Clearance and early diggingBritish colonial and British Museum

Kition-Bamboula: the Government Clearance of the Harbour Hollow

Name: Kition-Bamboula: the Government Clearance of the Harbour Hollow
Start: 1879
End: 1879

1879 · Kition-Bamboula

Government works of 1879 that filled the ancient harbour hollow at Kition-Bamboula with soil from the acropolis and exposed a small sanctuary, figures and two Phoenician inscriptions.

Map of Cyprus

Where the work took place

Ground above 200, 500, 1,000 m

Site

1Kition-Bamboula

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

The project

In 1879 the colonial Government of Cyprus filled the ancient harbour hollow at Kition-Bamboula with soil from the acropolis¹. The works exposed a small sanctuary, terracotta and stone figures, two Phoenician inscriptions and foundations, and the finds are associated with the Cypro-Archaic period¹. No director is named for the work.

Institutions

Government of Cyprus (colonial)Sponsor

Seasons

1 season

1879
Government filled the ancient harbour hollow with acropolis soil; small sanctuary found with terracotta and stone figures, two Phoenician inscriptions and foundations.
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What was found

Periods

Cypro-Archaic

Publications

1 item

Annual reports of the Department of Antiquities

A Catalogue of the Cyprus Museum

Other fieldwork at Kition-Bamboula · 4

Kition: Myres at Sotiros and the Acropolis1910–1913
Kition-Bamboula: the Swedish Cyprus Expedition1929–1930
Kition-Bamboula: the French Mission1976–today
Larnaca: Department Rescue Excavations of 2008–2009 (Liperti Street and Pampoula)2008–2009

References

1.J. L. Myres, M. Ohnefalsch-Richter, 1899, A Catalogue of the Cyprus Museum.

Sources

1.A Catalogue of the Cyprus Museum, p. 21.