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Colonial official

Ernest McDonald

fl. 1902–1906 · United Kingdom

British colonial official, active 1902–1906. Worked at Kyrenia.

Life and work

  1. 1902
    As Acting Commissioner of Kyrenia, took 'energetic action' after the Government learned the Karavas finders were negotiating with Paris dealers: the houses of the suspects were suddenly surrounded and searched by police, and the part of the find described by Dalton was seized (five silver dishes, three of them David scenes and two plain with niello monograms; gold earrings, necklaces and other jewellery; four gold solidi). The larger part had been placed beyond reach and reached Paris.

    KaravasDalton 1906, p. 1Dalton 1906Dikaios 1961, p. 164Leader 2000, p. 407

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Sources

  1. 1.Ormonde M. Dalton (1906). “A second silver treasure from Cyprus”. Archaeologia 60, 1-24. Online
  2. 2.P. Dikaios (1961). A Guide to the Cyprus Museum. Nicosia, Department of Antiquities.
  3. 3.Ruth E. Leader (2000). “The David Plates Revisited: Transforming the Secular in Early Byzantium”. The Art Bulletin 82, 407-427. College Art Association. Online