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Erimi-Kafkalla: rescue of two looted Middle Bronze Age tombs (1999)

1999 · Erimi-Kafkalla

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Where the work took place

  • Ground above 200, 500, 1,000 m

Site

  1. 1Erimi-Kafkalla
Modern coastline (OpenStreetMap) and relief (Copernicus DEM).

Directors and team

Team

Institutions

Seasons

1 season
  1. 1999

    Two looted tombs, dated Middle Bronze Age, excavated at the locality Kaftalk. Tomb T. 2 explored during water-company works east of the Monastery of Agios Georgios Alamanou; dated Cypro-Archaic and Cypro-Classical. Finds: terracotta dog figurine (T. 2/45) and terracotta naiskos model of Bichrome type (T. 2/37).

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What was found

Periods

Features and finds

terracotta dog figurine T. 2/45; terracotta naiskos model T. 2/37.

Tombs

T. 22, T. 24, T. 25, T. 2

Publications

1 item

Chronique des fouilles (Bulletin de correspondance hellénique)

Related

Sources

  1. 1.Chronique des fouilles et découvertes archéologiques à Chypre en 1999, pp. 670–672.

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