Ancient CyprusAncient Cyprus

Government department

Ottoman Porte (Sublime Porte)

Constantinople, OTTOMAN

Government department in Constantinople. 3 people in the register connected with it.

History

  1. 1861–1862
    Before the 1862 mission of Melchior de Vogue to Cyprus, Renan wrote to Vogue that a letter from Fuad Pasha to the pasha of Nicosia and "le firman pour les fouilles" were in the hands of Charles Gaillardot, who would hand them over; Vogue landed at Larnaca on 28 January 1862 with Waddington and Duthoit. (Bonato prints the letters; the dates of the Renan letter itself are not given in the passage read.)

    Melchior de VogüéErnest RenanFuad PachaCharles GaillardotHenry William WaddingtonEdmond DuthoitBonato 1998

  2. 1869
    Colucci, Italian consul, said (Foreign Ministry note of 5 May 1869) that he meant to ask the Ottoman authorities for a firman to dig; the request went through the legation at Constantinople. On 18 November 1870 he reported permission "in some localities of that island".

    Riccardo ColucciPaolo 2010

  3. 1869
    The Imperial Museum in Istanbul was founded in 1869 by Safvet Pasha, "as a new minister of education" (Shaw 2003, as cited), and in the same year a first antiquities regulation for Cyprus appeared, the "Reglements sur les objets antiques" of seven articles, as an attempt by the Ottoman authorities of the island to control antiquities.

    Safvet PashaStylianou-Lambert & Bounia 2016, p. 74

  4. from 1873
    Cesnola told a correspondent (before 1873) that he had presented "plusieurs milliers d'antiquites chypriotes" to the Imperial Ottoman Museum, to improve his difficult relations with the Ottoman administration; Masson notes that, because of the dealings Cesnola had to keep up with the Sublime Porte until 1876, letters of his may survive in the Istanbul archaeological museum, but he had found no information on direct relations.

    Luigi Palma di CesnolaTatton-Brown 2001

  5. Undated
    Cesnola applied through the US minister at Constantinople, Edward Joy Morris, who "used the great influence he possessed with the Porte" and obtained the firman authorising Cesnola to research in the island; it was renewed each year while Morris remained at Constantinople. Cesnola speaks of the "eleven years of my consular residence in Cyprus" and of his successive representatives at the Porte.

    Luigi Palma di CesnolaCesnola 1878

People

3 people

Staff and members · 2

Others connected · 1

Sources

  1. 1.Veronica Tatton-Brown (ed.) (2001). Cyprus in the 19th Century AD: Fact, Fancy and Fiction. Oxford, Oxbow.
  2. 2.T. Stylianou-Lambert, A. Bounia (2016). The Political Museum: Power, Conflict, and Identity in Cyprus.
  3. 3.Lucie Bonato (1998). “Chypre dans les archives de Melchior de Vogüé (I) : à l'origine de la mission de 1862”. Cahiers du Centre d'Études Chypriotes 28, 103-112.
  4. 4.Silvana Di Paolo (2010). “"...dall'esempio dei suoi colleghi di Francia, Inghilterra e d'America..." ovvero il collezionismo di emulazione: la raccolta Colucci nel quadro dell'archeologia cipriota della seconda metà del XIX secolo”. Researches in Cypriote History and Archaeology, 75-83. Florence, Florence University Press.
  5. 5.L. P. di Cesnola (1878). Cyprus: Its Ancient Cities, Tombs, and Temples.
  6. 6.Veronica Tatton-Brown (ed.) (2001). Cyprus in the 19th Century AD: Fact, Fancy and Fiction. Oxford, Oxbow.