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Archaeology in Cyprus, 19531

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 December 2013

A. H. S. Megaw
Affiliation:
Nicosia

Extract

There was no excavation in Neolithic or Chalcolithic sites, but a notable event was the publication of the report by P. Dikaios on his excavations in the mainly pre-pottery settlement at Khirokitía, in which he reviews the relationship and chronology of the cultures preceding the Early Cypriot. A new site of the Erimi stage was located at Palaiómylos near Ayios Thomas by surface finds, including a headless andesite idol of fiddle shape, now in the Limassol Museum.

Bronze Age

Further material from the Kafkála cemetery between Dhenia and Akaki reached the Cyprus Museum through confiscation of pottery looted in the south area, where the tombs are relatively small and poorly furnished. It includes some good red polished II and III and also black polished pottery. With the sponsorship of the Department of Antiquities and the assistance of Mr. G. R. H. Wright of the British Institute of Archaeology in Ankara, Mr. Justice Griffith-Williams undertook the excavation of two of the large looted tombs in the north part of the cemetery. These proved to be Middle Cypriot, and yielded large quantities of fragmentary but restorable white painted pottery. A small intact Early Cypriot II tomb group was excavated in the south area as part of the same operation. At Onísia near Dikomo a Middle Cypriot cemetery was brought to light by cultivation and one tomb with typical furniture, including some bronze weapons, was excavated by the Department.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © The Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies 1954

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References

2 Khirokitia, final report on the excavation of a Neolithic settlement in Cyprus. Oxford, 1953.

3 Antiquity XXVII, 103 ff. and pl. IV.

4 ILN, 5th September, 1953, 342; Antiquity XXVII, 233 ff.

5 ILN, 2nd May 1953, 710 f.

6 Cf. JHS XVII, 152 ff.

7 Cf. those in Myres' tomb 56, ibid. 158.

8 Cf. BSA XXXIV, 49, Nos. Y. 16 and 17.

9 On the 1952 campaign see ILN, 18th April, 1953, 613 ff.

10 Johansen, K. F., Weihinschiften aus dem Nymphenheiligtum des Kafizin Hügels, Kypros. Copenhagen, 1953.Google Scholar

11 Discussed by Hill, in BMC, Cyprus, xliii.Google Scholar

12 JHS XII, 196, No. 53.

13 Ibid. 117–118.

14 Ibid. 108.

15 Cf. Journal of the Walters Art Gallery IX, 69 ff.