Ancient CyprusAncient Cyprus

Critic / journalist

George Chacalli

1859–1908 · Cyprus

Lawyer.

Life and work

  1. 1902
    In Cyprus under the British Rule (Nicosia 1902) wrote that Cyprus had been robbed of many antiquities, that Cesnola's finds were sold to the Metropolitan Museum 'for a large amount of money', that others exported antiquities after the English occupation without British administrative measures to stop it, that under the 1874 Ottoman regulations a third of finds went to the government, finder and landowner each, and that government's share was stored in a house in Nicosia as the government had always refused to fund a museum.

    NicosiaMarangou 2000, p. 360 ; p. 379 n. 23

Sources

  1. 1.A. G. Marangou (ed.) (2000). The Consul Luigi Palma di Cesnola 1832-1904: Life and Deeds.
  2. 2.G. Chacalli (1902). Cyprus under the British Rule. Nicosia.