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Numismatist · Cataloguer · Scholar

Ernest Babelon

fl. 1892–1911 · France

French numismatist and cataloguer, active 1892–1911. Catalogued the collection of Louis Constantin Henri François-Xavier de Clercq; worked with Edmond Pottier and Melchior de Vogüé.

Life and work

  1. 1892
    Published 'Timairos, roi de Paphos' in Revue des Études grecques, vol. v, pp. 53-61 (Paris 1892), listed in Cobham's Excerpta Cypria bibliography.

    Cobham 1908

  2. 1907–1910
    Published Traité des monnaies grecques et romaines, deuxième partie, Description historique, vol. 1 (1907) and vol. 2 (1910), the latter covering Achaemenid, Semitic Orient and Asia Minor coinage (incl. Cypriot kingdoms); cited for Cypriot coins in the Idalion (AEI 1989), Polis (City of Gold 2012), KHM Vienna (1999), Russian museums (2005) and Salamis (2019) volumes.

    Rogge et al. 2019Stager & Walker 1989Childs et al. 2012Bernhard-Walcher et al. 1999

  3. 1908
    Named with M. de Vogüé and E. Pottier on the title of A. de Ridder's Collection de Clercq, Catalogue ... Tome V, Les Antiquités Chypriotes (Paris 1908): catalogue 'publié par les soins de l'Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres et sous la direction de MM. de Vogüé, E. Babélon, E. Pottier'.

    ParisKarageorghis 1983

Connections

3 people
Louis Constantin Henri Fr…Melchior de VogüéEdmond PottierErnest Babelon
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Scholarship

Colleagues & contacts

Sources

  1. 1.Ernest Babelon (1910). Traité des monnaies grecques et romaines, deuxième partie, Description historique, vol. 2. Paris.
  2. 2.Ernest Babelon (1907). Traité des monnaies grecques et romaines, deuxième partie, Description historique, vol. 1. Paris.
  3. 3.Ernest Babelon (1892). “Timairos, roi de Paphos”. Revue des Études grecques 5, 53-61.
  4. 4.S. Rogge (ed.), Ch. Ioannou (ed.), Th. Mavrojannis (ed.) (2019). Salamis of Cyprus: History and Archaeology from the Earliest Times to Late Antiquity. Münster, Waxmann.
  5. 5.V. Karageorghis (1983). Palaepaphos-Skales: An Iron Age Cemetery in Cyprus.
  6. 6.C. D. Cobham (1908). Excerpta Cypria: Materials for a History of Cyprus. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press. Online
  7. 7.Lawrence E. Stager (ed.), Anne M. Walker (ed.) (1989). American Expedition to Idalion, Cyprus, 1973-1980. Chicago, Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago.
  8. 8.W. A. P. Childs (ed.), J. S. Smith (ed.), J. M. Padgett (ed.) (2012). City of Gold: The Archaeology of Polis Chrysochous, Cyprus. Princeton, Princeton University Art Museum.
  9. 9.A. Bernhard-Walcher, G. Dembski, K. Gschwantler, V. Karageorghis (1999). Die Sammlung zyprischer Antiken im Kunsthistorischen Museum / The Collection of Cypriote Antiquities in the Kunsthistorisches Museum. Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum.