He is not to be confused with the somewhat earlier Roman topographer Ernst Platner.

Samuel Ball Platner (1863 – 1921) was a British archaeologist, who for many years was the director of the British Institute in Rome. He 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.

Platner also taught at Case Western University.

[edit] Bibliography

• The topography and monuments of ancient Rome (1st ed. 1904; 2nd rev ed. 1911; Boston, Allyn & Bacon).

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