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Epigrapher · Traveller / antiquarian

Carlo Vidua di Conzano

fl. 1826 · Italy

Italian epigrapher and traveller, active in 1826.

Life and work

  1. 1826
    Published Inscriptiones antiquae in Turcico itinere collectae (Paris, 1826), which includes Kourion inscriptions. Mitford says the copies came from 'Vidua's unnamed authority' early in the nineteenth century, including three texts (his nos. 38, 45 and 84) from a pedestal and base in the Sanctuary of Apollo, 'in colle silvoso' about an hour west of the village of Episkopi; the pedestal was then lost until Mitford found it whitewashed in the Episkopi police station yard in 1936.

    KourionMitford 1971Cobham 1908

  2. 1826
    Costello calls Vidua's 1826 work the first appearance of Kourion in the history of archaeology: one inscription in his corpus was copied 'among the ruins of the ancient hill of Curium'.

    KourionIV 2014, p. 17

Sources

  1. 1.T. B. Mitford (1971). The Inscriptions of Kourion. Philadelphia, American Philosophical Society.
  2. 2.C. D. Cobham (1908). Excerpta Cypria: Materials for a History of Cyprus. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press. Online
  3. 3.Benjamin Costello IV (2014). Architecture and Material Culture from the Earthquake House at Kourion, Cyprus. Oxford, Archaeopress.
  4. 4.K. Vidua (1826). Inscriptiones antiquae in Turcico itinere collectae. Paris.