Alexis Mallon

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Alexis Mallon (1875–1934), more commonly known as Père Mallon, was a French

Teleilat el Ghassul (1929–1934).[2]

Education and career

Born in France, Mallon received his

Saint Joseph University.[1] He published one of the first grammars of Coptic in 1904.[2]

In 1910, he was transferred to the newly-founded

First World War,[2] Mallon returned to Palestine in 1919 and was finally able to establish the Pontifical Biblical Institute in Jerusalem in 1927.[1]

Archaeology

Teleilat el Ghassul
during Mallon's excavations, 1931.

Mallon's interest in archaeology was fostered by Godefroy Zumoffen, a fellow Jesuit in Beirut. Together they compiled the first systematic gazetteer of sites in the Levant, published in 1925.[2] Unlike many of his contemporaries in the region, and despite his calling, Mallon's interests were in prehistory rather than biblical archaeology.[3] He discovered prehistoric stone tools at Shuqba cave in 1924 and conducted trial excavations there in 1928.[2][4] Subsequent excavations at Shuqba by British archaeologist Dorothy Garrod unearthed the first traces of the Mesolithic outside of Europe and defined the Natufian culture.[5]

Mallon's most notable contribution to archaeology was his excavations at

Ghassulian culture.[7][8][9] Robert Koeppel of the Pontifical Biblical Institute continued the excavations after Mallon's death.[2][6]

Mallon had a significant influence on René Neuville, introducing him to prehistoric archaeology when he first arrived in Jerusalem as a diplomat in 1926.[2] The two went on to collaborate on excavations at Oumm Qatafa,[2] and Neuville assisted Mallon at Teleilat el Ghassul.[6]

Selected publications

  • Grammaire Copte (1904)

References

  1. ^ a b c d e "Fr Alexis Mallon SJ". Teleilat Ghassul Excavation Archives. Pontifical Biblical Institute. 10 December 2019. Retrieved 30 September 2021.
  2. ^
    S2CID 202374250
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  3. ISBN 978-0-19-516710-8
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  4. doi:10.1179/peq.1928.60.4.182
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  5. ISBN 9781785705199
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  6. ^
    JSTOR 43718415
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  7. S2CID 163710762
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  8. ^ "Searching for Sodom and Gomorrah?". Jesuits in the Holy Land. Pontifical Biblical Institute. 24 November 2017. Retrieved 30 September 2021.
  9. doi:10.5281/zenodo.4593713
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