{"id":645,"date":"2019-11-22T17:00:12","date_gmt":"2019-11-22T17:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/curiosi\/?p=645"},"modified":"2019-11-25T16:05:35","modified_gmt":"2019-11-25T16:05:35","slug":"13-percy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/curiosi\/13-percy\/","title":{"rendered":"13. Bust of Percy Ure"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jannis Athene (1943)<\/strong><\/p>\n

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This bust shows the mature Percy Ure, University College Reading\u2019s first Professor of Classics (from 1911), as he appeared in the 1940s. Percy Ure founded the Museum of Greek Archaeology (now Ure Museum<\/a>) with his wife, Annie Ure<\/a>, who became its first curator. Their creation of a museum, in 1922, followed their work together on archaeological excavations at Rhitsona<\/a> in Boeotia, Greece. Jannis Athene presented this bust at the 13th annual exhibition of the Reading Guild of Artists<\/a> (RGA) in 1943. It was a treasured belonging of Percy’s widow, Annie, from the time of his death, in 1950. It then passed onto her descendants. Percy and Annie\u2019s granddaughter, Jenny, donated it to the Ure Museum in May 2019.<\/p>\n

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Letter from R. A. Barker regarding the bust<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Having received correspondence from R.A Barker regarding the bust, the Ures thought he was associated with its creation. He was in fact the University\u2019s official photographer. A search for the sculptor of this work, whose signature on the back of the bust is hard to discern, revealed that the name was Jannis Athene. Indeed a \u201cJ. Athene\u201d applied for membership of the Reading Guild of Artists in April 1943 and was accepted <\/span><\/span>into the Guild on the twenty-second of that month. The artist\u2019s name is given as \u201cAthena Jams\u201d in local reviews of the exhibition at which this bust was initially shown. Greek names are often transliterated in a variety of ways, yet more questions have arisen: Was the sculptor male or female? Is Athene a first name or last name? Could it be a suggestion that they were from Athens? Or did they <\/span><\/span>use a pseudonym to conceal their true identity?<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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\"\"Click here<\/strong><\/a> for the next stop on our trail.<\/p>\n

This post is part of Beyond the Ure<\/a>, a sculpture trail around the Edith Morley Building at the University of Reading.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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