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Paphos district (Lemba, Kissonerga, Souskiou): Department exploration survey

1975–1976 · Lemba-Lakkous

Also known as Souskiou: Department survey of the Chalcolithic sites

The Department of Antiquities' 1975 exploration in the Paphos district, which added more than 90 sites to the catalogue, among them Lemba-Lakkous and Kissonerga-Myloudhia.

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Where the work took place

  • Main site
  • Also worked at
  • Ground above 200, 500, 1,000 m

Sites

  1. 1Lemba-Lakkous
  2. 2Souskiou (approx.)
  3. 3Kissonerga-Mosphilia
  4. 4Kissonerga-Mylouthkia (approx.)
  5. 5Souskiou-Laona (approx.)
Modern coastline (OpenStreetMap) and relief (Copernicus DEM).

The project

Directors and team

Directed by

Institutions

Seasons

1 season
  1. 1975

    Exploration Section surveyed intensively: over 90 new sites added to the catalogue (CS 2272–2363), including Chalcolithic Khlorakas-Palloura, Lemba-Lakkous, Kissonerga-Myloudhia, and settlements at Kissonerga 'Varedhia', 'Psillouthes', 'Mosphilia'. A tall Red Polished bottle found in a trench near Lemba-Lakkous (Paphos Museum 2140); a flint arrowhead from Neolithic Mari-Tenda.

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What was found

Features and finds

CS 2272–2363; Paphos Museum 2140; CS 1939.

Publications

1 item

Chronique des fouilles (Bulletin de correspondance hellénique)

Related

Other fieldwork at Lemba-Lakkous · 1

References

  1. 1.V. Karageorghis, 1976, Chronique des fouilles et découvertes archéologiques à Chypre en 1975, Bulletin de correspondance hellénique 100.

Sources

  1. 1.Chronique des fouilles et découvertes archéologiques à Chypre en 1975, p. 23.