B F Cook
Biographic Data
| ID | 999031 |
|---|---|
| NAME | B F Cook |
| GIVEN NAMES | B F |
| FAMILY NAME | Cook |
| SIGNATURE | COOK B F |
| AFFILIATIONS | British Museum |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1400-0506 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 15 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1966 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Textual Homelands
In this article, I re-examine the three runes used within the manuscript text of Beowulf to argue that the runes are purposeful additions to the text that interact with and enrich the reader’s experience of the narrative. The runes mark passages in which the poem considers the nature of the literary and its relationship to an amorphous mythic Germanic past. Readers encountering Beowulf in the context of Cotton Vitellius A XV become implicit parti…
Relief Sculpture of the Mausoleum at Halicarnassus
The site of the Mausoleum at Halicarnassus, one of the Seven Wonders of the World, was rediscovered and partially excavated by C. T. Newton's expedition in 1865-6, and has been cleared completely by the Danish Archaeological Expedition to Bodrum (1966-76). Most of the fragments of relief sculpture have not been published before. The larger pieces, including slabs formerly incorporated in the Castle at Bodrum, are well known, but new, detailed pho…
Selected Roman and Italian acquisitions in the Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities, British Museum, 1980-1992
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The Parthenon, east pediment A–C
A new examination, prompted by Dr Peter Calligas, of Parthenon East Pediment C (two horses of Helios), suggests that the underside was trimmed when the group was installed in the pediment. The recutting of pedimental sculptures of the Parthenon to fit beneath the raking cornice is well attested for other figures, but has not previously been suggested for this block
Sixth Annual Conference of the Institute of Field Archaeologists Birmingham 6–8 April 1992
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International Conference on the Theme ‘Eredità Contestata?’ Rome 29–30 April 1991
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Attic Red‐figured Lekythoi, Secondary Types
Studies in the attribution of Greek figured pottery follow a convention laid down by Beazley that attributions to ‘Groups’ are based on the style of drawing, while those on the potting are to ‘Classes'. Another distinct class of red‐figured lekythoi is here added to those identified by Beazley himself. The distinguishing features of the Class are described, and discussion follows of its origin and development, its chronology, and its relationship…
The archaeologist and the art market
The Keeper of Greek and Roman Antiquities at the British Museum sets out his view of where responsible museums and researchers should find a balance in the difficult matter of unprovenanced antiquities that may be the spoils of recent looting
Cretan Red-Figured Lekythoi
Three small examples of shoulder-lekythoi in museums in Western Crete are described and discussed. Though evidently derived from the Attic Series, it is suggested that they are the products of a local workshop
Greek Inscriptions
A Greek Stele in Dublin
An inscribed Attic marble grave stele of the fourth century B.C. with a family group of four persons in relief has recently come to light near Dublin in what was in the eighteenth-century part of an estate belonging to the first Earl of Charlemont. The stele itself and its place in Charlemont's collection are discussed
The Mausoleum Frieze
Coming as they do from one of the Seven Wonders of the World, the frieze-blocks of the Mausoleum at Halicarnassus are among the most celebrated sculptures in the British Museum. In the century since their acquisition, many mutually contradictory attempts have been made to attribute the various slabs to the four sculptors of the Mausoleum as named by Pliny: Skopas, Bryaxis, Timotheos, and Leochares. Most of these attributions have been made by sch…
Two ‘Lost’ Greek Inscriptions
Two Greek inscriptions, originally discovered and published in the eighteenth century but subsequently ‘lost’, appeared at Sotheby's during 1970 in sales of inscriptions from the collections of the Earl of Lonsdale at Lowther Castle, The first, a list of magistrates and officials of the municipium of Rhegium, was found at Reggio Calabria in 1727, and the second, a metrical inscription from a fountain, was brought from Lesbos to England in 1748. B…
A Class of Etruscan Bronze Omphalos-Bowls
An Alexandrian Tomb-group Re-Examined
Relief Sculpture of the Mausoleum at Halicarnassus
