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Scholar

Jules Oppert

fl. 1850

Orientalist, Assyriologist, active in 1850.

Life and work

  1. c. 1850
    Took part in the polemic around 1850 over deciphering the Cypriot syllabic script, with Joseph Halévy and other Orientalists; the Cypriot script was sought in the Near East.

    Caubet 1993Marangou 2000, p. 33

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Colleagues & contacts

Sources

  1. 1.Annie Caubet (1993). “Les antiquités chypriotes au Musée du Louvre”. Kinyras : l'archéologie française à Chypre. Lyon. Online
  2. 2.A. G. Marangou (ed.) (2000). The Consul Luigi Palma di Cesnola 1832-1904: Life and Deeds.