Ancient CyprusAncient Cyprus

Consulate

Imperial and Tuscan consulates, Larnaca

Larnaca, OTTOMAN

Consulate in Larnaca. 1 person in the register connected with it.

History

  1. 1760–1767
    Giovanni Mariti lived in Cyprus from his arrival from Leghorn on 2 February 1760 to his departure for Florence on 6 October 1767, "for some years an official of the Imperial and Tuscan Consulates" (Cobham).

    Giovanni MaritiMariti 1909

  2. 1767
    Mariti saw a quarrying dig at Kition that produced a white marble head of Caracalla and many Greek Imperial coins reading KOINON KYPRION; the head passed to Timothy Turner, British consul, and Mariti gave some of the coins to the Museum of the Etruscan Academy at Cortona.

    KitionGiovanni MaritiTimothy TurnerMariti 1909

People

1 person

Staff and members · 1

Sources

  1. 1.Giovanni Mariti (1909). Travels in the Island of Cyprus. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press.