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Traveller / antiquarian

Domingo Badia y Leiblich

1767–1818 · Spain

Spanish traveller.

Life and work

  1. 4 March 1806 – 12 May 1806
    Stayed in Cyprus, travelling as the Muslim 'Ali Bey el Abbassi'; visited Limassol, Nicosia, Larnaca, Kouklia, Yeroskipou, Paphos and Amathus, writing up ruins.

    CyprusCobham 1908Abbassi 1816

  2. 1806
    At Kouklia had the first plan and two elevations of the Temenos wall drawn (Maier); described the Cuclia 'palace' (manor) whose Greek farmer was absent, and sent him a description of nearby antiquities.

    KoukliaMaier 2004Abbassi 1816

  3. 1806
    Recorded at Amathus that of the two giant vases one was 'almost entirely destroyed' (as quoted by Fivel and Masson).

    AmathusFivel 1990

  4. 1806
    At Larnaca his affairs were handled by Demetrio Franiondi, vice-consul of England and Russia and consul of Naples.

    LarnacaAbbassi 1816

  5. 1814–1816
    Voyages en Afrique et en Asie 1803-1806 (Paris 1814); English translation Travels of Ali Bey (1816).

    Paris/LondonTatton-Brown 2001, n. 14Abbassi 1816

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Fieldwork & employment

Colleagues & contacts

Sources

  1. 1.Ali Bey el Abbassi (1816). Travels of Ali Bey in Morocco, Tripoli, Cyprus, Egypt, Arabia, Syria, and Turkey, between the years 1803 and 1807. London, Longman.
  2. 2.C. D. Cobham (1908). Excerpta Cypria: Materials for a History of Cyprus. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press. Online
  3. 3.F. G. Maier (2004). Guide to Palaipaphos (Kouklia). Nicosia, Bank of Cyprus Cultural Foundation.
  4. 4.Léon Fivel (1990). “Le second vase d'Amathonte”. Cahiers du Centre d'Études Chypriotes 13. Online
  5. 5.Jacques Foucart-Borville (1985). “La correspondance chypriote d'Edmond Duthoit (1862 et 1865)”. Cahiers du Centre d'Études Chypriotes 4, 3-60. Online
  6. 6.Veronica Tatton-Brown (ed.) (2001). Cyprus in the 19th Century AD: Fact, Fancy and Fiction. Oxford, Oxbow.