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Édouard Naville

fl. 1880–1925

Excavator and archaeologist, active 1880–1925. Gave to Musée archéologique de Genève; worked with F. Ll. Griffith and William Flinders Petrie.

Life and work

  1. 1885–1891
    Excavated at Tell Kataaneh in 1885, finding pottery of Etruscan type, and at Heracleopolis Magna in 1891, disinterring a Cypriote vase now in the British Museum.

    The Academy 1891-12-12: Vol 40 Iss 1023

  2. 1887–1889
    Excavated Tell el-Maskhuta, where the Arsinoe II statue base was found, and excavated the main temple to Bastet at Bubastis in 1887 and 1889.

    Elizabeth Brophy, Royal Statues in Egypt 300 BC-AD 220: Context and Function (2015), p. 109

  3. 1887–1894
    Excavated at Tell el-Yahudiyeh in 1887 with Francis Llewellyn Griffith and at Hatshepsut's mortuary temple in 1894–95.

    Eric M. Meyers; William G. Dever; Carol L. Meyers; James D. Muhly; Dennis Pardee; James A. Sauer, The Oxford Encyclopedia of Archaeology in the Near East (1997), p. 368

  4. 1890–1891
    Excavated an object ('Base-ring ware juglet (bilbil)', inv. 91.268) in 1890–1891; now in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

    Museum of Fine Arts, Boston collection online, 'Base-ring ware juglet (bilbil)', inv. 91.268

  5. 1891
    Excavator in Egypt who in 1891 found at Heracleopolis Magna a Cypriot vase now in the British Museum, and who dated the necropolis at Tell el-Yahudiyeh with its Cypriot-style vases to the Roman period.

    Revue archéologique (1887-07), p. 348

  6. 1891
    Gave the small Egyptian collection shown in the Egyptian and Cypriot room of the Geneva museum, excavated at Heracleopolis in 1891 and dated the Byblos perfume vase's companion vessel to about 1300–1200 BC.

    Revue des études anciennes (1899)

  7. 1891
    Excavated at Heracleopolis in 1891, the site whose statue and column went to Philadelphia.

    Ernest Leroux, Revue Archeologique Troisieme Serie Tome.21 (1893)

  8. 1894–1895
    Excavated mummies of men, women, and children from a mound before the Anubis chapel at Hatshepsut's mortuary temple, 1894-1895, and interpreted them as Christian.

    Sue D'Auria; Peter Lacovara; Catharine H. Roehrig, Mummies & Magic: The Funerary Arts of Ancient Egypt (1988), p. 214

  9. 1915
    Wrote to Arthur Evans on 18 Nov 1915 that the Minoan colonists went from Cyprus first to Tyre and Sidon (Ashmolean, AJE/1/1/1/113/1).

    Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford, Sir Arthur Evans Archive, GB/1648/AJE/1/1/1/113/1, «Letter from Édouard Naville», 18/11/1915

  10. Undated
  11. Undated
    Found at Katanah, Egypt, a black-ware vase identical to British Museum examples, with flint chips and scarabs of the twelfth and thirteenth Dynasties.

    Murray, A. S. (Alexander Stuart), 1841-1904, Handbook of Greek archaeology. Vases, bronzes, gems, sculpture, terra-cottas, mural paintings, architecture, etc (1892)

  12. Undated
    Found vases of black ware with flint chips and scarabs at Katanah, Egypt, in vases now in the British Museum; not a Cyprus tie.

    Murray, A. S. (Alexander Stuart), 1841-1904, Handbook of Greek archaeology. Vases, bronzes, gems, sculpture, terra-cottas, mural paintings, architecture, etc. (1892)

  13. Undated
    Co-led the international excavation of a major ancient city in the Nile Delta with Petrie, described as uncovering temples and small antiquities.

    Wilhelm Hirschfelder, Wochenschrift für klassiche Philologie (1884)

  14. Undated
    His gifts formed the core of the Egyptian collection of the Geneva museum.

    Revue archéologique (1910-07), p. 799

  15. Undated
    Donor whose gifts form the core of the Geneva Museum's Egyptian collection; he also published a mummy in the Mémoires of the Société d'histoire.

    Ernest Leroux, Revue Archeologique (quatrieme Serie Tome.16) (1910)

  16. Undated
    Donor whose gifts form the modest Egyptian collection of the Geneva Musee; the passage names him as donor and publisher of a mummy, not Cypriot material.

    Ernest Leroux, Revue Archeologique (quatrieme Serie Tome.16) (1910)

  17. Undated
    Wrote on the Byblos perfume vase and dated the companion vessel to about 1300-1200 B.C.

    Arthur Evans, The Palace of Minos

Connections

5 people
MichailovitchPetroviczF. Ll. GriffithWilliam Flinders PetrieJosef StrzygowskiÉdouard Naville
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Sales, gifts & bequests

Mentioned in

6 mentions

Sources

  1. 1.Murray, A. S. (Alexander Stuart), 1841-1904, Handbook of Greek archaeology, vases, bronzes, gems, sculpture, terra-cottas, mural paintings, architecture, [etc.] (1892).
  2. 2.Murray, A. S. (Alexander Stuart), 1841-1904, Handbook of Greek archaeology. Vases, bronzes, gems, sculpture, terra-cottas, mural paintings, architecture, etc (1892).
  3. 3.Murray, A. S. (Alexander Stuart), 1841-1904, Handbook of Greek archaeology. Vases, bronzes, gems, sculpture, terra-cottas, mural paintings, architecture, etc. (1892).
  4. 4.Revue archéologique (1887-07).
  5. 5.The Academy 1891-12-12: Vol 40 Iss 1023.
  6. 6.Wilhelm Hirschfelder, Wochenschrift für klassiche Philologie (1884).
  7. 7.Elizabeth Brophy, Royal Statues in Egypt 300 BC-AD 220: Context and Function (2015).
  8. 8.Eric M. Meyers; William G. Dever; Carol L. Meyers; James D. Muhly; Dennis Pardee; James A. Sauer, The Oxford Encyclopedia of Archaeology in the Near East (1997).
  9. 9.Sue D'Auria; Peter Lacovara; Catharine H. Roehrig, Mummies & Magic: The Funerary Arts of Ancient Egypt (1988).
  10. 10.Revue archéologique (1910-07).
  11. 11.Ernest Leroux, Revue Archeologique (quatrieme Serie Tome.16) (1910).
  12. 12.Revue des études anciennes (1899).
  13. 13.Ernest Leroux, Revue Archeologique Troisieme Serie Tome.21 (1893).
  14. 14.Arthur Evans, The Palace of Minos.
  15. 15.Museum of Fine Arts, Boston collection online, 'Base-ring ware juglet (bilbil)'.
  16. 16.Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford, Sir Arthur Evans Archive, GB/1648/AJE/1/1/1/113/1, «Letter from Édouard Naville», 18/11/1915. Online
  17. 17.Ernest Leroux, Revue Archeologique Troisieme Serie Tome.10 (1887).
  18. 18.Frothingham, A. L., Archæological News (1887).
  19. 19.Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies (London, England), The Journal of Hellenic studies (1880).
  20. 20.lix, 575 p., The journal of Hellenic studies.
  21. 21.Thelma K. Thomas, Late Antique Egyptian Funerary Sculpture: Images for This World and for the Next (2000).
  22. 22.Numismatica Ars Classica, Auction 106 (2018).

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