Kalavasos: Dikaios's excavations at Pamboules, Kokkinoyia and Tenta

At Kokkinoyia, which he called Site A, Porphyrios Dikaios exposed eleven subterranean features, numbered I to XI, and described them as dwellings^1,2. His investigations in the Kalavasos area are reported for 1939 and 1947, with other work placed in the 1940s². They were carried out for the Department of Antiquities of Cyprus and are described as small-scale excavations and soundings³.

In 1947, Todd reports, Dikaios excavated Tenta for about two weeks, with his main area centred about 25 m south of the summit. Todd describes a wide curvilinear stone wall there and some small additional trenches³. No full report of the Tenta excavation was published; a general plan of its architecture appeared in 1960, and a photograph in the Department's archives shows the architecture at the end of the work³. Todd identifies Pamboules as Dikaios's Chalcolithic Site B, and Mari-Paliambela as a Ceramic Neolithic site where he had excavated or sounded³. The Vasilikos Valley Project survey of 1977 found no trace of Dikaios's excavation area at Pamboules after ploughing³.

Clarke compared the 1940s excavation with renewed investigations and found parallels for two of Dikaios's three types of subterranean feature^1,2. Winkelmann gives most of the features as probably not dwellings, and attributes most of the recovered pottery to the Late Neolithic, with some Early Chalcolithic material². Todd's survey distinguished the Kokkinoyia excavation area from the Pamboules sherd concentration and regarded them as discrete sites, while Winkelmann records that whether they represent two settlements or a shift in time remained unresolved^2,3.