Excavators & finders
Mavrosavvas
fl. 1900–1905
Active 1900–1905. Worked with Markos Elevtheriou and Socrates Stylianou.
Life and work
- 1903With Socrates Stylianou and Markos Elevtheriou (both of Episkopi) rifled a tomb at Kaloriziki below Kourion; they sold some finds locally and took the rest to Larnaca, to the house of his friend Constantinos Grammenopoulos, where the police caught them and confiscated two bronze tripods, the rim and handles of a bronze vase and the gold and enamel sceptre (McFadden); Given adds the finds sat in the Customs House for ten years. The objects went to the Cyprus Museum in 1912.
- 1903NamedCaught by the police in Larnaca with the loot and the finds confiscated (McFadden); no court outcome is stated in the passages read.
Connections
3 peopleColleagues & contacts
- Worked with Markos Elevtheriou1900–1905
- Worked with Socrates Stylianou1900–1903
- Connected with Constantinos Grammenopoulos1903
Sources
- 1.George H. McFadden, Erik Sjöqvist (1954). “A Late Cypriote III Tomb from Kourion Kaloriziki No. 40”. American Journal of Archaeology 58, 131-142. Archaeological Institute of America. Online
- 2.Michael Given (2025). “Over the landscape, in the landscape? Knowledge and agency in Cypriot archaeology, 1870-1910”. Empire & Excavation: Critical perspectives on archaeology in British-period Cyprus, 1878-1960. Leiden, Sidestone Press.