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 ra ...
) was a French archaeologist.
Biography
A student of the
École normale supérieure
École or Ecole may refer to:
* an elementary school in the French educational stages normally followed by Secondary education in France, secondary education establishments (collège and lycée)
* École (river), a tributary of the Seine flowing i ...
(1887), he became a member of the
French School at Athens
The French School at Athens (, EfA; ''Gallikí Scholí Athinón'') is one of the seventeen foreign archaeological institutes operating in Athens, Greece.
History
Founded in 1846, the EfA is the oldest foreign institute in Athens. Its early f ...
in 1890. In 1892 and 1893, he worked at the excavations of
Lagina
Lagina () or Laginia (Λαγινία) was a town and religious centre in ancient Caria. It contained an important monumental temple of Hecate, at which great festivals were celebrated every year. For most of antiquity, it was a part of the terri ...
(
Caria
Caria (; from Greek language, Greek: Καρία, ''Karia''; ) was a region of western Anatolia extending along the coast from mid-Ionia (Mycale) south to Lycia and east to Phrygia. The Carians were described by Herodotus as being Anatolian main ...
) with
Osman Hamdi Bey
Osman Hamdi Bey (30 December 1842 – 24 February 1910) was an Ottoman Turkish administrator, intellectual, art expert and also a prominent and pioneering painter. He was the Ottoman Empire's first modern archaeologist, and is regarded as the ...
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 ( ; ; ), also known as the Strait of Gallipoli (after the Gallipoli peninsula) and in classical antiquity as the Hellespont ( ; ), is a narrow, natural strait and internationally significant waterway in northwestern Turkey th ...
(1914), he participated to the excavations of
Elaeus
Elaeus ( ''Elaious'', later ''Elaeus''), the “Olive City”, was an ancient Greece, ancient Greek city located in Thrace, on the Thracian Chersonese. Elaeus was located at the southern end of the Hellespont (now the Dardanelles) near the sout ...
.
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
Pontremonli was born in Nice, Alpes-Maritimes, to a Jewish family from Piedmont; he studied in the ''atelier'' of Louis-Jules André. ...
, 1934
Bibliography
* H. Seyrig, ''
Syria
Syria, officially the Syrian Arab Republic, is a country in West Asia located in the Eastern Mediterranean and the Levant. It borders the Mediterranean Sea to the west, Turkey to Syria–Turkey border, the north, Iraq to Iraq–Syria border, t ...
'', 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
People from Gières