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Donor · Finder · Colonial official

Symeon Christodoulou

fl. 1945–1951 · Cyprus

Cypriot donor and finder, active 1945–1951. Gave to Paphos District Museum.

Life and work

  1. 1945
    Cyprus Forest Service official who found a marble stele fragment used as a doorstep at Polis tis Chrysochou and gave it to the Paphos District Museum in 1945.

    American Journal of Archaeology 1951-10: Vol 55 Iss 4

  2. 1945
    Found the stele fragment at Polis tis Chrysochou, serving as a doorstep, and presented it to the Paphos District Museum in 1945.

    A Fragment of a Stele from Cyprus (1951), p. 333

  3. 1951
    Of the Cyprus Forest Service; found at Polis tis Chrysochou (ancient Marion) a fragment of a marble stele with relief acroteria and the head of an elderly bald man, published in 1951.

    A Fragment of a Stele from Cyprus (1951), p. 333

Through their hands

1 record

Came from

Own excavations
Symeon Christodoulou

Went to

1945Paphos District Museum
Gift or bequestPassed onWho objects came from and went to, as the sources record it
  1. 1945

    GiftSymeon Christodoulou presented the fragment to the Paphos District Museum.

    Gave to Paphos District Museumfragment of a steleKtimaBeazley 1951, p. 333

In the field

1 record

Where they worked in the field

  • Ground above 200, 500, 1,000 m

Sites

  1. 1Marion
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Marion

  • FoundSymeon Christodoulou found the fragment at Polis tis Chrysochou.

    fragment of a steleBeazley 1951, p. 333

Mentioned in

2 mentions

Documents · 1

Institutions · 1

Sources

  1. 1.J. D. Beazley (1951). “A Fragment of a Stele from Cyprus”. American Journal of Archaeology 55, 333-336.
  2. 2.American Journal of Archaeology 1951-10: Vol 55 Iss 4.
  3. 3.A Fragment of a Stele from Cyprus (1951).

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