Government department
Land Registration and Survey Department
Nicosia, Cyprus
Government department in Nicosia; part of Government of Cyprus (British colonial administration). 6 people in the register connected with it.
History
- 1903–1929Cadastral survey at 1:2500 (towns 1:1500), the 'Kitchener maps', prepared by the Land Registration Office to establish land ownership; they show even terracing walls, and later field surveys use them.
- 1931–1932Produced the field plan of the Vounous excavations; Dikaios thanks its Director, Godwin Austin, and Assistant in Surveys, J. Mace. The dates are inferred from the title of the paper.
VounousGodwin AustinJ. MacePorphyrios DikaiosDikaios 1940, p. 3
- 1935Theophilus Mogabgab seconded to the Department of Antiquities by Director John Hilton as Antiquities Officer for Famagusta, with duty to develop tourism policy, on Hill's strong recommendation.
FamagustaTheophilus MogabgabJohn HiltonStanley-Price 2025, p. 109-126Leriou & Vavouranakis 2025
People
6 peopleStaff and members · 6
- Herbert KitchenerLieutenant R.E.; Director of the Survey from c.18811878
- A. F. G. LawDirector (Direktor des Feldmessamtes), Nicosia1889
- Antonios Papapetrouofficial
- Godwin Austindirector · DirectorDikaios 1940
- J. Macestaff · Assistant in SurveysDikaios 1940, p. 3
- Theophilus Mogabgabstaff (by 1935) · surveyor-draughtsman (earlier also Railways)Leriou & Vavouranakis 2025
Sources
- 1.P. Dikaios (1940). “The Excavations at Vounous-Bellapais in Cyprus, 1931-2”. Archaeologia 88, 1-174.
- 2.Nicholas Stanley-Price (2025). “Colonial society and the dismissal of John Hilton, first Director of Antiquities in Cyprus”. Empire & Excavation: Critical perspectives on archaeology in British-period Cyprus, 1878-1960, 109-126.
- 3.Anastasia Leriou, Giorgos Vavouranakis (2025). “Communicating archaeology in British-period Cyprus: from Ohnefalsch-Richter to Dikaios”. Empire & Excavation: Critical perspectives on archaeology in British-period Cyprus, 1878-1960. Sidestone Press.
- 4.E. Gjerstad (1980). Ages and Days in Cyprus.
- 5.Müge Hüseyin Şevketoğlu (1998). “Archaeological Field Survey of the Neolithic and Chalcolithic Settlement Sites in Kyrenia District, North Cyprus: Systematic Surface Collection and the Interpretation of Artefact Scatters”. PhD thesis, University of Edinburgh.