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Katydhata, Linou and Skouriotissa: Department tomb excavations

Name: Katydhata, Linou and Skouriotissa: Department tomb excavations
Start: 1989
End: 1989

1989 · Katydhata

Pavlos Flourentzos's excavation of Tomb 5 at Linou-Ayii Saranta, a Middle Cypriot tomb that held a hoard of bronze objects, published in 1989.

Map of Cyprus

Where the work took place

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

Sites

1Katydhata (approx.)
2Linou-Ayii Saranta (approx.)
3Skouriotissa (approx.)

Modern coastline (OpenStreetMap) and relief (Copernicus DEM).

The project

Tomb 5 at Ayii Saranta, near Linou, held a hoard of diversely shaped bronze objects¹. The National Guard found the tomb in "excavations" at their camp, and Pavlos Flourentzos excavated it¹. Linou-Ayii Saranta lies south-east of the village of Katydhata¹.

Swiny (1989) dated the metal objects to a late phase of the Middle Cypriot period¹. Flourentzos (1989, 62) observed that Tomb 5 appeared to be part of a looted necropolis¹. He published several tombs from Linou in 1989, in "A group of tombs of Middle Bronze Age date from Linou", a chapter in Paul Åström's Katydhata. A Bronze Age Site in Cyprus¹.

Directors and team

Directed by

Institutions

Department of Antiquities of CyprusSponsor

Other fieldwork at Katydhata · 2

Katydhata-Linou: Ohnefalsch-Richter's excavations1883–1885
Katydhata and Laonarka: Markides's tomb excavations1915–1916

References

1.Michael Given et al., 2013, Landscape and Interaction: The Troodos Archaeological and Environmental Survey Project, Cyprus. Volume 2: The TAESP Landscape.

Sources

1.Landscape and Interaction: The Troodos Archaeological and Environmental Survey Project, Cyprus. Volume 1: Methodology, Analysis and Interpretation, p. 323.