Tiburce Colonna-Ceccaldi

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Dominique Albert Édouard Tiburce Colonna-Ceccaldi (born July 1, 1979) is a French diplomat and archaeologist.

Biography

Consul at Larnaca (Cyprus) from 1866 to 1869, he led with his brother Georges (1840-1879), attached to the Consulate of Beirut from 1866 to 1871, excavations at Idalion and Golgoi. They then make inscription prints, drawings and photographs.

Georges received from Luigi Palma di Cesnola free access to his collections while Tiburce constituted a collection of sculptures, terracotta and vases which was now preserved at the Louvre Museum.

Work
Under the name of his younger brother Georges
Discoveries in Cyprus: Curium Excavations, 1870
A Sarcophagus of Athienau (Cyprus), 1875
Ancient monuments of Cyprus, Syria and Egypt, posthumous, 1882
Under the name of Tiburce
"Some Considerations on the Active East Campaign (April-)" Military Spectator (1866) – signed T.C.C.
Diplomatic letters. Watching Europe after the War, Plon, 1872
Military letters from headquarters with an appendix containing the table of regiments and battalions of war, Plon, 1872

Rewards

Officer of the Legion of Honour 1871.

Bibliography

O. Masson, Diplomats and Antiquities Lovers in Cyprus circa 1866-1878, in Journal des savants, 1992, p. 123-154
Ève Gran-Aymreich, Les chercheurs de passer, Editions du CNRS, 2007, p. 717

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Student of Blois Municipal College
French diplomat
French archaeologist
Officer of the Legion of Honour promoted in 1871
Born July 1832
Born in Blois
Death in December 1892
Death in the 7th arrondissement of Paris
Deaths at 60