Ancient CyprusAncient Cyprus

Collector

Heracles Skyrianides

d. 1944 · Cyprus

Cypriot collector. Lived at Limassol.

Life and work

  1. c. 1878
    Inherited the family house in Limassol, built in the early 1840s by his own grandfather (who had moved from Larnaca), and let the ground floor to the first British Commissioner of Limassol District.

    LimassolKarageorghis 2010, p. 13

  2. 1944
    On his death his 'considerable collection' was divided among his three children; the grandson's mother's share, the smallest, formed most of the objects of the Phylactou Collection.

    Karageorghis 2010, p. 13

Connections

1 person

Family

Colleagues & contacts

Sources

  1. 1.V. Karageorghis (ed.) (2010). Cypriote Antiquities in the Phylactou Collection. Nicosia, A. G. Leventis Foundation.