Ancient CyprusAncient Cyprus

Scholar · Curator

Jakov Smirnov

1869–1918 · Russia

Private tutor. Worked for State Hermitage Museum.

Life and work

  1. 1895
    Travelled to Cyprus to study early Byzantine mosaics; first monographic study of Cypriot Byzantine monuments, with original ground plans and photographs of Kiti and Kanakaria.

    CyprusStewart et al. 2014

  2. 1897
    Published 'Christian Mosaics in Cyprus' in Vizantiiskii Vremennik 4: 1-93.

    Stewart et al. 2014Cobham 1908

Sources

  1. 1.C. A. Stewart (ed.), T. W. Davis (ed.), A. Weyl Carr (ed.) (2014). Cyprus and the Balance of Empires: Art and Archaeology from Justinian I to the Coeur de Lion. CAARI / ASOR.
  2. 2.J. Smirnov (1897). “Christianskiya Mozaiki Kipra”. Vizantiiskii Vremennik 4, 1-93.
  3. 3.C. D. Cobham (1908). Excerpta Cypria: Materials for a History of Cyprus. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press. Online