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Collector

Carl Anton Niessen

1830–1934 · Germany

General agent of English southern railways. Sold to Römisch-Germanisches Museum Köln.

Life and work

  1. 1934
    His collection of antiquities was acquired by the Roemisch-Germanisches Museum Koeln; the Cypriot part was only four small Archaic vases.

    CologneRecke 2012, p. 98Recke 2012, p. 111

Objects

  • Four small Archaic Cypriot vases (catalogue: 1 vase surviving, 3 war losses; deposited at the University of Cologne)

    Roemisch-Germanisches Museum Koeln1934Recke 2012, p. 98Recke 2012, p. 111

Sources

  1. 1.Matthias Recke (2012). “Deutschland und das antike Zypern. Beiträge zur Geschichte einer archäologischen Disziplin”. Cahiers du Centre d'Études Chypriotes 42.
  2. 2.“Carl Anton Niessen (1830-1934), art collector, consul (Wikidata/GND 138242100)”. Wikidata / GND. Online