Ancient CyprusAncient Cyprus

Landowner

Mehemet Halofta

fl. 1889–1890 · Ottoman

Ottoman landowner, active 1889–1890. Sold to John Arthur Ruskin Munro.

Life and work

  1. 1889
    An unnamed 'respectable blind Turk' owned most of the coveted 'Kaparga' ground at Polis (negotiations opened); later in the same season 'our old acquaintance the blind Turk' owned a wheat field east of site A, partly excavated in 1886-7, which the Fund judged too dear to excavate. Identified with Halofta by the later 'old friend the blind Turk' wording.

    Polis tes ChrysochouMunro & Tubbs 1890

  2. 1890
    After hard bargaining ('not to be hurried into a bargain'), let his field in the western necropolis at Polis to J. A. R. Munro for the Cyprus Exploration Fund, payment being by the number of shafts sunk. Munro had first taken a courtyard bordering the south end of the field, where one tomb yielded two Attic lecythi of the finest style. Twenty-four tombs were opened in the western necropolis (fifty-six in the eastern).

    Polis tes ChrysochouMunro 1891

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Sales, gifts & bequests

Sources

  1. 1.J. A. R. Munro (1891). “Excavations in Cyprus, 1890: Third Season's Work: Polis tes Chrysochou”. Journal of Hellenic Studies 12, 298-330.
  2. 2.J. A. R. Munro, H. A. Tubbs (1890). “Excavations in Cyprus, 1889: Second Season's Work: Polis tes Chrysochou; Limniti”. Journal of Hellenic Studies 11, 1-99.