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Excavator · Scholar

Thierry Petit

fl. 1987–2013 · France

French excavator and scholar, active 1987–2013. Excavated at Amathus. Wrote with Françoise Alabe and G. Velho.

Life and work

  1. 1987
    Co-authored with A. Hermary and M. Schmid the report on the French School's work at Amathus in 1987 (BCH, 1988).

    AmathusToumazou et al. 2011

  2. 1988–1998
    Series of reports on the French School's work at Amathus, 'Le Palais': BCH 112 (1988) 873-876 (with F. Alabe and P. Marchetti); 113 (1989) 899-910 (with F. Alabe); 114 (1990) 995-1023 (with Alabe per the same list); 117 (1993) 697-707; 118 (1994) 491-496; 122 (1998) 576-581. Page ranges are as printed in the bibliographies seen; one list gives BCH 117 as 696-707.

    AmathusBlandin et al. 2008, p. 14-15The Syllabic Inscriptions of… 2018, p. 54

  3. 1994
    Herscher's survey: Petit is overseeing the excavation of a large building on the terraced south side of the Amathus acropolis, where earlier trials produced Archaic, Classical and Hellenistic figurines and sculpture. Mostly storerooms (pithoi, Greek and Levantine amphorae, Attic black- and red-figure), a kiln and bronze-working evidence, votive deposits NW of the stores, a torus column base, a Hathor-head capital. Petit interprets it, by parallel with Vouni, as a palace with an associated sanctuary; destroyed by fire.

    AmathusHerscher 1995

  4. 1997
    Stratigraphic sounding at the Amathus palace in 1997, published by L. Alpe, T. Petit and G. Velho in 2007.

    AmathusBlandin et al. 2008, p. 14

Connections

6 people
Antoine HermaryLaurence AlpeMartin SchmidFrançoise AlabeG. VelhoP. MarchettiThierry Petit
Scholarship

Scholarship

Colleagues & contacts

On Ancient Cyprus

1 page

Sources

  1. 1.Ellen Herscher (1995). “Archaeology in Cyprus”. American Journal of Archaeology 99, 257-294.
  2. 2.B. Blandin, T. Petit, I. Tassignon (2008). “Fouilles récentes au palais d'Amathonte (2004-2007)”. Cahiers du Centre d'Études Chypriotes 38, 129-142.
  3. 3. (2018). “The Syllabic Inscriptions of Amathous”.
  4. 4.M. K. Toumazou (ed.), P. N. Kardulias (ed.), D. B. Counts (ed.) (2011). Crossroads and Boundaries: The Archaeology of Past and Present in the Malloura Valley, Cyprus.
  5. 5.T. Petit, A. Hermary, M. Schmid (1988). “Rapport sur les travaux de l'école française à Amathonte de Chypre en 1987”. Bulletin de Correspondance Hellénique.
  6. 6.F. Alabe, P. Marchetti, Th. Petit (1988). “Rapport sur les travaux de l'École française à Amathonte. Le Palais”. Bulletin de correspondance hellénique 112, 873-876.
  7. 7.T. Petit (1991). “Amathonte de Chypre: bilan de deux campagnes de fouilles (1988 et 1989) au 'palais' d'époque archaïque et classique”. Transeuphratène 4, 9-20.
  8. 8.Thierry Petit (1991). “Présence et influence perses à Chypre”. Asia Minor and Egypt: Old Cultures in a New Empire (Achaemenid History 6), 161-178. Leiden.
  9. 9.T. Petit (1995). “Objets égyptisants et idéologie royale à Amathonte”. Transeuphratène 9, 131-147.
  10. 10.T. Petit (1999). “Eteocypriot Myth and Amathusian Reality”. Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology 12, 108-120.
  11. 11.T. Petit (2002). “Sanctuaires palatiaux d'Amathonte (dont un sanctuaire à bétyle)”. Cahiers du Centre d'Études Chypriotes 32, 289-326.
  12. 12.T. Petit (2004). “Herodotus and Amathus”. The World of Herodotus, 9-25.
  13. 13.T. Petit (2013). “L'origine des cités-royaumes cypriotes et des royaumes d'Israël et de Juda. Simultanéité et similitudes”. Théologiques 21, 23-49.
  14. 14.T. Petit (2019). La naissance des cités-royaumes cypriotes. Oxford, Archaeopress.