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Ktima: Ohnefalsch-Richter's tomb clearance

Name: Ktima: Ohnefalsch-Richter's tomb clearance
Start: 1885
End: 1885

1885 · Ktima

Max Ohnefalsch-Richter's opening of two tombs at Kitma (Ktima) in 1885.

Map of Cyprus

Where the work took place

Ground above 200, 500, 1,000 m

Site

1Ktima (approx.)

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

The project

In 1885 Max Ohnefalsch-Richter opened two tombs at Kítma, in the necropolis of Ktima, where convict labourers had destroyed a Byzantine tomb with frescoes over the door and a Roman grave east of the town in 1884¹. J. L. Myres and Ohnefalsch-Richter list the two tombs in their 1899 catalogue of the Cyprus Museum¹.

Directors and team

Directed by

Max Ohnefalsch-Richter1885

Seasons

1 season

1885
Two tombs opened; earlier (1884) convict labourers destroyed a Byzantine tomb with frescoes and a Roman grave.
Directed by M. Ohnefalsch-Richter[1]

What was found

Periods

Publications

1 item

Annual reports of the Department of Antiquities

A Catalogue of the Cyprus Museum

Other fieldwork at Ktima · 2

Ktima: the French Mission at the Iskender cemetery1953–1955
Ktima: Department of Antiquities rescue work, 1961–19691961–1969

References

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

Sources

1.A Catalogue of the Cyprus Museum, p. 22.