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Donor

Louis Lortet

fl. 1882 · France

Director, Muséum d'Histoire naturelle de Lyon, active in 1882. Gave to Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon.

Life and work

  1. 1882
    Gave the Lyon Musée des Beaux-Arts a large lot of antiquities incl. c. 20 documented Cypriot vases, mostly Middle Cypriot White Painted, plus other lots said to come from the Phoenician necropolis of Sidon (10 April 1882) and the necropolis of Tyre (27 May 1882)

    LyonYon 2012, pp. 184-185

Objects

  • Middle Cypriot (White Painted II-V, Red Polished III), two Late Cypriot bowls (cat. 31-32) and the only Cypro-Geometric vase (cat. 36); inv. H 1924-1975 series, E 98 and E 105

    Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon H 1924-1975 (retrospective inventory H, 1934); inventaire E 98, 1051882Yon 2012, pp. 185-187

Sources

  1. 1.Marguerite Yon (2012). “Les antiquités chypriotes du musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon”. Cahiers du Centre d'Études Chypriotes 42, 181-. Online