Christofis Christodoulou

Christofis Christodoulou made his mark on an affidavit in Limassol in June 1884 that disputes how the "Curium Treasure" of Luigi Palma di Cesnola was found. It was translated for him by Theodore E. Maurogordato, who certified it on 26 June, and the mark was certified on 27 June 1884¹. In it he gives his village as Scia, near Dali, and says he dug near Episkopi for a year together with Theocharis Koutsocheros¹.

Christofis states that the richest tomb lay in the plain east of the mosaic hill, near the old church of Agios Armoenis. He says that he, and not Theocharis, found it first, after a man called Savas from Pyrga had noticed the rock-cutting and left it. He describes three chambers, never four, and says that Cesnola was away for nearly the whole of the work and never went down into the tomb¹. He also says that objects shown in Cesnola's book came from other tombs, among them a cart that he found elsewhere^1,4.

The statement was addressed to Max Ohnefalsch-Richter. It was published in L'Homme on 25 March 1885 and added to W. J. Stillman's report¹. Olivier Masson found that it agrees with Theocharis's statement on the essentials, but differs on who made the discovery and on whether the tomb had three chambers or four². Cesnola's own account gives four⁴. Given cites him as an example of workers who enter the record only when competing parties use them⁵. Nothing is recorded of him after 1884.