Rescue excavationDepartment of Antiquities
Kourion: Department rescue of rock-cut Roman tombs on the acropolis road
1988 · Kourion
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1 season- 1988
Several Roman tombs cut into the vertical rock face, found during works for a new access road to the Acropolis. Previously looted. One tomb has a rectangular chamber with seven loculi on three sides; a human bust in high relief lies between two bas-relief spirals on the wall facing the entrance. The vertical rock flank was cut to serve as fortification wall, with bastions identifiable. Several Roman tombs cut into the vertical rock face on the south side of the acropolis plateau, found during works for a new access road. ...
What was found
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Features and finds
stomion of rock-cut tomb (south side of fortification wall); chamber with seven loculi; bust in high relief; fortification wall cut in rock; rock-cut chamber tomb with seven loculi; carved bust in high relief; flank of rock cut as fortification wall.
Tombs
Kourion Acropolis rock-cut tomb with seven loculi (unnumbered), Kourion-Acropolis, unnumbered rock-cut chamber tomb
Publications
1 itemChronique des fouilles (Bulletin de correspondance hellénique)
Related
Other fieldwork at Kourion · 31
- Kourion: Luigi Palma di Cesnola's excavations1874–1875
- Kourion: Alessandro Palma di Cesnola's digging1876–1877
- Salamis, Gastria and Kourion: Hake and Kitchener for the South Kensington Museum (1882)1882
- Kourion: Ohnefalsch-Richter's excavations for Warren, Brown and Lady Brassey1883–1884
- Kourion: Williamson & Co. and Major Chard's syndicate tomb digs1883
- Kourion: Dümmler and Ohnefalsch-Richter's examination of Cesnola's treasure site1885
- Kourion: Theocharis's 1885 search for Cesnola's treasure chambers1885
- Kourion: Vicomte de Castillon de Saint-Victor's excavations for the French Government1886–1887
- Kourion: British Museum Turner Bequest excavations1895
- Kourion: the Penn Museum excavations (Curium Expedition)1934–1954
- Kourion: Mitford's epigraphic visits1936–1958
- Salamis and other sites: Bradford ground-checks of aerial photographs1955
19 more
- Kourion: Department rescue of sarcophagi at Ayios Ermoyenis1956
- Kourion: Megaw's excavation of the episcopal basilica1956–1959
- Kourion: Scranton's final survey of the Apollo Hylates sanctuary1962
- Kourion: the Department's clearance of the stadium1963–1966
- Kourion: the Department's excavations at the city site (Loulloupis)1967–1973
- Kourion: the Department's basilica east of the stadium (Demeter and Kore site)1971–1974
- Kourion: the Dumbarton Oaks excavation of the episcopal basilica1974–1979
- Kourion: the Department's excavations on the acropolis and in the city (Christou)1975–1998
- Kourion: Swiny's reconnaissance north of Episkopi Bay1978
- Kourion: the American excavation of the Sanctuary of Apollo Hylates1978–1985
- Kourion: the University of Arizona excavation of the Earthquake House1984–1987
- Coastal surveys at Drousha-Kioni, Kourion and Nea Paphos (John Leonard)1989
- Kourion: the Amathus Gate cemetery excavations (Parks)1995–2000
- Kourion: the Sotira Archaeological Project survey of the Kourion chora1997
- Kourion: the Kourion Mapping Project on the acropolis2005–2007
- Kourion: the Kouris Valley Survey2007–2008
- Kourion: the Kourion Urban Space Project (Building 4)2012–2024
- Kourion: the Italian Mission study of the Sanctuary of Apollo Hylates2014–2018
- Kourion-Kaloriziki: Dikaios's tomb excavations
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