Georges Chenet

Georges Chenet (13 June 1881 - 31 May 1951) was a French archeologist from Argonne who participated in excavation in Syria.

He became the last Master tiler at Claon,[1] where he was also elected mayor, serving in that office from de 1929 to 1939.

[2] Chenet started his career as a specialist of Gallo-Roman pottery in Argonne, with no academic credentials or diploma.

His work in the region focuses on the Gallo-Roman ceramics of Argonne, on the Merovingian cemetery of Lavoye and on the prehistory of the upper Aisne valley.

[3] Chenet's personal collection were looted during the First World War and again in 1940; the remainder is kept at the National Archaeological Museum in Saint-Germain-en-Laye.

Pot and lid, painted terracotta, recent Bronze Age I. Discovered at Ras Shamra (formerly Ugarit ), Eastern low city, tomb n° 53.