ABSTRACT
Interest in the funerary monuments of Hospitaller Rhodes is not new: nineteenthcentury travellers published a number of finds. Discoveries before World War II, when Rhodes was under Italian occupation, added considerably to our knowledge, but little information has appeared since to show that more can be said on the subject. However, not all the Italian finds had been published; and the ruins left behind by the war have yielded more material. Since the 1970s, new evidence has been emerging from systematic excavation. Also, in the 1990s, the conventual church of the Knights was revisited by archaeologists.1 The site has not been exhausted, but the data now available can supplement nineteenth-century engravings.2 It is thus time, I believe, to bring together what we now know of the matter.
