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Collector · Cataloguer · Scholar

Anne Claude Philippe, comte de Caylus

1692–1765 · France

French collector and cataloguer. Acted for Benoît Astier.

Life and work

  1. 1755–1764
    Charged the newly appointed French consul in Cyprus, Benoit Astier (brevet October 1755), with collecting antiquities; Astier sent Egyptian or Egyptianising bronzes and an Archaic limestone votary statuette

    CyprusAmandry et al. 1987, n. 4-5

  2. 1764
    Published the statuette in Recueil d'antiquités ... VI, pp. 61-62, pl. 18 (bronzes at pp. 55-57, 59-60, pls 17-18); said by him to come from a tomb

    Amandry et al. 1987, n. 5-6

Connections

1 person

Sales, gifts & bequests

Objects

  • Archaic limestone votary statuette, draped male figure, ht 49 cm, conical cap; probably early 6th c. BCE (the authors' dating); thought for a time to represent Kinyras

    Cabinet des Médailles (Cabinet du Roi), Paris Dieudonné 18 / Fossati 760Amandry et al. 1987

Sources

  1. 1.M. Amandry, A. Hermary, O. Masson (1987). “Les premières antiquités chypriotes du Cabinet des Médailles et la mission Mas Latrie en 1845-1846”. Cahiers du Centre d'Études Chypriotes 8, 3-15. Online
  2. 2.Wikidata / GND. Anne Claude Philippe, Comte de Caylus (Q2734012). Online
  3. 3.A. C. P. de Caylus (1764). Recueil d'antiquités égyptiennes, étrusques, grecques, romaines et gauloises, VI. Paris, N. M. Tilliard.