ExcavationBritish colonial and British Museum
Pyla-Kazama: Dikaios's excavation of the built tomb
1934 · Pyla-Kazama built tomb
Porphyrios Dikaios's 1934 investigation of a built underground tomb with a dromos at Pyla, with reliefs of a Gorgoneion and sphinxes over the door of the principal chamber.
Map of Cyprus
Where the work took place
- Ground above 200, 500, 1,000 m
Site
- 1Pyla-Kazama built tomb (approx.)
The project
In 1934 Porphyrios Dikaios investigated a built underground tomb with a dromos at Pyla, for the Cyprus Museum1. Picard describes it as Archaic, with prophylactic reliefs1. Payne reports reliefs of a Gorgoneion and sphinxes over the door of the principal chamber and dates the tomb to about 400 B.C.2
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Institutions
- Cyprus MuseumSponsor
References
- 1.Charles Picard, 1935, L'archéologie suédoise à Chypre, Journal des savants.
- 2.H. G. G. Payne, 1934, Archaeology in Greece, 1933–34.
Sources
- 1.L'archéologie suédoise à Chypre, p. 242.
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