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Eugène Tastu

1817–1893 · France

Consul. Consul at Larnaca. Gave to Félicien de Saulcy.

Life and work

  1. 1850–1851
    Said to have bought, at metal weight in the Larnaca bazaar, a Phoenician silver-gilt bowl (Louvre AO 20135) that a goldsmith had begun to cut up for melting, and to have given or passed it to Felicien de Saulcy, who presented it to the Louvre in 1851. The anecdote is attested only in later retellings; Merrillees shows its elaborations are unreliable.

    LarnacaMerrillees 2016Marangou 2000, p. 29Masson 1992

Connections

3 people
Félicien de SaulcyAdrien de LongpérierNiven KerrEugène Tastu
Sales & giftsColleagues

Sales, gifts & bequests

Colleagues & contacts

Objects

  • Incomplete Phoenician silver-gilt bowl, 8th-7th c. BC

    From unknown; attributed to Kition by Merrillees, to Idalion in older literatureMusee du Louvre, Departement des Antiquites orientales AO 20135 (= AO 5974 = N 3454)1851Merrillees 2016

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Sources

  1. 1.Robert Stuart Merrillees (2016). “Studies on the provenances of the stele of Sargon II from Larnaca (Kition) and the two so-called Dhali (Idalion) silver bowls in the Louvre”. Cahiers du Centre d'Études Chypriotes 46, 349-386. Online
  2. 2.A. G. Marangou (ed.) (2000). The Consul Luigi Palma di Cesnola 1832-1904: Life and Deeds.
  3. 3.O. Masson (1992). “Diplomates et amateurs d'antiquités à Chypre vers 1866-1878”. Journal des Savants, 123-154.
  4. 4.Max Ohnefalsch-Richter (1893). Kypros, the Bible and Homer. London, Asher & Co.. Online