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Landowner

Yagob Panagi

fl. 1888 · Cyprus

Cypriot landowner, active in 1888. Lived at Kouklia (Palaepaphos).

Life and work

  1. February 1888
    Named with Hadji Ephraem and the Church as owner of land on the southern part of the Temple of Aphrodite site at Kouklia, with which the Cyprus Exploration Fund bargained so that work could begin at once.

    KoukliaGardner et al. 1888

  2. February 1888
    His house enclosures occupied the west centre of the temple site; the Fund had secured the right of excavating on as much of them as was needed.

    KoukliaGardner et al. 1888

  3. 1888
    The expedition could not buy any part of his land at the north end of the south-western approach without taking his whole house at what it called an exorbitant price, so that part was trenched but not permanently cleared.

    KoukliaGardner et al. 1888

  4. 1888
    A pink inscribed fragment (Kouklia inscription no. 123) was in the wall of 'Jacob Panaji's house'.

    KoukliaGardner et al. 1888

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Colleagues & contacts

Sources

  1. 1.E. A. Gardner, D. G. Hogarth, M. R. James, R. Elsey Smith (1888). “Excavations in Cyprus, 1887-88”. Journal of Hellenic Studies 9, 147-271.
  2. 2.E. A. Gardner, D. G. Hogarth, M. R. James, R. Elsey Smith (1888). “Excavations in Cyprus, 1887-88”. Journal of Hellenic Studies 9, 147-271.