Ieronymos K. Peristianis

Ieronymos Peristianis (1870-1931) published the Geniki Istoria tes Nesou Kyprou in Nicosia in 1910, a history of Cyprus that criticised Cesnola and reproduced a note on the first Lambousa treasure^1,3. His surname is also spelt Peristianes, and his initials appear as I. K. or I. C. in different sources⁵.

The note was from his friend Claude Delaval Cobham and described the treasure that the duc de Dino bought in March 1897 from G. A. Mozeras of Larnaca; R. S. Merrillees identifies it as the earliest publication of the treasure's route⁴. Lilia Marangou counts him among the first Cypriot critics of Luigi Palma di Cesnola. According to her, he had read Cesnola and Ohnefalsch-Richter, accused both of misinterpreting the history of Cyprus, and repeated Cesnola's own statement that he opened 15,000 tombs at Idalion, which he called the greatest plundering⁶.

He also worked in the field of inscriptions. His copy of the Kourion syllabic rock inscription reached the Cyprus Museum on 5 October 1917, and Terence Bruce Mitford judged it better than the copy M. Markides had sent in 1914⁵. In 1912 he collected two inscribed objects at Ormideia, one a silver plaque with a stag in relief naming the artist Agathokreon, which he published in Kypriaka Chronika in 1927^2,7.