"Welcome, Sir, to Cyprus": The Local Reaction to American Archaeological...

Near Eastern Archaeology;  March 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ......foreign diplomats, including Luigi Palma di Cesnola and his brother Major Alessandro Palma di Cesnola, the consul and vice-consul respectively...the first four years when Luigi Palma di Cesnola was active), there were no prohibitions...

Of Cows, Copper, Corners, and Cult: The Emergence of the Cypriot Bronze...

Near Eastern Archaeology;  March 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ......antiquarian activities of Louis Palma di Cesnola, one of the most controversial and flamboyant...Today there is a tendency to denigrate di Cesnola's methods of "excavation" that lacked...his own discoveries (Alien 1999)! Both di Cesnola and Schliemann should be judged by the...

Palaeolithic mollusc exploitation at Riparo Mochi (Balzi Rossi, Italy):...

Antiquity;  December 1, 1999 ;     700+ words ......1998b; Leroi-Gourhan 1961; Mellars 1989; Otte 1990; Palma di Cesnola 1993; White 1982). This study explores an important branch...technique. (Sources: Bietti 1990; Hedges et al. 1994: 347; Palma di Cesnola 1993.) The long Upper-Epi-Palaeolithic sequence of Riparo...

IN OUR PAGES: 100, 75 AND 50 YEARS AGO1904: Greek Chariot in New York

International Herald Tribune;  March 24, 2004 ;     92 words ......or seven centuries before Christ, is in the Metropolitan Art Museum, New York, for which it was purchased by General L.P. di Cesnola in Paris last spring. Archaeologists have been aware of the chariot's whereabouts, but a protest in Rome was the first that...

REPUBLIC OF CYPRUS: Excavations at Idalion, Lower City, completed.

M2 Presswire;  September 22, 1998 ;     248 words ......Archaeological Expedition under the direction of Dr. Pamela Gaber. The excavations works continued this year at Adonis Temenos on the East Acropolis, an outdoor sanctuary or sacred grove , where the consort of the Great Goddess was worshipped. The excavations also brought...

Art: when more is absolutely more.

Philadelphia Inquirer (Philadelphia, PA);  May 13, 2007 ;     700+ words ......through the hands of several Italian owners and dealers before it was bought in 1903 by the museum's first director, Luigi Palma di Cesnola. Italian officials claim that the chariot left Monteleone illegally, and they want it back. This probably isn't going to happen...

President Clerides inaugurates four new galleries of Cypriot art in the...

M2 Presswire;  April 5, 2000 ;     442 words ......Cypriot art exhibits, stored in the vaults of the Museum. The exhibits were exported from Cyprus by the US Consul Luigi Palma di Cesnola between 1865 and 1876. The Cypriot galleries will host some 600 of the finest works from the Museum's collection comprising...

Fence Post.(News)(Letter to the Editor)

Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL);  July 29, 2005 ;     700+ words ......who helped the future president draft the Declaration of Independence. During the Civil War, there were Gens. Luigi Palma di Cesnola, Bancroft Gherardi and Francis Spinola. In the last century, Americans of Italian descent made up the largest ethnic contingent...

Surveying Late Antique Cyprus

Near Eastern Archaeology;  March 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ......site, owing in part to its very visible location along the coastal road between Larnaka and points east. Even Luigi Palma di Cesnola, the famous archaeological adventurer of the late-nineteenth century conducted excavations at the site, which sat on the route...

THE TIMELESS SHOCK OF THE OLD

The Record (Bergen County, NJ);  April 30, 1999 ;     700+ words ......berobed, blank-eyed figures with jutting beards -- that were the pride of the museum's first director, General Luigi Palma di Cesnola. The Greek art could be found in adjacent and upstairs galleries that had none of the visibility or polish of the museum's...

Temple of beauty learning: the new Greek and Roman galleries at the...

Apollo;  May 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ......mission got off to a rather bizarre start in the 1870s, when it acquired much of the Cypriot art collection of Luigi Palma di Cesnola, Italian expatriate, Civil War officer and American consul in Cyprus (Fig. 2). (3) At a time when the Harvard professor Charles...

Cyprus reclaims. (the Kanakaria mosaics)

The Economist (US);  August 12, 1989 ;     371 words ......000 bronze age and classical pieces stored in the Metropolitan Museum in New York city. They were collected by Luigi Palma di Cesnola, the American consul at Larnaca when Cyprus was under Ottoman rule, who later became a director of the Metropolitan Museum...

FIRST LADY LAURA BUSH DELIVERS REMARKS AT THE NATIONAL ITALIAN- AMERICAN...

Political Transcript Wire;  October 12, 2007 ;     700+ words ......the Axis powers. (Applause.) During the Civil War, one of the early Medals of Honor went to a Turin native named Luigi Palma di Cesnola. Reflecting Italian Americans' broad achievements, this Union soldier later became the first director of New York's Metropolitan...

FIRST LADY SPEAKS AT NATIONAL ITALIAN AMERICAN FOUNDATION LUNCHEON

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  October 12, 2007 ;     700+ words ......the Axis powers. (Applause.) During the Civil War, one of the early Medals of Honor went to a Turin native named Luigi Palma di Cesnola. Reflecting Italian Americans' broad achievements, this Union soldier later became the first director of New York's Metropolitan...

Tiffany treasures

Tribune-Review/Pittsburgh Tribune-Review;  October 12, 2006 ;     700+ words ......section, "Time Is the Measure of All Things," is divided into two parts: "From the Past," which includes works suggestive of the ancient Mediterranean world such as "Tel El Amarna" vases and "Cypriote" vessels honoring Luigi Palma di Cesnola's e