Percy Ure, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Percy Ure

British archaeologist of ancient Mediterranean civilization

Date of Birth: 10-May-1879

Place of Birth: London Borough of Hackney, England, United Kingdom

Date of Death: 03-Apr-1950

Profession: university teacher, art historian, archaeologist

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Taurus


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About Percy Ure

  • Percy Neville Ure M.A.
  • (10 May 1879 – 3 April 1950) was the University of Reading's first Professor of Classics (1911–1946) and the founder of the Ure Museum of Greek Archaeology at Reading.
  • His wife and former pupil at Reading, Annie Ure (1893–1976), was the museum's first Curator from 1922 until her death.
  • The Ures were experts on Greek and Egyptian antiquities, and particularly Greek ceramics.
  • With Ronald M.
  • Burrows, they undertook important excavations at Rhitsona in Boeotia, Greece. Percy has been described as "an inveterate picker-up of fragments" which he acquired wherever he could, including from children or discarded under bushes at archaeological sites like Rhitsona or Mycenae.
  • Many were packed in the boxes of Percy's favourite cigarettes.
  • He also accepted a donation of "battered" items from the British Museum.
  • Percy collected plain and functional items neglected by other scholars, believing that they might be as informative as more attractive pieces.Together the Ures enjoyed a passion for Greek ceramics and Boeotian pottery in particular.
  • They wrote several important books on finds at Rhitsona as well as over fifty articles on Greek pottery.
  • In 1954 they produced an important volume in the international series, Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum, which covered about half of the current Ure Museum collection.

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