Phasoula: survey of the sanctuary of Zeus Labranios, 1958

In 1958 V. Karageorghis found the sanctuary of Zeus Labranios again on Kastro hill, south of Phasoula, and arranged for limestone statue fragments scattered on its slopes, especially the eastern one, to be transferred to the regional museum at Limassol¹. The work was a surface exploration, not a systematic excavation, and he counted at least fifty statues from the fragments¹. All were headless; they included figures identified as Zeus by eagle and sceptre, and worshippers holding libation bowls, and he proposed a date between the 1st and 5th centuries AD¹. Hermary argues for the 2nd to 3rd centuries AD, perhaps mainly the second half of the 2nd². Two of the fragments are Limassol Regional Museum 210.7 and 210.16².