Searcher, archaeologist, research director at CNRS
Organizations
CNRS
Lumière Lyon-II University
French Institute of the Near East (IFPO)
Spouse
Bernard Yon
Academic work
Discipline
archaeology and history
Main interests
ancient Near East
Marguerite Yon, or Marguerite Yon-Calvet, née Calvet, is a French archaeologist and historian, specializing in the ancient Near East, particularly Ugarit in Syria. She is widely recognized for her archaeological work on Ugarit, where she conducted excavations for twenty years. She has extensively excavated the island of Cyprus. Notably, she held the distinction of being the first female president of the Academy of Lyon since its foundation.
MargueriteYon, or MargueriteYon-Calvet, née Calvet, is a French archaeologist and historian, specializing in the ancient Near East, particularly Ugarit...
Claude Schaeffer were Henri de Contenson, followed by Jean Margueron, MargueriteYon, then Yves Calvet and Bassam Jamous, who since 2005 has held the office...
name from 500 BC—in Phoenician texts and as inscriptions on coins. MargueriteYon claims that literary texts and inscriptions suggest that by the Classical...
1983 Yon, Marguerite, J. Gachet, and P. Lombard, "Fouilles de Ras Shamra-Ougarit 1984-1987 (44e-47e Campagnes)", Syria 64, no. 3/4, pp. 171–91,1987 Yon, Marguerite...
University Press, 2008). ISBN 0-521-68498-6, ISBN 978-0-521-68498-9. MargueriteYon, The City of Ugarit at Tell Ras Shamra (Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns...
1929; second, by Vassos Karageorghis in 1976; and most recently by MargueriteYon in 1985. Arsinoe (immediately north of the modern city of Polis) was...
Museums (DGAM) in Damascus, Syria. He has held this position since 2005. MargueriteYon (January 2006). The city of Ugarit at Tell Ras Shamra. Eisenbrauns....
Studies Centre), David Blackman (researcher at the University of Oxford), MargueriteYon (research director emeritus at the University of Lyon and former director...
noblewoman, of the Beauvau family, lady of Champigny and de la Roche-sur-Yon, countess of Vendôme by her marriage. Isabelle was the only child of the...
Chauvigny (+1503) │ │ │ │ │ │ │ X 2) Louis de Bourbon, prince of la Roche-sur-Yon (1473–1520) │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ ├─>Louis II (1483–1501), comte de Montpensier...
Sznycer, Maurice (1980). Ugaritic Religion. BRILL. ISBN 9789004062245. Yon, Marguerite (2006). The City of Ugarit at Tell Ras Shamra. Eisenbrauns. ISBN 9781575060293...
Testament", No. 5. Brill Archive, 1957; for a more recent discussion see Yon, Marguerite, The City of Ugarit at Tell Ras Shamra, Eisenbrauns, 2006. Smith, Mark...
and Gammond, pp. 22–23 Yon, p. 44 Yon, p. 45 Yon, p. 43; and Schwarz, p. 45 Faris, p. 28 Yon, p. 62 Gammond, p. 28 Yon, p. 59 Yon, p. 59 Harding, p. 39...
she married secondly, her cousin Louis of Bourbon, Prince of La Roche-sur-Yon, by whom she had three children. Renée, Lady of Mercœur (1494 – 26 May 1539)...
high and low hills and valleys his and hers hither and thither hither and yon hot and cold hurry up and wait husband and wife in and out in the (right/wrong)...
LP set SLS 5175 Quoted in Faris, pp. 69–70 Faris, pp. 69–70 Yon, p. 212 Smith, p. 350 Yon, pp. 212–213 Clément and Larousse, pp. 503–504 Munteanu Dana...
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