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Epigrapher · Scholar

Charles Clermont-Ganneau

1846–1923 · France

Diplomat.

Life and work

  1. 1866–1874
    Received about fifty letters from the Colonna-Ceccaldi brothers (almost all from Georges, very few from Tiburce) on Cypriot antiquities; preserved in his correspondence at the Bibliothèque de l'Institut. Masson transcribed the Cypriot passages.

    Masson 1992, p. 126Masson 1990

  2. March 1870
    Asked Melchior de Vogüé for advice on the Louvre's purchase of the Dhiban (Mesha) stone; Vogüé answered from Paris on 8 March 1870. (Vogüé's mission was the channel of Cypriot antiquities to the Louvre; the stone itself is Moabite, not Cypriot.)

    ParisBonato 1999

  3. 1876
    Among the French scholars who reviewed Cesnola's announced discovery of the Kourion treasure; Marangou cites Revue Critique II, 1876, pp. 42-45.

    ParisMarangou 2000, p. 263

Connections

4 people
Melchior de VogüéDominique Albert Edouard …Georges Colonna CeccaldiGeorges (Georgos) N. Lani…Charles Clermont-Ganneau
Scholarship

Scholarship

Sources

  1. 1.O. Masson (1992). “Diplomates et amateurs d'antiquités à Chypre vers 1866-1878”. Journal des Savants, 123-154.
  2. 2.O. Masson (1990). “Correspondances chypriotes: lettres des frères Colonna-Ceccaldi et de L. Palma di Cesnola à W. Froehner”. Cahiers du Centre d'Études Chypriotes 14, 29-44. Online
  3. 3.Lucie Bonato (1999). “Chypre dans les archives de Melchior de Vogüé, II : correspondance de la « mission Vogüé » reçue au cours de l'année 1862”. Cahiers du Centre d'Études Chypriotes 29, 141-166. Online
  4. 4.A. G. Marangou (ed.) (2000). The Consul Luigi Palma di Cesnola 1832-1904: Life and Deeds.
  5. 5.Eric M. Meyers (ed.) (1997). The Oxford Encyclopedia of Archaeology in the Near East. New York, Oxford University Press.