Rescue excavationDepartment of Antiquities
Paramytha-Sopeda: Department tomb rescue, 1969
1969 · Paramytha-Sopeda
A Cypro-Archaic II tomb at Sopeda, Paramytha, excavated in 1969 by the Department of Antiquities; the report says it located a previously unrecorded cemetery.
Map of Cyprus
Where the work took place
- Ground above 200, 500, 1,000 m
Site
- 1Paramytha-Sopeda (approx.)
The project
In 1969 the Department of Antiquities excavated one Cypro-Archaic II tomb at Sopeda, Paramytha, and the report says it located a previously unrecorded cemetery1. The tomb held Bichrome Red II amphorae, Red-on-Black III vessels and vessels of ordinary fabric, and the report gives its Limassol regional register number as 4651. Finds from the tombs the report covers at this point, this one among them, were deposited at the Limassol Regional Museum1.
Institutions
Seasons
1 season- 1969
Cypro-Archaic II tomb locating a new cemetery: fine Bichrome Red II amphorae and Red-on-Black and plain vessels.
What was found
Periods
Publications
1 itemChronique des fouilles (Bulletin de correspondance hellénique)
References
- 1.V. Karageorghis, 1970, Chronique des fouilles et découvertes archéologiques à Chypre en 1969, Bulletin de correspondance hellénique 94.
Sources
Mentioned in
4 mentionsTomb records · 1
Sites · 1
- Paramytha-Sopeda
1969
Karageorghis 1970, p. 30
- Documents · 1listed under Publications
- Institutions · 1listed under Institutions
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