Книга: Botta Paul Emile «Lettres De M. Botta Sur Ses Decouvertes A Kharsabad, Publ. Par J. Mohl (French Edition)»

Lettres De M. Botta Sur Ses Decouvertes A Kharsabad, Publ. Par J. Mohl (French Edition)

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Botta, Paul-Émile

▪ French archaeologist
born Dec. 6, 1802, Turin, Piedmont [Italy]
died March 29, 1870, Achères, France

      French consul and archaeologist whose momentous discovery of the palace of the Assyrian king Sargon II at Dur Sharrukin (modern Khorsabad), Iraq, in 1843, initiated the large-scale field archaeology of ancient Mesopotamia.

      The son of a distinguished historian, Carlo Botta, he was educated as a physician. In 1842 he secured an appointment as consul at Mosul, in Ottoman Mesopotamia (modern Iraq), in order to secure a vantage point for discovering the vanished cities of Assyria, which were known at that time only from conflicting accounts of ancient writers and from biblical references. He started to excavate at Quyunjik, opposite Mosul on the east bank of the Tigris River, and he might have unearthed Nineveh had he not been drawn by what appeared to be richer prospects at Khorsabad. A week's digging there revealed the remains of the great palace of Sargon, with its famed winged figures, relief sculptures, and cuneiform inscriptions. After Botta reported to Paris his mistaken belief that he had discovered Nineveh, government support financed further excavation, and the artist E.N. Flandin was dispatched to make on-site drawings of the remains, some of which tended to disintegrate quickly after being unearthed. One shipment of antiquities was sunk in transit, but another reached Paris and the Louvre. Monuments de Ninive . . . (1849–50; “Monuments of Nineveh . . .”) consisted of a volume of Botta's text and four volumes of Flandin's illustrations. Botta subsequently devoted himself to cuneiform scholarship and was consul in Jerusalem (1846) and Tripoli, in Syria (1868).

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  • Botta, Paul-Émile — ▪ French archaeologist born Dec. 6, 1802, Turin, Piedmont [Italy] died March 29, 1870, Achères, France       French consul and archaeologist whose momentous discovery of the palace of the Assyrian king Sargon II at Dur Sharrukin (modern… …   Universalium

  • Botta, Paul Emile — (1802 1870)    A French diplomat and archaeologist who is sometimes called the world s first As syriologist because he was the first person to excavate an Assyrian palace. While working in an official capacity for the French government in iraq,… …   Ancient Mesopotamia dictioary

  • BOTTA, Paul-Emile — (1802–1870)    French doctor and archaeologist who conducted the first large scale excavations in Mesopotamia. Employed as consular agent in Ottoman Mosul, he discovered DurSharrukin, the palace of Sargon IIat Khorsabad (Nimrud) in 1843, having… …   Historical Dictionary of Mesopotamia

  • Botta, Paul Émile — ► (1802 70) Arqueólogo francés. Excavó el palacio de Sargón II en Korsabad (1842 45), descubrimiento que constituyó el punto de partida de la asiriología …   Enciclopedia Universal

  • BOTTA, PAUL ÉMILE —    Assyriologist, born at Turin, son of the preceding; when consul at Mosul, in 1843, discovered the ruins of Nineveh; made further explorations, published in the Memoire de l Ecriture Cunéiform Assyrienne and Monuments de Ninive (1802 1870) …   The Nuttall Encyclopaedia

  • Paul-Émile Botta — Paul Émile Botta, porträtiert von Charles Émile Callande de Champmartin. Paul Émile Botta (* 6. Dezember 1802 in Turin; † 29. März 1870 in Achères bei Poissy) war der erste Archäologe, der in Assyrien Ausgrabungen durchführte. Seine bedeutendste …   Deutsch Wikipedia

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