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Dealer · Landowner

Martin Westorf

fl. 1882–1900

Dealer and landowner, active 1882–1900. Dealt at Nicosia. Sold to Badisches Landesmuseum Karlsruhe; worked with R. Hesse and Max Ohnefalsch-Richter.

Life and work

  1. 1880s
    Ohnefalsch-Richter excavated for Charles Newton at Achna 'near the estate of M. Westorf'; in the Kypros text, site No. 11 near Achna is described as 'not distant' from 'Vrisudi, the property of Mr. M. Westorf' (the site examined 1882).

    AchnaBuchholz 1989Ohnefalsch-Richter 1893, p. 12

  2. 1895
    Ohnefalsch-Richter was in contact with the antiquities dealer Westorf in Nicosia, from whom some pieces in Karlsruhe come.

    NicosiaBuchholz 1989

  3. 1900
    Karlsruhe bought Cypriot antiquities from Martin Westorf in Nicosia, through R. Hesse in Nicosia.

    NicosiaRecke 2012

Connections

2 people

Colleagues & contacts

Sources

  1. 1.H.-G. Buchholz (1989). “Max Ohnefalsch-Richter als Archäologe auf Zypern”. Cahiers du Centre d'Études Chypriotes 11-12, 3-27.
  2. 2.Max Ohnefalsch-Richter (1893). Kypros, the Bible and Homer. London, Asher & Co.. Online
  3. 3.Matthias Recke (2012). “Deutschland und das antike Zypern. Beiträge zur Geschichte einer archäologischen Disziplin”. Cahiers du Centre d'Études Chypriotes 42.