Ancient CyprusAncient Cyprus

Collector · Critic / journalist

N. Kl. Lanitis

1872–1958 · Cyprus

Politician. Collected at Kourion. Bought from shop in Limassol.

Life and work

  1. 1899
    Published 'To erotima gia tis kypriakes archaiotites' (The question of the Cypriot antiquities), arguing the objects should stay on the island.

    Marangou 2000, p. 145, p. 372

Connections

1 person

Colleagues & contacts

Objects

  • Funerary cippus of Demetrios son of Eisias, 0.65 m high, said to come from Kourion; first copied by S. Menardos in a Limassol shop, later in Lanitis's possession (Mitford, Inscriptions of Kourion no. 149)

    From Kourion (said)1910–1971Mitford 1971

Sources

  1. 1.A. G. Marangou (ed.) (2000). The Consul Luigi Palma di Cesnola 1832-1904: Life and Deeds.
  2. 2.T. B. Mitford (1971). The Inscriptions of Kourion. Philadelphia, American Philosophical Society.