Dhekelia-Vigla: Department exploration, 1961

A limestone block with graffiti across one face was found by chance while trenches were being dug at Vigla, west of the Dhekelia base, and the site was explored more systematically during 1961¹. The block measures 58.5 x 23 x 14 cm and carries a list of four ethnic names¹. Karageorghis suggests that beginners learning to write used it, citing the disordered graffiti, the unfinished words and the repeated smoothing of the surface¹. The exploration revealed traces of a settlement and several limestone heads in Cypro-Classical style, which Karageorghis took to come from a sanctuary; the sherds range from the Classical to the Byzantine period¹. The results were reported in the annual chronicle in the Bulletin de correspondance hellénique¹.