Ambelikou: Dikaios's Department work at Aletri, Theotokos and Ayios Georghios (1942)

A pottery workshop with a kiln and two moulds for copper axe-heads came out of the Middle Cypriot I settlement at Ambelikou-Aletri, cleared in 1942.^1,2 Merrillees reports that Porphyrios Dikaios partially cleared the settlement at Ambelikou Choma tis Galinis during the Second World War, and that the uncovered area included a potter's workshop with a primitive kiln.^1,2 The 2013 monograph credits Kakoulis Georghiou with the site photographs of 1942 and Elias Markou with the drawing of the site plans.¹

Merrillees identified the occupation as Middle Cypriot I, although White Painted wares were absent. Besides the workshop he reported two copper axe-head moulds, a terracotta crucible with a copper slag deposit, and workshop remains associated with smelting and collected slag.² He described the discovery of the pottery workshop as unique in Bronze Age Cyprus and the site as the earliest of the not very numerous instances of copper-making attested on the island.²

Webb and Frankel published the site as Ambelikou Aletri: Metallurgy and Pottery Production in Middle Bronze Age Cyprus (2013), and report that almost all the material from the excavations was located and identified in the Cyprus Museum.¹