Paul-Émile Botta was French Consul in Mosul since 1842. Born in Torino, Italy, he excavated in Kuyundshik in 1842 and in Dur-Sharrukin in 1843. Botta believed Khorsabad to be the site of Niniveh. After he had cabled news of his discovery - "Niniveh est retrouvé" to Paris, the French government financed his excavations there. The artist Eugène Flandin was sent to Mesopotamia to document Botta's discoveries – fortunately, as it turned out.
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- Paul-Émile Botta was French Consul in Mosul since 1842. Born in Torino, Italy, he excavated in Kuyundshik in 1842 and in Dur-Sharrukin in 1843. Botta believed Khorsabad to be the site of Niniveh. After he had cabled news of his discovery - "Niniveh est retrouvé" to Paris, the French government financed his excavations there. The artist Eugène Flandin was sent to Mesopotamia to document Botta's discoveries – fortunately, as it turned out. In 1846, many statues from Khorsabad were sent to Paris. In 1855, Victor Place, Botta's successor tried to send finds from Kish, Khorsabad, Nimrud and from Assurbanipal's palace in Niniveh, 235 cases all in all, from Mosul down the Tigris and the Shatt al-Arab to Basra, where they were to be loaded on a ship bound to Paris. One barge and four rafts were used, the rafts transported two human headed winged bulls and two winged Genii as well as other works of art. All the vessels were overloaded, and during the journey they were attacked several times by "Arab pirates". On March 21 or March 23, after passing the toll station at Zejeyyak (Zecheiya), the barge was rammed by pirates and sunk, "one and a half hours downriver from Al-Qurna", on the left bank of the river. One raft, laden with a winged bull, later sank in the middle of the Shatt-al-Arab near Kout el Fiengoui. Only two rafts reached Basra. The finds which were brought to Europe are in the Louvre and the British Museum today. Several attempts to recover the boats during 1855 failed. Among the lost artefacts is, for example, the famous relief depicting the sack of the Urartian town of Musasir during Sargons's 8th campaign. The palace of Sargon II, near to sites explored by Botta and Place, would later be excavated by Edward Chiera during 1928 - 1929. Botta was also a naturalist. He collected mammals, birds and insects in California in the 1820s and 1830s as well as in Mesopotamia. Botta's pocket gopher described by Joseph Fortuné Théodore Eydoux and Paul Gervais commemorates his name. Botta died in Achères, France in 1870
- Paul-Émile Botta war ein französischer Archäologe.
- Paul-Émile Botta. Il est le fils de l'historien Carlo Giuseppe Guglielmo Botta. il se destina dabord à une carrière diplomatique. Son premier poste diplomatique le conduisit à Alexandrie en Égypte. En 1842, il est nommé consul à Mossoul et devient archéologue distingué, en découvrant la cité antique de Khorsabad, tout en croyant que c'était les ruines de Ninive. Le poste de Consul à Mossoul fut créé par Louis-Philippe en 1842 pour Émile Botta. Ce dernier qui avait une bonne connaissance des textes de la Bible, beaucoup de curiosité et la volonté de connaître les civilisations anciennes cherchait Ninive et Babylone. C'est en 1843 qu'il découvre, sur la rive orientale du Tigre, le palais de Sargon II: Khorsabad. Le relevé des fouilles a été fait par le dessinateur Eugène Flandin qui publie en 1849 Les Monuments de Ninive. Les sculptures et reliefs découverts sur ce site sont aujourd'hui conservés au Louvre. En 1848, Botta fut nommé à Jérusalem en Palestine, puis à Tripoli en Syrie.
- Botta, giunto in Iraq come console, diresse diversi scavi a Kuyundshik e a Khorsabad a partire dal 1843. Inizialmente ritenne di aver trovato a Khorsabad le rovine di Ninive e non appena la notizia raggiunse la Francia il governo francese si affrettò a finanziare i suoi scavi. Così, nel 1846, numerose statue e reperti archeologici trovati da Botta furono inviati a Parigi.
- Paul-Émile Botta - francuski konsul i archeolog włoskiego pochodzenia. Jego ojcem był Carlo Botta, włoski historyk. Był konsulem w Aleksandrii, Mosulu i Trypolisie. Kiedy w 1842 Botta objął stanowisko konsula w Mosulu zainteresował się starożytnościami. Efektem jego działań było odkrycie asyryjskich inskrypcji w Chorsabadzie, który Botta uznał za zaginioną Niniwę. W rzeczywistości był to pałac Sargona II. Odnalezione w ciągu czterech lat reliefy i inskrypcje zostały wysłane przez Bottę do Paryża. W wykopaliskach od 1844 pomagał mu przysłany z Francji rysownik, Eugène Flandin. P. Botta/E. Flandin - Monuents de Niniveh
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- Paul-Émile Botta was French Consul in Mosul since 1842. Born in Torino, Italy, he excavated in Kuyundshik in 1842 and in Dur-Sharrukin in 1843. Botta believed Khorsabad to be the site of Niniveh. After he had cabled news of his discovery - "Niniveh est retrouvé" to Paris, the French government financed his excavations there. The artist Eugène Flandin was sent to Mesopotamia to document Botta's discoveries – fortunately, as it turned out.
- Paul-Émile Botta war ein französischer Archäologe.
- Paul-Émile Botta. Il est le fils de l'historien Carlo Giuseppe Guglielmo Botta. il se destina dabord à une carrière diplomatique. Son premier poste diplomatique le conduisit à Alexandrie en Égypte. En 1842, il est nommé consul à Mossoul et devient archéologue distingué, en découvrant la cité antique de Khorsabad, tout en croyant que c'était les ruines de Ninive. Le poste de Consul à Mossoul fut créé par Louis-Philippe en 1842 pour Émile Botta.
- Botta, giunto in Iraq come console, diresse diversi scavi a Kuyundshik e a Khorsabad a partire dal 1843. Inizialmente ritenne di aver trovato a Khorsabad le rovine di Ninive e non appena la notizia raggiunse la Francia il governo francese si affrettò a finanziare i suoi scavi. Così, nel 1846, numerose statue e reperti archeologici trovati da Botta furono inviati a Parigi.
- Paul-Émile Botta - francuski konsul i archeolog włoskiego pochodzenia. Jego ojcem był Carlo Botta, włoski historyk. Był konsulem w Aleksandrii, Mosulu i Trypolisie. Kiedy w 1842 Botta objął stanowisko konsula w Mosulu zainteresował się starożytnościami. Efektem jego działań było odkrycie asyryjskich inskrypcji w Chorsabadzie, który Botta uznał za zaginioną Niniwę. W rzeczywistości był to pałac Sargona II.
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