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Auguste Salzmann

1824–1872 · France

Excavator of the tombs of Kameiros on Rhodes who is credited with finds from Golgoi on Cyprus in 1870; objects from his digs are in the museums of Orléans and Colmar.

Biography

The Orléans museum catalogue credits Auguste Salzmann with a bone statuette of Victory "found in the island of Cyprus, in the temple of Golgos, in 1870", and marks two Cypriot vases as the result of his excavations6. Salzmann was born at Ribeauvillé on 14 April 1824 and died in Paris on 24 February 18721. The catalogue spells his name "Saltzmann", as do the other Orléans sources.

François Desnoyers, director of the Orléans museum, named him as the third worker, after Luigi Palma di Cesnola and Colonna-Ceccaldi (1871), to dig the Cypriot necropolises, and said he had been able to bring some of the finds into the museum5. In 1879 Émile Davoust described birds and animals from the excavations at Golgos made "under the direction of M. Saltzman" in the Desnoyers collection at Orléans7. A gold earring from the same stock, published by Desnoyers in 1884, was described by the Revue d'Alsace as coming from the excavations of "our regretted compatriot Aug. Saltzmann, of Ribeauvillé", whose brother Fred. gave the Colmar museum objects of the same origin2,5. Kraus's account of Alsace lists a large urn from a Cypriot necropolis at Colmar as the gift of Herr Aug. Salzmann3.

On Rhodes the Orléans catalogue labels terracottas, glass, gold and bronzes as the results of his excavations in the tombs of Kameiros, dated 1860, 1862, 1864 and 18686.

Life and work

  1. 1860–1868
    Dug in the tombs of Kameiros on Rhodes; Orléans lots credit him with finds there dated 1860, 1862, 1864 and 1868

    Kameiros, RhodesEdmond Desnoyers (1884). Catalogue du musée historique de la ville d'Orléans. Herluison, Orléans, nos. 62

  2. 1863
    Excavated 64 objects (among them 'statuette', reg. 1863,0127.5); now in the British Museum.

    British Museum collection online, reg. 1863,0127.5; 1864,1007.1007; 1864,1007.1013

  3. 1864
    Was the source of 63 objects (among them 'scarab', reg. 1864,1007.1007) that the British Museum acquired (the record does not say how).

    British Museum collection online, reg. 1864,1007.1007; 1864,1007.1013; 1864,1007.1240

  4. 1864
    Named in British Museum, Musée du Louvre acquisition records: excavated 65 objects; is named as source of 63 objects; sold 13 objects; is named as previous owner of 1 object (1864).

    British Museum collection online, reg. 1860,0404.98; 1861,1024.26; 1862,0530.3; 1863,0127.4; Louvre collections online, reg. AO 32246; N III 2423

  5. 1870
    Orléans catalogue credits him with a bone statuette of Victory 'found in the island of Cyprus, in the temple of Golgos, in 1870'; a two-handled cup from Cyprus is marked 'Fouilles de Saltzmann' and a small two-handled globular vase 'Fouilles de M. Saltzmann, 1862. - Chypre'

    GolgoiEdmond Desnoyers (1884). Catalogue du musée historique de la ville d'Orléans. Herluison, Orléans, nos. 200

  6. by 1876
    Kraus lists among the Colmar museum's antiquities a large, fine urn (clay vessel) from a necropolis on Cyprus, 'gift of Herr Aug. Salzmann' (recorded in 1876; Salzmann died in 1872, so the gift is earlier)

    ColmarF. X. Kraus (1876). Kunst und Alterthum in Elsass-Lothringen, vol. 2: Ober-Elsass. 324-325, pp. 324-325

  7. 1879
    Davoust describes the Desnoyers collection in the Orléans museum, with 'birds, animals of all kinds' from the excavations made at Golgos 'under the direction of M. Saltzman'

    OrléansÉmile Davoust (1879). La collection Desnoyers au musée historique d'Orléans. Mémoires de la Société archéologique et historique de l'Orléanais (offprint), 104, p. 104

  8. 1884
    Desnoyers published 'Un bijou cypriote', a 4 cm gold earring in the Orléans museum with a hung square case holding a granulated three-sided pyramid; he names Salzmann as the third worker, after Cesnola and Colonna-Ceccaldi (1871), to dig the Cypriot necropolises and says he was able to bring some of his finds into the museum. The Revue d'Alsace adds that it came from excavations by 'our regretted compatriot Aug. Saltzmann, of Ribeauvillé' and that his brother Fred. gave the Colmar museum objects of the same origin

