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Traveller / antiquarian

Johan David Åkerblad

fl. 1788–1961 · Sweden

Orientalist, active 1788–1961.

Life and work

  1. 1788
    Visited Famagusta; reported that a Trajanic marble dedication (AD 100) lay 'devant la porte de la grande Mosquée', corroborating Pococke and Turner on where the block lay

    FamagustaArchaeology in the Service…, p. 25

  2. 1961
    Subject, with Truls Kähre, of Åström's article 'Two Swedish Visitors to Cyprus' (Kypriakai Spoudai 25, 75-80), seen only as a bibliography entry

    Åström 1961, p. 19

Connections

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Colleagues & contacts

Sources

  1. 1.“Archaeology in the Service of the Domina[tion]”. 25. Online
  2. 2.P. Åström (1961). “Two Swedish Visitors to Cyprus, Truls Kähre and Johan David Åkerblad”. Kypriakai Spoudai 25, 75-80.