CLAUDE DOUMET

CLAUDE DOUMET-SERHAL
11, Canning Place,
London, W8 5AD.
Tel: (0207) 581 8491
BORN
1958, British/Lebanese.
LANGUAGES
English, French, Arabic.
STATUS
Married.
EDUCATION
BA, Oriental Archaeology, Art of the Orient (Hellenistic and Byzantine
periods).
Initiation to the methods of Research in Archaeology, Sorbonne - Paris
I.
"Ancienne élève de l'Ecole du Louvre", Ecole du Louvre, 1979.
MA, (Honours) "Les tombes IV et V de Rachidieh", Sorbonne-Paris I.
Muséologie, Ecole du Louvre.
PHD, (Honours) "La Beqa'a au Bronze Moyen et au Bronze Récent
d'après les fouilles de Tell el Ghassil de 1969 à 1974", Sorbonne Paris I, 1986.
Diploma, (Honours) "Sceaux et cylindres orientaux: la collection
Chiha", Ecole du Louvre, 1989.
MEMBERSHIP
Special Assistant The British Museum
Director since 1998 of the British Museum excavations in Sidon,
www.sidonexcavation.org .
Honorary Research Fellow in the Department
Archaeology, University College, London.
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Classical
Member of the Laboratoire d’Etudes Sémitiques Anciennes, Collège de
France, Paris.
Member of the Lebanese Council for National Research CNRSL.
Editor and Founder Archaeology and History in Lebanon
Founder of the Lebanese British Friends of the National Museum,
London. For publications, Symposia and exhibitions, see
www.ahlebanon.com
www.interconnectlebanon2008.com
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PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
1998-2009
Director, Excavations at Sidon
1996
Exhibition "Beirut Uncovering the Past" at the British Museum (5
March -24 October 1996), “Beyrouth le temps retrouvé”, Institut du
Monde Arabe, Paris (January-April 1997).
1994
Lecturer at the University St. Joseph, Beirut.
1993
Exhibition "The National Museum Past and Future Uprooted Heritage,
Help Save it", set-up for Lebanon's 50 years of independence.
1991
Several trips to Beirut have allowed me to continue working on several
areas of particular interest to me:
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Some of the Unpublished material from Tell Rachidieh (South
Lebanon) which was found in 1975 by the Department of
Antiquities of Lebanon.
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An unpublished Lebanese private collection of Seals.
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The Library and the Photographic archives of Beirut National
Museum.
1986 - 1989
Diploma of the Ecole du Louvre on a Lebanese private collection of
400 seals) (Chiha Collection). This collection is now published.
1983 - 1985
Moved to Beirut (1983-1984) to work on the material of Tell el Ghassil
excavation stored in the Museum of the American University of Beirut
The PhD Thesis submitted in 1986 published 1996.
1982
Publication of the MA Thesis on Tell Rachidieh tombs.
1981
Excavation in Ras Shamra, Ugarit, Syria (M. Yon).
Lecturer, Ecole du Louvre, in the Department of Oriental Antiquities in
the Louvre for first year students.
1980
Training, in the Department of Oriental Antiquities in the Louvre on
Iron Age Pottery at the Louvre found in South Lebanon, (A. Caubet).
1978
Excavation at Ras Ibn Hani, Syria, (J et E Lagarce).
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PUBLICATIONS
1982
"Les tombes IV et V de Rachidieh" Annales d'Histoire et
d'Archaeologie de l'Université St. Joseph, vol. 1, p. 89-148.
1992
Contribution to the Dictionnaire de la civilisation phénicienne et
punique, édition Brepols (nécropoles, tombes, histoire de fouille).
Sceaux et cylindres orientaux: la collection Chiha, Orbis Biblicus et
Orientalis series Archaeologica, Freiburg/Göttingen.
"Un motif sumérien" sur un cachet phénicien: archaïsme ou
modernité?", Akkadica, 81, p. 29 à 39.
"La cruche à arête sur le col. à propos de l'expansion phénicienne en
Méditerranée au 9ème et 8ème siècle av. J.-C.", Berytus, XLI, p. 99136.
"Le Bronze Moyen II B/C et le Bronze Récent I au Liban: le
témoignage de tell el Ghassil”, Berytus, 42, 1995-96, p. 37 –70.
"Les tombes IV et V de Rachidieh: remarques sur les contacts
internationaux et le commerce phénicien au 8ème siècle av. J.-C." (3rd
Congress of Phoenician and Punic Studies, Tunis 11-16 November
1991, Tunis p.299 -395.
"Four artifacts found in an Anthropoid Sarcophagus”, National
Museum News, Autumn 1995, p.26-29.
Les fouilles de tell el Ghassil de 1972 à 1974, Institut Français
d'Archéologie du Proche-Orient, Bibliothèque archéologique et
historique T. CXLVI, Beyrouth.
Terres cuites orientales: la collection M. Klat, Archetyp, London.
"Fleur fruit et huile parfumée: représentation sur les sarcophages
anthropoides", National Museum News, 4th issue, p.12-19.
“Le costume à l’égyptienne au Musée de Beyrouth: à propos de trois
sculptures en ronde-bosse”, National Museum News, 7, p. 27-31.
Stones and Creed, 100 Artefacts from Lebanon’s Antiquity, Beyrouth.
Artisanat et échanges: La céramique locale et importée »,
L’artisanat et les matières précieuses”, Liban, l’autre rive, exposition
présentée à l’Institut du monde arabe du 27 octobre 1998 au 2 mai
1999, Paris, p. 151-153.
