Rescue excavationDepartment of Antiquities
Amathus: Department secondary excavations in the west necropolis and at Ayios Tychonas, 1980–1981
1980–1981 · Amathus
The Department of Antiquities excavation in 1981 of six Cypro-Geometric III tombs at Mandres, Ayios Tychonas, under D. Christou, exposed by road levelling and holding gold plaques with Hathoric heads.
The project
In 1981 the Department of Antiquities, under Demos Christou, excavated six Cypro-Geometric III tombs at Mandres, Ayios Tychonas, about 200 m south of the village and 1000 m north of the Amathus acropolis; levelling for the new Nicosia–Limassol road had exposed them1. The finds from the tombs are numbered CS. 2634–26391. They include Phoenician Bichrome imports, a White Painted III amphora 34.5 cm high, a bronze mace-head, an iron spearhead, four rectangular gold plaques with repoussé Hathoric heads, bronze bowls, bronze fibulae and glass-paste beads1. The report states that the material was then in the Nicosia Museum and was to be transferred soon to the Limassol Museum1. Symons summarises the tombs in his survey of Archaeology in Cyprus, 1981–852.
Directors and team
Directed by
- Demos Christou1980–1981
Institutions
- Department of Antiquities of CyprusSponsor
- Archaeological Survey, Department of AntiquitiesPartner
Seasons
2 seasons- 1980June (printed 1989, evidently 1980)
Open circular structure containing a small shrine(?), and a rectangular platform with a mud-brick pyre, late Archaic, partly exposed by levelling for tourist development; probably a large religious building.
Directed by D. Christou[1]
- 1981
Six Cypro-Geometric III tombs found during road levelling: Phoenician Bichrome imports, a White Painted III amphora, bronze mace-head, iron spearhead, gold Hathoric plaques, bronze bowls and fibulae.
Directed by D. Christou[2]
What was found
Periods
Features and finds
circular structure; platform with mud-brick pyre.
Tombs
CS 2634–2639
Publications
2 itemsChronique des fouilles (Bulletin de correspondance hellénique)
Related
Other fieldwork at Amathus · 14
- Amathus: Cesnola's tomb clearance1874–1876
- Amathus: Ohnefalsch-Richter's excavation of four tombs1885
- Amathus: the British Museum (Turner Bequest) excavation1893–1894
- Amathus: the Swedish Cyprus Expedition necropolis survey1930
- Amathus: Department of Antiquities necropolis and town rescue, 1959–19791959–1979
- Amathus: Department excavations on the acropolis slope and the Early Christian basilica, 1960–19611960–1961
- Amathus: Department clearance of the small basilica, 1965–19661965–1966
- Amathus: Department excavations of the lower city, agora and east necropolis (Loulloupis)1972–1987
- Amathus: the French School at Athens mission1975–today
- Amathus: Department necropolis rescue and east necropolis excavation, 1980–1986 (Ino Nicolaou)1980–1986
- Amathus: survey of the territory of the kingdom, 1988–19911988–1991
- Amathus: Department excavation of the lower town (Palea Lemesos), 1991–20061991–2006
References
- 1.V. Karageorghis, 1982, Chronique des fouilles et découvertes archéologiques à Chypre en 1981, Bulletin de correspondance hellénique 106.
- 2.D. J. Symons, 1986, Archaeology in Cyprus, 1981–85.