Landowner
Saparilla
fl. 1880 · Ottoman
Ottoman landowner, active in 1880.
Life and work
- April 1880Marble Artemis group found by quarrymen in his garden at Larnaca Skala; offered first to a Frenchman resident on Cyprus, then taken to Vienna and sold
LarnacaReinach 1891, p. 174Ohnefalsch-Richter 1893, p. 309Merrillees 2016
Objects
Marble statue group of Artemis leaning on her own idol, h. 0.80 m, Hellenistic study of a Praxitelean original, found April 1880
From Larnaca Skala, garden of Saparilla(s)/TsaparillasKunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna1880Reinach 1891, p. 174Ohnefalsch-Richter 1893, p. 309-310Myres & Ohnefalsch-Richter 1899Merrillees 2016
Sources
- 1.Salomon Reinach (1891). Chroniques d'Orient.
- 2.Max Ohnefalsch-Richter (1893). Kypros, the Bible and Homer. London, Asher & Co.. Online
- 3.J. L. Myres, M. Ohnefalsch-Richter (1899). A Catalogue of the Cyprus Museum. Oxford, Clarendon Press.
- 4.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