Ancient CyprusAncient Cyprus

Collector

Toska von Bissing

Baroness Toska Mary Ronimunde Alice Wanda von Bissing

1911–1961 · United Kingdom

British collector. Collected at Boghaz. Sold to Cyprus Museum; bought from George Basil Palma.

Life and work

  1. May 1937
    Bought gold beads in Boghaz from George Basil Palma, according to Department of Antiquities file 24/37.

    BoghazMerrillees 2014

  2. 1952
    Sold to the Cyprus Museum by purchase three oblong Late Bronze Age gold beads and a Hellenistic gold bead that had belonged to the Palma collection, no provenance, unpublished.

    Merrillees 2014

Connections

1 person

Sales, gifts & bequests

Objects

  • Three oblong gold beads (one four-sided, two of soldered globules), Late Bronze Age, and a Hellenistic gold bead

    Cyprus Museum CM 1952/VIII-20/2 [a]-[d]1952Merrillees 2014

Sources

  1. 1.Robert Stuart Merrillees (2014). “George Basil Palma, Chemist and Collector of Cypriote Antiquities in Famagusta, Cyprus, in the 20th Century A.D.”. Cahiers du Centre d'Études Chypriotes 44. Online