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Federico Sclopis di Salerano

fl. 1870–1871 · Italy

Active 1870–1871. Received gifts from Luigi Palma di Cesnola.

Life and work

  1. 12 September 1870
    Received from Cesnola a 73-page album of photographs of objects found in the temple at Golgoi, dedicated by hand 'A Sua Eccellenza Il Conte Federico Sclopis di Salerano, Cipro addi 12 Settembre 1870'; the album survives in Turin. A letter that accompanied it was lost.

    TurinMarangou 2000, pp. 96-97Tatton-Brown 2001, pp. xii-xiii

  2. 1870–1878
    Masson reports that Cesnola's letters to Sclopis were kept for a time in the Academy's Secretariat and later destroyed on an unknown date (information credited to Gustavo Vagnone).

    TurinTatton-Brown 2001, p. xii

  3. January 1871
    Cesnola's report on the discoveries in Cyprus, especially the temple of Golgoi, addressed to Sclopis as President of the Royal Academy of Sciences at Turin (signed Larnaca, January 1871); Masson says it was read before the Academy (in absentia?).

    TurinMarangou 2000, p. 219Tatton-Brown 2001, p. xii

Connections

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Sales, gifts & bequests

Objects

  • Photograph album, 73 unnumbered pages (c. 13 x 20 cm), of finds from the temple at Golgoi with Cesnola's manuscript notes; printed French title 'Antiquités de Chypre, photographies des objets trouvés dans le temple de Vénus à Golgoi'

    From GolgoiTurin (Academy of Sciences)12 September 1870Marangou 2000, pp. 96-97Tatton-Brown 2001, pp. xii-xiii

Sources

  1. 1.A. G. Marangou (ed.) (2000). The Consul Luigi Palma di Cesnola 1832-1904: Life and Deeds.
  2. 2.Veronica Tatton-Brown (ed.) (2001). Cyprus in the 19th Century AD: Fact, Fancy and Fiction. Oxford, Oxbow.