Information on Jaap Hemelrijk
- Hemelrijk was a Dutch archaeologist
- born in 1925
- He received his doctorate in 1956 at the University of Amsterdam
- His thesis was titled De Caeretaanse hydriae
- For several decades he was a professor of classical archaeology at the University of Amsterdam
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His research throughout his career focused on Greek-painted pottery, specifically concentrating on Caereta Hydriae (the topic he became the leading expert on)
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He wrote a catalog on Caeretan Hydriae followed by an additional explanation text a few decades later
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He also authored part one of the Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum
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He was the director of the Allard Pierson Museum from 1965 to 1986
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He was the leading expert on Caeretan Hydriae and his catalog remains the only one to analyze all the known examples within the corpus
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He died on June 1st, 2018 at the age of 92
