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Scholar

Gustave Schlumberger

fl. 1900–1905 · France

French scholar, active 1900–1905. Worked with Ormonde Maddock Dalton.

Life and work

  1. 1900
    O. M. Dalton thanks 'M. Schlumberger', who suggested that the inscription AT+AL on a piece of the first Lambousa (Kerynia) silver treasure, now in the British Museum, represents the first letters of two words divided by a cross, the second perhaps a genitive proper name such as Alexiou.

    LondonDalton 1900

  2. 3 May 1904
    Froehner wrote to his friend Schlumberger that Morgan was in Paris and that Canessa had sold him a very expensive bronze, 'tous les Grecs de Paris' hoping to become millionaires; Hellmann cites it to show Morgan hesitated before buying the Lapithos/Lambousa treasure (bought, she thinks, early in 1906).

    ParisHellmann 1991, n. 47

  3. 25 October 1905
    Froehner told Schlumberger that his only new piece was an enamelled-clay pendant bearing the (unknown) name and the head of a king of Cyprus, naturally in Cypriot letters; Hellmann reads this as the trace of Froehner's purchase of the pendant.

    Hellmann 1991, n. 49

  4. 12 November 1905
    Froehner wrote to him again about the pendant with the Cypriot syllabic signs (first letter 25 Oct 1905).

    Hellmann 1991, n. 49

Connections

2 people

Scholarship

Colleagues & contacts

Sources

  1. 1.Marie-Christine Hellmann (1991). “W. Froehner et Chypre”. Cahiers du Centre d'Études Chypriotes 16, 17-28. Online
  2. 2.Ormonde M. Dalton (1900). “A Byzantine silver treasure from the district of Kerynia, Cyprus, now preserved in the British Museum”. Archaeologia 57, 159-174. Online
  3. 3.G. Schlumberger (1878). Numismatique de l'Orient latin. Paris.