generally the princes and people of power and means of Europe donated space and more importantly art and artefacts, so their collection could have been viewed by the public (like Vatican Museum  in Rome, 1506, Ambras Castle , Austria 1580; Amerbach Cabinet in Basel, 1671;  Besancon in France opened in 1690s;  or Kunstkamera in Saint Petersburg, Russia 1729  or Tower of London in 1660 or  British Museum 1759 etc).
 

So let us turn to the subject mentioned in the title of my post - on British Museum's page, along a good quality photo of the Parthian kontophoroi known as  object nr 91908 they also have provided the list of  biographic references about this piece of ancient  Western Iranian art. I made my own rendering of this plate - already published in this post here in 2018.

Among the listed works there is a citation to this article written by my friend and doctoral student Patryk Skupniewicz.

And, among images used by Patryk in his article there is my own rendering of the Isola Rizza plate warriors. See below a scan from the article.

 

The very same article  can be had from the Siedlce University Repositorium, the very university where under the guiding and helping hand of prof. Katarzyna Makysmiuk, Patryk has been doing his research and developing his doctoral thesis. Article was published in 2016 issue of Siedlce University publication 'Historia i Swiat.'

Nota bene Patryk's articles are a veritable gold mine of iconographic materials and can 'be mined away' at your own pleasure.

Valete

ps

I am going to brag a little for I have Ghirshman's 'Iran,' Nicolle's 'Sassanian Armies' and prof. Sekunda's 'Seleucid Army' - great lovely works from researches who devoted their lives to the pursuit of history, art  and the beautiful.