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Ayia Paraskevi, Nicosia: Flourentzos's excavation (1986)
1986 · Nicosia-Ayia Paraskevi
Pavlos Flourentzos's excavation at Ayia Paraskevi, Nicosia, in the summer of 1986, which produced a fragmentary Red Polished jug depicting a male fallow deer.
Map of Cyprus
Where the work took place
- Ground above 200, 500, 1,000 m
Site
- 1Nicosia-Ayia Paraskevi (approx.)
The project
Pavlos Flourentzos conducted an excavation at Ayia Paraskevi in the summer of 19861. He reports finding a fragmentary Red Polished jug depicting a male fallow deer, identified as T. 3/301. In 2002 he presented the jug as evidence for the iconography of the fallow deer in Cyprus1.
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Related
Other fieldwork at Nicosia-Ayia Paraskevi · 9
- Ayia Paraskevi, Nicosia: Ohnefalsch-Richter's excavation of the Bronze Age necropolis1884–1885
- Ayia Paraskevi, Nicosia: the Cyprus Exploration Fund (1894)1894
- Ayia Paraskevi, Nicosia: a tomb cleared by the Cyprus Museum (1927)1927
- Ayia Paraskevi, Nicosia: Cyprus Museum excavation of Tomb 7 (1948)1948
- Ayia Paraskevi, Nicosia: the Melbourne Cyprus Expedition1955
- Ayia Paraskevi, Nicosia: Department rescue of a looted rock-cut tomb (1965)1965
- Ayia Paraskevi, Nicosia: Department rescue of two tombs (1973)1973
- Ayia Paraskevi, Nicosia: Hadjicosti's excavations1988–1999
- Ayia Paraskevi, Nicosia: Georgiou's excavations (2001–2004)2001–2004
References
- 1.P. Flourentzos, 2002, The Iconography of the Deer in Cyprus through the Ages, Zeitschrift für Jagdwissenschaft 48.