ExcavationBritish colonial and British Museum

Sinda: Luke Zenon Pierides's permit excavation

Name: Sinda: Luke Zenon Pierides's permit excavation
Start: 1925
End: 1925

1925 · Sinda

Luke Zenon Pierides's personal permit of 1925 to excavate near Sinda, which entitled him to a share of the finds.

Map of Cyprus

Where the work took place

Ground above 200, 500, 1,000 m

Site

1Sinda

Modern coastline (OpenStreetMap) and relief (Copernicus DEM).

The project

In 1925 Luke Zenon Pierides held a personal permit to excavate near Sinda, entitling him to a share of the finds¹. Stanley-Price characterizes such a permit as a grey area that a member of the Cyprus Museum Committee could exploit¹.

Directors and team

Directed by

Luke Zenon Pierides1925

Institutions

Personal permit (share of finds)Permit holder

Other fieldwork at Sinda · 1

Sinda: the Swedish expedition under Furumark1947–1948

References

1.Nicholas Stanley-Price, 2025, Illicit excavation and the sale of 'duplicate' antiquities: Rupert Gunnis and the Cyprus Museum, 1926–1932, Cahiers du Centre d'Études Chypriotes 55.

Sources

1.Illicit excavation and the sale of 'duplicate' antiquities: Rupert Gunnis and the Cyprus Museum, 1926–1932, n. 55.