Georges Colonna Ceccaldi (7 January 1840, Paris – 1879 or 1892) was a French antiquities dealer and diplomat.[1]
Ceccaldi lived in Beirut where he was an attaché to the French Consulate, he stayed several times in Cyprus between 1866 and autumn 1871, when he returned permanently to France.[2]
Ceccaldi provided various museums with Cypriot antiquities, including the British Museum, the Louvre and in 1872 he sold 40 artefacts from his collection to the Musée d’Archéologie Nationale. He excavated in at the sites of Idalion and Athienou.[3]
His brother Tiburce Colonna Ceccaldi was the French consul to Cyprus between 1866 and 1869.[3] He maintained friendly relations with other diplomats engaged in antiquities trade like Robert Hamilton Lang and Luigi Palma di Cesnola.[2] The correspondence of the two brothers with other officials active in the antiquities trade in Cyprus, such as Luigi Palma di Cesnola, was published by Olivier Masson.[4]
Publications
edit- Ceccaldi, G. C. (1870). Découvertes de Chypre. Revue Archéologique, 21, 23–36.
- Ceccaldi, G. C. (1872). Découvertes en Chypre (Suite). Revue Archéologique, 24, 221–228.
- Ceccaldi, G. C. (1875). Un sarcophage d'Athienau (Chypre). Revue Archéologique, 29, 22–29.
- Ceccaldi, G. C. (1872). La patère d'Idalie. Revue Archéologique, 24, 304–316.
- Ceccaldi, G. C. (1882). Monuments antiques de Chypre, de Syrie et d'Égypte. Paris.
References
edit- ^ "Georges Colonna-Ceccaldi (notice Nécrologique)". Revue Archéologique. 38: 384–388. 1879. JSTOR 41735633.
- ^ a b Masson, Olivier (1993). "Les archéologues et voyageurs du XIXe siècle / Archaeologists and travelers in the XIXth century". MOM Éditions. 22 (1): 17–22.
- ^ a b "Mettre au monde il y a 2500 ans sur l'île de Chypre". en.musee-archeologienationale.fr. Archived from the original on 7 November 2020. Retrieved 1 November 2020.
- ^ Masson, Olivier (1990). "Correspondances chypriotes: lettres des frères Colonna-Ceccaldi et de L Palma di Cesnola à W. Froehner". Cahiers du Centre d'Études Chypriotes. 14 (2): 29–44. doi:10.3406/cchyp.1990.1240 – via Persée.
External links
edit- Ceccaldi's collection of over 550 objects in the Musée d’Archéologie Nationale. Archived 7 November 2020 at the Wayback Machine
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