Patron · Collector

Joseph Claudio Gaffiero

fl. 1920–1934

Engineer, active 1920–1934. Lived at Nicosia.

Life and work

15 December 1927
Gunnis's diary of this date is cited for police raids on private collections including Gaffiero's (n. 99); Stanley-Price names 'the engineer Gaffiero' there, citing Schaar, Given & Theocharous 1995 p. 41.
NicosiaStanley-Price 2025, n. 99
May 1932
His donation enabled Dikaios's third Vounous season (17 tombs, total 48 tombs).
Bellapais-VounousDikaios 1940, p. 3
1934
Listed from Nicosia among the subscribers to The Swedish Cyprus Expedition, vol. I.
NicosiaGjerstad et al. 1934

Connections

2 people

Sales, gifts & bequests

Financed Porphyrios Dikaios1932

Disputes & the law

Subject of testimony by Porphyrios Dikaios
Had antiquities seized by Rupert Forbes Gunnis

Colleagues & contacts

Connected with Rupert Forbes Gunnis1927
Connected with Porphyrios Dikaios1932

On Ancient Cyprus

1 page

Vounous and Early Bronze Age BurialCompendium

Sources

1.Nicholas Stanley-Price (2025). “Illicit excavation and the sale of 'duplicate' antiquities: Rupert Gunnis and the Cyprus Museum, 1926-1932”. Cahiers du Centre d'Études Chypriotes 55, 269-301. Online
2.P. Dikaios (1940). “The Excavations at Vounous-Bellapais in Cyprus, 1931-2”. Archaeologia 88, 1-174.
3.E. Gjerstad, J. Lindros, E. Sjöqvist, A. Westholm (1934). The Swedish Cyprus Expedition: Finds and Results of the Excavations in Cyprus 1927-1931, Vol. I (text). Stockholm, The Swedish Cyprus Expedition.