Jules Barthoux

Jules Barthoux
Born	Jules Couyat-Barthoux 22 July 1881 Etroussat, France
Died	22 February 1965 Paris, France
Years active	c. 1912-1928
Known for	Archaeology in Afghanistan as part of DAFA

Jules Barthoux or Jules Couyat-Barthoux (1881-1965) was a French geologist and archaeologist born in Etroussat in 1881. He excavated the sites of Bagram, Hadda and Ai-Khanoum in Afghanistan, as part of the French Archaeological Delegation in Afghanistan (DAFA), between 1925 and 1928. He died in 1965 in the 20th arrondissement of Paris, in Paris, France.

He and Pierre Montet worked in Cairo together in 1911. ^[1]

Works

• The hieroglyphic and hieratic inscriptions of Ouâdi Hammâmât with P. Montet, Cairo (1912) (with Pierre Montet), 1912 ^[2]
• Chronology and description of igneous rocks of the Arabian desert, Cairo (1922)
• Description of a fortress of Saladin discovered in Sinai: the inscriptions of the Qal'ah Guindi with G. Wiet, Paris (1922)
• Notes of Moroccan metallogeny, Tours (1923)
• Description of some Moroccan minerals, Paris (1924)
• The excavations of Haḍḍa I, Stupas and sites. Text and drawings, Paris (1933)
• The excavations of Haḍḍa, Paris (1933)
• The excavations of Hadda III, figures and figurines, Tours (1930)
• Provisional Geological Map of Djebilet, sl

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  The head of a Greco-Buddhist statue found by Jules Barthoux at Hadda in 1928 (Musée Guimet)
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  Detail of a staircase of the Chakhil-i-Ghoundi monastery in Hadda

Notes

1. "Jean Pierre-Marie Montet (1885 - 1966)". Musées d'Orsay. Retrieved July 22, 2025.
2. "Les inscriptions hiéroglyphiques et hiératiques du Ouâdi Hammâmât". Google Books. Retrieved July 22, 2025.

References

• Zemaryallaï Tarzi, (Jules Barthoux: The forgotten discoverer of Ai-Khanoum), Comptes rendus des séances de l'Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, year 1996, Volume 140, issue 2, pp. 595–611 (external link)