Workman

Johannes Kyriaki

fl. 1878 · Cyprus

Cypriot workman, active in 1878. Lived at Enkomi.

Life and work

  1. October 1878
    Testified at the Larnaca trial of Alessandro Palma di Cesnola for unauthorised excavation at Enkomi/Salamis. Described as a third Enkomi villager, besides Christophi Andrea and Christodoulo/Christobulo Georgi, who testified; the prosecutor called 'the three workmen from Enkomi who confirmed that excavations were supervised by Lazaris on the defendant's behalf'. The date of the trial is not read here (excavations were stopped on 2 October per the workmen's evidence).

    LarnacaStanley-Price 2018, pp. 6

Connections

2 people

Disputes & the law

Sources

  1. 1.Nicholas Stanley-Price (2018). “Illicit excavation: the trial of Alessandro Palma di Cesnola in Cyprus in 1878”. The Antiquaries Journal 98, 297-317.