Charles CLERMONT-GANNEAU (inscribed to Melchior de VOGÜÉ)
Une stèle du Temple de Jérusalem découverte et publiée[A Stele from the Temple of Jerusalem, Discovered and Published (Memoir Read before the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres)]
Didier|Paris 1872|16.8 x 25 cm|Broché
First edition, printed in a very small number of copies, of this extract from the Revue archéologique.
The booklet is illustrated with several figures in the text and, at the beginning of the volume, a full-page plate.
Charles Simon Clermont-Ganneau (1846-1923), orientalist and archaeologist, made major archaeological discoveries in Palestine, where he had resided since 1867 as dragoman-chancellor at the French consulate. Appointed consul in Jaffa in 1881, he accepted a mission on the Egyptian coast east of the Nile, in Philistia, Phoenicia and Palestine; he published the results in the Archives des missions scientifiques.
Until his death, he pursued a dual
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