Edward Carletti

E. A. Carletti, a Cyprus government surveyor, photographed the Frangissa sculptures in Nicosia in 1885 and drew plans for Max Ohnefalsch-Richter's excavations. Ohnefalsch-Richter calls him "E. A. Carletti, Surveyor for the Government in Kypros"⁵, while Given prints the name as Edward Carletti and describes him as a clerk in the Land Registry Office³. Buchholz calls him an Italian land surveyor². His dates of birth and death are not recorded.

Buchholz writes that Carletti drew for Ohnefalsch-Richter at the Agia Paraskevi necropolis in Nicosia in 1884/85, at Tamassos-Phrangissa in 1885 and at the Tamassos royal necropolis in 1889¹. In 1887 he measured and drew the plan of Idalion, with Ohnefalsch-Richter adding the archaeology; Ohnefalsch-Richter says Carletti was given government leave on his recommendation and that the original drawing is lost^4,5. A "Sketch Plan of Ground in the Vicinity of Ancient Tamassos" followed in 1890². According to Ohnefalsch-Richter's later account, quoted by Buchholz, the Idalion map was made without charge in the government office with Governor Henry Bulwer's permission².

In 1885 Carletti photographed the Frangissa finds in the Nicosia house of Falkland Warren, in eight group photographs; Warren had taken the sculptures from Ohnefalsch-Richter, and he sent prints to the British Museum and the National Gallery of Canada². Ohnefalsch-Richter, in an unpublished manuscript quoted by Buchholz, wrote that the sculptures were "partly badly photographed" by Carletti¹. Karageorghis records that the photographs helped identify most of the sculptures now in the Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto⁷.