“New Ideas about the Destruction of Paphos,” D. Soren and E. Lane 1980David Soren and Eugene Lane

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Footnotes

1. The authors wish to thank Dr. Vassos Karageorghis for his support of the investigations of the Sanctuary of Apollo at Kourion. We thank also Dr. A. Papageorghiou for critical comments which inspired further research, and the Cyprus Geological Survey (Dr. J.P. Neophytou and others) for their spirit of international cooperation.

2. George H. McFadden, "Sanctuary of Apollo at Kourion," _University of Pennsylvania Museum Bulletin 8,4 October 1940 p.28. Among popular writers, Kevork K. Keshishlian, Romantic Cyprus (Nicosia: Printco, 1980) p. 79 states that the earthquake came in 350 A.D. and destroyed Kourion but no quakes are cited for Paphos before 395 A.D. The monthly tourist review Touristica Cyprria 59 1979 p.5 also puts the quake at Kourion at 350 A.D.

3. See David Soren, "Earthquake: The Last Days of Kourion," in the forthcoming monograph UCLA Archaeological Monograph Series 1980 (Publication of the 1979 Cyprus Symposium at the University of Missouri). For an overview see Diana Buttron and David Soren, "Excavations at the Sanctuary of Apollo Hylates," Archaeology Vol. 33, no. 2 1980 p.57.

4. Richard Stillwell, "Kourion: The Theater," _Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society_ 105 No. 1 1961 p. 78

5. Special thanks to Dr. Roger Edwards of the University of Pennsylvania for the numismatic information. For the skeletons see J.F. Daniel in the UMB 4,5 January 1935 p. 12 with additional comment by McFadden, UMB 1940 p.28.

6. The Gymnasion, located across the street from the entry to the snack bar (peripteron) of the city of Kourion, is being excavated by Mr. Demos Christou of the Department of Antiquities. Mr. Christou reports that he is in agreement with the dating of the quake at Kourion to 370 A.D.

7. N.N. Ambraseys, The Seismic History of Cyprus (London: University of London, 1965) p.6