Ancient CyprusAncient Cyprus

Collector

Mr. Beugniot

fl. 1887

Collector, active in 1887.

Life and work

  1. by 1887
    Said that a gold finger-ring with a lion-hunt scene had been found in Cyprus; the Golitzin family acquired it from his collection; it passed from the Golitzin collection to the Hermitage in 1887.

    Karageorghis & Bukina 2005, cat. H 55

Connections

1 person

Sales, gifts & bequests

Colleagues & contacts

Objects

  • Gold finger-ring, engraved bezel with a lion, a hero and a woman fighting it, Cypro-Phoenician, 6th century BCE (?), diam. 3 cm

    From Cyprus (according to Beugniot; no more precise place)State Hermitage Museum Oriental Department 6652by 1887Karageorghis & Bukina 2005, cat. H 55

Sources

  1. 1.V. Karageorghis, O. Bukina (2005). Ancient Cypriote Art in Russian Museums. A. G. Leventis Foundation.