Musée lapidaire d'Avignon
The Lapidary Museum is a lapidarium-museum in Avignon, France. It has housed the classical Greek, Etruscan, Roman and Gallo-Roman sculptures and objects of the Calvet Museum since the 1980s. They are both run by the Fondation Calvet.
Also recorded as Museu Lapidário
Musée lapidaire d'Avignon
Véronique PAGNIER · Public domain
- Name
- Lapidary Museum
- Founded
- 1620
- Headquarters
- France
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Overview
"La diffusion des cultes égyptiens et alexandrins dans le monde romain à L'Égypte copte et l'Égypte musulmane" and "Le laraire d'Esprit Calvet"), conferences and networking events, particularly for scholars. The museum is based at 27 rue de la République in a 17th-century building, previously the chapel of the city's Jesuit College. It was begun in 1616, initially to plans by Étienne Martelange and then by François de Royers de la Valfenière from 1620 onwards. De la Valfenière raised the walls as far as the nave's main cornice. The building was made a monument historique on 21 June 1928.
Key facts
Key facts
• Name — Lapidary Museum • Location — Avignon, France • Type — Archaeological museum • Website — https: www.musee-lapidaire.org/
Statues
Statues
• Apollo Sauroctonus, head lost, 1st century AD • Woman in a chlamys and chiton, head lost, 2nd century BC • Athena in a peplos, the skin of the goat Amalthea, the Gorgoneion and a plumed Corinthian helmet decorated with rams' heads • Illustration — Apollo • Illustration — Athena • Illustration — Woman
Steles
Steles
• Stela of a young woman in a tunic and mantle between two Doric columns, with a female slave presenting her with a duck, marble, Attican, 399-375 BC • Young woman in a tunic and peplos holding her hand to her hair - Attican, 399-375 BC • Stela of Menodotos - Woman in a chiton and himation sitting on a stool beside a standing man, all between two Corinthian columns and a triangular pediment • Stela of Glykon and his son Tateis - upper register showing Hecate in her triple form with Demeter to the right, Men to the left and a crescent moon in the background; lower register showing the busts of a woman and a boy - 4th century BC • Stela - seated woman with her feet on a stool holding an oblong object (possibly an egg or fruit) out to a snake, with a female slave to the left ina long tunic and handing another object to her mistress - Cyclades, 1st or 2nd century BC • Illustration — Young woman • Illustration — Young woman with her hand on her hair • Illustration — Stela of Menodotus • Illustration — Stela of Glykon and his son Tateis • Illustration — Stela without an inscription
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Roman sculptures
• Veiled woman holding a patera in her right hand, possibly a priestess or goddess • Woman with a dolphin, head lost • Funerary urn, marble, with an epitaph to C. Silius Herma and his slave • Funerary urn, rectangular, marble, with an epitaph to Marcus Domitius Urbicus • Man's head • Two-headed Hermes • Illustration — Veiled woman • Illustration — Woman • Illustration — Silius Herma urn • Illustration — Marcus Domitius urn • Illustration — Man's head • Illustration — Two-headed Hermes
Collections
As well as Etruria, classical Greece and Rome and the Gallo-Roman era, the collections cover Gallic and Early Christian art. The highlight of the prehistoric collections is the 'Lauris-Puyvert Stela' in ologenic limestone. The Greek, Roman, Etruscan and Gallic objects include vases and lamps as well as bas-reliefs and statues, along with a number of Etruscan funerary monuments.
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- 1.rencontres scolaires.
- 2.Joseph Girard, op cit, .
- 3.Base Mérimée PA00081918
- 4.Musée Lapidaire - Collection Archéologique du Musée Calvet. www.musee-lapidaire.org.
- 5.Catalogue entry.
- 6.Fiche du Musée
- 7.Dépliant de l'Office du Tourisme de Noves
- 8.La statue du guerrier de Vachères (Alpes-de-Haute-Provence). Revue archéologique de Narbonnaise. 1996.
- 9.matthieu.php Évangile selon saint Matthieu, chapitre XVI verset 19
- 10.marc.php Évangile selon saint Marc, Chapitre XIV, verset 72
- 11.actes.php Actes des apôtres, chapitre V, verset 4 et 5
Bibliography printed in the source article · 1
- Joseph Girard, Évocation du Vieil Avignon, Les Éditions de Minuit, Paris, 2000,
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