Musée de Cluny - Musée national du Moyen Âge

Cl. 18 842); the museum is a medieval museum, so Cyprus matters here only for medieval material (2016)

Merrillees 2016

1. April 1844
   The slab of Brocard de Charpigny, made from a sliced ancient column, was said to have been found in a garden near the sea at Nea Paphos.

   Nea PaphosMerrillees 2016

2. 6 December 1850
   Saulcy's diary records his purchase of antiquities from Cesare Mattei at Larnaca on this date, including the tomb slab of Brocard de Charpigny.

   LarnacaFélicien de SaulcyMerrillees 2016

3. 1851–1852
   The slab was donated to the Musée de Cluny (Inv. Cl. 18 842) by Saulcy and/or Edouard Delessert. A notice in Revue archéologique 8(2), 1852, pp. 580-582, signed L***, presumably Longpérier, says Saulcy and Edouard Delessert acquired it at Larnaca and gave it to the Cluny museum.

   ParisFélicien de SaulcyEdouard DelessertAdrien de LongpérierMerrillees 2016

4. 1853
   Alexander Nesbitt discussed the slab (the knight's basin-shaped headpiece and Brocard's genealogy) in The Archaeological Journal 10, pp. 362-365, which Merrillees says earlier bibliographies missed.

   Merrillees 2016

5. 1905
   Not a Cluny acquisition: the Cyprus Museum curator R. Jeffery described a planned medieval museum for Nicosia as a 'Musée de Cluny for Nicosia' in a letter of 9 Feb 1905 asking for funds.

   NicosiaStylianou-Lambert & Bounia 2016

6. 1988
   Dany Sandron published the slab: 'Pierre tombale de Brocard de Charpigny (Nouvelle Paphos) au Musée de Cluny', CCEC 9, pp. 33-36 (cited in Merrillees's bibliography; not read).

   Dany SandronMerrillees 2016

• Tomb slab of Brocard de Charpigny, 13th c. AD, cut from a lengthwise-sliced ancient column; Nea Paphos

  Cl. 18 842from Nea Paphos (garden near the sea, April 1844 per report)via Félicien de Saulcy1851–1852Merrillees 2016