Ancient CyprusAncient Cyprus

Expedition member · Epigrapher

Mondry Beaudouin

1852–1928 · France

French expedition member and epigrapher. Wrote with Edmond Pottier.

Life and work

  1. 1878
    With Edmond Pottier spent several weeks on Cyprus on an official mission of the École française d'Athènes, documenting and occasionally acquiring antiquities, mostly inscriptions. No excavations were reported; Schmid links this to Wolseley's 1878 ban on excavation.

    CyprusSchmid 2025, p. 17

  2. 1879
    With Pottier published 'Inscriptions de l'île de Chypre' (BCH 3, pp. 163-176); Hogarth also cites their texts at BCH 3, pp. 347-352.

    Merrillees 2016, p. 33Hogarth 1889, pp. 28-29

Connections

2 people

Fieldwork & employment

Scholarship

Colleagues & contacts

Sources

  1. 1.Stephan G. Schmid (2025). “Was there an official German interest in the archaeology of Cyprus between 1878 and 1914?”. Empire & Excavation: Critical perspectives on archaeology in British-period Cyprus, 1878-1960, 69-92. Leiden, Sidestone Press.
  2. 2.D. G. Hogarth (1889). Devia Cypria. London.
  3. 3.Robert Stuart Merrillees (2016). “Studies on the provenances of the stele of Sargon II from Larnaca (Kition) and the two so-called Dhali (Idalion) silver bowls in the Louvre”. Cahiers du Centre d'Études Chypriotes 46, 349-386. Online
  4. 4.M. Beaudouin, E. Pottier (1879). “Inscriptions de l'île de Chypre”. Bulletin de correspondance hellénique 3, 163-176.
  5. 5.M. Beaudouin. “Quelques particularités du dialecte chypriote”. Bulletin de correspondance hellénique, 110-120.