    OrléansEdmond Desnoyers (1884). Un bijou cypriote. Mémoires de la Société archéologique et historique de l'Orléanais 18, pp. 3-4; Bulletin bibliographique, Revue d'Alsace (1885). Review of Mémoires de la Société archéologique de l'Orléanais, tome XVIII. Revue d'Alsace, 381

  9. Undated

Connections

7 people
François Edmond DesnoyersFrédéric SaltzmannCharles NewtonAlfred BiliottiLuigi Palma di CesnolaFrançois LenormantDe CesnolaAuguste Salzmann
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Objects

Mentioned in

11 mentions

Sources

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  2. 2.Bulletin bibliographique, Revue d'Alsace (1885). “Review of Mémoires de la Société archéologique de l'Orléanais, tome XVIII”. Revue d'Alsace, 381.
  3. 3.F. X. Kraus (1876). Kunst und Alterthum in Elsass-Lothringen, vol. 2: Ober-Elsass. 324-325.
  4. 4.H. B. Walters (1905). History of ancient pottery.
  5. 5.Edmond Desnoyers (1884). “Un bijou cypriote”. Mémoires de la Société archéologique et historique de l'Orléanais 18.
  6. 6.Edmond Desnoyers (1884). Catalogue du musée historique de la ville d'Orléans. Herluison, Orléans.
  7. 7.Émile Davoust (1879). “La collection Desnoyers au musée historique d'Orléans”. Mémoires de la Société archéologique et historique de l'Orléanais (offprint), 104.
  8. 8.British Museum collection online.
  9. 9.Georges Perrot and Charles Chipiez, History of Art in Phœnicia and its Dependencies, Vol. II (1885).
  10. 10.H. B. Walters, 1905, History of ancient pottery.
  11. 11.Edmond Desnoyers, 1884, Un bijou cypriote, p. 3; Émile Davoust, 1879, La collection Desnoyers au musée historique d'Orléans.
  12. 12.Bulletin bibliographique, Revue d'Alsace, 1885, Review of Mémoires de la Société archéologique de l'Orléanais, tome XVIII, leaf 143.
  13. 13.British Museum Dept . of Greek and Roman Antiquities, Edward Tyas Cook, A popular handbook to the Greek and Roman antiquities in the British museum (1903).
  14. 14.The Saturday review of politics, literature, science and art (1855).
  15. 15.Catalogue du musée historique de la ville d'Orléans, par M. Desnoyers,... (1884).
  16. 16.Perrot, Georges (1832-1914), Histoire de l'art dans l'antiquité : Egypte, Assyrie, Phénicie, Judée, Asie mineure, Perse, Grèce. Tome 8 (1882-1914).
  17. 17.Desnoyers, Edmond (1805-1902), Catalogue du musée historique de la ville d'Orléans (1882).
  18. 18.Mémoires de la Société d'agriculture, sciences, belles-lettres et arts d'Orléans (1902).
  19. 19.Fédération des sociétés d'histoire et d'archéologie d'Alsace, Revue d'Alsace (1885).
  20. 20.Liblin, Joseph, 1811-1899; Gasser, August; Ingold, Angel, Revue d'Alsace (1850).
  21. 21.Revue d'Alsace (1834).
  22. 22.Walters, Henry Beauchamp, 1867-1944; Birch, Samuel, 1813-1885, History of ancient pottery : Greek, Etruscan, and Roman (1905).
  23. 23.Handbook of the Cesnola Collection of antiquities from Cyprus (1914).
  24. 24.Walters, Henry Beauchamp, 1867-1944; Birch, Samuel, 1813-1885; Birch, Samuel, 1813-1885. History of ancient pottery, History of ancient pottery, Greek, Etruscan, and Roman (1905).
  25. 25.Bursian, Conrad, Geschichte der classischen Philologie in Deutschland von den Anfängen bis zur Gegenwart. 2.
  26. 26.Académie d'Orléans, 1902, Mémoires de la Société d'agriculture, sciences, belles-lettres et arts d'Orléans.
  27. 27.Académie d'Orléans, Mémoires de la Société d'agriculture, sciences, belles-lettres et arts d'Orléans (1902).
  28. 28.Revue des questions historiques (1872-01).
  29. 29.1885, Bulletin bibliographique (review of Mémoires de la Société archéologique et historique de l'Orléanais, vol. 18).
  30. 30.Desnoyers, Musée historique de la ville d 'Orléans, Catalogue du musée historique de la ville d'Orléans (1882).

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