Ancient CyprusAncient Cyprus

Collector · Donor

N. P. Lanitis

fl. 1954–1965 · Cyprus

Company director, Limassol, active 1954–1965. Collected at Limassol. Lent to Limassol District Museum.

Life and work

  1. 1954
    Collection placed on permanent loan to the Limassol District Museum (CVA 1965). The BCH 1958 chronicle reports a "collection prete au Musee" by Mr and Mme P. Lanitis, noting a Classical-style terracotta head (21 cm, Hellenistic adaptation of the Apollo Lykeios type?) as its most important object.

    LimassolKarageorghis 1965, p. 8Karageorghis 1959

  2. 1965
    Collection published as section V of CVA Cyprus 2 (Private Collections I) by V. Karageorghis; Proto-White-Painted vases the most important, pl. 40; findspots thought to be the Limassol district, probably Kourion.

    Karageorghis 1965, p. 8

Connections

1 person

Scholarship

Colleagues & contacts

Objects

  • Collection lent to the museum: Cypriot pottery of all periods, Hellenistic and Roman glass, Hellenistic terracottas, terracotta head h. 21 cm

    Limassol District Museum1954Karageorghis 1959Karageorghis 1965, p. 8

Sources

  1. 1.V. Karageorghis (1965). Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum, Cyprus 2: Cyprus, Private Collections I. Department of Antiquities, Cyprus.
  2. 2.V. Karageorghis (1959). “Chronique des fouilles et découvertes archéologiques à Chypre en 1958”. Bulletin de correspondance hellénique 83.
  3. 3.Giampaolo Graziadio. The Earliest Production of Aegean-Type Pottery in Cyprus.