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Foreman · Workman

Georgios

fl. 1927–1930 · Cyprus

Cypriot foreman and workman, active 1927–1930. Excavated at Stylli. Worked with Erik Sjöqvist and Georgis.

Life and work

  1. 1927–1931
    Photographed with Georgis and Erik (Sjöqvist) as 'skeleton enthusiasm in a tomb at Agios Iakovos'.

    Agios IakovosGjerstad 1980

  2. 1929
    Short, choleric foreman at the Karpassos camp set up by Erik Sjöqvist's party after Lapithos; ran the work, directed Turkish workmen from Galinoporni and Korovia, hunted fish and crabs, and was 'a great story-teller, very nimble but hunched and bowed from all his grave-digging'. Gjerstad's play 'kingdom of World's End' made him 'king'.

    KarpassosGjerstad 1980

  3. 1930
    As foreman, blew the whistle for dinner at the Stylli rock-tomb excavation where the Crown Prince of Sweden dug Archaic vases beside Sjöqvist.

    StylliGjerstad 1980

Connections

2 people

Colleagues & contacts

Sources

  1. 1.E. Gjerstad (1980). Ages and Days in Cyprus.