Consul / diplomat · Collector
Timothy Turner
d. 1768 · United Kingdom
Levant Company officer. Consul at Larnaca.
Life and work
- 1764–1765Mediator between Turks and rebels (Khalil Agha) at Larnaca during the 1764-65 insurrection, and reported to the pasha
LarnacaMariti 1909
- 1766Niebuhr took his copies of the Larnaca (St Lazarus) inscriptions to Turner, who thought them Armenian; Mariti and the Armenian Ambarsun later agreed
LarnacaMariti 1909
- 1767A white-marble head of Caracalla found by workmen quarrying stone on the ancient city site passed into Turner's hands
LarnacaMariti 1909
- 1768Mariti records that Turner, the English consul, died in 1768 while Mariti was writing
Connections
2 peopleScholarship
- Corresponded with Carsten Niebuhr1766
Colleagues & contacts
- Connected with Carsten Niebuhr1766
- Met Carsten Niebuhr1766
- Met Giovanni Mariti1767
Objects
White marble head of Antoninus Caracalla found with Roman Greek-legend coins (KOINON KYPRION) in a stone-quarrying excavation
From ancient city site by Salines/Larnaca (Kition, inferred)1767Mariti 1909
Sources
- 1.Giovanni Mariti (1909). Travels in the Island of Cyprus. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press.