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Consular staff · Agent

Acamas

fl. 1862–1865

Consular employee and agent, active 1862–1865. Consul at Limassol.

Life and work

  1. 31 May 1862
    Wrote to Edmond Duthoit describing the great vase of Amathus as reported by the mason who cleared it (15 feet across, 9 feet high, lions on the handles, initials above, a wide base on a strong ashlar foundation).

    LimassolTatton-Brown 2001

  2. December 1865
    As vice-consul at Limassol, sent copies of the inscriptions of three tomb slabs dug up at Limassol; the slabs were shipped from Larnaca in September 1866 to Cherbourg on La Sèvre.

    LimassolFoucart-Borville 1985, n. 42, citing Archives Nationales F 21-4045

Connections

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Scholarship

Sources

  1. 1.Veronica Tatton-Brown (ed.) (2001). Cyprus in the 19th Century AD: Fact, Fancy and Fiction. Oxford, Oxbow.
  2. 2.Jacques Foucart-Borville (1985). “La correspondance chypriote d'Edmond Duthoit (1862 et 1865)”. Cahiers du Centre d'Études Chypriotes 4, 3-60. Online