Pyla-Kokkinokremos: Karageorghis and Kanta's excavations

Two clay tablets inscribed in Cypro-Minoan, found in Complex 2, Room 3, come from Karageorghis and Kanta's work in 2010 to 2012 at the Late Bronze Age plateau of Pyla-Kokkinokremos; Kanta argued they had been fired in a kiln, and one bears writing on both sides and on its edge¹. Govier lists them under the 2010–2011 monograph, while a project web page and a reviewer tie them to the Gate area dug in 2012¹.

Vassos Karageorghis and Athanasia Kanta directed the seasons of 2010 and 2011 together^2,3. They continued excavation south of Sector 2 (Area II), dug in 1981–82, and a web review reports four further architectural complexes (G, F, H and I) southeast of that earlier area^2,4. In Govier's summary of Kanta's aims, the work asked whether the casemate wall encircled the whole settlement and whether it was a defensive fortification or a boundary marker, and sought the buildings between the two sides of the plateau excavated in the 1980s¹. Govier lists fourteen substantially preserved Canaanite jars and 64 further fragments from the 2010–2011 season¹. The volume carries specialist chapters on the Canaanite jars (Artemis Georgiou), ground-stone tools (Alison McCaig), XRF analysis of the copper-alloy objects (Andreas Charalambous and Vasiliki Kassianidou) and the marked pottery, including modified Cypro-Minoan signs (Nicolle Hirschfeld)¹.

In 2012 Kanta directed alone in the western part of the plateau, the Gate area, and excavated the complexes framing it; a possible gate was identified^2,3,4. Brown treats the 2010–2011 campaign as an expansion of Area II and the 2012 gate as a separate result from Sector 4². The work was published as Pyla-Kokkinokremos: A Late 13th Century BC Fortified Settlement in Cyprus; Excavations 2010–2011, Studies in Mediterranean Archaeology 141 (Uppsala, 2014), with a preliminary report on 2012^2,5. Govier notes that Karageorghis expected a further volume giving more detail on the 2012 excavation¹.