Ancient CyprusAncient Cyprus

Traveller / antiquarian

Ludwig Tschudi

fl. 1519 · Switzerland

Swiss traveller, active in 1519.

Life and work

  1. 1519
    Swiss pilgrim passing through Cyprus on the way to the Holy Land; independently of the Venetian Francesco Attar (c. 1540), identified the ruins at Couvoucle/Kouklia as the sanctuary of the Paphian Aphrodite, whereas medieval pilgrims had located it at Kato Paphos (Saranda Kolones).

    KoukliaMaier & Karageorghis 1984, p. 16, n. 3Maier 2004Tatton-Brown 2001

  2. 1519
    Claimed to have seen a number of massive towers on top of a hill in the centre of Nea Paphos; Mlynarczyk takes these to be the towers of Saranta Kolones, while Vörös thinks they were the surviving columns of the temple.

    Nea PaphosPapuci-Władyka 2020

Sources

  1. 1.F. G. Maier, V. Karageorghis (1984). Paphos: History and Archaeology. 383 pp.. Nicosia, A. G. Leventis Foundation.
  2. 2.F. G. Maier (2004). Guide to Palaipaphos (Kouklia). Nicosia, Bank of Cyprus Cultural Foundation.
  3. 3.Veronica Tatton-Brown (ed.) (2001). Cyprus in the 19th Century AD: Fact, Fancy and Fiction. Oxford, Oxbow.
  4. 4.E. Papuci-Władyka (ed.) (2020). Interdisciplinary Research of the Jagiellonian University in Nea Paphos UNESCO World Heritage Site (2011-2015): First Results.
  5. 5.L. Tschudi (1606). Reiss und Bilgerfahrt zum Heyligen Grab. Rorschach.