Morphou: the Ovgos river sanctuary building

A building exposed by levelling near the Ovgos river and the Morphou-Myrtou road was cleared in part in 1960 by the Department of Antiquities under K. Nicolaou¹. The cleared area had three rooms, three small cisterns and a water channel; the largest room was paved with limestone slabs, and its lower walls appear to have been faced with marble slabs and painted stucco¹. The finds included a large sandstone column drum, thought possibly to have served as an altar, numerous tiles, a fragment of marble relief and a fragmentary Hellenistic white marble statuette of Aphrodite¹. V. Karageorghis suggested that the ruins could be identified as a sanctuary of Aphrodite, comparing them with buildings of this type, particularly the Aphrodite temples found at Soli by the Swedish Mission¹.