Louis Auguste Dozon

Auguste Dozon drew the plan of Larnaca printed in the first volume of the Corpus Inscriptionum Semiticarum in 1881, which Jeffery called the first regular accurate survey of the town and which also gives the outline of ancient Kition^3,4. He was born at Châlons-en-Champagne in 1822 and died at Versailles in 1890 or 1891, and was also a Slavist and philologist⁵. He was French consul in Cyprus from 1878 to 1881^1,2.

Caubet counts him among the diplomats who continued to collect antiquities after the British takeover, and writes that he gave his finds to the Louvre (among them AM 2793) and to the museum at Saint-Germain-en-Laye in 1891¹. Caubet's date for the gift is later than the death date of 31 December 1890 that Wikidata gives (1891 in the German national library's record), so it may have been made by his heirs.

Marangou prints an undated letter, first published by N. E. Kyriazis, addressed to "the French Consul Dozon" by a dealer named Remize of Algiers. Remize proposed that Dozon or a young agent buy antiquities and other objects in Cyprus and send them to Algiers, where Remize would repair and sell them, advance half the cost and share the profits, with the arrangement kept secret; he also urged excavation near Paphos². No reply from Dozon is known.