Colette Picard (''née'' Durand) (1913 – 11 October 1999,

Versailles The Palace of Versailles ( ; french: Château de Versailles ) is a former royal residence built by King Louis XIV located in Versailles, about west of Paris, France. The palace is owned by the French Republic and since 1995 has been managed, ...

) was a French archaeologist and historian. As curator of the archaeological site of

Carthage Carthage was the capital city of Ancient Carthage, on the eastern side of the Lake of Tunis in what is now Tunisia. Carthage was one of the most important trading hubs of the Ancient Mediterranean and one of the most affluent cities of the cla ...

, she led excavations on the hill of

Byrsa Byrsa was a walled citadel above the Phoenician harbour in ancient Carthage, Tunisia, as well as the name of the hill it rested on. Legend In Virgil's account of Dido's founding of Carthage, when Dido and her party were encamped at Byrsa, the l ...

in 1947.revue Persée
/ref> Married to historian

Gilbert Charles-Picard Gilbert Picard, called Gilbert Charles-Picard, (15 October 1913 – 21 December 1998) was a 20th-century French historian and archaeologist, a specialist of North Africa during Antiquity. The son of Hellenist Charles Picard (1883–1965), h ...

, Colette Picard was the mother of

Hellenist Classics or classical studies is the study of classical antiquity. In the Western world, classics traditionally refers to the study of Classical Greek and Roman literature and their related original languages, Ancient Greek and Latin. Classics ...

Olivier Picard Olivier Picard (4 March 1940, Bernay) is a French Hellenist. He was director of the French School at Athens and is a member of the Institut de France. Biography A student at the École normale supérieure (1960), Olivier Picard obtained his ...

, former director of the

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and a member of the

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References

Bibliography

* ''Catalogue du musée Alaoui'' *1951: ''Carthage'', Paris *1958: ''La vie quotidienne à Carthage au temps ď'Hannibal, IIIe siècle avant Jésus-Christ'' n collaboration with G. Charles-Picard

External links

Colette Picard
on data.bnf.fr
Gilbert et Colette Picard, La vie quotidienne à Carthage au temps ď Hannibal, IIIe siècle avant Jésus-Christ
on Frantic
Obituary
on Persée French women archaeologists 1913 births 1999 deaths 20th-century French archaeologists 20th-century French women {{France-archaeologist-stub