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Papa Polivios

fl. 1929 · Cyprus

Village priest, active in 1929. Lived at Mandres (Famagusta District).

Life and work

  1. 1929
    As priest of Mandres, lodged and protected the Swedish Cyprus Expedition team during the exploratory excavation near Ayios Iakovos (cult site of the Late Bronze Age, c. 1400-1350 BC, with gold finds); Gjerstad calls him 'the wrestling priest'.

    MandresGjerstad 1980, pp. 62-63

Connections

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Colleagues & contacts

Sources

  1. 1.E. Gjerstad (1980). Ages and Days in Cyprus.