Ioannis Svoronos [SEP] place of death
Ioannis Svoronos
Ioannis N. Svoronos (; Mykonos, 15 April 1863 – Athens, 25 August 1922) was a Greek archaeologist and numismatist.
Life.
Ioannis Svoronos was born in 1863 on the island of Mykonos. After completing school he enrolled in the Law School of the University of Athens, but abandoned his studies to dedicate himself to archaeology and numismatics. He studied the latter in the universities of Berlin, London and Paris (1883–1887). On his return to Greece he was hired by the Numismatic Museum of Athens
Nevertheless, as Philip Grierson points out, the use of letters by the Greeks as symbols was a long-established practice, and their identifications as firesteels by Kodinos probably reflects Western influence. The two traditional readings of the four "B"s, and (both meaning "King of Kings ruling over the kings/rulers") were demonstrated by the Greek archaeologist and numismatist Ioannis Svoronos to be later interpretations by Marcus Vulson de la Colombière. Svoronos himself proposed three alternate readings: ("Cross of the King of Kings aid the