[TUNISIA - ARCHAEOLOGY] PICARD, Colette. Catalog of the Alao - Lot 305

[TUNISIA - ARCHAEOLOGY] PICARD, Colette. Catalog of the Alaoui Museum. New Series (Punic Collection), Vol. I. No place [Tunis], no publisher [printed by “La Rapide”], no date. [circa 1954] 1 volume of text and 1 volume of plates, large 8vo, paperback. VII and 303 pp.; 127 plates and two alphabet charts. Spine and margins of the covers sun-faded. First edition of this catalog compiled by Colette Picard (1913–1999), a historian and archaeologist who served as curator of the Carthage site. The two volumes—text and plates—catalog the items in the Punic collection, providing descriptions, dimensions, and dates. The Alaoui Museum was the name given to the Bardo Museum during the French Protectorate (1881–1955). A fine set.