Dominique Collon
Dominique Petronella Margaret Collon,
Collon was born in Belgium in 1940, the daughter of Petronella and Alexandre Collon. In 1962 she was a student at the Institute of Archaeology in Oxford where she was studying for the Postgraduate Diploma in Western Asiatic Archaeology. As an archaeologist Collon excavated in Turkey under her uncle who was the Director of the British Institute at Ankara; in Kültepe with Tahsin Özgüç in 1964; and with Seton Lloyd and Charles A. Burney at Kayalıdere in 1965.[1] She took her PhD at Columbia University in 1971 with her thesis on The Seal Impressions of Tell Atchana/Alalakh and which was published in 1975.[1][2]
From 1973 to 1976, Collon was in
Publications
- (With others) Sondages au flanc sud du Tell de Qala'at el-Mudiq: néolithique, chalcolithique, bronze ancien, Centre belge de recherches archéologiques à Apamée de Syrie (Brussels, Belgium), 1975.
- The Seal Impressions from Tell Atchana/Alalakh, Butzon & Bercker (Kevelaer, Germany), 1975.
- Catalogue of the Western Asiatic Seals in the British Museum: Cylinders Seals II, Akkadian-Post Akkadian-Ur III Periods, British Museum Publications (London, England), 1982.
- The Alalakh Cylinder Seals, British Archeological Reports (London, England), 1982.
- Catalogue of the Western Asiatic Seals in the British Museum: Cylinder Seals III, Isin/Larsa and Old Babylonian Periods, British Museum Publications (London, England), 1986.
- First Impressions: Cylinder Seals in the Ancient Near East, British Museum Press (London, England), 1987, University of Chicago Press (Chicago, IL), 1988, revised edition, British Museum Press (London, England), 2005.
- Near Eastern Seals, University of California Press (Berkeley, CA), 1990.
- Ancient Near Eastern Art, University of California Press (Berkeley, CA), 1995.
- (Editor and contributor) 7,000 Years of Seals, British Museum Press (London, England), 1997.
- Catalogue of the Western Asiatic Seals in the British Museum: Cylinder Seals IV, Neo-Assyrian and Neo-Babylonian Periods, British Museum Press (London, England), 2001.
Collon has also contributed to books by others, including Art and Empire: Treasures from Assyria in the British Museum, Harry N. Abrams (New York, NY), 1995; to reference books; and shorter publications. She was the co-editor of the academic journal Iraq (1979—2010).[1][2]
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