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Epigrapher · Scholar

Michel Bréal

fl. 1877 · France

French epigrapher and scholar, active in 1877.

Life and work

  1. June 1877
    Communications to the Académie on the decipherment of the Cypriot syllabary, published in the Journal des Savants 1877, pp. 503-513 and 551-556; Masson says they 'régleront définitivement la question' of the Greek reading.

    ParisMasson 1992, p. 133 n. 49

  2. 25 June 1877
    Wrote to Melchior de Vogüé a letter, quoted by Bonato, showing the high esteem in which Vogüé held Dimitri Pierides.

    Bonato 2000, n. 84

Connections

1 person

Scholarship

Sources

  1. 1.Michel Breal (1877). “Le Déchiffrement des Inscriptions Cypriotes”. Journal des Savants. Paris.
  2. 2.O. Masson (1992). “Diplomates et amateurs d'antiquités à Chypre vers 1866-1878”. Journal des Savants, 123-154.
  3. 3.Lucie Bonato (2000). “Chypre dans les archives de Melchior de Vogüé, III-IV : la correspondance de Dimitri Piérides”. Cahiers du Centre d'Études Chypriotes 30, 99-118.