Scholar · Cataloguer
Jean Leclant
1920–2011 · France
Egyptologist, professor at the Sorbonne. Wrote with Gisèle Clerc and Vassos Karageorghis.
Life and work
- 1964Took Élisabeth Lagarce on as documentalist from 1964 and steered her research toward the Egyptianizing character of Cypriot and Levantine culture.
- 1974Quoted (as Professor at the Sorbonne) in praise of Merrillees's NGV Cypriote catalogue for Egyptologists.
- 1976Co-author with G. Clerc, V. Karageorghis and E. Lagarce of Fouilles de Kition II, the Egyptian and Egyptianizing objects (scarabs, amulets, glass-paste and faience figurines, a faience plastic vase) from Kition Sites I and II.
KitionClerc et al. 1976
- 1976Announced by Karageorghis as the scholar who 'will publish in detail' a faience kneeling-woman statuette from Kition.
KitionKarageorghis 1976
Connections
3 peopleScholarship
- Teacher of Élisabeth Martin du Puytison-Lagarce1964
- Wrote with Gisèle Clerc1976
- Wrote with Vassos Karageorghis1976
Sources
- 1.G. Clerc, V. Karageorghis, E. Lagarce, J. Leclant (1976). Fouilles de Kition II. Objets égyptiens et égyptisants : scarabées, amulettes et figurines en pâte de verre et en faïence, vase plastique en faïence. Sites I et II, 1959-1975. Nicosia.
- 2.Annie Caubet (2015). “In Memoriam : Élisabeth Lagarce (1941-2015)”. Cahiers du Centre d'Études Chypriotes 45, 11-13.
- 3.V. Karageorghis (1976). Kition: Mycenaean and Phoenician Discoveries in Cyprus. London, Thames and Hudson.
- 4.R. S. Merrillees (1974). The Collection of Cypriote Antiquities in the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne.