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Epigrapher

Julius Euting

fl. 1875–1910 · Germany

Professor, Strassburg, active 1875–1910. Worked with Max Ohnefalsch-Richter; wrote with Wilhelm Deecke.

Life and work

  1. 1875
    Published Sechs Phoenikische Inschriften aus Idalion (Strassburg, 1875), listed in Cobham's Excerpta Cypria bibliography; Life and Deeds lists it under 'Euting, J.'

    Cobham 1908Marangou 2000, p. 381

  2. 1876
    Per Renan, German scholar Euting sent to France copies of Cypriot inscriptions that contained errors; Renan concluded there might be a forger in Cyprus (Marangou's paraphrase of Renan).

    Marangou 2000, p. 34

  3. 18 September 1886
    Received a letter from Ohnefalsch-Richter, written at Polis tis Chrysochou, proposing official German excavations at Marion by the University of Strasbourg alone or with Berlin.

    Polis tis ChrysochouSchmid 2025, p. 73

  4. 1887
    Ohnefalsch-Richter later wrote that in 1887 he informed Euting (with Sayce, Berger, Furtwangler, Conze, Doerpfeld) of the remains at Idalion (Dali) and suggested excavation.

    Schmid 2025

  5. 1887
    Cited as 'J. Euting, SBBerlin 1887, 115' for the Frangissa (Tamassos) sanctuary material.

    Buchholz 1991, n. 6

  6. 1894
    Named by Ohnefalsch-Richter as a contributor (Phoenician epigraphy) to the planned, unpublished 'Tamassos und Idalion'.

    Masson & Hermary 1988, p. 4 and n. 11

  7. 10 May 1910
    Addressed ('Dr. Julius Euting, Strassburg') in Ohnefalsch-Richter's circular announcing the Rantidi inscriptions.

    Masson 1985, p. 24

Connections

3 people
Max Ohnefalsch-RichterWilhelm DeeckeErnest RenanJulius Euting
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Sources

  1. 1.J. Euting (1875). Sechs Phönikische Inschriften aus Idalion. Strassburg.
  2. 2.C. D. Cobham (1908). Excerpta Cypria: Materials for a History of Cyprus. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press. Online
  3. 3.A. G. Marangou (ed.) (2000). The Consul Luigi Palma di Cesnola 1832-1904: Life and Deeds.
  4. 4.Stephan G. Schmid (2025). “Was there an official German interest in the archaeology of Cyprus between 1878 and 1914?”. Empire & Excavation: Critical perspectives on archaeology in British-period Cyprus, 1878-1960, 69-92. Leiden, Sidestone Press.
  5. 5.O. Masson, A. Hermary (1988). “Le voyage de Ludwig Ross à Chypre en 1845 et les antiquités chypriotes du Musée de Berlin”. Cahiers du Centre d'Études Chypriotes 9, 3-10. Online
  6. 6.O. Masson (1985). “Les visites de Max Ohnefalsch-Richter à Kouklia (Ancienne-Paphos), 1890 et 1910”. Cahiers du Centre d'Études Chypriotes 3, 19-28. Online
  7. 7.Hans-Günter Buchholz (1991). “Tamassos-Phrangissa (1885)”. Cahiers du Centre d'Études Chypriotes 16, 3-15.
  8. 8.Max Ohnefalsch-Richter (1893). Kypros, the Bible and Homer. London, Asher & Co.. Online