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Kissonerga-Mylouthkia: the Edinburgh rescue excavation before hotel construction (1989–1990)

1989–1990 · Kissonerga-Mylouthkia

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Where the work took place

  • Ground above 200, 500, 1,000 m

Site

  1. 1Kissonerga-Mylouthkia (approx.)
Modern coastline (OpenStreetMap) and relief (Copernicus DEM).

Directors and team

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Institutions

Seasons

1 season
  1. 1989

    Rescue excavation at the locality named Myloudkia, in which members of the Edinburgh mission took part. Period 3 street (empierrement) separating two sectors; ovens and a hearth in the western sector; Period 4 Late Chalcolithic buildings including building 1165 (post-holes, later oven in entrance) and building 1046 with three plastered basins; a spouted cup from chamber tomb 561; beads, obsidian and a copper pin among significant finds. Emergency excavation before construction of a hotel, south of an area already excavated. Found a deep pit (3.50 m), probably a well, with ...

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What was found

Periods

Features and finds

street/empierrement of Period 3; building 1165; building 1046 ('édifice aux citernes'); three plastered basins; Fig. 81–83; pit c. 3.50 m deep, probably a well.

Tombs

561

Publications

1 item

Chronique des fouilles (Bulletin de correspondance hellénique)

Related

Sources

  1. 1.Chronique des fouilles et découvertes archéologiques à Chypre en 1989, pp. 958–961.
  2. 2.Chronique des fouilles et découvertes archéologiques à Chypre en 1990, p. 807.

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6 mentions

Sites · 1

  • Kissonerga-Mylouthkia

    1989

    Papageorghiou 1990, pp. 958–961; Papageorghiou 1991, p. 807

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