Ancient CyprusAncient Cyprus

Landowner

Hussein Hadji Zaim

fl. 1888 · Ottoman

Ottoman landowner, active in 1888.

Life and work

  1. February 1888
    As principal landowner of Kouklia, agreed with the Cyprus Exploration Fund party the plots of land north and east of the village that seemed to contain tombs

    KoukliaGardner et al. 1888, p. 159

  2. 1888
    The excavators opened massive foundations and what appeared to be vaults or tanks in the courtyard of his house at Kouklia, where tradition said great things had once been found; they ran under the dwelling-house and could not be fully explored, and looked ancient, patched and plastered in Roman times

    KoukliaGardner et al. 1888, p. 168

Connections

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Colleagues & contacts

Sources

  1. 1.E. A. Gardner, D. G. Hogarth, M. R. James, R. Elsey Smith (1888). “Excavations in Cyprus, 1887-88”. Journal of Hellenic Studies 9, 147-271.