Rescue excavationDepartment of Antiquities
Kato Paphos: Department of Antiquities salvage excavations (Raptou)
2008–2009 · Nea Paphos
Also known as Agapetikos Street, Kato Pafos; Glyky Nero salvage
Department of Antiquities salvage work under Eustathios Raptou in 2008 and 2009 at Agapetikos Street, Glyky Nero and the Hellenistic chamber tomb M.P. 3751.
The project
At Agapetikos Street, east of the ancient theatre of Nea Paphos, salvage excavation begun in 2007 continued in 2008 under Eustathios Raptou for the Department of Antiquities1. It exposed a large north-south wall of rectangular slabs above bedrock, which the report suggests may have been part of the foundation of the city's eastern wall, and fourth or fifth century AD workshops with metal-working kilns cut into bedrock and quantities of Gaza amphorae1. In 2009 the Glyky Nero excavation of 2006 was extended and recovered three human and three canine skeletons but no new structures2. Museum staff also excavated the Hellenistic chamber tomb M.P. 3751 on 12 June 2009, after road and pavement works exposed it; a second chamber was not excavated2.
Directors and team
Directed by
- Eustathios Raptou2008–2009
Institutions
Seasons
2 seasons- 2008
Large N-S wall of slabs probably part of the city's eastern defence with a possible gate; late antique (4th-5th c.) workshops with bedrock-cut metal kilns and Gaza amphorae, earthquake and fire destruction, later cistern.
Directed by E. Raptou[1]
- 200912 June 2009
Extension of the 2006 excavation after bones were found: three human and three dog skeletons buried in sand without offerings; no new structures. Rock-cut chamber tomb with niches, found by road works on 12 June; glass, bone, metal and clay vessels, Hellenistic; a second chamber seen but not excavated.
Directed by Eustathios Raptou[2]
What was found
Periods
- Hellenistic
- Late Antique
Features and finds
city wall; metal-working kilns.
Tombs
M.P. 3751
Publications
2 itemsAnnual reports of the Department of Antiquities
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: the Limeniotissa basilica clearance (Dikigoropoulos)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
12 more
- Kato Paphos: Department of Antiquities rescue excavations of the 1980s1980–1987
- 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
- 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.Pavlos Flourentzos, 2010, Annual Report of the Department of Antiquities for the year 2008.
- 2.Department of Antiquities, Cyprus, 2010, Annual Report of the Department of Antiquities for the year 2009.