Dhenia: Department of Antiquities rescue recoveries, 1961–1985

Directed by

• Sophocles Hadjisavvas1985

• Department of Antiquities of CyprusSponsor

1. 1961

   Site touched by looters; Red-on-White pottery like Troulli, andesite mortars and pestles, bowls and a jar; presented as a new Neolithic Ib site. Fragments of painted pottery assignable to Neolithic IB found in a looters' pit at a site known for its Bronze Age cemetery.

   [1], [2]

2. 1965

   Rescue operations by the Archaeological Exploration Section in half-looted tombs of the prehistoric cemetery: a large Red Polished bowl with bucranium relief in the regional Dhenia style and a White Painted III jug.

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3. 1966

   Sherds collected from looted Early Bronze Age tombs allowed vases to be restored: a double-spouted incised askos, a zoomorphic-spout askos, a tube-spouted jug and an incised ridged jug.

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4. 1976

   Half-looted tomb in a known cemetery: many Plain White Wheelmade jugs, 'fruit-stands' and other local Late Cypriot II vases; one jug has an incised sign on the handle. Half-looted tomb with a gold diadem with repousse shields, a Mycenaean IIIB pilgrim flask, a fragmentary Mycenaean quadruped, other Late Cypriot II vases, ivory box fragments and a bronze knife.

   [5]

1. 1.V. Karageorghis, 1962, Chronique des fouilles et découvertes archéologiques à Chypre en 1961, Bulletin de correspondance hellénique 86.
2. 2.P. Dikaios, 1962, Archaeology in Cyprus, 1959–61, Archaeological Reports 8.
3. 3.V. Karageorghis, 1966, Chronique des fouilles et découvertes archéologiques à Chypre en 1965, Bulletin de correspondance hellénique 90.
4. 4.V. Karageorghis, 1967, Chronique des fouilles et découvertes archéologiques à Chypre en 1966, Bulletin de correspondance hellénique 91.
5. 5.V. Karageorghis, 1977, Chronique des fouilles et découvertes archéologiques à Chypre en 1976, Bulletin de correspondance hellénique 101.