Jotham Johnson

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Jotham Johnson [1] (born October 21, 1905 in Newark, New Jersey; died February 8, 1967, in New York, New York) [2] was an American classical archaeologist. [3] [ self-published source ]

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He was educated at Princeton University (A.B. 1926) and the University of Pennsylvania where he received his doctorate in 1931. [4] He taught at the University of Pittsburgh and then joined the faculty of New York University. He was the chairman of classics at the time of his death from an apparent heart attack.

He was involved in archaeological fieldwork at the site of Dura Europos in Syria. [5] Later he became involved in the excavations at the site of Minturnae in Italy, under the auspices of the University of Pennsylvania. With Kenan T. Erim he conducted fieldwork at Aphrodisias in the early 1960s. [6]

In 1961 he became president of the Archaeological Institute of America where he served until 1964. Johnson was also the first editor of the Institute's magazine Archaeology. [2] [6]

Johnson was married to the former Sarah Jean Coates.

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  1. "Prof. Jotham Johnson, 61, Dies; Chairman of Classics at N.Y.U." The New York Times . 9 Feb 1967.
  2. 1 2 "Our First Issues". Archaeological Institute of America. September 1, 1998. Retrieved September 9, 2010.
  3. Guy G. Sterling (15 November 2014). The Famous, the Familiar and the Forgotten. Xlibris Corporation. pp. 78–. ISBN   978-1-4990-7990-6.
  4. Irene Bald Romano (1 January 2011). Classical Sculpture: Catalogue of the Cypriot, Greek, and Roman Stone Sculpture in the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. University of Pennsylvania Press. pp. 162–. ISBN   978-1-934536-29-2.
  5. Stephen Bertman (14 July 2005). Handbook to Life in Ancient Mesopotamia. Oxford University Press. pp. 171–. ISBN   978-0-19-518364-1.
  6. 1 2 "Prof. Jotham Johnson, 61, Dies; Chairman of Classics at N.Y.U." The New York Times. 9 February 1967.
  7. Jotham Johnson (1933). Inscriptions: Part I. Republican Magistri, with an Appendix of Classical References to the Site. University Museum.