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Chytroi: Nicolaou's excavation of the Cypro-Geometric cemetery (1962)

Name: Chytroi: Nicolaou's excavation of the Cypro-Geometric cemetery (1962)
Start: 1962
End: 1962

1962 · Chytroi

Kyriakos Nicolaou's 1962 excavation of a Cypro-Geometric cemetery at Chytroi, from whose Tomb 2 nine pottery samples were later analysed.

Map of Cyprus

Where the work took place

Ground above 200, 500, 1,000 m

Site

1Chytroi

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

The project

In 1962 Kyriakos Nicolaou excavated a Cypro-Geometric cemetery at Chytroi¹. Jones cites the excavation report as RDAC (1965), 30ff.¹. He reports the analysis of nine pottery samples from Tomb 2, dated to Cypro-Geometric I-III (1050–700 BC): eight White Painted and one Grey Polished¹. None of the nine was assigned to a group in the multivariate compositional classification¹.

Directors and team

Directed by

Kyriakos Nicolaou1962

Institutions

Department of Antiquities of CyprusSponsor

Other fieldwork at Chytroi · 2

References

1.R. E. Jones, 1986, Greek and Cypriot Pottery: A Review of Scientific Studies, Fitch Laboratory Occasional Paper 1, The British School at Athens.

Sources

1.Greek and Cypriot Pottery: A Review of Scientific Studies, p. 316.