Charles Joseph Auguste Désiré Vattier de Bourville

Vattier de Bourville was French consul at Benghazi and active in Cyrenaica from about 1848 to 1852¹. His collection, brought to Paris, was listed in the Archäologische Zeitung in December 1848 as including Cypriot terracotta idols and figures³. Léon Heuzey's Louvre catalogue of terracotta figurines says that the last part of the collection, which went to the Louvre, "contenait quelques antiquités orientales et cypriotes". Heuzey ascribes to it a whole small idol of one type, and a mother goddess seated on a large throne and holding a broken child, which he spells "collection Wattier de Bourville" and whose style and white chalk patina he judged to be Cypriot¹.

In 1852 he sold the duc de Luynes a serpentine scarab found in Cyrenaica with a legend in the Cypriot script². A 1900 guide to the Cabinet des médailles lists a serpentine scarab of Melqart with a Cypriot inscription and names him⁵. G. R. H. Wright discusses an inscribed scarab from Cyrene that passed through his hands⁴.