Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Firenze

459 Cypriot pieces in all by Milani's time, of which the Colucci gift is about 244 (240 in the Uffizi inventory; 'some 250' in Bettelli and Lo Schiavo) and about 209 are Milani's purchases (Cecconi 1902, Caremfilaki 1903-06) (2010)

Bettelli & Schiavo 2010Soldi 2025, p. 12Paolo 2012

1. 1870–1871
   Riccardo Colucci, Italian consul in Cyprus, sent about 244 objects in two shipments (130 pieces announced 18 Nov 1870; five more cases 15 Feb 1871); the Rome commission placed them in the Egyptian Museum in Florence, where they became the city's first Cypriot collection.

   FlorenceRiccardo ColucciSoldi 2025, p. 11-12Paolo 2010

2. 1873
   First catalogue of the Egyptian-Etruscan Museum (Gamurrini) records 'a fine sample of vases and sculptures' from Colucci's excavations at a temple near Paphos.

   FlorenceRiccardo ColucciPaolo 2012

3. 1878
   Ernesto Schiaparelli wrote a report (23 Nov) and an inventory (27 Nov) of the Cypriot antiquities then in the Egyptian Museum; neither mentions Paphos.

   FlorenceErnesto SchiaparelliPaolo 2010Paolo 2012

4. 1880
   Royal Archaeological Museum established by decree of Vittorio Emanuele II (25 May), merging the Grand Ducal collections and the Egyptian antiquities; opened to the public 3 February 1883 in the Palazzo della Crocetta.

   FlorenceLuigi Adriano MilaniErnesto SchiaparelliSoldi 2025

5. 1892
   Luigi Adriano Milani became Director of the Royal Museum (and of the Egyptian Museum from 1894, when Schiaparelli left for Turin); he displayed Cypriot material on the first floor as Mediterranean comparanda for the Etruscans.

   FlorenceLuigi Adriano MilaniSoldi 2025

6. 10 January 1902
   Milani bought from Giacomo Cecconi about fifteen Cypriot pots and terracottas (18 objects now) for 60 lire after the offer of 10 January; Cecconi then acted as intermediary with the Larnaca dealer Caremfilaki.

   Fano / FlorenceGiacomo CecconiLuigi Adriano MilaniMichael CaremfilakiSoldi 2025, p. 16-19

7. 1903–1906
   Purchases from the Larnaca dealer Michael Caremfilaki (Karemfilaki), asked by Milani for 'Mycenaean and pre-Mycenaean' objects; Di Paolo has purchases between 1902 and 1909.

   Larnaca / FlorenceMichael CaremfilakiLuigi Adriano MilaniBettelli & Schiavo 2010Paolo 2010Soldi 2025, p. 18-19

8. 1905
   Bronze tripod-stand and cup offered by photograph on 19 Jan at 300 francs; Milani offered 250 on 7 June; the lot reached Florence in July (inventory 82420-82510, stand and cup 82503-82504).

   Larnaca / FlorenceMichael CaremfilakiLuigi Adriano MilaniSchiavo 2011

9. 1912
   Milani's guide to the museum calls the Colucci material the 'primitivo saggio di antichità cipriote' and describes it in vitrine IV of Room XVIII.

   FlorenceLuigi Adriano MilaniSoldi 2025, p. 12

10. 2025
    Soldi's study of the Cypriot collection, Cecconi and the Cypriot acquisitions, part of the museum's project on its historical collections (forthcoming volume cited as Di Paolo and Iozzo eds.).

    FlorenceSebastiano SoldiMario IozzoSilvana Di PaoloSoldi 2025, p. 7, p. 21

• Mycenaean three-handled jar (FS 46/47, LC II import) from the Cecconi lot; note inside reads 'Cypriot Antiquity shipped from Fano by Mr. Cecconi'

  MAF 80140via Giacomo Cecconi1902Soldi 2025, p. 16, p. 17, p. 19

• Cypriot bronze tripod-stand (h. 10.5-11.2 cm), nearly pure copper

  82503via Michael Caremfilaki1905Schiavo 2011, p. 88, p. 89

• Hemispherical bronze cup belonging with the tripod-stand

  82504via Michael Caremfilaki1905Schiavo 2011, p. 88, p. 89

• Colucci donation, 244 objects: terracotta vases, votive stone and terracotta sculpture, three rock-crystal pieces, a box of asbestos (the skull is now in the Anthropological Museum, Florence)

  from stated in 1873 as a temple near Paphos; Di Paolo thinks only part comes from tombsvia Riccardo Colucci1870–1871Soldi 2025, p. 11-12Paolo 2010