Clearance and early diggingDepartment of Antiquities
Milia: Department clearance of a looted tomb, 1957
1957 · Milia-Vikla Trachonas
The Department of Antiquities' 1957 clearance of a long-looted tomb at Milia, from whose leftover pottery about 100 Late Cypriot I vases were mended.
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Where the work took place
- Ground above 200, 500, 1,000 m
Site
- 1Milia-Vikla Trachonas (approx.)
The project
In 1957 the Department of Antiquities cleared a tomb in the Mileá cemetery (Milia), which had long since been worked through by treasure-hunters; the report says that the Swedish Expedition had excavated the cemetery1. The pottery the treasure-hunters had abandoned was mended into about 100 reasonably complete vases, mainly Late Cypriot I. Among them were more than a dozen examples of mainland Bichrome Ware and some White Slip I and II, which the report calls of exceptionally good quality1.
Institutions
Seasons
1 season- 1957
The Department cleared a long-looted tomb: abandoned pottery mended into ~100 vases, mainly LC I, with mainland bichrome and fine White Slip I and II.
What was found
Periods
Publications
1 itemAnnual reports of the Department of Antiquities
Related
Other fieldwork at Milia-Vikla Trachonas · 1
References
- 1.A. H. S. Megaw, 1957, Archaeology in Cyprus, 1957, Archaeological Reports 4.
Sources
- 1.Archaeology in Cyprus, 1957, p. 3.
Mentioned in
3 mentionsSites · 1
- Milia-Vikla Trachonas
1957
Megaw 1957, p. 3
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- Institutions · 1listed under Institutions
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