Phoenician art. Sculpture in the Phoenician tradition.
RMN, Snoeck| N° d'inventaire | 26682 |
| Format | 21 x 27 |
| Détails | 172 p., numerous black and white illustrations, paperback. |
| Publication | Paris, 2002 |
| Etat | Occasion |
| ISBN | 9782711844296 |
The Louvre Museum's Levantine collection, particularly rich in remains from the sites of Sidon, Tyre, Byblos and Amrit, is one of the most complete in the world, along with those of the museums of Beirut and Istanbul.
This catalogue raisonné of 178 issues studies works of Phoenician tradition, essentially stone sculptures dating from the 1st millennium BC - with a few exceptions, such as the relief representing the goddess of Byblos in the guise of Hathor, which dates back to the end of the 3rd millennium, and the mithreum of Sidon, a unique testimony to a cult also widespread in the West, dating from the 4th century AD.
The numerous Phoenician monuments from Cyprus preserved in the Louvre Museum have been the subject of separate catalogues, but those from Greece and Malta are presented here, with the famous bilingual inscription from Malta which enabled Abbot Barthélemy to decipher Phoenician in 1764.
The catalogue is preceded by a history of the collection, the core of which originated from the scientific mission led by Ernest Renan in 1860-1861; it was considerably enriched in 1967 thanks to the donation of the De Clercq collection. Brief notices gather information on the scholars, travelers and collectors who have been interested in Phoenician antiquities since the 19th century .
The Louvre Museum's Levantine collection, particularly rich in remains from the sites of Sidon, Tyre, Byblos and Amrit, is one of the most complete in the world, along with those of the museums of Beirut and Istanbul.
This catalogue raisonné of 178 issues studies works of Phoenician tradition, essentially stone sculptures dating from the 1st millennium BC - with a few exceptions, such as the relief representing the goddess of Byblos in the guise of Hathor, which dates back to the end of the 3rd millennium, and the mithreum of Sidon, a unique testimony to a cult also widespread in the West, dating from the 4th century AD.
The numerous Phoenician monuments from Cyprus preserved in the Louvre Museum have been the subject of separate catalogues, but those from Greece and Malta are presented here, with the famous bilingual inscription from Malta which enabled Abbot Barthélemy to decipher Phoenician in 1764.
The catalogue is preceded by a history of the collection, the core of which originated from the scientific mission led by Ernest Renan in 1860-1861; it was considerably enriched in 1967 thanks to the donation of the De Clercq collection. Brief notices gather information on the scholars, travelers and collectors who have been interested in Phoenician antiquities since the 19th century .