Katherine (Kinga) Palma

Katherine Palma, known as Kinga, sold the Cyprus Museum the gold pomegranate pendant from her father's collection. She was one of the six children of the Famagusta chemist George Basil Palma and his wife Marie. She later married Costas Antoniades, and the family remembered her as an English teacher. After her father died without a will in April 1952, she and her husband lived in the family house in Hercules Street until 1974¹.

At the time of the death Kinga, her mother and her sister Daphne were in Cyprus. A brother came out, and a granddaughter writes that "he and Kinga took quite a few things"¹. Family tradition held that she sold much of the collection without consulting the others; Merrillees reports this as family recollection, and Vyvian Wilson, who held the same view, had no first-hand information¹.

The Cyprus Museum's accession records name her as "Miss C. Palma of Famagusta". In 1953 she sold the Museum more than 30 coins and a ring bezel (CM 1953/II-5/1-34) and presented a bronze coin of Heraclius struck in Cyprus in AD 627 (CM 1953/III-9/4)¹. In 1954 she sold about 78 small jewels, mostly gold earrings and beads (CM 1954/I-23/1), and the gold pomegranate pendant, bought "from the collection of the late George Palma of Famagusta" (CM 1954/III-24/1). None of these pieces came with a findspot. A. H. S. Megaw thought the pendant came from Enkomi¹. Her date of death is not recorded.