Marcello Cerruti

Marcello Cerruti, of Corsican origin, was Sardinian consul at Larnaca from 1844 to 1847¹. Ludwig Ross counted him and Jacob Mattei among his "dear and obliging friends" there, and Cerruti showed him a manuscript chronicle and a map of the interior on which he was working³. Ross called him an eager archaeological amateur, and Kerr's report of 1845 says Cerruti had found sixty tomb inscriptions of the Crusader and Lusignan period¹.

When Louis de Mas Latrie stayed in Cyprus in 1845 and 1846, he and Cerruti had small excavations made at Dali, and Mas Latrie gave the finds to the Cabinet des Médailles in Paris². Mas Latrie also used the manuscript itinerary of "MM. Marcel et Louis Cerruti, 1844-1847"². Merrillees reports that Cerruti is said to have dug around Amathus and Paphos, and that he had an unenviable reputation for breaking inscribed stones in the hope of finding treasure inside; he names no document for the latter¹. Cerruti and Mattei also wrote to Ross about the stele of Sargon found at Larnaca¹.

In March 1847 Cerruti gave a series of Cypriot antiquities to the museum of antiquities in Turin¹.