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Pyrgos: student excavation led by Egoumenidou, 2001

Name: Pyrgos: student excavation led by Egoumenidou, 2001
Start: 2001
End: 2001

2001 · Pyrgos

A summer 2001 excavation at Pyrgos by students of the University of Cyprus under Euphrosyne Rizopoulou-Egoumenidou, in collaboration with the Department of Antiquities.

Map of Cyprus

Where the work took place

Ground above 200, 500, 1,000 m

Site

1Pyrgos (approx.)

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

The project

In the summer of 2001, students of the Department of History and Archaeology of the University of Cyprus excavated at Pyrgos under Professor Euphrosyne Rizopoulou-Egoumenidou, with the collaboration of the Cyprus Department of Antiquities¹. A paper on the watermill at Pyrgos, Limassol, by E. Rizopoulou-Egoumenidou, A. Myriantheus and F. Hadjichristophi, appeared on pages 381 to 399 of the Department's Report for 2002².

Directors and team

Directed by

Euphrosyne Rizopoulou-Egoumenidou2001

Other fieldwork at Pyrgos · 2

Pyrgos: Department rescue excavations in the village cemetery (1960s)1960–1966
Pyrgos-Mavroraki: the Italian Mission (CNR-ITABC)1995–2012

References

1.Christopher D. Schabel, 2010, Greeks, Latins, and the Church in Early Frankish Cyprus.
2.E. Rizopoulou-Egoumenidou, A. Myriantheus, F. Hadjichristophi, 2002, Ο νερόμυλος στον Πύργο Λεμεσού, Report of the Department of Antiquities, Cyprus.

Sources

1.Greeks, Latins, and the Church in Early Frankish Cyprus, p. 2.