ExcavationDepartment of Antiquities
Arsos: Ohnefalsch-Richter's investigations
Arsos
Max Ohnefalsch-Richter's undated nineteenth-century investigations at Arsos, near Athienou, which produced figures he identified as Geryon, two late Greek inscriptions and a bronze man-and-bull group in the Louvre.
Map of Cyprus
Where the work took place
- Ground above 200, 500, 1,000 m
Site
- 1Arsos (approx.)
The project
Max Ohnefalsch-Richter investigated a temenos outside the village of Arsos in the Mesaoria, near Athienou, about a century before Connelly's 1988 study of the site1. Connelly distinguishes his work from Markides's single season in 19171. Connelly reports that he found fragments of figures that he identified as Geryon and associated with the worship of Apollo, and that he recorded two late Greek inscriptions concerning the worship of Serapis, Isis and Anubis1. The Louvre catalogue lists a bronze cult group of a man and bull from Arsos, inventory AO 1326, labels it Late Bronze III and attributes the excavations to M. Ohnefalsch Richter2. Buchholz calls Arsos near Athienou the probable find area of that bronze3.
Directors and team
Directed by
Related
Other fieldwork at Arsos · 2
References
- 1.J. B. Connelly, 1988, Votive Sculpture of Hellenistic Cyprus.
- 2.A. Caubet, A. Hermary, V. Karageorghis, 1992, Art antique de Chypre au Musée du Louvre: du Chalcolithique à l'époque romaine.
- 3.Hans-Günter Buchholz, 1999, Ugarit, Zypern und Ägäis: Kulturbeziehungen im zweiten Jahrtausend v.Chr..