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Obergespan Siegmund von Ormös

fl. 1877–1884

Collector, active 1877–1884. Bought from Consul Lambertenghi.

Life and work

  1. 1877
    Owned Cypriot terracottas, including six female idols, three archaic heads, a Pan head, an ephebe head with laurel wreath, a female head and 19 small vases, which came from the Cesnola collection through Consul Lambertenghi (1877).

    Archaeologisch-epigraphische Mittheilungen aus Oesterreich (1877)

  2. 1877
    Owned Cypriot terracottas, including three archaic heads, a Pan head, an ephebe head with laurel wreath, a female head and 19 small vases, from the Cesnola collection (1877).

    Archaeologisch-epigraphische Mittheilungen aus Oesterreich (1877)

  3. 1877
    Obergespan and society president at Temesvár whose small art collection held Roman and Cypriot antiquities in 1877; its Cypriot terracottas came from the Cesnola collection through Consul Lambertenghi.

    Archaeologisch-epigraphische Mittheilungen aus Oesterreich (1877)

  4. 1877
    His private collection at Temesvár contained paintings, tapestries and Roman and Cypriot antiquities in 1877.

    Archaeologisch-epigraphische Mittheilungen aus Oesterreich (1877)

  5. 1884
    Owned Cypriot terracottas formerly in the Cesnola collection, received through Consul Lambertenghi: six female idols, archaic heads, vases and a painted horse, published in 1884.

    Archaeologisch-epigraphische Mittheilungen aus Oesterreich-Ungarn (1884)

  6. Undated
    Owned a group of Cypriot terracottas from the Cesnola collection, six female idols, a votive horse, a dove, three archaic heads, Pan figures and an Apollo head, acquired through Consul Lambertenghi.

    Archaeologisch-epigraphische Mittheilungen aus Oesterreich-Ungarn (1884)

  7. Undated
    Owner of a small art collection at Temesvár that included Roman and Cypriot antiquities, which the author studied as a guest at the Comitatshaus.

    Archaeologisch-epigraphische Mittheilungen aus Oesterreich (1877)

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Sources

  1. 1.Archaeologisch-epigraphische Mittheilungen aus Oesterreich (1877).
  2. 2.Archaeologisch-epigraphische Mittheilungen aus Oesterreich-Ungarn (1884).

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