The site of the Mausoleum at Halicarnassus, one of the Seven Wonders of the World, was rediscovered and partially excavated by C. T. Newton's expedition in 1865-6, and has been cleared completely by the Danish Archaeological Expedition to Bodrum (1966-76). Most of the fragments of relief sculpture have not been published before. The larger pieces, including slabs formerly incorporated in the Castle at Bodrum, are well known, but new, detailed pho…
Cretan Red-Figured Lekythoi
Three small examples of shoulder-lekythoi in museums in Western Crete are described and discussed. Though evidently derived from the Attic Series, it is suggested that they are the products of a local workshop
A Class of Etruscan Bronze Omphalos-Bowls
An Alexandrian Tomb-group Re-Examined
A Class of Etruscan Bronze Omphalos-Bowls
Two ‘Lost’ Greek Inscriptions
Two Greek inscriptions, originally discovered and published in the eighteenth century but subsequently ‘lost’, appeared at Sotheby's during 1970 in sales of inscriptions from the collections of the Earl of Lonsdale at Lowther Castle, The first, a list of magistrates and officials of the municipium of Rhegium, was found at Reggio Calabria in 1727, and the second, a metrical inscription from a fountain, was brought from Lesbos to England in 1748. B…
The Mausoleum Frieze
Coming as they do from one of the Seven Wonders of the World, the frieze-blocks of the Mausoleum at Halicarnassus are among the most celebrated sculptures in the British Museum. In the century since their acquisition, many mutually contradictory attempts have been made to attribute the various slabs to the four sculptors of the Mausoleum as named by Pliny: Skopas, Bryaxis, Timotheos, and Leochares. Most of these attributions have been made by sch…
A Greek Stele in Dublin
An inscribed Attic marble grave stele of the fourth century B.C. with a family group of four persons in relief has recently come to light near Dublin in what was in the eighteenth-century part of an estate belonging to the first Earl of Charlemont. The stele itself and its place in Charlemont's collection are discussed
Greek Inscriptions
Cretan Red-Figured Lekythoi
Three small examples of shoulder-lekythoi in museums in Western Crete are described and discussed. Though evidently derived from the Attic Series, it is suggested that they are the products of a local workshop
Attic Red‐figured Lekythoi, Secondary Types
Studies in the attribution of Greek figured pottery follow a convention laid down by Beazley that attributions to ‘Groups’ are based on the style of drawing, while those on the potting are to ‘Classes'. Another distinct class of red‐figured lekythoi is here added to those identified by Beazley himself. The distinguishing features of the Class are described, and discussion follows of its origin and development, its chronology, and its relationship…
The archaeologist and the art market
The Keeper of Greek and Roman Antiquities at the British Museum sets out his view of where responsible museums and researchers should find a balance in the difficult matter of unprovenanced antiquities that may be the spoils of recent looting
The Parthenon, east pediment A–C
A new examination, prompted by Dr Peter Calligas, of Parthenon East Pediment C (two horses of Helios), suggests that the underside was trimmed when the group was installed in the pediment. The recutting of pedimental sculptures of the Parthenon to fit beneath the raking cornice is well attested for other figures, but has not previously been suggested for this block
Sixth Annual Conference of the Institute of Field Archaeologists Birmingham 6–8 April 1992
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International Conference on the Theme ‘Eredità Contestata?’ Rome 29–30 April 1991
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Selected Roman and Italian acquisitions in the Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities, British Museum, 1980-1992
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Relief Sculpture of the Mausoleum at Halicarnassus
The site of the Mausoleum at Halicarnassus, one of the Seven Wonders of the World, was rediscovered and partially excavated by C. T. Newton's expedition in 1865-6, and has been cleared completely by the Danish Archaeological Expedition to Bodrum (1966-76). Most of the fragments of relief sculpture have not been published before. The larger pieces, including slabs formerly incorporated in the Castle at Bodrum, are well known, but new, detailed pho…
Textual Homelands
In this article, I re-examine the three runes used within the manuscript text of Beowulf to argue that the runes are purposeful additions to the text that interact with and enrich the reader’s experience of the narrative. The runes mark passages in which the poem considers the nature of the literary and its relationship to an amorphous mythic Germanic past. Readers encountering Beowulf in the context of Cotton Vitellius A XV become implicit parti…
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