André Charles Ulrich Parrot (15 February 1901 – 24 August 1980) was a French archaeologist specializing in the ancient Near East. He led excavations in

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and Syria, and is best known for his work at

Mari, Syria Mari (Cuneiform: , ''ma-riki'', modern Tell Hariri; ar, تل حريري) was an ancient Semitic city-state in modern-day Syria. Its remains form a tell 11 kilometers north-west of Abu Kamal on the Euphrates River western bank, some 120&n ...

, where he led important excavations from 1933 to 1975.

Biography

Parrot was born in 1901 in Désandans in the French department of

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from 1958 to 1962. He was a Commander of the

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and a member of the

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. He married his second wife Marie-Louise Girod in 1960, and died in Paris in 1980. One of his students at the

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was

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. When he was mobilised in 1940, he was replaced as a teacher at the École du Louvre by

Marguerite Rutten Marguerite Rutten (18 October 1898, Paris - 07 April 1984, Nice) was a French archaeologist and Assyriologist. Biography “Maggie” Rutten, of Dutch ancestry, studied first at the Institut Catholique de Paris (diplome 1930). Then she spent her e ...

Bibliography

* ''Mari, a lost city'' (1936) * ''Mesopotamian Archaeology'' (1946–1953) * ''The Temple of Jerusalem'' (1957) * ''Sumer'' (1960) * ''Assur'' (1961) * ''Abraham and His Times'' (1962, Oxford UP) * ''The Treasure of Ur'' (1968) * ''The Art of Sumer'' (1970) * ''The excavations of Mari, 18th and 19th campaigns'' (1970–1971) * ''Mari, fabulous capital'' (1974) * ''Les Phéniciens: L'expansion phénicienne; Carthage'' (Paris: Gallimard, 1975) * ''Archaeology'' (1976) () * ''Archaeological Adventure'' (1979) ()

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on data.bnf.fr {{DEFAULTSORT:Parrot, Andre 1901 births 1980 deaths French archaeologists French Assyriologists People from Doubs Directors of the Louvre Members of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres French art historians Commandeurs of the Légion d'honneur 20th-century archaeologists Corresponding Fellows of the British Academy