Joseph Chamonard (11 November 1866 in Lyon – 29 November 1936 in
Gières
Gières () is a commune in the Isère department in southeastern France. It is part of the Grenoble urban unit (agglomeration). The archaeologist Joseph Chamonard (1866–1936) died in Gières. Grenoble-Universités-Gières station has rail c ...
) was a French archaeologist.
Biography
A student of the
École normale supérieure
École may refer to:
* an elementary school in the French educational stages normally followed by secondary education establishments (collège and lycée)
* École (river), a tributary of the Seine flowing in région Île-de-France
* École, Savoi ...
(1887), he became a member of the
French School at Athens
The French School at Athens (french: École française d’Athènes, EfA; el, Γαλλική Σχολή Αθηνών ''Gallikí Scholí Athinón'') is one of the seventeen foreign archaeological institutes operating in Athens, Greece.
History ...
in 1890. In 1892 and 1893, he worked at the excavations of
Lagina
Lagina ( grc, Λάγινα) or Laginia (Λαγινία) was a town in the territory of Stratonicea, in ancient Caria. It contained an important temple of Hecate, at which every year great festivals were celebrated. Tacitus, when speaking of the ...
(
Caria
Caria (; from Greek: Καρία, ''Karia''; tr, Karya) was a region of western Anatolia extending along the coast from mid-Ionia (Mycale) south to Lycia and east to Phrygia. The Ionians, Ionian and Dorians, Dorian Greeks colonized the west of i ...
) with
Osman Hamdi Bey
Osman Hamdi Bey (30 December 1842, in Istanbul 24 February 1910) was an Ottoman Empire, Ottoman administrator, intellectual, art expert and also a prominent and pioneering painter. He was also an accomplished archaeologist, and is regarded as th ...
and participated in the clearing of the
Delos theatre.
From 1904 to 1906, he searched again at Delos then became secretary of the French School of Athens (1908–1912). Secretary and interpreter of the expedition of
Dardanelles
The Dardanelles (; tr, Çanakkale Boğazı, lit=Strait of Çanakkale, el, Δαρδανέλλια, translit=Dardanéllia), also known as the Strait of Gallipoli from the Gallipoli peninsula or from Classical Antiquity as the Hellespont (; ...
(1914), he participated to the excavations of
Elaeus
Elaeus ( grc, Ἐλαιοῦς ''Elaious'', later ''Elaeus''), the “Olive City”, was an ancient Greek city located in Thrace, on the Thracian Chersonese. Elaeus was located at the southern end of the Hellespont (now the Dardanelles) near th ...
.
In 1920, he founded the Department of Antiquities in Syria and became its director. He still searched in Delos (1924 and 1930) and negotiated the sending to France of Lebanese and Syrian students to train under the direction of the museum he founded.
Works (selection)
* ''Le quartier du théâtre, étude sur l'habitation délienne à l'époque hellénistique'', École française d'Athènes, IX, 1922-1924, p. 234-463
* ''Les mosaïques de la Maison des Masques'', in ''Exploration archéologique de Délos'' N° 14, 1933
* ''Kérylos'', with
Emmanuel Pontremoli
Emmanuel Pontremoli (13 January 1865 – 25 July 1956) was a French architect and archaeologist.
Biography
Born in Nice, Alpes-Maritimes, a student in the ''atelier'' of Louis-Jules André, in 1890 he won the Prix de Rome in the architectur ...
, 1934
Bibliography
* H. Seyrig, ''
Syria
Syria ( ar, سُورِيَا or سُورِيَة, translit=Sūriyā), officially the Syrian Arab Republic ( ar, الجمهورية العربية السورية, al-Jumhūrīyah al-ʻArabīyah as-Sūrīyah), is a Western Asian country loc ...
'', 1937, p. 411-412
* ''Revue des études anciennes'', vol.39, 1967, p. 54
* Eve Gran-Aymerich, ''Les chercheurs de passé'', Éditions du CNRS, 2007, p. 687-688
External links
''École française d'Athènes, base de données bibliographiques''
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École Normale Supérieure alumni
Members of the French School at Athens
1866 births
Archaeologists from Lyon
1936 deaths