Yianni Hadjiloizou

The field at Frangissa, about 3 km south-east of Pera, where Max Ohnefalsch-Richter found an Apollo sanctuary in October 1885 belonged to Yianni Hadjiloizou. Ohnefalsch-Richter, then digging at Tamassos for Falkland Warren, came on the site on 4 October and wrote to Charles Watkins, who sent £10 to hire the land. On 5 October he drew up a contract with the owner, named in the text quoted from the Cyprus Herald of 9 January 1886 as "Yoannui H. Loizi Argyre": 182 piastres for four months' digging, from 1 October 1885 to 1 February 1886, with the holes to be filled in afterwards. Christophi Christodoulos, the villager who had first shown Ohnefalsch-Richter the site, arranged the meeting and witnessed the contract².

Warren then made Ohnefalsch-Richter dig for him at Frangissa from 17 October. On 2 and 3 December an ante-dated contract in Warren's name was drawn up at Pera "in the presence of the landowner and the village judge"². In the Larnaca court case between Watkins and Warren the 5 October contract disappeared, Warren won, and Watkins paid the costs².

Michael Given notes that when the bilingual inscriptions from Frangissa were shown as Warren's property at the Colonial and Indian Exhibition of 1886, neither Ohnefalsch-Richter, Watkins nor Hadjiloizou was credited². Warren wrote to Newton on 1 February 1886 that he had the antiquities in Nicosia by 1 November 1885; most of the finds are now in the Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto³. Nothing else is recorded of Hadjiloizou.