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Traveller / antiquarian · Museum buyer

Joseph Meggen

fl. 1542 · Switzerland

Swiss traveller and museum buyer, active in 1542.

Life and work

  1. 1542
    Went down into the underground tombs at Salamis where men were digging and bought from them, for gold or silver, jewellery and 'tokens of extreme antiquity'

    SalamisMarangou 2000, p. 27

Objects

  • Jewellery and 'various tokens of extreme antiquity' bought from the tomb-diggers at Salamis (necklaces, rings, gems per his account of finds)

    From Salamis1542Marangou 2000, p. 27

Sources

  1. 1.A. G. Marangou (ed.) (2000). The Consul Luigi Palma di Cesnola 1832-1904: Life and Deeds.
  2. 2.Elizabeth Sarah Goring (1983). “Late Cypriot Goldwork, vol. 1”. PhD thesis, Bedford College, University of London.
  3. 3.F. G. Maier (2004). Guide to Palaipaphos (Kouklia). Nicosia, Bank of Cyprus Cultural Foundation.
  4. 4.Veronica Tatton-Brown (ed.) (2001). Cyprus in the 19th Century AD: Fact, Fancy and Fiction. Oxford, Oxbow.