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Traveller / antiquarian

Lorenzo Warriner Pease

fl. 1834–1839 · United States

Missionary, active 1834–1839. Lived at Larnaca. Received gifts from Antonio Vondiziano.

Life and work

  1. 1834–1839
    Served as a missionary in Cyprus; his diaries were later edited by R. C. Severis (2002).

    CyprusMerrillees 2016

  2. 21 November 1838
    Given a guided tour by Antonio Vondiziano of the ancient cemetery with sarcophagus burials in the garden of his Larnaca house; two sarcophagi above ground had been opened and their grave goods removed, and Vondiziano gave Pease one of them, a tear bottle.

    LarnacaMerrillees 2017

  3. 23 November 1838
    Shown around the ruins of ancient Kition by Paul Vondiziano (a nephew of Antonio, per Merrillees).

    KitionMerrillees 2017

  4. 1839
    Diary notes at Larnaca: Corinthian and other capitals built into St Lazarus or lying outdoors from an ancient temple near the windmills; pieces of an aqueduct near the windmills; extent of the ancient wall; stones being dug up at Phaneromeni for repairing a church. Merrillees uses these to locate the find-spot of the Sargon stele.

    LarnacaMerrillees 2016

Connections

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Sales, gifts & bequests

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Sources

  1. 1.Robert Stuart Merrillees (2016). “Studies on the provenances of the stele of Sargon II from Larnaca (Kition) and the two so-called Dhali (Idalion) silver bowls in the Louvre”. Cahiers du Centre d'Études Chypriotes 46, 349-386. Online
  2. 2.Robert S. Merrillees (2017). “Cypriote antiquities in Late Ottoman Istanbul and Smyrna - II: Cypriote antiquities in the Greek Evangelical School Museum and their Trading in Late Ottoman Smyrna (Modern Izmir)”. Cahiers du Centre d'Études Chypriotes 47, 121-164. Online
  3. 3.Michael Given (2025). “Over the landscape, in the landscape? Knowledge and agency in Cypriot archaeology, 1870-1910”. Empire & Excavation: Critical perspectives on archaeology in British-period Cyprus, 1878-1960. Leiden, Sidestone Press.
  4. 4.Benjamin Costello IV (2014). Architecture and Material Culture from the Earthquake House at Kourion, Cyprus. Oxford, Archaeopress.
  5. 5.L. W. Pease (2002). The Diaries of Lorenzo Warriner Pease, 1834-1839: an American missionary in Cyprus and his travels in the Holy Land, Asia Minor and Greece. Aldershot, Ashgate.
  6. 6.D. Buitron, A. Oliver (1988). “Lorenzo Warriner Pease, American Missionary in Cyprus 1834-1839”. Report of the Department of Antiquities, Cyprus, 287-291.