ExcavationDepartment of Antiquities

Ayia Napa-Makronisos: Department excavation of the cemetery

Name: Ayia Napa-Makronisos: Department excavation of the cemetery
Start: 1989
End: 1990

1989–1990 · Ayia Napa-Makronisos

The Department of Antiquities' winter 1989/1990 excavation on the Makronisos peninsula, where 19 rock-cut tombs were used from the Early Hellenistic period, some into the 4th or 5th century AD.

Map of Cyprus

Where the work took place

Ground above 200, 500, 1,000 m

Site

1Ayia Napa-Makronisos

Modern coastline (OpenStreetMap) and relief (Copernicus DEM).

The project

In the winter of 1989/1990 the Department of Antiquities excavated a cemetery on the Makronisos peninsula, about 6 km west of Ayia Napa, at Ayia Napa-Makronisos¹. Carstens reports 19 rock-cut tombs facing east or southeast, used on average from the Early Hellenistic period until the 2nd century AD, with at least six still in use in the 4th or 5th century AD¹. Fragments of terracotta sarcophagi were found in a number of the tombs, and Carstens says the type may have been produced in northern Galilee or Cilicia¹.

Directors and team

Directed by

Sophocles Hadjisavvas

Institutions

Department of Antiquities of CyprusSponsor

References

1.A. M. Carstens, 2006, Cypriot chamber tombs, Panayia Ematousa II: Political, Cultural, Ethnic and Social Relations in Cyprus. Approaches to Regional Studies.