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Traveller / antiquarian

F. Faber

fl. 1483 · Germany

Dominican friar, active in 1483.

Life and work

  1. 25 June 1483
    On his second pilgrimage to the Holy Land, came off the harbour of Paphos on 25 June 1483 and saw the 'mount of Venus' near it; per Cobham he had left Ulm on 14 April 1483 and touched Cyprus again on his return on 7 November.

    PaphosCobham 1908, pp. 36-37

  2. 1483
    Mention of a 'Venus hill' near a seaport is cited by the Paphos Agora Project history chapter as the traveller 'F. Faber' of 1483, with no agreement whether it was Fanari Hill.

    Nea PaphosPapuci-Władyka 2020, pp. 118-119

Sources

  1. 1.C. D. Cobham (1908). Excerpta Cypria: Materials for a History of Cyprus. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press. Online
  2. 2.E. Papuci-Władyka (ed.) (2020). Interdisciplinary Research of the Jagiellonian University in Nea Paphos UNESCO World Heritage Site (2011-2015): First Results.