Cataloguer · Scholar
Georges Nicole
fl. 1904–1907
Cataloguer and scholar, active 1904–1907. Catalogued the collection of Imperial Ottoman Museum.
Life and work
- 1904Studied 'la salle cypriote du musée' of the Ottoman museum on the spot and catalogued a number of vases without reproductions, announcing an illustrated catalogue of the Ottoman Museum's Cypriot antiquities (terracottas and the series of limestones included) that Masson says never appeared.
ConstantinopleMasson 1996, pp. 9-10
- 1905Marangou cites a list of antiquities of the Museum of Constantinople by Nicole, dated 1905, as the source for the Cesnola gifts of terracottas, statues and vases to the Cinili-kosk.
ConstantinopleMarangou 2000, p. 229
- 1906Published the Catalogue des vases cypriotes du musée de Constantinople (Geneva); Cobham's 1908 bibliography lists it as 'Catalogues des Vases Cypriotes des Musees de Constantinople et d'Athenes'.
- 1907Wrote that some hundreds of vases and terracottas entered the Geneva archaeological museum through Castan-bey, who declared he had them from Cesnola, and that he hoped to describe them soon; Masson notes the promise was not kept.
GenevaMasson 1996, p. 10
Connections
1 personColleagues & contacts
- Connected with Louis Castan1907
Sources
- 1.G. Nicole (1906). Catalogue des vases cypriotes du musée de Constantinople. Geneva.
- 2.Olivier Masson (1996). “La dispersion des antiquités chypriotes: les deux collections Cesnola”. Cahiers du Centre d'Études Chypriotes 25, 3-32. Online
- 3.A. G. Marangou (ed.) (2000). The Consul Luigi Palma di Cesnola 1832-1904: Life and Deeds.
- 4.C. D. Cobham (1908). Excerpta Cypria: Materials for a History of Cyprus. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press. Online