Grasset d'Orcet, Claude-Sosthène, 1828-1900

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Claude-Sosthène Grasset d'Orcet was a French amateur archaeologist, philologist, and cryptologist. He had a sustained interest in Cypriot archaeology and participated in the earliest French excavations of Cyprus with Ernest Renan and Melchior de Vogüé (1861-1862).

From the description of Photographs of Cypriot architecture and sculpture. [Photographed 186-; printed before 1867] (Getty Research Institute). WorldCat record id: 664321424

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Role Title Holding Repository
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Place Name Admin Code Country
Cyprus
Subject
Architecture, Ancient
Church buildings
Figurines
Occupation
Activity

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Birth 1828-06-06

Death 1900-12-02

French

French

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