Rescue excavationDepartment of Antiquities

Soli: Morphou-Myrtou road temple (Department, 1960)

1960 · Soli

Kyriakos Nicolaou's partial investigation in 1960 of a probable temple with three cisterns, marble-lined walls and painted stucco, exposed by levelling near the Morphou-Myrtou road.

Map of Cyprus

Where the work took place

  • Ground above 200, 500, 1,000 m

Site

  1. 1Soli
Modern coastline (OpenStreetMap) and relief (Copernicus DEM).

The project

Directors and team

Directed by

Institutions

Seasons

1 season
  1. 1960

    Levelling exposed a probable temple: three rooms (one slab-paved), three cisterns, marble- and stucco-lined walls, a sandstone pillar and a marble Aphrodite statuette, possibly akin to the Soloi temples of Isis-Aphrodite.

    Directed by K. Nicolaou[1]

What was found

Periods

Publications

1 item

Annual reports of the Department of Antiquities

Related

References

  1. 1.P. Dikaios, 1962, Archaeology in Cyprus, 1959–61, Archaeological Reports 8.

Sources

  1. 1.Archaeology in Cyprus, 1959–61, p. 14.