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Gregori Haji Lambrou

fl. 1902–1905 · Cyprus

Active 1902–1905.

Life and work

  1. 1902
    The second Lambousa treasure was found at Karavas (Dalton: early summer 1902; Stylianou and Stylianou via Leader: February 1902). The finders, Karavas villagers, did not report it. Stanley-Price: most of it was smuggled out of Cyprus.

    KaravasDalton 1906, p. 1Leader 2000, p. 407 and n. 7Stanley-Price 2018, p. 17

  2. 9 March 1905
    Gregori Haji Lambrou v. W. Rees Davies as King's Advocate decided by the Supreme Court of Cyprus on 9 March 1905 (Cyprus Law Reports 6, 110-121). Stanley-Price cites it for the appeal against the authorities' right to confiscate, under the 1874 law, the small part of the second Lambousa treasure that was seized. Dalton, who read his paper on 30 March 1905, says the finders and their friends sued the Government for illegal detention of the seized part, claiming heirlooms; they won, the Government appealed and obtained a reversal, so the seized treasure stayed in the island.

    NicosiaStanley-Price 2018, p. 17; p. 22Dalton 1906, p. 2

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Disputes & the law

Sources

  1. 1.Nicholas Stanley-Price (2018). “Illicit excavation: the trial of Alessandro Palma di Cesnola in Cyprus in 1878”. The Antiquaries Journal 98, 297-317.
  2. 2.Supreme Court of Cyprus (1905). “Gregori Haji Lambrou v. W. Rees Davies as King's Advocate, 9 March 1905”. Cases decided by the Supreme Court of Cyprus on appeal, The Cyprus Law Reports 6, 110-121. Nicosia, Government Printing Press.
  3. 3.Ormonde M. Dalton (1906). “A second silver treasure from Cyprus”. Archaeologia 60, 1-24. Online
  4. 4.Ruth E. Leader (2000). “The David Plates Revisited: Transforming the Secular in Early Byzantium”. The Art Bulletin 82, 407-427. College Art Association. Online