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Pierre Amiet

fl. 1976–1992 · France

French curator and scholar, active 1976–1992. Lent to Musée du Louvre; worked with Louvre.

Life and work

1976–1978
writer of the letter; Louvre Conservation (Musée du Louvre, Conservation); conservateur en chef at the Louvre; had an inventory of boxes made in Claude Schaeffer's papers (Collège de France), 2 documents, 1976–1978.
Collège de France, Paris, Fonds Claude Schaeffer (34 CDF), 34 CDF art. 174, «[Une lettre de Pierre Amiet et les résultats des analyses faites par le département des Antiquités Orientales au Louvre sur une statuette d'argent AO 15733]», 22 November 1976of 6, Collège de France, Paris, Fonds Claude Schaeffer (34 CDF), 34 CDF art. 176, «[Correspondance entre Schaeffer et Nicolaou à propos des objets retournés par Schaeffer et des objets restant en sa possession]», 10 March 1978of 8
1984
Chief curator of the Louvre's Department of Oriental Antiquities who lent Cypriot statuettes, female heads and jewellery to the exhibition Parures de Chypre at Orléans (1984).
Antoinette J. Decaudin, Le mauvais oeil, une superstition perdurable (1984), p. 26
1992
Linked the gemstone working seen in material from Ayios Iakovos in Cyprus with that from Ugarit (1992).
NICHOLAS CHR. STAMPOLIDIS; VASSOS KARAGEORGHIS, ΠΛΟΕΣ Sea Routes Interconnections in the Mediterranean 16th-6th Centuries BC: Proceedings of the International Symposium held at Rethymnon, Crete, September 29t (2003), p. 154
Undated
Pierre Amiet lent objects to complement the Orléans collection for the exhibition.
Antoinette J. Decaudin, 1984, Le mauvais oeil, une superstition perdurable, p. 26

In the Archive

1 item

Letters by Pierre Amiet

1 letter.

Item: Pierre Amiet, 1976. Collège de France, Fonds Claude Schaeffer, 34 CDF art. 174. "Letter from Pierre Amiet with the results of analyses by the Louvre's Oriental Antiquities department on a silver statuette AO 15733". CC BY-NC-ND 4.0. Resized.
34 CDF art. 174Letter from Pierre Amiet with the results of analyses by the Louvre's Oriental Antiquities department on a silver statuette AO 15733

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Mentioned in

3 mentions

Documents · 3

La présence bovine dans la glyptique d'Ougarit et d'Enkomi
2007
published and classified Ougarit seals
Cluzan 2007
Chypre au Louvre: Présentation des collections dans les galeries du musée
2007
Fontan 2007
Le mauvais oeil, une superstition perdurable
Decaudin 1984

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Sources

1.Antoinette J. Decaudin, 1984, Le mauvais oeil, une superstition perdurable.
2.Antoinette J. Decaudin, Le mauvais oeil, une superstition perdurable (1984).
3.NICHOLAS CHR. STAMPOLIDIS; VASSOS KARAGEORGHIS, ΠΛΟΕΣ Sea Routes Interconnections in the Mediterranean 16th-6th Centuries BC: Proceedings of the International Symposium held at Rethymnon, Crete, September 29t (2003).
4.Collège de France, Paris, Fonds Claude Schaeffer (34 CDF), 34 CDF art. 174, «[Une lettre de Pierre Amiet et les résultats des analyses faites par le département des Antiquités Orientales au Louvre sur une statuette d'argent AO 15733]», 22 November 1976of 6, Collège de France, Paris, Fonds Claude Schaeffer (34 CDF), 34 CDF art. 176, «[Correspondance entre Schaeffer et Nicolaou à propos des objets retournés par Schaeffer et des objets restant en sa possession]», 10 March 1978of 8. Online

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