1998-1999, “First Season of Excavation at Sidon: Preliminary Report”,
Bulletin d'Archéologie et d'Architecture Libanaises, 3, p. 181-224.
C. Doumet-Serhal & H. Sayegh, “ La céramique du locus 130” p. 1124 et “Les objets en os”, p.259-270, in, J. Elayi & H. Sayegh, Un
quartier du port phénicien de Beyrouth au Fer III/Perse. Les objets,
Paris.
“Introduction”, National Museum News, 10, p. 2-3. “Discoveries in
Little Sidon”, National Museum News, 10, p. 29-39. “Discoveries
around the Harbour”, National Museum News, 10, p. 40-41.
“Second Season of Excavation at Sidon: Preliminary Report”, Bulletin
d'Archéologie et d'Architecture Libanaises, 4, p. 75-122.
“Au pays de l’inconnu demeure la bete”, Archaeology and History in
Lebanon, 13, p. 51-59.
1993
1994
1995
1996
1997
1998
1999
2000
2001
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2002
2003
2004
“Third Season of Excavation at Sidon: Preliminary Report”, Bulletin
d'Archéologie et d'Architecture Libanaises, 5, p.153-172.
“A Ram’s Head Handle from Sidon”, Archaeology and History in
Lebanon, 2001, p. 9-16.
“New Excavations at Sidon”, in, Petite villes côtières historiques:
développement urbain équilibré entre terre, mer et société. Actes du
Séminaire international, Saida, Liban 28-31 mai 2001, UNESCO,
Paris, p. 256-261.
“Fourth Season of Excavation at Sidon: Preliminary Report”, Bulletin
d'Archéologie et d'Architecture Libanaises, 6, p. 179-210.
“Jars from the Third Millennium BC at Sidon (South Lebanon): A
Standardized production in the Emergence of an Urban Culture”,
Archaeology and History in Lebanon, 17, p. 2-6.
“Jars from the Second Millennium BC at Sidon: Child Burials or
Deposited Goods in Graves”, Archaeology and History in Lebanon, 17,
p. 7-16.
“Fifth Season of Excavation at Sidon: Preliminary Report”, BAAL, 7,
p. 175-207.
“The Palm tree Motif in the Late Bronze and Early Iron Age: Evidence
from Sidon and Tell Rachidieh”, Archaeology and History in Lebanon,
19, p. 34-43.
“Sidon: A Jar with Fish or Dolphin Decoration”, Archaeology and
History in Lebanon, 19, p. 106-109.
“Sidon (Lebanon):Twenty Middle Bronze Age Burials from the 2001
Season of Excavation”, Levant, 36, p. 89-154.
“Warrior Burial 27 at Sidon”, AHL, 20, p.21-29.
C. Doumet-Serhal, A. Rabate & A. Resek, A Decade of Archaeology
and History in the Lebanon, Beirut.
“Sixth and Seventh Season of Excavation at Sidon: Preliminary
Report”, BAAL, 8, p. 47-82.
2006
Excavation at Sidon 1998-2000- 2001. The Early Bronze Age, Institut
Français d’Archéologie du Proche-Orient, Bibliothèque Archéologique
et Historique, Beyrouth.
« Sidon : Les fouilles du British Museum de 1998 à 2005. Académie
Des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, Comptes-Rendus des séances de
l’année 2006, janvier-mars, p. 305-331.
Eighth and Ninth Season of Excavation (2006-2007) at SidonPreliminary Report, BAAL, 10, p. 131-168.
2007
Burials with Silver Artefacts from the Middle Bronze AgeI/II A at
Sidon : British Museum Excavations », Mélanges de l’Université
Saint-Joseph de Beyrouth, vol. LX, p. 29-48.
“Sidon. Carrefour de l’Orient il y a 5000 ans », Les dossiers
d’archéologie, n 13, novembre 2007, p. 34-45.
« Bronze Artifacts from Burial 42 at Sidon », Archaeology and History
in Lebanon, 26/27, p. 194-203
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2008
“The British Museum Excavation at Sidon: Markers for the Chronology of the
Early and Middle Bronze Age in Lebanon”, in M. Bietak and E. Czerny edit.
The Bronze Age in the Lebanon, Studies on the Archaeology and Chronology
of Lebanon, Syria and Egypt, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften,
Denkschriften der Gesamtakademie, Band L, Wien, p. 11-44.
Networking Patterns of the Bronze and Iron Age Levant, The Lebanon and its
Mediterranean Connections, edit, C. Doumet Serhal, A. Rabate, A. Resek, On
the occasion of the Syposium, “Interconnections in the Eastern Mediterranean,
The Lebanon in the Bronze and Iron Ages, 4-9 November 2008, Beirut, and
“The Kingdom of Sidon and its Mediteranean Connections”, p. 1-70.
“Un dépôt de l’âge du fer tardif à Sidon”, D’Ougarit à Jerusalem, Recueil
d’études épigraphiques et archéologiques offert à Pierre Bordreuil, Orient et
Méditerranée, n0 2, De Boccard, Paris, p. 73-80.
2009
“New Cylinder Seal Impressions from Sidon”, Archaeology and History in the
Lebanon, 29, p. 2-10.
Near Eastern Terracotta Models and Figurines, the Klat Collection, Beirut.
Forthcoming
- - « Sidon and the Aegean : Notes on Recent discoveries », with V. Karageorghis, Iakovide’s
Festschrift (in preparation).
- “Ceramics and Terracotta Figurines from Sidon: Mycenaean and Cypriote”, Special issue of
BAAL, 2007.
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