Salomon Reinach

Salomon Reinach, the French archaeologist, made valuable archaeological discoveries at Myrina. In 1880 Salomon Reinach and Edmond Pottier (no image resource), thery were students from the French school at Athen, undertook excavation at the small eastern Greek city of Myrina, work that continued into 1882. Their focus was on the necropolis and their major discovery was large numbers of small terracotta figurines. Date mainly to the forth and third centuries, which similar to the Tanagra figurine's from Wheaton College Permanent Collection. These charming works of the ancient choroplasts depicted figures from daily life and resembled figurnies excavated at Tanagra in Boeotia that had appeared on the Athenian antiquities market in the early 1870s.The one from permanent collection may be found at that time's excavation, then it was brought to European art market. He also lectured Louvre school, which has connection to the major collectors in Paris, like Louvre Museum.

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In Pursuit of Ancient Pasts: A History of Classical Archaeology in the Nineteenth Century and Twentieth Century. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006.

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