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Mathiatis: the Inter Community School Cyprus Project (2005)

2005 · Mathiatis

Also known as Inter Community School Cyprus Project 2005

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Where the work took place

  • Ground above 200, 500, 1,000 m

Site

  1. 1Mathiatis (approx.)
Modern coastline (OpenStreetMap) and relief (Copernicus DEM).

Directors and team

Directed by

Institutions

Seasons

1 season
  1. 2005

    Educational field programme in which students learned excavation and survey methods at Mathiatis and visited other archaeological sites and monuments, in collaboration with local and school authorities. Rescue-type recording of ancient copper smelting remains threatened by erosion of the south tip of the site. A smelting furnace (bas-fourneau) with last slag in place, the best-preserved known in Cyprus and perhaps the eastern Mediterranean, was found, consolidated and moved to the Cyprus Museum laboratory; it is now displayed in Nicosia. About 20 galleries and slag, furnace walls found around the gold ...

    Directed by Walter Fasnacht[1]

What was found

Periods

Features and finds

bas-fourneau (smelting furnace) with final slag; samples exported to EMPA Dübendorf for analysis (20 samples; about 300 charcoal samples, over 90% olive wood); copper-working traces around gold mine: slag, furnace walls, about 20 galleries.

Publications

1 item

Chronique des fouilles (Bulletin de correspondance hellénique)

Related

Sources

  1. 1.Chronique des fouilles et découvertes archéologiques à Chypre en 2005, pp. 903–904.

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