Cape Andreas: Department visits to the temple of Aphrodite Akraia

In 1961 Vassos Karageorghis and K. Nicolaou visited the temple of Aphrodite Akraia at Cape Dinareum several times¹. The foundations described by Hogarth were still visible, and the surface sherds were Roman¹. On the plateau and the southern slope they collected stone tools and fragments of stone vessels, among them a large flint knife, a stone axe and fragments of andesite bowls, where no pottery had been found; Karageorghis suggested an aceramic, early Neolithic settlement, perhaps of the sixth millennium BCE¹. South and south-west of the plateau he described ruins tentatively attributed to the ancient city of Acra, where farmers seeking building stones had exposed foundations and a circular structure 10 metres in diameter, which he thought probably a basin or water reservoir¹. He hoped to excavate the site in the very near future¹.