Antoine (Raphaël in religion) Savignac, o.p. (AS)

• Father Raphaël

Having arrived at the École Biblique in 1893, Father Savignac specialized in epigraphy; he quickly became an absolute reference in Semitic epigraphy. Forming a studious tandem with Fr. Marie-Antonin Jaussen, he travelled with the latter on numerous occasions throughout Arabia, during epigraphic, archaeological and ethnological explorations from which he produced several monographs.

ISAAR (CPF), 2nd Edition, 2004.

Entry prepared on November 2018

DUSSAND, René, « Notice nécrologique du P. Savignac », in Syria, n° 30 : 1953, p. 373-4.
PÉRENNÈS, Jean-Jacques, Le P. Antonin Jaussen, o.p. (1871-1962) : une passion pour l’Orient musulman, Paris : le Cerf, 2012

Author(s) : Marie-Alpais Torcheboeuf.