Nea Paphos: MA-P, Maloutena and Agora in the Paphos Urban Plan (Warsaw and Kraków)

At Maloutena, in the western part of Nea Paphos, the 2025 campaign of MA-P reached the level of a stone-paved street and recorded a shallow basin, used as a settling tank, linked to well S.233¹. Ewdoksia Papuci-Władyka of the PCMA at the University of Warsaw directs the expedition, which has run since 2019 jointly with the Jagiellonian University¹. It works at Maloutena, west of Fanari Hill, and in the Agora, in trench T.II in the northern part of the East Portico¹.

The 2025 season began with a spring study period in April and May, when a small specialist team worked on the material. The main campaign followed in September, with around 30 people¹. Paweł Lech of the PCMA, Warsaw, leads the western-city project, and Łukasz Miszk of the Jagiellonian University supervised the Agora work¹.

At Maloutena the Hellenistic finds included numerous crucibles for melting metal, made from the lower parts of amphorae, and a stamped Rhodian amphora handle of the eponym Aristombrotidas, which the report dates to around 117 BC¹. In trench T.II the excavators found a fragment of a previously unknown stylobate with the lower parts of two fluted column drums¹. The finds study of 2025 identified around 350 elements of architectural decoration and conserved 71 coins, mostly bronze with one silver; it also recorded gold foil and the handle of a bronze situla¹.