Misplaced Pages

Kenneth Scott Painter (28 March 1935 – 14 May 2016) was deputy keeper of Greek and Roman antiquities at the British Museum and an authority on Roman and late antique silver. He was vice-president of the British Archaeological Association in 1997 and a trustee of Oxford Archaeology. He received a DLitt from Oxford University in 2004.

Selected publications

• The Mildenhall Treasure: Roman Silver from East Anglia. British Museum Publications, London, 1977. ISBN 9780714113654
• The Water Newton early Christian silver. British Museum Publications, London, 1977. ISBN 9780714113647
• Painter, Kenneth & Whitehouse, David (1990). "The History of the Portland Vase". Journal of Glass Studies. 32. Corning Museum of Glass: 24–84. JSTOR 24188030.
• The Insula of the Menander at Pompeii: Volume IV: The Silver Treasure. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2001. ISBN 978-0199242368
• Late Roman Silver. The Traprain Treasure in Context. Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, 2013. ISBN 978-1908332028

References

1. "Kenneth Painter".
2. "Kenneth Painter | British Archaeological Association". Archived from the original on 13 August 2016. Retrieved 20 June 2016.
3. "Oxford Archaeology - Latest news".
4. "Obituary: Kenneth Painter, Abingdon archaeologist who worked at the British Museum for nearly 30 years".

This English biographical article is a stub. You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it.

• v
• t
• e

• 1935 births
• 2016 deaths
• English curators
• English archaeologists
• Employees of the British Museum
• People educated at Bristol Grammar School
• Alumni of Worcester College, Oxford
• People from Cheltenham
• English people stubs