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Curator · Scholar

A. Héron de Villefosse

fl. 1890–1901 · France

French curator and scholar, active 1890–1901.

Life and work

  1. 13 January 1898
    Reported to the consultative committee of the Musées nationaux that he had found fragments of Cypriot statuettes in a meadow near the château of one of M. de Maricourt's sons and taken them away with the owner's permission; about thirty figurines of the Maricourt Salt Lake find survive in the Louvre.

    FranceParalia, p. 4

  2. 1901
    Published a note on a bronze ibex horn found in the island of Cyprus in the Comptes rendus of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, as listed in Cobham's bibliography.

    Cobham 1908

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Sources

  1. 1.C. D. Cobham (1908). Excerpta Cypria: Materials for a History of Cyprus. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press. Online
  2. 2.Héron de Villefosse (1901). “Corne de Bouquetin en bronze trouvée dans l'île de Chypre”. Comptes rendus de l'Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres.
  3. 3.Artémis Paralia. “Promenades aux Salines: la fin d'une fable”. La France et l'Archéologie chypriote pendant ....
  4. 4.Salomon Reinach (1891). Chroniques d'Orient.