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Papa Petro
d. 1905 · Ottoman
Greek Orthodox parish priest. Lived at Ormideia. Worked for Luigi Palma di Cesnola.
Life and work
- 1870sPhotographed by Cesnola in his working clothes wearing a conical cap like those of the Golgoi statues; the only person illustrated in Cesnola's Cyprus (1878, 180). Cesnola took the likeness as evidence of continuity from the priests of Aphrodite.
OrmideiaHadjicosti 2001, p. 57
- 1870sBy local oral tradition, one of those who distributed goods such as flour and wheat with which Cesnola rewarded poor villagers collecting antiquities.
OrmideiaHadjicosti 2001, p. 57
Connections
1 personFieldwork & employment
- Employed by Luigi Palma di Cesnola1870
Colleagues & contacts
- Worked with Luigi Palma di Cesnolapossibly1870
Sources
- 1.M. Hadjicosti (2001). “Ormideia: tracing Cesnola's footsteps. Archaeological research and finds”. Cyprus in the 19th Century AD: Fact, Fancy and Fiction, 53-69.