ExcavationDepartment of Antiquities
Nea Paphos: the Limeniotissa basilica clearance (Dikigoropoulos)
1959 · Nea Paphos
Also known as Panayia Limeniotissa basilica 1959
Andreas Dikigoropoulos's 1959 clearance of a three-aisled basilica by the harbour at Nea Paphos, which Karageorghis tentatively identifies as Panayia Limeniotissa.
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Where the work took place
- Main site
- Also worked at
- Ground above 200, 500, 1,000 m
Sites
- 1Nea Paphos
- 2Nea Paphos-Toumballos (approx.)
The project
In 1959 A. I. Dikigoropoulos cleared a three-aisled church with an apse, about 500 square metres in area, by the harbour of Nea Paphos for the Department of Antiquities1. A vaulted chamber north of the apse had been used as an ossuary and contained many skulls1. V. Karageorghis reports repairs after the Arab sack of the city in the mid-7th century, dates the building's destruction to an earthquake in 1159 and the smaller building later raised in its ruins to the earthquake of 1222, and tentatively identifies the church as Panayia Limeniotissa, mentioned in the autobiography of Saint Neophytos1. The work was reported in his chronicle of 19591.
Directors and team
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Institutions
Seasons
1 season- 1959
A 3-aisled single-apse 5th-c. basilica with mosaic excavated by Dikigoropoulos; Eliades cleared the three northernmost chambers of the rock-cut sanctuary near Toumballos. Cleared by A. I. Dikigoropoulos: three-aisled apsed church, c. 500 m2, repaired after the mid-7th-c. Arab sack, ossuary chamber, destroyed by the earthquake of 1159, small medieval building rebuilt inside and destroyed in 1222; identified with Panayia Limeniotissa.
What was found
Periods
- Hellenistic
- Late Antique
- Medieval
Features and finds
basilica; ossuary.
Publications
2 itemsAnnual reports of the Department of Antiquities
Chronique des fouilles (Bulletin de correspondance hellénique)
Related
Other fieldwork at Nea Paphos · 24
- Nea Paphos: Luigi Palma di Cesnola's trial digs1868–1869
- Kouklia: the British Kouklia Expedition (Liverpool and St Andrews)1950–1955
- Nea Paphos: Department of Antiquities clearances under George Eliades1955–1959
- Salamis and other sites: Bradford ground-checks of aerial photographs1955
- Saranda Kolones: Department of Antiquities excavation under A. H. S. Megaw1957–1959
- Nea Paphos: Department of Antiquities excavations under Kyriakos Nicolaou1962–1978
- Kato Paphos: Department excavations of the early Christian basilicas (Papageorghiou)1964–1987
- Nea Paphos: the Polish Archaeological Mission (Maloutena)1965–today
- Saranda Kolones: the British School at Athens and Anglo-American expedition1966–1987
- Cyprus harbours: the Raban and Linder survey of 19711971
- Nea Paphos: the Tombs of the Kings excavation (Hadjisavvas)1977–1990
- Kato Paphos: Department of Antiquities rescue excavations of the 1980s1980–1987
12 more
- Nea Paphos: Department excavations at the House of Orpheus and the city walls (Michaelides)1982–1987
- Nea Paphos: the University of Trier campaign at the theatre site1987
- Nea Paphos: the Italian mission of the University of Catania (Garrison's Camp, Toumballos)1988–2018
- Coastal surveys at Drousha-Kioni, Kourion and Nea Paphos (John Leonard)1989
- Nea Paphos: the University of Colorado underwater survey of the harbour1991–1992
- Nea Paphos: the University of Sydney (Australian) excavation of the theatre1995–2023
- Nea Paphos: the French mission (Avignon) on Fabrika hill and the western rampart1997–today
- Kato Paphos: Department of Antiquities rescue tombs of 1999–20001999–2000
- Nea Paphos: the Hungarian expedition's granite column survey2003
- Kato Paphos: Department of Antiquities salvage excavations (Raptou)2008–2009
- Nea Paphos: the Paphos Agora Project (Jagiellonian University)2011–2019
- Nea Paphos: MA-P, Maloutena and Agora in the Paphos Urban Plan (Warsaw and Kraków)2019–today
References
- 1.V. Karageorghis, 1960, Chronique des fouilles et découvertes archéologiques à Chypre en 1959, Bulletin de correspondance hellénique 84.