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Epigrapher · Cataloguer

Louis Robert

fl. 1936–1971

Epigrapher and cataloguer, active 1936–1971.

Life and work

  1. 1936
    Published Collection Froehner I, Inscriptions grecques (Paris), with a preface by Jean Babelon; nos. 56-60 are the five Cypriot pieces (nos. 56 Artemis Paralia pyramid/obelisk, 57 an Arsinoe epitaph, 60 the Kourion lead curse fragment bequeathed to the Bibliothèque nationale).

    ParisHellmann 1991, nn. 29Masson 1990, n. 3

  2. 1936
    Recognised that the ex-Froehner lead tablet (Paris) belonged with the Kourion curse tablets in the British Museum; Hellmann says Froehner's notebooks confirm Robert's deduction that it came from Kourion.

    ParisHellmann 1991Mitford 1971

  3. 1971
    Told the Chronique des fouilles authors that a scene on a clay lamp illustrated in BCH 94 (1970) was an ursarius; thanked by V. Karageorghis's Chronique for 1970.

    Karageorghis 1971

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Colleagues & contacts

Sources

  1. 1.L. Robert (1936). Collection Froehner I. Inscriptions grecques. Paris.
  2. 2.Marie-Christine Hellmann (1991). “W. Froehner et Chypre”. Cahiers du Centre d'Études Chypriotes 16, 17-28. Online
  3. 3.T. B. Mitford (1971). The Inscriptions of Kourion. Philadelphia, American Philosophical Society.
  4. 4.O. Masson (1990). “Correspondances chypriotes: lettres des frères Colonna-Ceccaldi et de L. Palma di Cesnola à W. Froehner”. Cahiers du Centre d'Études Chypriotes 14, 29-44. Online
  5. 5.V. Karageorghis (1971). “Chronique des fouilles et découvertes archéologiques à Chypre en 1970”. Bulletin de correspondance hellénique 95.