Analiondas-Palioklichia: surface survey, 1992–1993

Jennifer M. Webb and David Frankel examined the surface of Analiondas-Palioklichia intensively in 1992–93, during the second season of excavations at Marki, and counted the visible material in 10 × 10 m squares in January 1993¹. The site covers about 8,000 m² and its surface was dominated by pithos fragments, querns, rubbers, grinders and fragmentary limestone vessels; the densest pithos concentration, up to 210 sherds per square, lay in the western part¹. They recorded 207 stone artefacts¹. Webb and Frankel assign the pithos types to Late Cypriot IIC and identify a 13th-century BC agricultural production and storage centre. They propose that it was a support village within the political orbit of the Ayios Sozomenos cluster¹. The representative collection was returned to the site, except an impressed pithos fragment, CM 1993/I-20/1, lodged in the Cyprus Museum¹. They published the survey in 1994 in the Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology¹.