Rescue excavationDepartment of Antiquities
Pentakomo-Agios Georgios Alamanou: rescue of tombs during Water Company works (1999)
1999 · Pentakomo-Agios Georgios Alamanou
Map of Cyprus
Where the work took place
- Ground above 200, 500, 1,000 m
Site
- 1Pentakomo-Agios Georgios Alamanou (approx.)
Directors and team
Team
Institutions
- Limassol District MuseumHost
- Department of Antiquities of CyprusSponsor
- Compagnie des EauxFunder
Seasons
1 season- 1999
One tomb explored during works carried out by the Water Company in the village; dated Cypro-Archaic and Cypro-Classical. A dog figurine from T. 2 is listed (45). Two looted Middle Bronze Age tombs excavated (T. 22, T. 24, T. 25). Finds from T. 22: Red Slip small jug with beaked spout and incised decoration with white inlay (T. 22/1), stone loom weight (T. 22/4), stone spindle whorl (T. 22/6).
What was found
Features and finds
Red Slip small jug T. 22/1; stone loom weight T. 22/4; stone spindle whorl T. 22/6.
Tombs
T. 1, T. 2, T. 22, T. 24, T. 25
Publications
1 itemChronique des fouilles (Bulletin de correspondance hellénique)
Sources
Mentioned in
5 mentionsSites · 1
- Pentakomo-Agios Georgios Alamanou
1999
Hadjisavvas 2000, pp. 670, 672
- Documents · 1listed under Publications
- People · 1listed under Directors and team
- Institutions · 2listed under Institutions
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