Georges Colonna Ceccaldi

Georges Colonna Ceccaldi (7 January 1840, Paris – 1879 or 1892) was a French antiquities dealer and diplomat.

Ceccaldi lived in Beirut where he was an attaché to the French Consulate, he stayed several times in Cyprus between 1866 and autumn 1871, when he returned permanently to France.

Ceccaldi provided various museums with Cypriot antiquities, including the British Museum, the Louvre and in 1872 he sold 40 artefacts from his collection to the Musée d’Archéologie Nationale. He excavated in at the sites of Idalion and Athienou.

His brother Tiburce Colonna Ceccaldi was the French consul to Cyprus between 1866 and 1869. He maintained friendly relations with other diplomats engaged in antiquities trade like Robert Hamilton Lang and Luigi Palma di Cesnola. The correspondence of the two brothers with other officials active in the antiquities trade in Cyprus, such as Luigi Palma di Cesnola, was published by Olivier Masson.

Publications

 * Ceccaldi, G. C. (1870). Découvertes de Chypre. Revue Archéologique, 21, 23–36.
 * Ceccaldi, G. C. (1872). Découvertes en Chypre (Suite). Revue Archéologique, 24, 221–228.
 * Ceccaldi, G. C. (1875). Un sarcophage d'Athienau (Chypre). Revue Archéologique, 29, 22–29.
 * Ceccaldi, G. C. (1872). La patère d'Idalie. Revue Archéologique, 24, 304–316.
 * Ceccaldi, G. C. (1882). Monuments antiques de Chypre, de Syrie et d'Égypte. Paris.