Museum

Musée d'Archéologie méditerranéenne

Marseille, France

Museum in Marseille. 5 people in the register connected with it.

The Cypriot collection

Cypriot pieces published by Decaudin 1987 (Les antiquités chypriotes dans les collections publiques françaises); about forty objects from the 1870 Cesnola sale; size of the whole Cypriot holding not established (1996)

Masson 1996

History

March 1870
About forty objects bought at the Paris (Hôtel Drouot, 25-26 March 1870) sale of Cesnola's Cypriot finds; their sale numbers were noted by W. Froehner for the Marseille catalogue of 1897.
ParisLuigi Palma di Cesnola Wilhelm Froehner Henri Hoffmann Masson 1996 Caubet 1993, p. 10
c. 1874
Pierre Trabaud, who had finds dug in Cyprus in 1874, gave material to the Musée Borély as well as to the Louvre.
MarseillePierre Trabaud Caubet 1993, p. 11
1897
Marseille museum catalogue published, with Froehner's identification of the Cesnola sale numbers (Cypriot section from p. 121).
MarseilleWilhelm Froehner Masson 1996
1979
Guide sommaire des Antiquités orientales of the Musées d'Archéologie de Marseille by S. Bourlard-Collin and C. Fournier; it illustrates a Base Ring female figurine with infant (no. 7542).
MarseilleS. Bourlard-Collin C. Fournier Merrillees 1992

People

5 people

Staff and members · 3

C. Fournierstaff (1979–1979) · co-author of the museums' oriental antiquities guideMerrillees 19921979
S. Bourlard-Collinstaff (1979–1979) · co-author of the museums' Guide sommaireMerrillees 19921979
Wilhelm Froehnerspecialist (from 1897)Masson 1996

Donors and lenders · 1

Pierre Trabauddonor (from c. 1874) · gave objectsCaubet 1993, p. 111874

Sellers and consignors · 1

Luigi Palma di Cesnolaseller (1870–1870) · sold objectsMasson 19961870

Objects

Base Ring female figurine holding an infant, h. 14.8 cm, two perforations in each ear
7542Merrillees 1992
Bird figurine, Cypro-Archaic II
2532Dissinger 2017, p. 293

Sources

1.Olivier Masson (1996). “La dispersion des antiquités chypriotes: les deux collections Cesnola”. Cahiers du Centre d'Études Chypriotes 25, 3-32. Online
2.Annie Caubet (1993). “Les antiquités chypriotes au Musée du Louvre”. Kinyras : l'archéologie française à Chypre. Lyon. Online
3.Robert S. Merrillees (1992). “A Late Cypriote figurine with child from the Boysset Collection (now Sèvres Museum)”. Cahiers du Centre d'Études Chypriotes 18, 3-7. Online
4.Alicia Marie Dissinger (2017). “Cypro-Archaic Bird Iconography: Types, Uses, and Meanings”. University of Virginia.