Alfred Biliotti
British archaeologist and diplomat · Academics · Lived 1833 to 1915 · aged 81
Sir Alfred Biliotti was a Levantine Italian, born on Rhodes, who became a British consular official and amateur archaeologist.
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Portrait of Charles Newton, published in 1910
An 1890 woodcut of a street in Khania, where Biliotti was based as consul on Crete
An Italian newspaper illustration from February 1897, showing Greek refugees boarding Italian warships at Candia
British Royal Marines march through Khania, as depicted in The Graphic on 6 March 1897
An 1898 portrait of Prince George of Greece, in his study as High Commissioner of Crete
Biliotti's gravestone in the Catholic cemetery on Rhodes![The Euphorbos plate, made around 600 BCE, discovered by Biliotti and Salzmann at Kameiros in 1859[83]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1e/Plate_Euphorbos_BM_GR1860.4-4.1.jpg/1280px-Plate_Euphorbos_BM_GR1860.4-4.1.jpg)
The Euphorbos plate, made around 600 BCE, discovered by Biliotti and Salzmann at Kameiros in 1859[83]Awards
About this person
Biliotti probably received little formal education, and followed his father, who had carried out consular work for the governments of Britain, Spain and Tuscany, into the British consular service in 1849. He accompanied Charles Newton, an archaeologist then working for the British Foreign Service, on an archaeological tour in 1853, beginning a relationship of patronage by which Newton supported Biliotti in a twofold career, in the consulate and in archaeology.
