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Gilles Grivaud

fl. 1981–2014 · France

Historian of medieval and Venetian Cyprus who published Leonardo Donà's 1557 notes on the Soloi sarcophagus find and a gazetteer of the island's deserted villages.

Biography

Gilles Grivaud is a historian of medieval and Venetian Cyprus10. In 1986 he published in the Cahiers du Centre d'Études Chypriotes an article on the Venetian Leonardo Donà, whose notes of 1556-57 record ancient sites and an organised dig1. Grivaud reports from them that Hieronimo Attar found a marble sarcophagus with fighting women on unbridled horses at Soloi in 1557. He describes this as an individual initiative and not a Venetian archaeological policy, and sets it beside Gian Matteo Bembo's excavations at Famagusta in 1546-481.

His Villages désertés à Chypre (1998) is a gazetteer of abandoned settlements, cited by later archaeological projects for medieval settlement history6,7. With Francesca Cavazzana Romanelli he published the 1542 map of Cyprus by Leonida Attar in 20063.

Life and work

  1. 1986
    Published in Cahiers du Centre d'Études Chypriotes 6 an analysis of the Venetian Leonardo Donà's 1556-57 notes ('Memorie per le cose di Cipro'), which record ancient sites and a 'dig' in Cyprus; reports that Hieronimo Attar found the marble 'Amazon sarcophagus' at Soloi in 1557, and sets this beside Gian Matteo Bembo's excavations at Famagusta in 1546-48.

    CyprusGrivaud 1986

  2. 1998
    Published Villages désertés à Chypre (fin XIIe-fin XIXe siècle), Meletai kai Hypomnemata 3, a gazetteer used by later archaeological projects (e.g. Athienou-Malloura, Potamia) for medieval settlement history.

    NicosiaLemesos: A History of…, p. 563Toumazou et al. 2011

  3. 1999
    Named as collaborator, with D. Michaelides and A. Nicolaides, in the multidisciplinary project at Potamia-Agios Sozomenos directed by N. Lécuyer; fieldwork planned from summer 2000 for at least 8 years; his work on deserted villages (582 sites lost between the late 12th and late 19th centuries) is cited as the background. Whether fieldwork went ahead is not shown in the source.

    Potamia

  4. 2006
    Co-authored with Francesca Cavazzana Romanelli Cyprus 1542: The Great Map of the Island by Leonida Attar (Civico Museo Correr, Venice); cited as pp. 18-30 and 47-9 by the Athienou-Malloura volume.

    VeniceToumazou et al. 2011

  5. 2006
    Co-edited with Sabine Fourrier Identités croisées en un milieu méditerranéen: le cas de Chypre (Antiquité-Moyen Âge) (Mont-Saint-Aignan).

    Rogge et al. 2019

  6. 2014
    Co-edited with G. Tolias Cyprus at the Crossroads: Geographical Perceptions and Representations from the Fifteenth Century onwards, in which Rogge's study of Eugen Oberhummer appeared.

    Recke 2018

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6 people
Sabine FourrierFrancesca Cavazzana Roman…Hieronimo AttarDemetrios MichaelidesNolwenn LécuyerA. NicolaïdèsGilles Grivaud
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Sources

  1. 1.Gilles Grivaud (1986). “Le Vénitien Leonardo Donà, témoin de découvertes archéologiques à Chypre en 1557”. Cahiers du Centre d'Études Chypriotes 6, 19-25. Online
  2. 2.G. Grivaud (1998). Villages désertés à Chypre (fin XIIe-fin XIXe siècle). Nicosia, Archbishop Makarios III Foundation.
  3. 3.F. Cavazzana Romanelli, G. Grivaud (2006). Cyprus 1542. The Great Map of the Island by Leonida Attar. Nicosia, The Bank of Cyprus Cultural Foundation.
  4. 4.S. Fourrier (ed.), G. Grivaud (ed.) (2006). Identités croisées en un milieu méditerranéen: le cas de Chypre (Antiquité-Moyen Âge). Mont-Saint-Aignan (Rouen).
  5. 5.G. Grivaud (ed.), G. Tolias (ed.) (2014). Cyprus at the Crossroads: Geographical Perceptions and Representations from the Fifteenth Century onwards.
  6. 6.M. K. Toumazou (ed.), P. N. Kardulias (ed.), D. B. Counts (ed.) (2011). Crossroads and Boundaries: The Archaeology of Past and Present in the Malloura Valley, Cyprus.
  7. 7.Lemesos: A History of Limassol in Cyprus from Antiquity to the Ottoman Conquest.
  8. 8.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.
  9. 9.M. Recke (2018). Like Herrings in a Barrel: Max Ohnefalsch-Richter.
  10. 10.GND record 1028639856: Grivaud, Gilles. Online