Josephine Platner Shear
American classical archaeologist
Josephine Platner Shear
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Born | ( 1901-07-03 ) July 3, 1901 |
Died | February 11, 1967 (1967-02-11) (aged 65) |
Education | Wellesley College; Columbia College |
Occupation(s) | Archaeologist; numismatist |
Josephine Platner Shear (3 July 1901 - 11 February 1967) was an American classical archaeologist and numismatist , who was excavation and numismatic lead for the Agora excavations.
Biography
Josephine Platner was born on 3 July 1901 in Omaha , Nebraska . She studied at Wellesley College (1924) and Archaeology at Columbia University (1928). [1] From 1927 to 1929 and from 1931 to 1939 she was a member and 1939/40 Fellow of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens. [2] From 1929 to 1931 she took part in the excavations in Corinth. [1] [3] In 1930 she presented her work on geometric pottery from Corinth to the Archaeological Institute of America . [4]
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On 12 February 1931 she married the archaeologist Theodore Leslie Shear [ de ] (1880-1945), [5] who led the excavations in Corinth from 1925 to 1931 and in 1931 began the excavations on the Agora of Athens . [6] Although Shear was nominally Director of the Corinth excavations, it was Platner Shear who supervised the digging. [6] The plans that Platner Shear created of the excavations are still referred to. [7] Whilst her husband was at Princeton, she worked alongside him, and also lectured - including to the Women's College Club in 1936. [8]
During the Agora excavation she led the study and conservation of numismatics from the site, as well as making the discovery of a new 2nd-century C.E. Athenian coin. [9] Platner Shear kept meticulous records of the numismatic material: in the 1937 season alone, 10,325 coins were excavated and catalogued in the field. [10] The earliest of the 1937 finds was a silver obol of Solon , identified by Platner Shear. [10]
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After her husband's death in 1945, she continued to live in Princeton, and in 1955 her second marriage to Floyd C. Harwood took place. She died on 11 February 1967. [11] Objects excavated by Platner Shear are held in the Metropolitan Museum of Art 's collection. [12]
References
- 1 2 "Local Express 10 December 1936 — Princeton Periodicals" . theprince.princeton.edu . Retrieved 2021-08-26 .
- ↑ Meritt, Lucy Shoe (1984). History of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, 1939-1980 . ASCSA. ISBN 978-0-87661-942-1 .
- ↑ Haspels, C. H. E. (1966). "Review of Corinth, Vol. XIII: The North Cemetery" . Mnemosyne . 19 (4): 458–459. doi : 10.1163/156852566X00880 . ISSN 0026-7074 . JSTOR 4429358 .
- ↑ "General Meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America December 29-31, 1930" . American Journal of Archaeology . 35 (1): 57–63. 1931. doi : 10.2307/498877 . ISSN 0002-9114 . JSTOR 498877 .
- ↑ "Trinity College, 'Trinity College Bulletin, 1945-1946 (Necrology)' (1946)" . Trinity College Bulletins and Catalogues (1824 - Present) . 523 .
- 1 2 Walbank, Mary E. Hoskins; Walbank, Michael B. (2015). "A Roman Corinthian Family Tomb and Its Afterlife" . Hesperia: The Journal of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens . 84 (1): 149–206. doi : 10.2972/hesperia.84.1.0149 . ISSN 0018-098X . JSTOR 10.2972/hesperia.84.1.0149 . S2CID 164451358 .
- ↑ Williams, Charles K.; Bookidis, Nancy (2003). Corinth, the Centenary, 1896-1996 . ASCSA. ISBN 978-0-87661-020-6 .
- ↑ Armstrong *14, April C. (2017-12-11). "This Week in Princeton History for December 11–17" . Mudd Manuscript Library Blog . Retrieved 2021-08-26 .
- ↑ Armstrong *14, April C. (2019-11-06). "Faculty Wives and the Push for Coeducation at Princeton University" . Mudd Manuscript Library Blog . Retrieved 2021-08-26 .
- 1 2 Shear, T. Leslie (1938). "The Campaign of 1937" . Hesperia: The Journal of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens . 7 (3): 311–362. doi : 10.2307/146578 . ISSN 0018-098X . JSTOR 146578 .
- ↑ "Deaths" . The New York Times . 1967-02-12. ISSN 0362-4331 . Retrieved 2021-08-26 .
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