Nikolidhes and Ayios Sozomenos: Ohnefalsch-Richter for the Berlin Museum (1894)

In 1894 Max Ohnefalsch-Richter excavated the necropolis of Ag. Sozómenos and the settlement and necropolis of Nikolides for the Prussian Secretary of State for Public Instruction, for the Berlin Museum.¹ Nikolides lay four miles north of Dali, and the necropolis at Ayios Sozomenos half a mile north of the village.¹ Myres and Ohnefalsch-Richter, in the Catalogue of the Cyprus Museum of 1899, say that Nikolides may be the Ag. Nikolaos mentioned by Ceccaldi, without establishing the identification.¹

The catalogue characterizes the Ag. Sozómenos cemetery material as very late Bronze Age, with Mykenaean vases and a transition toward the Graeco-Phoenician period, and assigns Nikolides to the same period.¹ It lists Nos. 103, 104 and 106 from Tomb I at Ag. Sozomenos, and objects from Tombs V and VII at Nikolides, and says for each that the remainder of the tomb group was in the Berlin Museum.¹ A terracotta figurine from Nikolides Tomb V is listed among the objects in the Cyprus Museum as C.M. 464.¹