Kazaphani-Mines: Dikaios's emergency excavation of the favissa

In 1934 Porphyrios Dikaios carried out an emergency excavation of a sanctuary bothros, or favissa, at the locality of Mines at Kazaphani¹. Beer gives the dates as 6 to 9 March 1934; Cassimatis describes the excavation as lasting three days^2,3.

Fourrier states that the recovered material belongs to the Archaic and Classical periods¹. She describes the terracotta figurines as a mixture of imports and local production derived from foreign models, with stylistic links to Soloi, Lapithos, Idalion and Salamis, and suggests that they point to a culturally open area whose political territory was not clearly defined¹. Beer catalogues two limestone temple-boy votives from the favissa, Kazaphani nos. 48 and 63, both under Cyprus Museum inventory number 1934/III-16/1. She dates no. 48 to the last quarter of the fifth century BC and no. 63 to 450 to 425 BC².

Cassimatis observes that the deposit can no longer be securely related to its original context, and that some notes by Dikaios remain³. Counts notes that Karageorghis later published the collections⁴.