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Traveller / antiquarian

Franz von Löher

fl. 1875–1889 · Germany

Bavarian writer and traveller, active 1875–1889.

Life and work

  1. 21 April 1875
    Staying at Larnaca from 21 April 1875 he visited the consul (Cesnola) and his collection and found him assembling the fragments of the Amathus sarcophagus (reported in Cypern, 1878); Masson uses this as impartial dating of the sarcophagus discovery to early 1875.

    LarnacaMasson 1990, p. 16 and n. 10Marangou 2000, p. 252

  2. 1878
    Published Cypern. Reiseberichte uber Natur und Landschaft, Volk und Geschichte (Stuttgart 1878; 3rd ed. 1879/1880 with a preface fixing the year of travel). Cobham also lists 'Kaiser Friedrich II. Kampf um Cypern' (Munich 1878).

    Masson 1990, n. 10Cobham 1908Recke 2018

  3. 1878
    Recorded that at Kouklia a tower on the highest hill was dug round and a side quarried away for treasure; Maier takes this as the Koukliotes quarrying the palatial building on Hadji Abdullah (Site KB).

    Tatton-Brown 2001, p. 72

  4. 1878
    Alleged (from local accounts) that the French deliberately destroyed the second Amathus stone vase in 1865; Fivel and Masson note the story was quickly refuted (Perrot).

    Fivel 1990, n. 11Masson 1992, p. 152 n. 124

  5. 1889
    Hogarth remarks that Von Loher never went to the Karpas and cannot be reckoned an archaeological traveller.

    Hogarth 1889

Connections

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Colleagues & contacts

Sources

  1. 1.Fr. von Löher (1878). Cypern. Reiseberichte über Natur und Landschaft, Volk und Geschichte. Stuttgart.
  2. 2.O. Masson (1990). “Cesnola à Amathonte, 1874-1875”. Cahiers du Centre d'Études Chypriotes 13, 15-18.
  3. 3.Léon Fivel (1990). “Le second vase d'Amathonte”. Cahiers du Centre d'Études Chypriotes 13. Online
  4. 4.O. Masson (1992). “Diplomates et amateurs d'antiquités à Chypre vers 1866-1878”. Journal des Savants, 123-154.
  5. 5.A. G. Marangou (ed.) (2000). The Consul Luigi Palma di Cesnola 1832-1904: Life and Deeds.
  6. 6.Veronica Tatton-Brown (ed.) (2001). Cyprus in the 19th Century AD: Fact, Fancy and Fiction. Oxford, Oxbow.
  7. 7.C. D. Cobham (1908). Excerpta Cypria: Materials for a History of Cyprus. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press. Online
  8. 8.M. Recke (2018). Like Herrings in a Barrel: Max Ohnefalsch-Richter.
  9. 9.D. G. Hogarth (1889). Devia Cypria. London.