Rescue excavationDepartment of Antiquities
Limnia: rescue of a looted Roman tomb
1965 · Limnia
A Roman I tomb found in the village of Limnia in 1965 and recorded by the Department of Antiquities; it held many decorated lamps and a hollow moulded terracotta dog.
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Where the work took place
- Ground above 200, 500, 1,000 m
Site
- 1Limnia (approx.)
The project
In 1965 a Roman I tomb was found in the village of Limnia and recorded by the Department of Antiquities; the annual chronicle describes it as already looted1. It held numerous lamps decorated with a bird, shells, and a gladiator charging a leaping gazelle, and a moulded terracotta dog, hollow inside1. The tomb material was then in the Famagusta Museum under inventory no. 1611.
Institutions
Seasons
1 season- 1965
Looted Roman I tomb in the village with many lamps (bird, shells, gladiator and gazelle) and a hollow moulded terracotta dog.
What was found
Periods
Publications
1 itemChronique des fouilles (Bulletin de correspondance hellénique)
References
- 1.V. Karageorghis, 1966, Chronique des fouilles et découvertes archéologiques à Chypre en 1965, Bulletin de correspondance hellénique 90.
Sources
Mentioned in
4 mentionsTomb records · 1
- Limnia, Department of Antiquities, unnumbered tomb at Limnia, 1965
1965
Karageorghis 1966
Sites · 1
- Limnia
1965
Karageorghis 1966, p. 42
- Documents · 1listed under Publications
- Institutions · 1listed under Institutions
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