Ancient CyprusAncient Cyprus

Traveller / antiquarian

René Delaporte

fl. 1913 · France

French traveller, active in 1913.

Life and work

  1. 1913
    Published L'île de Chypre. Séjour de 3 ans au pays de Paphie-Vénus (Grenoble and Paris), after three years on the island; Tatton-Brown's contributor quotes him (pp. 13, 89) on British administration and the neglect of ancient monuments, predicting the Nicosia ramparts would disappear.

    CyprusTatton-Brown 2001Merrillees 2016

Sources

  1. 1.R. Delaporte (1913). L'île de Chypre. Séjour de 3 ans au pays de Paphie-Vénus. Grenoble and Paris.
  2. 2.Veronica Tatton-Brown (ed.) (2001). Cyprus in the 19th Century AD: Fact, Fancy and Fiction. Oxford, Oxbow.
  3. 3.Robert Stuart Merrillees (2016). “Studies on the provenances of the stele of Sargon II from Larnaca (Kition) and the two so-called Dhali (Idalion) silver bowls in the Louvre”. Cahiers du Centre d'Études Chypriotes 46, 349-386. Online