SIGNED/ONLY COPY 1st EDITION! Inventaire Commenté des ivoires Phéniciens 1984 G+

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Inventaire commenté des ivoires Phéniciens et apparentés découverts dans le Proche-Orient. Text volume.
(
Inventory commented on Phoenician and related ivories found in the Near East. Text volume.)
DECAMPS de MERTZENFELD Christiane
Published by
E. de Boccard, Paris
(1954)
FIRST EDITION
SIGNED!
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Dedication was to Monsieur Henri Seyrig famed archaeologist and colleague/mentor of Christiane DeCamps de Mertzenfeld in France
Henri Arnold Seyrig
10 November 1895 – 21 January 1973) was a
French
archaeologist
,
numismatist
, and
historian
of
antiquities
. He was general director of antiquities of Syria and Lebanon since 1929 and director during more than twenty years of the Institute of archaeology of Beirut.
In 1929, Seyrig was called recommended by the master of Levantine archaeology
René Dussaud
and was appointed General director of antiquities of Syria and Lebanon which were under French mandate. Seyrig created the French institute of archaeology in
Beirut
which he headed for 20 years. He moved to
New York City
in 1942 where he worked as a special envoy of The
Free French
Government until the end of the war then he returned to
Beirut
.
Throughout the 1950s/60s he was a visiting scholar invited by the
Institute for Advanced Study
in
Princeton
, living part of the year in the United States. In 1967 he left Beirut and retired in
Switzerland
and continued with his wife, Hermine de Saussure, to spend part of the year in
Princeton, New Jersey
. Their children were actress
Delphine Seyrig
and composer Francis Seyrig.
He was awarded the
medal of the Royal Numismatic Society
in 1961