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About this assortment
This digital assortment is an element of a bigger mixture of 5 distinct gathering areas on antiquities, which embody plaster casts, historic cash, gems, and squeezes. Cornell University owns a number of collections of antiquities – originals and reproductions – from the traditional Mediterranean. Acquired principally within the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, their main function was to function hands-on materials for educating and analysis. Once housed on the bottom flooring of Goldwin Smith Hall, the University’s former Museum of Archaeology, they’re now dispersed over a number of establishments, schools, departments and buildings on campus.
Historical context
John Robert Sitlington Sterrett (1851-1914) was appointed Professor of Greek at Cornell in 1901. During the earlier a long time he had traveled all through Greece, Turkey, Syria, and Iraq, learning the inscriptions, monuments, and historic geography of the area. Upon his arrival at Cornell he communicated his love of archaeological exploration to 3 college students who, in 1907-8, undertook the “Cornell Expedition to Asia Minor and the Assyro-Babylonian Orient.“
In 1918, Sterrett’s widow gave his assortment of archaeological pictures to the Cornell University Library, together with lots of of photos taken by Sterrett’s frequent companion in his travels, the pioneering archaeological photographer John Henry Haynes (1849-1910). The Sterrett assortment additionally preserves pictures made by the Cornell Expedition of 1907-8.
Using the gathering
For questions on this assortment, contact the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections at [email protected].
More info
- Collection steward
- Katherine Reagan, Ernest L. Stern ’56 Curator, Rare Books & Manuscripts
- Metadata creation
- Natasha Bissonauth, PhD ’17
- Funding
- Grants Program for Digital Collections in Arts and Sciences, awarded to Benjamin Anderson, 2015
- Credits
- This assortment overview was final reviewed in 2025.
- Collection sources
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