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Cyprus (island)

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 585 Collections and/or Records:

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Start for Mount Troodos. Officials’ Baggage, 1900

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3018G/9
Scope and Contents

152 x 107mm. Showing islanders mounted on laden donkeys for the Government's summer move up to the cool of Mount Troodos.

Dates: 1900
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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[Statue of an archer], 1900

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3018F/22
Scope and Contents

162 x 211 mm. A studio photograph of an archer (lacking head and arms) carved in archaic Cypriot style.

Dates: 1900
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Statue of Aphrodite in the Cyprus Museum Nicosia, 1965

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3018H/18
Scope and Contents

172 x 129 mm. The caption on the reverse of the photograph reads: 'Cyprus is believed to be the acknowledged birthplace of the Greek Goddess of Love and as such is recorded in Homer. A temple of the Goddess exists at Paphos and the beautiful locality Fontana Amorosa believed to be the goddess's bathing place'.

Dates: 1965
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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[Statuettes], 1881

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3018C/28
Scope and Contents

278 x 198 mm. A view showing numerous small figures, including humans, animals and models of chariots, executed in an unsophisticated style.

Dates: 1881
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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[Statuettes], 1881

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3018C/29
Scope and Contents

278 x 190 mm. A view showing numerous small figures and also steatopygus female figures.

Dates: 1881
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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[Statuettes], 1881

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3018C/41
Scope and Contents

303 x 178 mm. A view showing statues and heads carved in Hellenistic and (?) Oriental style.

Dates: 1881
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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[Statuettes], 1881

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3018C/42
Scope and Contents

282 x 199 mm. A view showing several small statuettes, carved in (?) Oriental style.

Dates: 1881
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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[Statuettes], 1881

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3018C/43
Scope and Contents

287 x 195 mm. A view showing several small statuettes carved in (?) Oriental style.

Dates: 1881
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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[Statuettes], 1881

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3018C/44
Scope and Contents

299 x 148 mm. A view showing several statuettes carved in Hellenic style.

Dates: 1881
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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[Statuettes], 1881

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3018C/45
Scope and Contents

316 x 161 mm. A view showing several statuettes carved in Hellenic style.

Dates: 1881
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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[Statuettes], 1881

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3018C/48
Scope and Contents

312 x 138 mm. A miscellaneous display of statuettes including female figures, satyrs, and a rooster.

Dates: 1881
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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[Statuettes], 1881

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3018C/49
Scope and Contents

309 x 150 mm. A view showing mainly female full-length statuettes in Hellenistic style.

Dates: 1881
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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[Statuettes], 1881

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3018C/50
Scope and Contents

310 x 149 mm. A miscellaneous display of statuettes in Hellenistic style, including female figures, animals, Hercules wrestling with a serpent and a figure of Pan.

Dates: 1881
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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[Statuettes], 1881

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3018C/51
Scope and Contents

297 x 146 mm. A miscellaneous display of statuettes in Hellenistic style, including female figures and masked figures.

Dates: 1881
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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[Statuettes], 1881

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3018C/52
Scope and Contents

315 x 160 mm. A miscellaneous display of statuettes, with figures in Hellenistic style in the foreground (including a representation of Leda and the swan), and Cypriot figures behind (including a steatopygous female and an almost abstract rendering of a mother and child).

Dates: 1881
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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[Statuettes], 1881

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3018C/53
Scope and Contents

312 x 149 mm. A display of figures in Hellenistic style including two statuettes of humans riding cockerels.

Dates: 1881
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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[Statuettes], 1881

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3018C/54
Scope and Contents

309 x 142 mm. A large display of miscellaneous figures in Hellenistic style.

Dates: 1881
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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[Statuettes and other artefacts], 1881

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3018C/55
Scope and Contents

313 x 197 mm. A large display of miscellaneous objects, including bottles and vases, and figures in Hellenistic and Cypriot style.

Dates: 1881
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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[Stele with two lions], 1900

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3018F/29
Scope and Contents

211 x 163 mm. A studio photograph of two lions seated on a piece of decorative stonework, carved in mixed Oriental-Assyrian style.

Dates: 1900
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Stewart, James Rivers Barrington, Correspondence, to AJB Wace, 1935-1937

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Reference Code: GBR/3437/AJBW/2/1/24
Scope and Contents 31 letters from Jim Stewart to Alan Wace written at the outset of the former's career, when he had recently graduated from Trinity Hall, Cambridge (B. A. 1934, Archaeology and Anthropology). Stewart had been awarded a Cambridge University Anthony Wilkin Studentship in Ethnography and Archaeology and set out from Australia thus funded to visit archaeological sites in Cyprus and Turkey. The correspondence also includes 3 sets of notes on archaeological studies Stewart made: 'Baba Koy...
Dates: 1935-1937
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Street in Limassol, Cyprus, 1908

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 8/1116
Scope and Contents

Quarter-plate (landscape format).

Dates: 1908
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Street scene

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3018E/10
Scope and Contents

209 x 158 mm. A view looking along a street in a Turkish Cypriot area, exact location unknown.

Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Summit of Mt Troödos

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3018E/4
Scope and Contents

203 x 163 mm. A view looking across pine-covered slopes towards the summit of Mt Troödos, the ancient Mt Olympus and the summer seat of the Cyprus government.

Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Talks on the Eastern Mediterranean open in London, 1955-08-29

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/COI/A/160
Scope and Contents

151 x 202 mm. Sitting behind the cards bearing the names of their respective countries are the heads of the delegations: British Foreign Secretary Mr. Harold Macmillan (left side of picture); Greek Foreign Minister, Mr. Stephan Stephanopoulos (wearing spectacles, at right of picture) and Turkish Minister of State and Foreign Affairs, Mr. Fatin Ruftu Zorlu (at front, back to camera).

Dates: 1955-08-29
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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The Abbey of Bella Paise [i.e. Bellapais], Cyprus, 1908

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 8/1184
Scope and Contents

Quarter-plate (landscape format).

Dates: 1908
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).