ExcavationOttoman-era and private

Lythrodontas: Ohnefalsch-Richter's spring sanctuary

Name: Lythrodontas: Ohnefalsch-Richter's spring sanctuary
Start: 1885
End: 1885

1885 · Lythrodontas

Max Ohnefalsch-Richter's 1885 excavation of a temenos by a spring near Lythrodontas, an ash layer with late Ptolemaic and early imperial coins and lamps.

Map of Cyprus

Where the work took place

Ground above 200, 500, 1,000 m

Site

1Lythrodontas (approx.)

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

The project

In 1885 Max Ohnefalsch-Richter excavated a temenos beside a spring at Lythrodontas, in a valley about two miles southwest of the village, near the ruined church of Ag. Georgios¹. Peasants had discovered it. The Catalogue of the Cyprus Museum of 1899, by Myres and Ohnefalsch-Richter, calls it a very primitive temenos, simply a layer of ashes containing late Ptolemaic and early imperial coins and lamps¹. Buchholz's 1989 study of Ohnefalsch-Richter as an archaeologist in Cyprus describes the find as a spring sanctuary with coins and lamps².

Directors and team

Directed by

Max Ohnefalsch-Richter1885

Seasons

1 season

1885
Very primitive temenos: ash layer with late Ptolemaic and early imperial coins and lamps.
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 Lythrodontas · 1

Idalion: the American Expedition to Idalion1970–1980

References

1.J. L. Myres, M. Ohnefalsch-Richter, 1899, A Catalogue of the Cyprus Museum.
2.H.-G. Buchholz, 1989, Max Ohnefalsch-Richter als Archäologe auf Zypern, Cahiers du Centre d'Études Chypriotes 11–12.

Sources

1.A Catalogue of the Cyprus Museum, p. 25.
2.Max Ohnefalsch-Richter als Archäologe auf Zypern, p. 11.