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Dealer

Maurice Nahman

1868–1948

Banker. Dealt at Cairo. Sold to Roemer- und Pelizaeus-Museum Hildesheim.

Life and work

  1. 1910
    Hildesheim's Cypriot holdings are recorded as acquired in 1910 'KH Kairo durch Maurice Nahmann' (art-trade in Cairo, via Nahman).

    CairoRecke 2012, p. 110

  2. 1912
    Listed as an officially licensed antiquarian in the Baedeker guide.

    CairoThe Cairo Genizah and…, p. 77

Sources

  1. 1.Matthias Recke (2012). “Deutschland und das antike Zypern. Beiträge zur Geschichte einer archäologischen Disziplin”. Cahiers du Centre d'Études Chypriotes 42.
  2. 2.The Cairo Genizah and the age of discovery in Egypt: the history and provenance of a Jewish archive. p. 77.
  3. 3.“Maurice Nahman (1868-1948), antiquarian seller”. Wikidata. Online
  4. 4. (2004). Christie's London, 28 April 2004, lot 286, 'A Cypriot limestone head from a votive statue'. Online