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Annie Dunman Ure (née Hunt, January 3, 1893 - September, 1976) was an English archaeologist and museum curator, who from 1922 to 1976 was the first Curator of the Ure Museum of Greek Archaeology. She and her husband Percy Ure conducted important excavations at Ritsona in Boeotia, Greece, making her one of the first female archaeologists to undertake an excavation in Greece.

Ure received an Honorary Doctorate of Letters from the University of Reading in 1976.

Biography
Annie Dunman Hunt was born in Worcester on January 3, 1893, to George Henry Hunt, a watchmaker and jeweller, and his wife Elizabeth Ann. In her childhood, she attended Stoneycroft School, a girls' boarding school in Southport, and in 1911, Hunt was accepted to University of Reading to read Classics. As Reading did not yet have a university charter, she received her B.A. from the University of London in 1914. After spending the duration of the First World War teaching at the college's Classics department, she married her former Professor, Percy Ure, in 1918, who had personally asked for Hunt to fill in for the members of staff who had been conscripted in the war.

In the years 1921 and 1922, the Ures excavated in the Greek hamlet of Ritsona, Boeotia, resuming excavations that had been started by Percy and Ronald M. Burrows between 1905 and 1909. The site was believed to correspond to the ancient necropolis of Mykalessos, a town mentioned in Thucydides' Peloponnesian War to have suffered a massacre at the hands of Thracian mercenaries. The excavations were primarily focused on graves, and produced a significant host of Boeotian pottery, which were important in their contribution to the classification and dating of Greek ceramics.

Upon the founding of Reading's Museum of Greek Archaeology in 1922, Ure assumed an honorary role as its first Curator, a position she kept until her death in 1976. During these years, she travelled for study and research in museums across Europe, and was elected as a corresponding member of the German Archaeological Institute. In 1954, Ure published a collaborative volume alongside her late husband in the international Corpus vasorum antiquorum series. Ure died in September 1976, at the age of 83, ten days after receiving an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Reading. She was survived by her two children, Bill and Jean.

Selected publications

 * Boeotian Orientalizing Lekanai. Metropolitan Museum Studies 4 (1): 18-31, 1932.
 * Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: Great Britain-University of Reading. London: Oxford University Press, 1954.
 * Sixth and Fifth Century Pottery from Rhitsona: From excavations made at Rhitsona by Burrows R. M. in 1909 and by Ure P. N. and Ure A. D. in 1921 and 1922, edited by Ure P. N. Oxford University Press; London, Milford, 1927.