Aimé Péretié

Napoléon Antoine Aimé Péretié, commonly Aimé Péretié, (5 March 1808, Marseille – 8 April 1882, Beirut), was a French diplomat in the Levant and as a collector of oriental antiquities.[1][2]

Diplomatic career

From 1829 to 1834, he worked for the French consulate in Larnaca as a dragoman and chancellor.

In 1839, he was nominated “drogman sans residence fixe”, and by December 1850 he was chancellor of the French consulate general in Beirut. For a short period around 1853 he was French vice consul in Tripoli (Lebanon), and by 1855 was again chancellor of the French consulate general in Beirut.

In 1864, he was promoted vice consul of France in Beirut.[1]

Antiquities

In 1855, he donated a collection of medieval coins to the Bibliothèque nationale de France. In the same year he was involved in the discovery of the Sarcophagus of Eshmunazar II. In 1869, he was involved in the discovery of the Yehawmilk Stele.[1]

He travelled to Cyprus for similar purposes. In 1850, he bought and sold several important objects including the Idalion Tablet.[1][3]

Family

His son Alfred became the French consul in Baghdad.[1]

References

1. G. Schmid, Stephan; Recke, Matthias; Filser, Wolfgang (2021-07-01). "From Paul Schröder's archives on Cyprus, V. The first (?) photographs of Cesnola's Golgoi finds". Cahiers du Centre d'Études Chypriotes (51). OpenEdition: 143–181. doi:10.4000/cchyp.754. ISSN 0761-8271.
2. Tatton-Brown, V. (2001). "20. Melchior de Vogüé et alii and Cyprus: Monsieur Péretié". Cyprus in the 19th Century AD: Fact, Fancy and Fiction : Papers of the 22nd British Museum Classical Colloquium, December 1998. Oxbow. pp. 216–220. ISBN 978-1-84217-033-5. Retrieved 2023-06-12.
3. Perrot, George (1879). "L'ILE DE CYPRE SON ROLE DANS L'HISTOIRE: II. FOUILLES ET DÉCOUVERTES. — LE GÉNÉRAL DE CESNOLA ET LE MUSÉE MÉTROPOLITAN DE NEW-YORK". Revue des Deux Mondes (1829-1971). 31 (3). Revue des Deux Mondes: 572. ISSN 2266-4734. JSTOR 44752084. Retrieved 2023-06-12.

External links

• Items discovered by Aimé Péretié at the Louvre