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Karl Richard Lepsius

fl. 1872–1878 · Germany

Egyptologist, Berlin, active 1872–1878. Bought from Robert Hamilton Lang.

Life and work

  1. 7 March 1872
    At his request R. H. Lang selected a small collection of Cypriot pottery for the Berlin Museum; Lepsius wrote that day sorting the pottery into 'Cyprian allied to Greek' and 'Phoenician', printed in Lang 1878

    BerlinLang 1878, pp. 339-340

  2. 1878
    Sent Cesnola a photograph of the Sargon basalt stele from Larnaca (found 1846, now in Berlin) for engraving in the book

    BerlinCesnola 1878

Connections

2 people

Sales, gifts & bequests

Scholarship

Colleagues & contacts

Sources

  1. 1.R. H. Lang (1878). Cyprus: Its History, Its Present Resources and Future Prospects. London, Macmillan.
  2. 2.L. P. di Cesnola (1878). Cyprus: Its Ancient Cities, Tombs, and Temples.
  3. 3.R. S. Merrillees (2001). “T. B. Sandwith and the beginnings of Cypriote archaeology”. Cyprus in the 19th Century AD: Fact, Fancy and Fiction, 222-239. Oxford, Oxbow.