Charles Virolleaud

Jean Charles Gabriel Virolleaud (1879, Barbezieux, Charente – 1968) was a French archaeologist, one of the excavators of Ugarit.

He is still renowned too for his books, and particularly for La Civilisation phénicienne (1933) and La Mythologie phénicienne (1938).

ObituarIes by André Parrot, “Charles Virolleaud (1879-1968)”, Syria: Revue d’art oriental et d’archéologie, 46 (1969), pp. 390–391, and by Ernst Friedrich Weidner, “Charles Virolleaud (2. Juli 1879 bis 17. December 1968)”, Archiv für Orientforschung, 24 (1973), pp. 245–246.

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