Maurice Pézard (27 May 1876, Reims – 7 October 1923, Ceyzériat) was a French archaeologist and

assyriologist Assyriology (from Greek , ''Assyriā''; and , ''-logia'') is the archaeological, anthropological, and linguistic study of Assyria and the rest of ancient Mesopotamia (a region that encompassed what is now modern Iraq, northeastern Syria, southea ...

Biographie

He studied at the

École du Louvre The École du Louvre is an institution of higher education and grande école located in the Aile de Flore of the Louvre Palace in Paris, France. It is dedicated to the study of archaeology, art history, anthropology and epigraphy. Admission is ...

and presented in 1905 his thesis entitled ''Nouveaux faits grammaticaux d'après les collections chaldéennes du musée du Louvre''. Attached to the mission to Susa (1909) then to the Département des antiquités orientales of the

Musée du Louvre The Louvre ( ), or the Louvre Museum ( ), is the world's most-visited museum, and an historic landmark in Paris, France. It is the home of some of the best-known works of art, including the ''Mona Lisa'' and the ''Venus de Milo''. A central l ...

, he helped Edmond Pottier in the

excavations In archaeology, excavation is the exposure, processing and recording of archaeological remains. An excavation site or "dig" is the area being studied. These locations range from one to several areas at a time during a project and can be condu ...

Kedesh Kedesh (alternate spellings: Cadesh, Cydessa) was an ancient Canaanite and later Israelite settlement in Upper Galilee, mentioned few times in the Hebrew Bible. Its remains are located in Tel Kedesh, 3 km northeast of the modern Kibbutz M ...

(1921-1922).

Works

*1912: ''Un nouveau poids de l'époque Kassite'' *1913: ''Catalogue des antiquités de la Susiane au musée du Louvre'' *1920: ''La Céramique archaïque de l'islam'' *1931: ''Qadesh-Mission archéologique à Tell Nebi Mend. 1921-1922'', Bibliothèque archéologique et historique du Service des antiquités de Syrie

Bibliography

* Edmond Pottier, ''Maurice Pézard'', in ''Syria'' issue 4, 1923, (p. 344–345) * François Pouillon, ''Dictionnaire des orientalistes de langue française'', Karthala, 2012, (p. 803–804) * Ève Gran-Aymerich, ''Les chercheurs de passé'', Editions du CNRS, 2007, (p. 1057)

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