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Consul / diplomat · Excavator · Collector

Alfred Biliotti

1833–1915

British vice-consul at Rhodes. Excavated at Rhodes. Consigned to Rollin and Feuardent.

Life and work

  1. 1866
    Myres's Handbook dates the first serious study of ancient tombs at Ialysos and Kamiros in Rhodes, by Salzmann and Biliotti, to 1866.

    RhodesMyres 1914

  2. 1885
    The results of his latest excavations were sold in London in 1885.

    LondonTatton-Brown 2001, n. 108

  3. 1885
    Reinach refers to the Biliotti sale catalogue published by C. Smith (1885), nos 607-8 being Rhodian fibulae.

    Reinach 1891

Sources

  1. 1.Veronica Tatton-Brown (ed.) (2001). Cyprus in the 19th Century AD: Fact, Fancy and Fiction. Oxford, Oxbow.
  2. 2.J. L. Myres (1914). Handbook of the Cesnola Collection of Antiquities from Cyprus. New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art.
  3. 3.Alfred Biliotti (1833-1915), Wikidata Q1238385 / GND 1237324602. Online
  4. 4.Salomon Reinach (1891). Chroniques d'Orient.