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Epigrapher · Scholar · Donor

Emilia Masson

fl. 1970–2001 · France

French epigrapher and scholar, active 1970–2001. Married to Olivier Masson; wrote with Laurent Dubois and Vassos Karageorghis.

Life and work

  1. 1972
    Supplied the note on Cypro-Minoan finds of the 1972 campaigns at Athienou (the Chronique prints her notes on the sparse Cypro-Minoan evidence).

    AthienouKarageorghis 1973

  2. 1983
    Contributed an appendix, with Olivier Masson, to Karageorghis's Palaepaphos-Skales (1979-81 rescue excavation of an Iron Age cemetery).

    KoukliaKarageorghis 1983

  3. 1997–2000
    Donated her late husband's documentation (including much on Cesnola and 19th-century archaeology) to the Archaeological Research Unit of the University of Cyprus; Marangou thanks her for briefing and for the archive.

    NicosiaMarangou 2000, p. 5 ; p. 73

  4. 1998–2001
    With L. Dubois and T. Drew-Bear completed Olivier Masson's last Cesnola paper ('Luigi Palma di Cesnola - ultimes considérations'), printed in Tatton-Brown (ed.) 2001; attended the 1998 BM colloquium dedicated to his memory.

    LondonTatton-Brown 2001

Connections

4 people
Olivier MassonVassos KarageorghisMaurice SznycerLaurent DuboisEmilia Masson
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On Ancient Cyprus

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Sources

  1. 1.V. Karageorghis (1971). “Chronique des fouilles et découvertes archéologiques à Chypre en 1970”. Bulletin de correspondance hellénique 95.
  2. 2.V. Karageorghis (1973). “Chronique des fouilles et découvertes archéologiques à Chypre en 1972”. Bulletin de correspondance hellénique 97.
  3. 3.A. G. Marangou (ed.) (2000). The Consul Luigi Palma di Cesnola 1832-1904: Life and Deeds.
  4. 4.Veronica Tatton-Brown (ed.) (2001). Cyprus in the 19th Century AD: Fact, Fancy and Fiction. Oxford, Oxbow.
  5. 5.V. Karageorghis (1983). Palaepaphos-Skales: An Iron Age Cemetery in Cyprus.
  6. 6.N. Robertson (ed.) (1975). The Archaeology of Cyprus: Recent Developments. Park Ridge, N.J., Noyes Press.