Samuel Ball Platner, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Samuel Ball Platner

American archaeologist

Date of Birth: 04-Dec-1863

Place of Birth: Farmington, Connecticut, United States

Date of Death: 20-Aug-1921

Profession: art historian, classical scholar, archaeologist, anthropologist, classical philologist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

He is not to be confused with the somewhat earlier Roman topographer Ernst Platner. Samuel Ball Platner (December 4, 1863 – August 20, 1921) was an American classicist and archaeologist.Platner was born at Unionville, Connecticut, and educated at Yale College.
He taught at Western Reserve University and is best known as the author of various topographical works on ancient Rome, chief among them A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome, completed after Platner's death by Thomas Ashby and published in 1929; and as a contributor to the 1911 Britannica.