Rescue excavationDepartment of Antiquities
Akhelia-Ayios Leontios: Department of Antiquities rescue excavation
1980 · Akhelia-Ayios Leontios
The 1980 rescue excavation at Ayios Leontios, near Akhelia, before the new Paphos airport: a late Roman country house with a mosaic room and a medieval complex.
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Where the work took place
- Ground above 200, 500, 1,000 m
Site
- 1Akhelia-Ayios Leontios (approx.)
The project
A late Roman country house and a medieval complex came to light at Ayios Leontios, near Akhelia, in 1980, when S. Hadjisavvas directed a rescue excavation of about 600 m² for the Department of Antiquities before construction of the new Paphos airport1. The house was represented by foundations: a rectangular room with a mosaic floor, a bath hypocaust and a kitchen1. The medieval complex had three large rectangular halls, two stables and sheds facing an inner courtyard, which Karageorghis suggested belonged to a sixteenth-century monastery1. The mosaic floor was removed and reassembled in the courtyard of the Paphos Museum1.
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Seasons
1 season- 1980
About 600 m2: late Roman country house with a mosaic room, bath hypocaust and kitchen (mosaic lifted to the Paphos Museum courtyard) and a medieval complex of three halls, stables and sheds probably from a 16th-c. monastery.
Directed by S. Hadjisavvas[1]
What was found
Periods
- Late Antique
- Medieval
Features and finds
mosaic room; hypocaust.
Publications
1 itemChronique des fouilles (Bulletin de correspondance hellénique)
References
- 1.V. Karageorghis, 1981, Chronique des fouilles et découvertes archéologiques à Chypre en 1980, Bulletin de correspondance hellénique 105.
Sources
Mentioned in
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- Akhelia-Ayios Leontios
1980
Karageorghis 1981, pp. 58–59
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- People · 1listed under Directors and team
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