Larnaca Tympanum

[2] On 27 April 1892, Augustus Pitt Rivers purchased the sculpture at auction and transferred it to his private museum in Dorset.

The Annunciation has drawn particular attention due to the twisted column with serpent heads that is placed between Mary and Archangel Gabriel.

[5] George Hill published the sculpture in his History of Cyprus and saw in it "a work of the Frankish period combining, in true Cypriote fashion, a Byzantine scheme with late details.

"[6] This view was reassessed by Michael D. Willis who compared the sculpture to work in Tuscany and assigned the piece to early part of the thirteenth century.

IX C. Enlart, L'art gothique et de la Renaissance en Chypre, Paris, 1899, vol.

(Cambridge: University Press, 1940–52) Adrian J. Boas, Crusader Archaeology: The Material Culture of the Latin East (London; New York: Routledge, 1999), incorrectly recording the sculpture as still in Farham in Dorset.