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Epigrapher · Scholar

André Dupont-Sommer

fl. 1969–1974 · France

French epigrapher and scholar, active 1969–1974.

Life and work

  1. 1969–1970
    Studied from photographs the fragmentary Phoenician Red Slip bowl with a long incised Phoenician inscription, found in 1969 in a pit of the first period of the Kition (Kathari) Astarte temple (dated c. 800 BC, 'end of the ninth century' in Karageorghis 1976), and gave a preliminary commentary before the Académie des Inscriptions in Paris. His reading: a citizen of Tamassos (ML) offered his shaved hair to Astarte; Karageorghis (1969 Chronique) and later (1976) used it to identify the temple as one of Astarte.

    KitionKarageorghis 1970Karageorghis 1976, pp. 110

  2. 1969–1971
    Reported on Kition inscriptions in his EPHE annual reports: 'Les comptes du temple de Kition' (1969-70, pp. 153-159), 'La plus ancienne inscription phénicienne de Chypre' (1969-70, pp. 152-153) and 'Trois inscriptions phéniciennes de Kition' (1970-71, pp. 155-160), as listed in Sznycer's obituary bibliography.

    ParisHermary et al. 2010, pp. 4-5

Connections

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Scholarship

Sources

  1. 1.V. Karageorghis (1970). “Chronique des fouilles et découvertes archéologiques à Chypre en 1969”. Bulletin de correspondance hellénique 94.
  2. 2.V. Karageorghis (1976). Kition: Mycenaean and Phoenician Discoveries in Cyprus. London, Thames and Hudson.
  3. 3.A. Hermary, M. Yon, A. Caubet (2010). “In memoriam Maurice Sznycer (1921-2010)”. Cahiers du Centre d'Études Chypriotes 40, 13-16. Online
  4. 4.A. Dupont-Sommer (1970). “Une inscription phénicienne archaïque récemment trouvée à Kition (Chypre)”. Mémoires de l'Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres 44, 1-28.
  5. 5.A. Dupont-Sommer (1974). “Les Phéniciens à Chypre”. Report of the Department of Antiquities, Cyprus, 75-94.