Ancient CyprusAncient Cyprus

Traveller / antiquarian

Basil Stewart

fl. 1904–1908 · United Kingdom

British traveller, active 1904–1908. Lived at Cyprus.

Life and work

  1. 1904–1906
    Englishman living in Cyprus; later published My Experiences of the Island of Cyprus (London, 1906 per Marangou's bibliography).

    CyprusMarangou 2000, p. 359 ; bibliography

  2. 1906
    My Experiences of the Island of Cyprus. Quoting Sir Samuel Baker, he departed from Baker's praise of Cesnola and wrote that Cesnola and his contemporaries dug as "treasure seekers" for the antiquities market rather than scientifically, so that knowledge of the ancient cities was "principally a matter of guess-work".

    LondonMarangou 2000, p. 359

  3. 1908
    Listed, with H. Rider Haggard (1901) and George Jeffery (1904), among visitors who complained of the dilapidated first Cyprus Museum in Victoria Street, Nicosia (the authors cite Merrillees 2005 for this).

    NicosiaStylianou-Lambert & Bounia 2016

On Ancient Cyprus

1 page

Sources

  1. 1.A. G. Marangou (ed.) (2000). The Consul Luigi Palma di Cesnola 1832-1904: Life and Deeds.
  2. 2.B. Stewart (1906). My Experiences of the Island of Cyprus. London.
  3. 3.T. Stylianou-Lambert, A. Bounia (2016). The Political Museum: Power, Conflict, and Identity in Cyprus.