Kition-Ayios Georgios: Department rescue excavations in the cemetery (1988–2005)

Thirty tombs excavated by the Department of Antiquities in the known cemetery of Ayios Georghios, on the western edge of Larnaca. Tombs range chronologically from Cypro-Archaic II to Cypro-Classical I; mainly pottery. Tomb 4 contained a terracotta boat with a figure. Tombs with Plain White Wheelmade amphorae, many faience amulets and bronze torques; notable objects include a terracotta boat with figure (T. 4/1), miniature Chios jugs (T. 5/12–13), a bronze figurine and glass pendant, and an Egyptianizing faience cylinder seal (T. 17). Entry continues from earlier pages.

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Objects from a tomb excavated in the Kition necropolis during construction works, including a Bichrome III bowl and a Phoenician Bichrome amphora (M. ΛΑ 1733, T 1/2).

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Sixteen tombs of the archaic cemetery were cleared in 2003 and 2004; one tomb contained 47 objects. The tombs held mainly undecorated pottery and bronze vessels, including a Phoenician amphora with its stopper in place, faience amulets of Egyptian deities, a terracotta bull-mask model, a Phoenician figurine of a pregnant woman and a White Painted IV oenochoe.

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Three tombs found during excavation of foundations for a building and a polyclinic at Agios Georgios. Tombs 38 and 39 (MA A 1850 and 1851) date to the Hellenistic and Roman periods; finds include clay and glass alabastra, imported Asia Minor and eastern Mediterranean amphorae, glass vessels, jewellery, a gem ring and Roman lamps. Looted Cypro-Archaic II tomb (ΜΛΑ 1860) found while digging foundations for a building in the Agios Georgios quarter; besides ordinary pottery it yielded a terracotta figurine of Ptah-Pataikos (T. 47/68), a necklace of 33 faience and ...

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