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Molfessis was born in Athens in 1925. In 1942 he enrolled at The School of Fine Arts, Athens, where he studied under Constantinos Parthenis, Dimitris Biskinis and Epaminondas Thomopoulos. He graduated in 1946. Simultaneously (from 1942 to 1944), he studied Law at the Aristotle University, Athens. He then studied the Byzantine Art of Northern Greece

The Graves/?? ??????????? ??????? is one of the prints from ?Les Editions Pol. Georghiou, ile de Chypre?. It is hand signed and titled in red ink by the artist. The original work (oil on wood, 150.5 X 74.5, 1958) is part of the collection of the gallery of Archbishop Makarios III Foundation. By the end

Claude Delaval Cobham was the district commissioner at Larnaka from 1878 until his retirement. He became one of the leading antiquarians on Cyprus and was he was one of the first scholars to attempt to systematize the study of the island’s documentary history with the publication of this book.

In 1863 Lang was appointed manager of the Imperial Ottoman Bank in Larnaca. During his time in Cyprus, he also served as Acting Vice-Consul of Cyprus and as full Consul from 1871 until his departure for Cairo in 1872, to run the bank?s operations there

Sir Ronald Storrs was the Governor of Cyprus between 1926 and 1932Bryan Justin O?Brien was the assistant secretary to the government of Cyprus

Thomas Sandwith was the British Vice-Consul on Cyprus between 1865 and 1870.

Palma di Cesnola after a military career in both Europe and the American Civil War was appointed American consul in Cyprus in 1865. During the next few years, he amassed an unrivalled collection of Cypriot antiquities through extensive excavations and by purchase. At the time a number of antiquarians from various European countries were beginning