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Landowner

M. Hermitte

fl. 1760–1780 · France

Merchant at Larnaca, active 1760–1780. Lived at Larnaca (house called 'the three cypresses').

Life and work

  1. 1760–1789
    Inhabited the house called 'the three cypresses' at Larnaca; in its garden four sepulchral chambers of different sizes were laid open. The passage appears beside the 1766 discovery of sarcophagi by Zambelli's masons, but gives no date for the garden finds.

    LarnacaMariti 1909

Sources

  1. 1.Giovanni Mariti (1909). Travels in the Island of Cyprus. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press.