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Museum staff · Antiquities official

Yiannis Hadjisavvas

fl. 1976–1997 · Cyprus

Cypriot museum staff member and antiquities official, active 1976–1997. Worked at Nicosia (Cyprus Museum). Worked for Department of Antiquities, Cyprus; worked with Vassos Karageorghis.

Life and work

  1. 1976
    Thanked by Karageorghis as 'Mr John Hadjisavvas, Assistant Record Keeper in the Department of Antiquities', who helped with the illustrations and with technical problems in preparing the Kition book.

    NicosiaKarageorghis 1976

  2. 1983
    'Yiannis Hadjisavvas and Maria Hadjinicolaou undertook the preparation of the plates' of the Palaepaphos-Skales volume; Karageorghis also thanks the Cyprus Museum photographic section and draughtsmen (Xenophon Michael, Chrysilios Polykarpou, Elias Markou, Mary Hadjisavva) separately.

    NicosiaKarageorghis 1983

  3. 1989
    Shown the 1885 'London and Ottawa' series of photographs by H.-G. Buchholz, 'I. Hadjisavvas' recalled having seen similar prints among old archived photographs and produced a yellowed envelope holding the 'Nicosia series' (7 prints) of the Frangissa (Prangissa) photographs, which had played no part in the Museum staff's work for forty years.

    NicosiaBuchholz 1991, p. 8

  4. 1997
    Thanked by the Bank of Cyprus Cultural Foundation as 'Mr Y. Hadjisavvas, in charge of the photographic archive of the Cyprus Museum' for the Khirokitia guide by A. Le Brun.

    NicosiaBrun 1997

Connections

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Scholarship

Colleagues & contacts

Sources

  1. 1.V. Karageorghis (1976). Kition: Mycenaean and Phoenician Discoveries in Cyprus. London, Thames and Hudson.
  2. 2.V. Karageorghis (1983). Palaepaphos-Skales: An Iron Age Cemetery in Cyprus.
  3. 3.Hans-Günter Buchholz (1991). “Tamassos-Phrangissa (1885)”. Cahiers du Centre d'Études Chypriotes 16, 3-15.
  4. 4.A. Le Brun (1997). Khirokitia: A Neolithic Site. Nicosia, Bank of Cyprus Cultural Foundation.