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Antiquities official

Safvet Pasha

fl. 1869 · Ottoman

Ottoman antiquities official, active in 1869.

Life and work

  1. 1869
    As (new) Minister of Public Education founded the first Ottoman museum, the Imperial Museum in Istanbul (Political Museum, citing Shaw 2003).

    IstanbulStylianou-Lambert & Bounia 2016

  2. 1869
    Issued a decree forbidding the export of finds, other than coins, from excavations, to build up the Imperial Museum's antiquities collection; it came as a shock to excavators. Stanley-Price places it in the context of the later 1874 Antiquities Regulation and Cesnola's exports.

    Stanley-Price 2018

Sources

  1. 1.Nicholas Stanley-Price (2018). “Illicit excavation: the trial of Alessandro Palma di Cesnola in Cyprus in 1878”. The Antiquaries Journal 98, 297-317.
  2. 2.T. Stylianou-Lambert, A. Bounia (2016). The Political Museum: Power, Conflict, and Identity in Cyprus.