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The Bamboula Hill at Larnaca
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 11 October 2013
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The Bamboula Hill lies in open ground between Scala and Old Larnaca, about 100 yards north-west of the Roman Catholic Convent, and about 30 yards east of the road which runs past the front of the Convent into Old Larnaca. Another track, which diverged in 1913 from this road at the Convent, and led to the village of Livadhia, separated the Bamboula Hill site from the Bamboula Marsh, which extended nearly as far east as the carriage road from Scala to Famagusta.
The Bamboula Hill was once of much greater extent than now, and was described by old residents as having had a steep slope towards the marsh. It was on or in the Bamboula that the inscribed conquest-stele of Sargon was found in 1845, which is in the Berlin Museum.
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page 85 note 1 Zeitschr. f. Æg. Sprache IX 68–72; Oberhummer, Aus Cypern 203–21; Die Insel Cypern 1903 p. 9; Schrader, Abh. Bul. Akad. 1881.
page 85 note 2 Ausland 1879 p. 970; compare Ohnefalsch-Richter's plan, KBH CCI (which gives no recognisable landmarks) and P. 479.
page 85 note 3 Cyprus Museum Catalogue (1899) no. 5599; KBH CXCVII 1; and the Hathorstele, , KBH CC 1–3Google Scholar.
page 90 note 1 When we had been working at ‘Anastasi's Heap’ for about half a day, one of the workmen handed to me a worn Ptolemiac bronze coin, for which he received a small reward. Encouraged by this, he handed me a little later a Roman Imperial bronze coin. For this he received no reward, as it smelt strongly of tobacco. The smell of the Ptolemaic coin was not so strong, but its patina was damaged by recent wear. No other coins were offered in this part of the work, and I record these only to justify my disregard of them.
page 92 note 1 The Director of the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew writes that ‘in view of the large size of the majority of the seeds, it is probable that they are from some large-fruited variety.’
page 94 note 1 Evidently the name of the owner, [γa]thon-baal.
page 95 note 1 Full references in Oberhummer, , Die Insel Cypern, 1903 p. 9 12–13.Google Scholar