Society

Cyprus Committee of the Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences

Berlin, Germany · founded 1910

Society in Berlin, founded 1910; part of Prussian Academy of Sciences. 1 person in the register connected with it.

The Cypriot collection

None: the committee was an ad hoc body formed to sponsor one excavation and could not export finds to Berlin (1910)

1910
Ad hoc creation of a Cyprus Committee at the Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences, prompted by news of Cypro-syllabic inscriptions found at Rantidi and by Ohnefalsch-Richter's applications.
RantidiMax Ohnefalsch-Richter Schmid 2025 Masson 1985, p. 22
22 August 1910
Hatton Richards, Acting Chief Secretary, granted a permit to 'Dr. Robert Zahn, assistant keeper of the Berlin Museum, acting for and on behalf of the Cyprus Committee of the Royal Academy of Sciences of Berlin'.
RantidiRobert Zahn Schmid 2025
30 August 1910 – 7 October 1910
Fieldwork at Rantidi under Zahn. Results for inscriptions were very poor, the excavators could no longer export finds to Berlin, and no preliminary report was published.
RantidiRobert Zahn Schmid 2025

1 person

Robert Zahnfield-director (1910–1910) · permit holder and field director, RantidiSchmid 2025, p. 781910

1.Stephan G. Schmid (2025). “Was there an official German interest in the archaeology of Cyprus between 1878 and 1914?”. Empire & Excavation: Critical perspectives on archaeology in British-period Cyprus, 1878-1960, 69-92. Leiden, Sidestone Press.
2.O. Masson (1985). “Les visites de Max Ohnefalsch-Richter à Kouklia (Ancienne-Paphos), 1890 et 1910”. Cahiers du Centre d'Études Chypriotes 3, 19-28. Online