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Finder · Landowner

Mustapha (of Galinoporni)

fl. 1870–1929 · Ottoman

Ottoman finder and landowner, active 1870–1929. Lived at Galinoporni.

Life and work

  1. 1880–1888
    Hogarth was told that 'some years ago' a Mustapha found a pit in his garden at Galinoporni yielding stone heads (built into his gate) and statuary fragments (in his garden); the man said A. di Cesnola had offered him 3 pounds for the digging right, which he refused, filling the pit in because its foul air put out lights. Hogarth: 'Stripped of exaggerations, the story is only that of the opening of a tomb.'

    GalinoporniHogarth 1889, p. 77 n. 1

  2. c. 1929
    Gjerstad calls 'Mustapha at Gallinoproni' the 'arch-pirate' of the poor Turkish Karpassos villagers who were, he says, 'archaeological pirates' by near necessity; describes him as short, quick, 'a thief and a rogue' with a black moustache. Gjerstad is writing of the Swedish party's Karpassos work after Lapithos.

    KarpasiaGjerstad 1980, p. 53

Connections

2 people

Colleagues & contacts

Sources

  1. 1.D. G. Hogarth (1889). Devia Cypria. London.
  2. 2.E. Gjerstad (1980). Ages and Days in Cyprus.