Annie Ure

Annie Ure
Born 1893
Died 1976
Nationality British
Occupation Archaeologist, Curator
Relatives Percy Ure

Annie (Nan) Dunman Ure (née Hunt) (1893–1976) was a archaeologist and the first curator of the Ure Museum, University of Reading.

Annie Dunman Ure was the first Curator at the Ure Museum from 1922 until her death. Annie graduated from University College, Reading with a degree in Classics in 1914, technically awarded by London.[1][2] In 1918 Annie married Percy Ure.[3]

Annie had a passion for Greek ceramics and Boeotian pottery in particular.[2] With Ronald M. Burrows, Annie and Percy undertook important excavations at Rhitsona in Boeotia, Greece. They co-authored 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. This monograph was described as a 'monument to their exacting diligence',[4] and covered 'lesser known styles and classes of Greek pottery, seldom encountered in the plates of other fasicules'.[5] It 'won wide aclaim' at an academic meeting in Lyon in 1956.[5]

After Percy's death in 1950, Annie continued to collect and publish on Greek ceramics, and was visited by international scholars, such as John Beazley and John Boardman.[2] Annie also taught Annie also taught at the Abbey School[6] and within the Department of Classics at the University of Reading.[2] Ure was awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Reading in 1976.[2] Ure served as honorary curator of the Ure Museum for 54 years before her death in 1976.[2]

Publications

  • A. Ure. 1922 A Black-figure Fragment in the Dorset Museum, Journal of Hellenic Studies 42: 192-97.
  • P. Ure and A. Ure. 1927. Sixth and Fifth Century Pottery from Rhitsona. Oxford University Press: Oxford.
  • A. Ure. 1929 Boeotian geometricising vases. JHS 49: 160-171.
  • P. Ure and A. Ure. 1954. Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum. Great Britain 12. Reading 1. Oxford University Press: Oxford.
  • A. Ure. 1955 Krokotos and White Heron. Journal of Hellenic Studies 75: 90-103.
  • A. Ure. 1955. Threshing-floor or Vineyard. Classical Quarterly n.s. 5: 225-30.
  • A. Ure. 1958 The Argos Painter and the Painter of the Dancing Pan. American Journal of Archaeology 62: 389-95.
  • A. Ure. 1962 Boetian pottery from the Athenian Agora. Hesperia 31: 369-77.

References

  1. ↑ Sabetai, Victoria. "Ronald M. Burrows and Percy N. Ure in Boeotia" (PDF). The Ure Museum of Greek Archaeology. Retrieved 22 June 2018.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Gardner, Jane. "Introduction to 'The Ure Museum: a Retrospective' (26 October 2005)".
  3. ↑ Venn, John. Alumni Cantabrigienses: A Biographical List of All Known Students ..., Volume 2. p. 269.
  4. ↑ Cook, R. M. (1956). "Percy Neville Ure and Annie Dunman Ure: Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: Great Britain—University of Reading. Pp. x + 61; 40 plates. London: Oxford University Press, 1954. Sheets in portfolio, 55s. net". The Classical Review. 6 (1): 79–79. doi:10.1017/S0009840X00161049. ISSN 1464-3561.
  5. 1 2 von Bothmer, Dietrich (1959). "Review of Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum, Great Britain Fasc. 12, Reading Fasc. 1". American Journal of Archaeology. 63 (3): 309–310. doi:10.2307/501870.
  6. ↑ Donnellan, Victoria (2015). The role of collections of classical antiquities in UK regional museums: visitors, networks, social contexts. Phd, UCL. p. 129.
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