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Karmi: Kyrenia Museum rescue tombs, 1962

1962 · Karmi-Laoura

Two tombs at Karmi reported in 1962, a looted Late Cypriot tomb at Laoura and a Cypro-Archaic II tomb at Founji.

Map of Cyprus

Where the work took place

  • Main site
  • Also worked at
  • Ground above 200, 500, 1,000 m

Sites

  1. 1Karmi-Laoura (approx.)
  2. 2Karmi-Founji (approx.)
Modern coastline (OpenStreetMap) and relief (Copernicus DEM).

The project

Institutions

Seasons

1 season
  1. 1962

    Previously plundered tomb with Base Ring I-II, White Slip I-II and Mycenaean IIIB sherds and bronze pin and knife; shows a Late Cypriot cemetery at Karmi. Cypro-Archaic II tomb with small White Painted V and Bichrome V amphorae, bowls and juglets.

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What was found

Publications

1 item

Chronique des fouilles (Bulletin de correspondance hellénique)

References

  1. 1.V. Karageorghis, 1963, Chronique des fouilles et découvertes archéologiques à Chypre en 1962, Bulletin de correspondance hellénique 87.

Sources

  1. 1.Chronique des fouilles et découvertes archéologiques à Chypre en 1962, p. 38.

Mentioned in

6 mentions

Sites · 2

  • Karmi-Founji

    1962

    Karageorghis 1963, p. 38

  • Karmi-Laoura

    1962

    Karageorghis 1963, p. 38

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