Université Laval

Over 400 Cypriot objects, mostly pottery and mainly Cypro-Archaic, bought in the 1960s; the Musée de l'Amérique française (formerly Musée du Séminaire de Québec) holds about 40 more bought in 1966 and 60 items given in 1991 (1996)

Buitron-Oliver, p. 2

1. 1960–1969
   Laval bought Cypriot antiquities in the 1960s from the Department of Antiquities and from the Nicosia dealer P. Kolokassides, through Jean Des Gagniers; the Kolokassides pieces were exported with the Department's permission. It also bought twelve ex-Cesnola vases from Stanford University.

   Quebec CityJean des GagniersPetros KolokasidesBuitron-Oliver, p. 2

2. 1964
   First campaign at Soloi (summer 1964) on the Director of Antiquities' decision to give the site to a Canadian mission of the Université Laval; limited soundings only, in a tragic moment of the island's history.

   SoliJean des GagniersKarageorghis 1966

3. 1965
   Work really began in spring 1965: three soundings on the north slopes of the acropolis (a Roman building with colonnaded court, a large Roman edifice and a small glassmaker's workshop) and the south-east necropolis. Seven vases from Tomb IV (1965) later entered the Laval collection.

   SoliJean des GagniersKarageorghis 1966Buitron-Oliver, p. 2

4. 1966
   The Musée de l'Amérique française (formerly Musée du Séminaire de Québec) acquired about forty Cypriot pieces, also through Des Gagniers.

   Quebec CityJean des GagniersBuitron-Oliver, p. 2

5. 1966–1969
   Seasons 1966-1969: 1966 northeast of the theatre, remains of an Early Christian building (the basilica, excavated from 1966 under Tran Tam Tinh); 1967 (April) third campaign on the necropolis, the lower town and the basilica; 1968 (April) fourth campaign; 1969 continued. The 1966-69 Department report calls 1966 the 'second season'.

   SoliJean des GagniersV. Tran Tam TinhNicolaou 1969Karageorghis 1968Karageorghis 1969Karageorghis 1970

6. 1971
   A bronze head was found in a house on the lower town (reported a year later as found 'last year'); Lilly Kahil completed excavation of that house in 1972.

   SoliLilly KahilKarageorghis 1973

7. 1972
   Campaign April-May under des Gagniers: Ginouvès on the lower town, Tran Tam Tinh on the basilica, Kahil on the house and the publication of the 1964-70 tombs; Giroux collaborated with James Carpenter of Kent State University.

   SoliJean des GagniersRené GinouvèsV. Tran Tam TinhLilly KahilGirouxJames R. CarpenterKarageorghis 1973

8. 1973
   Two campaigns (April-May and October-November): the agora with its nymphaeum (a little over a third excavated; up to 5.5 m of overburden), the acropolis and the basilica.

   SoliJean des GagniersKarageorghis 1974

9. 1974
   Spring campaign (late March to May) in three sectors: acropolis (L. Kahil), lower town (R. Ginouvès), basilica (V. Tran Tam Tinh). The autumn campaign was prevented by the events of 1974 and the dig did not resume.

   SoliJean des GagniersLilly KahilRené GinouvèsV. Tran Tam TinhKarageorghis 1975

10. 1974
    Karageorghis and des Gagniers, Iron Age figured pottery corpus (1974); a second volume on Red and Black Polished ware followed in 1976 (Laval University Press).

    QuebecJean des GagniersVassos KarageorghisReview of J. des… 1980Dissinger 2017

11. 1985
    Des Gagniers and Tran Tam Tinh, Soloi: dix campagnes de fouilles (1964-1974), I (Université Laval, Sainte-Foy; 1985); vol. II, La ville basse, 1989.

    Sainte-FoyJean des GagniersV. Tran Tam TinhStewart et al. 2014

12. 1991
    Cardinal Louis-Albert Vachon gave sixty items from his collection to the Musée de l'Amérique française.

    Quebec CityBuitron-Oliver, p. 2

13. 1996
    Michel Fortin, Les collections d'antiquités chypriotes de l'Université Laval et du Musée de l'Amérique française (Corpus of Cypriote Antiquities 16; Jonsered, Åström; 272 pp.). Reviewer Diana Buitron-Oliver: a good teaching collection, objects without specific provenance; the single fine pieces are a Bichrome V footed bowl, an over-life-size Cypro-Classical male head and a White Slip IIA bowl.

    FortinDiana BuitronBuitron-Oliver, p. 2-3

• Seven vases from Soloi Tomb IV (excavated 1965), in the Laval collection

  from Soloi, Tomb IV1965Buitron-Oliver, p. 2

• Twelve vases, formerly in the Cesnola collection, bought from Stanford University

  via Stanford UniversityBuitron-Oliver, p. 2

• Bichrome V footed bowl (Fortin no. 171)

  Fortin 171Buitron-Oliver, p. 3

• Over-life-size Cypro-Classical male head (Fortin no. 321)

  Fortin 321Buitron-Oliver, p. 3