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Morphou-Toumba tou Skourou: Dikaios's trial trench

Name: Morphou-Toumba tou Skourou: Dikaios's trial trench
Start: 1936
End: 1936

1936 · Morphou-Toumba tou Skourou

A trial trench cut by Porphyrios Dikaios at Toumba tou Skourou in 1936, the results of which were not published.

Map of Cyprus

Where the work took place

Ground above 200, 500, 1,000 m

Site

1Morphou-Toumba tou Skourou

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

The project

In 1936 Porphyrios Dikaios made a trial trench, a sondage, at Toumba tou Skourou¹. A 1976 review of Vermeule's Toumba tou Skourou states that Dikaios did not publish its results¹.

Directors and team

Directed by

Porphyrios Dikaios1936

Institutions

Department of Antiquities of CyprusSponsor

Other fieldwork at Morphou-Toumba tou Skourou · 2

Cyprus Survey: the Cape Krommyon area1955
Morphou-Toumba tou Skourou: the Harvard-MFA Boston expedition1971–1973

References

1.1976, Review of Toumba tou Skourou. The Mound of Darkness. A Bronze Age Town on Morphou Bay in Cyprus.