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Soli Pezoullia
19/3According to information, it is in this field that the Roman Aphrodite statue was found, which is now in the museum in Nicosia. The statue was found during ploughing, quite close to the surface, in the upper (eastern) parts of the field, in the vicinity of a field wall. The find of course spurred the farmers on to new digging in the same place, which can also be seen from from the appearance of the earth surface. Near a mulberry tree in the middle of the field, digging has also been carried out, which is visible from afar since the earth on the surface here is mixed with white stones and mortar. According to several people's accounts, this field has been used on several occasions as a stone quarry. To the west the field is bounded by a high wall (modern) which in turn rests on the old town wall, laid of innermost walled unhewn stones … continues
65 figures hard to readstruck struck outadded written in above” jug ditto, and what it repeatsword reading not certain