Scholar · Cataloguer

J.-C. Poursat

fl. 1977–2022

Scholar and cataloguer, active 1977–2022. Worked with Sakellarakis.

Life and work

  1. 1977
    Author of Les Ivoires Mycéniens (1977), cited on a Cypriot-made ivory pyxis, and of other work on Aegean ivories cited in discussions of Cypriot material such as the amphoroid crater from Toumba at Lefkandi.

    Yannis Sakellarakis; Eleni Konstantinidi-Syvridi, The Mycenaean Collection of Ivory Combs at the National Archaeological Museum, Athens (2022), p. 3

  2. 1977
    Author of Les Ivoires Mycéniens (1977), cited on the Cypriot-made ivory pyxis sphinx.

    G.C. IOANNIDES, ΑΦΙΕΡΩΜΑ ΣΤΟ ΒΑΣΟ ΚΑΡΑΓΙΩΡΓΗ / Studies in Honour of Vassos Karageorghis (1992), p. 288

  3. 1977
    Authored the catalogue of Mycenaean ivories in the National Museum of Athens (1977), cited for the ivory pyxis scene with a belted male leading a sphinx.

    Brent Davis; Robert Laffineur, NEΩΤΕΡΟΣ: Studies in Bronze Age Aegean Art and Archaeology in Honor of Professor John G. Younger on the Occasion of His Retirement (2020), p. 233

  4. 1999
    Author of a study of the Minet el-Beida pyxis lid, found at the port of Ugarit, cited as in Betancourt 1999.

    Jean-Claude Poursat; Carl Knappett, The Art and Archaeology of the Aegean Bronze Age: A History (2022), p. 452

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Sources

  1. 1.Yannis Sakellarakis; Eleni Konstantinidi-Syvridi, The Mycenaean Collection of Ivory Combs at the National Archaeological Museum, Athens (2022).
  2. 2.G.C. IOANNIDES, ΑΦΙΕΡΩΜΑ ΣΤΟ ΒΑΣΟ ΚΑΡΑΓΙΩΡΓΗ / Studies in Honour of Vassos Karageorghis (1992).
  3. 3.Jean-Claude Poursat; Carl Knappett, The Art and Archaeology of the Aegean Bronze Age: A History (2022).
  4. 4.Brent Davis; Robert Laffineur, NEΩΤΕΡΟΣ: Studies in Bronze Age Aegean Art and Archaeology in Honor of Professor John G. Younger on the Occasion of His Retirement (2020).
  5. 5.Herodotus on the Introduction of the Phoenician Alphabet to the Greeks, the Gephyraeans and the Proto-Geometric Building at Toumba in Lefkandi (2007).
  6. 6.Robin Hägg, The Function of the "Minoan Villa": Proceedings of the Eighth International Symposium at the Swedish Institute at Athens, 6–8 June, 1992 (1997).

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