ExcavationDepartment of Antiquities

Pomos-Appiouri: Department excavation of a votive dump

Name: Pomos-Appiouri: Department excavation of a votive dump
Start: 1953
End: 1953

1953 · Pomos-Appiouri

In 1953 Vassos Karageorghis investigated the findspot at Pomos for the Department of Antiquities and found a dump of surplus votives rather than a sanctuary.

Map of Cyprus

Where the work took place

Ground above 200, 500, 1,000 m

Site

1Pomos-Appiouri (approx.)

Modern coastline (OpenStreetMap) and relief (Copernicus DEM).

The project

In 1953 Vassos Karageorghis investigated a findspot at Pomos for the Department of Antiquities. It proved to be a dump of surplus votives, not a sanctuary¹. Further votive terracottas were found and placed in the Paphos Museum¹.

Directors and team

Directed by

Vassos Karageorghis1953

Institutions

Department of Antiquities of CyprusSponsor

Seasons

1 season

1953
Pomos proved to be a dump of surplus votives, not a sanctuary; more terracottas to the Paphos Museum; the small Meniko sanctuary excavation begun in 1952 completed.
Directed by V. Karageorghis[1]

What was found

Periods

Cypro-Archaic

Publications

1 item

Annual reports of the Department of Antiquities

Archaeology in Cyprus, 1953

References

1.A. H. S. Megaw, 1954, Archaeology in Cyprus, 1953, Journal of Hellenic Studies 74.

Sources

1.Archaeology in Cyprus, 1953, p. 2.