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Étienne de Lusignan

fl. 1572–1580 · Cyprus

Dominican friar, historian and chorographer, active 1572–1580.

Life and work

  1. 1573
    Published at Bologna the Chorograffia, et breve historia universale dell'isola de Cipro principiando al tempo di Noè per in sino al 1572 (title as given in City of Gold; Cobham's Excerpta Cypria prints 'Cliorograffia et breve Historia universale delV Isola de Cipro per il R. P. Lettore Fr. Stefano Lusignano di Cipro delV Ordine de' Predicatori, small 4to, Bologna, 1573').

    BolognaChilds et al. 2012Cobham 1908

  2. 1573
    In the Chorograffia he records tomb-digging at Kouklia: 'si ritrovano molte anticaglie, et cose preciose nelle sepolture di essi antichi ... non è da quattro anni, over sei, che hanno trovato un Rè quasi intiero'. Maier calls this the earliest unambiguous record of digging at Couvoucle and notes that Lusignan does not expressly mention the sanctuary.

    KoukliaMaier 1997, p. 128Maier 2004

  3. 1573
    According to Life and Deeds, he notes in the Chorograffia that the first organised excavations in Cyprus were made under Venetian rule.

    Marangou 2000, p. 27

  4. 1580
    A later French-language/Paris work 'Lusignan 1580' is cited by City of Gold and by Balance of Empires (fol. 31v) for the same author; title not seen.

    Childs et al. 2012Stewart et al. 2014

On Ancient Cyprus

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Sources

  1. 1.S. Lusignano (1573). Chorograffia, et breve historia universale dell'isola de Cipro principiando al tempo di Noè per in sino al 1572. Bologna.
  2. 2.W. A. P. Childs (ed.), J. S. Smith (ed.), J. M. Padgett (ed.) (2012). City of Gold: The Archaeology of Polis Chrysochous, Cyprus. Princeton, Princeton University Art Museum.
  3. 3.C. D. Cobham (1908). Excerpta Cypria: Materials for a History of Cyprus. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press. Online
  4. 4.F. G. Maier (1997). “A hundred years after Hogarth: Digging at Aphrodite's Sanctuary at Palaipaphos”. Cahiers du Centre d'Études Chypriotes 27, 127-136. Online
  5. 5.F. G. Maier (2004). Guide to Palaipaphos (Kouklia). Nicosia, Bank of Cyprus Cultural Foundation.
  6. 6.A. G. Marangou (ed.) (2000). The Consul Luigi Palma di Cesnola 1832-1904: Life and Deeds.
  7. 7.C. A. Stewart (ed.), T. W. Davis (ed.), A. Weyl Carr (ed.) (2014). Cyprus and the Balance of Empires: Art and Archaeology from Justinian I to the Coeur de Lion. CAARI / ASOR.
  8. 8.Léon Fivel (1990). “Le second vase d'Amathonte”. Cahiers du Centre d'Études Chypriotes 13. Online