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Palma di Cesnola family

fl. 2006

Heir and donor, active in 2006. Gave to Museo di Antichità.

Life and work

  1. 2006

    1. Kept Alessandro Palma di Cesnola's collection of Cypriot inscriptions and objects in Florence until the family's last descendant, his grandson, gave it to the Museo di Antichità in Turin in 2006.

      Philippa M. Steele, Syllabic Writing on Cyprus and its Context (2013), p. 7

    2. Preserved the Palma di Cesnola collection of Cypriot inscriptions in Florence until its 2006 donation to the Turin museum by the family's last descendant.

      Rethinking some alphabetic and syllabic Cypriot inscriptions (2013), p. 7

  2. Undated

    n.d.

    1. Owned lot of considerable number of items donated to Museum of Antiquities by grandson

      Luca Bombardieri; Elisa Panero, Cyprus: Crossroads of Civilizations (2021), p. 28

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Sources

  1. 1.Philippa M. Steele, Syllabic Writing on Cyprus and its Context (2013).
  2. 2.Rethinking some alphabetic and syllabic Cypriot inscriptions (2013).
  3. 3.Luca Bombardieri; Elisa Panero, Cyprus: Crossroads of Civilizations (2021).

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