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Excavator · Traveller / antiquarian

Ernest Chantre

fl. 1893–1894 · France

French excavator and traveller, active 1893–1894. Worked with A. Koerte.

Life and work

  1. 1893–1894
    Led excavations in Cappadocia in 1893–1894, at Boghaz-Keui and nearby sites, finding Mycenaean and Cypriote pottery.

    Chantre, Ernest, 1843-1924, Recherches archéologiques dans l'Asie occidentale. Mission en Cappadoce, 1893-1894 (1898)

  2. Undated
    French excavator in Cappadocia whose finds in the Bulgarmaden region included objects of Cypriot type now in the Louvre (AO 9959 and 9963).

    Genouillac, Henri de (1881-1940), Céramique cappadocienne. Tome 2 (1926), p. 450

  3. Undated
    Found fragments at Kara-euyuk, some of which are in the author's collection and are compared with the Yortan pottery.

    Genouillac, Henri de (1881-1940), Céramique cappadocienne. Tome 1 (1926), p. 27

  4. Undated
    Found a large series of painted vase-fragments at Boghaz-kewi and Kara-uyuk in Cappadocia, and published them in plates cited as Chantre.

    The Journal of the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland 1903: Vol 33 (1903)

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Sources

  1. 1.Genouillac, Henri de (1881-1940), Céramique cappadocienne. Tome 2 (1926).
  2. 2.Genouillac, Henri de (1881-1940), Céramique cappadocienne. Tome 1 (1926).
  3. 3.The Journal of the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland 1903: Vol 33 (1903).
  4. 4.Chantre, Ernest, 1843-1924, Recherches archéologiques dans l'Asie occidentale. Mission en Cappadoce, 1893-1894 (1898).
  5. 5.The Early Pot-Fabrics of Asia Minor (1903).

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