Georges Chenet

Pot and lid, painted terracotta, recent Bronze Age I. Discovered at Ras Shamra (formerly Ugarit), Eastern low city, tomb n° 53.

Chenet served in the French infantry during the First World War. He became the last Master tiler at Claon,[1] where he was also elected mayor, serving in that office from de 1929 to 1939.[2]

Chenet started his career as a specialist of Gallo-Roman pottery in Argonne, with no academic credentials or diploma. His work in the region focuses on the Gallo-Roman ceramics of Argonne, on the Merovingian cemetery of Lavoye and on the prehistory of the upper Aisne valley.[3]

In the Middle East, Chenet worked with Claude F.-A. Schaeffer in the mission to Ras Shamra near Latakia, in Syria.[3]

Chenet's personal collection were looted during the First World War and again in 1940; the remainder is kept at the National Archaeological Museum in Saint-Germain-en-Laye.[3]

Part of his notes is kept at the Departmental Archives of Meuse.[4]

In 2018, the Terres d'Argonne association published a biography, authored by Colette Méchin.[5]

Main publications

• Georges Chenet (1941). La céramique gallo-romaine d'Argonne du IVe siècle et la terre sigillée décorée à la molette. Mâcon: Protat frères. p. 194.
• Georges Chenet; Guy Gaudron (1955). La céramique sigillée d'Argonne des IIe et IIIe siècles. Supplément à Gallia. Paris: CNRS. p. 246.

Georges Chenet also published numerous articles:

• Georges Chenet (1927). "Un "Coucou" gallo-romain d'Argonne »". Revue des musées et collections archéologiques (10): 337–339.. Des extraits de cet article sont consultables dans la notice sur les sifflets en terre cuite[6] du Mucem.du Mucem.
• Georges Chenet; Camille Jullian (1929). "Le Pont-des-Quatre-Enfants". Revue des Études Anciennes. 31 (4): 353. doi:10.3406/rea.1929.2549.
• Georges Chenet (1931). "Faucilles préhistoriques de Ras Shamra (Alaouites)". Bulletin de la Société préhistorique de France. 25 (11): 469–475.
• Georges Chenet (1945). "De quelques stationnements tardenoisiens en Argonne meusienne". Bulletin de la Société préhistorique de France. 42 (4–6): 96–97. doi:10.3406/bspf.1945.1946.

• Ugarit