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Savvas

d. 1879 · Cyprus

Cypriot finder. Lived at Pyrga.

Life and work

  1. by 1875
    According to the affidavit of Christofis Christodoulou (Limassol, 26-27 June 1884; L'Homme, 25 March 1885), 'originally the first sign of a tomb's cutting in the rock was found by the man Savas from the village of Pyrga'. The spot 'was left by Savvas. He said there is no tomb.' Christofis then came, 'understood there must be a tomb', dug a larger hole and reached the tomb's road: the rich three-chamber tomb of the 'Curium Treasure' in the plain near the church of Agios Armoenis.

    near EpiskopiMarangou 2000, p. 340

  2. 1885
    Given (2025) summarises the same testimony: Christofi says most of the 'Treasure' came from a tomb on the plain close to the church of Ayios Ermoyenis, which was originally found by Savas from Pyrga.

    Given 2025, p. 42

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Colleagues & contacts

Sources

  1. 1.A. G. Marangou (ed.) (2000). The Consul Luigi Palma di Cesnola 1832-1904: Life and Deeds.
  2. 2.Michael Given (2025). “Over the landscape, in the landscape? Knowledge and agency in Cypriot archaeology, 1870-1910”. Empire & Excavation: Critical perspectives on archaeology in British-period Cyprus, 1878-1960. Leiden, Sidestone Press.