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Excavator · Scholar

Dr. Pernier

fl. 1904–1915

Excavator and scholar, active 1904–1915. Worked with Federico Halbherr.

Life and work

  1. 1904
    Italian excavator at Phaistos in Crete who gave information on the find and reconstruction of a Cypriot painted vessel (1904) and was cited on Cypriot signs and on the painting of Cypriot sculpture.

    Giorgia Baldacci; Ilaria Caloi, Rhadamanthys: Studi di archeologia minoica in onore di Filippo Carinci per il suo 70° compleanno / Studies in Minoan archaeology in honour of Filippo Carinci on (2018), p. 303

  2. Undated
    Gave oral information to the author about the Cypriot painted vessel's find and reconstruction.

    Archiv für Religionswissenschaft, 29. Januar 1904, Bd. 7, H. 1-2. - Our Digital Library (1904)

  3. Undated
    Thought the Phaestos Disk, found with remains in Crete, was made about 1600 B.C. by dating the associated finds.

    Transactions and proceedings and report of the Philosophical Society of Adelaide, South Australia (1878)

  4. Undated
    Cited (p. 287) for the rosette as a decorative variant of the rouelle, in a comparative study of Cypriot signs.

    Revue archéologique (1915)

  5. Undated
    Suggested an all-over red painting for Cypriot sculpture from Prinia-related material, citing Vestigia 61, 220 and Templi Arcaici 54.

    Lauren Adams, Orientalizing Sculpture in Soft Limestone from Crete and Mainland Greece (1978), p. 145

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Sources

  1. 1.Giorgia Baldacci; Ilaria Caloi, Rhadamanthys: Studi di archeologia minoica in onore di Filippo Carinci per il suo 70° compleanno / Studies in Minoan archaeology in honour of Filippo Carinci on (2018).
  2. 2.Archiv für Religionswissenschaft, 29. Januar 1904, Bd. 7, H. 1-2. - Our Digital Library (1904).
  3. 3.Transactions and proceedings and report of the Philosophical Society of Adelaide, South Australia (1878).
  4. 4.Revue archéologique (1915).
  5. 5.Lauren Adams, Orientalizing Sculpture in Soft Limestone from Crete and Mainland Greece (1978).

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