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Linou-Evrychou road: Department rescue of tombs in the road works (Georgiou)

2000–2004 · Phlasou-Linou-Evrychou road tombs

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Where the work took place

  • Main site
  • Also worked at
  • Ground above 200, 500, 1,000 m

Sites

  1. 1Phlasou-Linou-Evrychou road tombs (approx.)
  2. 2Evrykhou tombs (approx.)
  3. 3Katydhata (approx.)
Modern coastline (OpenStreetMap) and relief (Copernicus DEM).

Directors and team

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Seasons

2 seasons
  1. 2000

    Road improvement works revealed six new tombs in the known necropolis: two in the Linou region (one Archaic, one Roman, both looted) and four intact (two at Flassou, two at Evrichou). Imported Greek and Attic vessels and a limestone block with relief figures were found.

    [1]

  2. 2001

    Widening of the Evrichou-Linou road revealed a number of tombs belonging to a cemetery already known from the Archaic and Classical periods; objects from Evrichou-Ammos T. 6 are presented.

    [2]

What was found

Periods

Features and finds

Flassou T. 4; Flassou T. 5; Evrichou T. 5; Evrichou T. 6; Cemetery known from Archaic and Classical periods.

Tombs

Linou (archaic, looted), Linou (Roman, looted), Flassou T. 4, Flassou T. 5, Evrichou T. 5, Evrichou T. 6, T. 6/49, T. 6/20

Publications

2 items

Sources

  1. 1.Chronique des fouilles et découvertes archéologiques à Chypre en 2000, pp. 744–745.
  2. 2.Chronique des fouilles et découvertes archéologiques à Chypre en 2001, pp. 691–692.

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