Traveller / antiquarian · Epigrapher
Carsten Niebuhr
fl. 1766 · Germany
Geometrician in Danish service, active in 1766. Worked at Larnaca. Worked with Ambarsun.
Life and work
- 1766Visited Cyprus and went to the church of St Lazarus, Larnaca, to see inscriptions Swinton had thought possibly Phoenician; took the native Parisin as interpreter; copied the characters, took them to the consul Timothy Turner, who judged them Armenian, and had them read by the Armenian Ambarsun in Mariti's presence. Mariti does not recall whether he kept the copies.
LarnacaMariti 1909, pp. 88-89
- 1766Drew a plan of the ruins between Salines and Larnaca, which Mariti, citing Niebuhr's Reisebeschreibung III, 22, accepts as ancient Citium.
LarnacaMariti 1909, p. 34
Connections
4 peopleFieldwork & employment
- Guided by Parisin1766
Scholarship
- Corresponded with Timothy Turner1766
Colleagues & contacts
- Connected with Ambarsun1766
- Met Giovanni Mariti1766
- Connected with Parisin1766
- Connected with Timothy Turner1766
- Met Timothy Turner1766
- Worked with Ambarsun
Sources
- 1.Giovanni Mariti (1909). Travels in the Island of Cyprus. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press.
- 2.Carsten Niebuhr (1837). Reisen durch Syrien und Palästina, nach Cypern u.s.w.. 20-33. Hamburg.