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Rantidi: the DAI/Zurich surveys of Germanos hill

Name: Rantidi: the DAI/Zurich surveys of Germanos hill
Start: 1979
End: 1980

1979–1980 · Rantidi-Lingrin tou Dhigeni

Also known as Swiss-German mission, Palaepaphos

Surveys of Germanos hill at Rantidi in 1979 and 1980 under F. G. Maier; the 1980 inspection mapped the area, confirmed a sanctuary and recorded four deposits of material abandoned by tomb looters.

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Where the work took place

Ground above 200, 500, 1,000 m

Site

1Rantidi-Lingrin tou Dhigeni (approx.)

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

The project

F. G. Maier surveyed Rantidi in 1979 and 1980¹. The work of 1980, a second thorough inspection by the Swiss-German expedition, was sponsored by the Deutsches Archäologisches Institut and the University of Zurich². Germanos hill and its surroundings, in Rantidi forest above the Khapotami valley, were systematically inspected and mapped². The inspection confirmed a sanctuary at Germanos-Rantidi and supported the accuracy of R. Zahn's earlier notes on its terracottas². The report records four deposits of material abandoned by tomb looters: 536 fragments of Archaic and Classical terracottas, mostly from large statues, a new inscription fragment, 12 basalt axes and other Chalcolithic tools, Red-on-White pottery, and pottery from Archaic to Roman times with some medieval material². Maier's account, Rantidi 1979–1980, is in The Syllabic Inscriptions of Rantidi-Paphos (1983)³.

Directors and team

Directed by

Franz Georg Maier1979–1980

Institutions

Deutsches Archaologisches InstitutSponsor
University of ZurichSponsor

Seasons

1 season

1980
Second thorough survey of Germanos hill and surroundings (site of Zahn's 1910 dig) confirming an important sanctuary and Zahn's terracotta notes; evidence of habitation from the Chalcolithic, Archaic to Roman, and late medieval; Chalcolithic axes and a green basalt idol from the British KC/KD area at Palaepaphos.
Directed by F. G. Maier[3]

What was found

Periods

Publications

1 item

Chronique des fouilles (Bulletin de correspondance hellénique)

Chronique des fouilles et découvertes archéologiques à Chypre en 1980

Other fieldwork at Rantidi-Lingrin tou Dhigeni · 4

References

1.Sabine Fourrier, 2006, Sanctuaires du territoire de Kourion : à propos des découvertes d'Agios Therapôn-Silithkia, Cahiers du Centre d'Études Chypriotes 36.
2.V. Karageorghis, 1981, Chronique des fouilles et découvertes archéologiques à Chypre en 1980, Bulletin de correspondance hellénique 105.
3.F. G. Maier, 1983, Rantidi 1979–1980, T. B. Mitford and O. Masson (eds.), The Syllabic Inscriptions of Rantidi-Paphos.