John Percival Droop

John Percival Droop (4 October 1882 – 26 September 1963, in Vence, France) was a British classical archaeologist. He served as the professor of classical archaeology at the University of Liverpool from 1921 to 1948. Afterwards, he examined and analysed an Ancient Greek bowl form, dating from the 5th century BC, which later became known as Droop cups.[1] Droop researched the temple of Artemis Orthia at Sparta.[2]

He was the son of Henry Richmond Droop (1832–1884), the mathematician, and Clara Baily (ca. 1841 - September 7, 1921).

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

Sources
  • Dictionary of Art Historians
  • obituary "Prof. J. P. Droop Classical Archaeology." Times (London) October 7, 1963, p. 15.
gollark: "The City and the City" of something?
gollark: I think I've heard of a ton of books using that sort of thing as a premise.
gollark: I think an interesting solution to this sort of issue is federated social networks, but they have their own scale issues and also nobody uses them.
gollark: Humans don't seem to be very good at rationally optimising for a goal. Unless it's an extremely weird goal.
gollark: You need to be very sure about the specification I guess.

References
  1. Dictionary of Art Historians http://arthistorians.info/droopj
  2. Anthony M. Snodgrass (2006). Archaeology and the Emergence of Greece. Cornell University Press. pp. 109–. ISBN 978-0-8014-7354-8.


This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.