SoundingDepartment of Antiquities
Morphou-Ayios Mamas: Department soundings below the church floor (1958)
1958 · Morphou-Ayios Mamas
In 1958, before a new floor was laid in the church of St Mamas at Morphou, a series of soundings made by arrangement with the Church Committee found the remains of at least three earlier churches under the present building.
Map of Cyprus
Where the work took place
- Ground above 200, 500, 1,000 m
Site
- 1Morphou-Ayios Mamas (approx.)
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Reported at the time
1 reportThe project as the official records of the time reported it: the colonial Annual Reports, the Cyprus Gazette and the press releases of the Press and Information Office.
- 1958
Before a new floor was laid in the church of St Mamas at Morphou, a series of soundings made by arrangement with the Church Committee found the remains of at least three earlier churches under the present building: the earliest probably of the fifth or sixth century, the largest probably built after the Arab raids of the mid-seventh century, and a smaller three-aisled church probably of the fourteenth or fifteenth century.
Sources
- 1.Cyprus: Reports for the Years 1956, 1957 and 1958, Report for 1958, p. 87.
Mentioned in
3 mentionsDocuments · 1
- Cyprus: Reports for the Years 1956, 1957 and 1958
Reported in
Office 1956, Report for 1958, p. 87
Sites · 1
- Morphou-Ayios Mamas
1958
Office 1956, Report for 1958, p. 87
- Institutions · 1listed under Institutions
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