Underwater workBritish colonial and British Museum
Paphos harbour: the Royal Engineers' underwater survey ('Operation Aphrodite'), 1959–1961
1959–1961 · Nea Paphos
Lieutenant John Blashford-Snell of the Royal Engineers led a small group of British sappers on a training mission and underwater survey of Paphos harbour and its surroundings between 1959 and 1961, the so-called Operation Aphrodite.
Directors and team
Directed by
- John Blashford-Snell
Institutions
- Royal EngineersSponsor
Talks about this project
1 talkWhat speakers say about the project in recorded lectures, at the minute they say it.
Panayiotis Theofanous, Maria Volikou and Despina Pilides, 2020
Related
Other fieldwork at Nea Paphos · 26
- 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 basilicas1964–1994
- 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
14 more
- Kato Paphos: Department of Antiquities rescue excavations, 1980–19931980–1993
- Nea Paphos: Department excavations at the House of Orpheus and the city walls (Michaelides)1982–1991
- 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
- Kato Paphos: Department of Antiquities salvage excavations (Raptou)2001–2009
- Nea Paphos: the Hungarian expedition's granite column survey2003
- Nea Paphos, House of Orpheus: the University of Cyprus excavations (Michaelides), 2009–20132009–2013
- 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
Sources
Mentioned in
4 mentionsDocuments · 1
- American Archaeologists in Cypriot Waters: One Nation's Contributions to the Underwater Exploration of Cyprus' Past
Reported in
Leonard 2008, p. 131
Lectures and videos · 1
- Diving into the Past: Archival Research Results of the Cyprus Coastal Assessment Project and the History of the First Underwater Archaeological Explorations in Cyprus
2020 · 0:21:56
Underwater survey of ancient harbour; Hellenistic to Roman vessels collected, cannons and anchor located.
Theofanous et al. 2020
Sites · 1
- Nea Paphos
1959
Leonard 2008, p. 131
- Institutions · 1listed under Institutions
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