Strovolos-Kokkines: Department rescue of a sanctuary (1980)

In 1980 Sophocles Hadjisavvas directed a rescue excavation for the Department of Antiquities at Kokkines, southeast of the Strovolos Gymnasium¹. The remains of a sanctuary were cleared, with an interior courtyard and two enclosures and at least two construction phases¹. The annual report places its foundation in the Cypro-Classical period and its main use in Hellenistic and Roman times, and records several terracotta figurines¹. It adds that most of the architecture had been destroyed by stone robbers and clandestine diggers¹. The work appears in Karageorghis's chronicle of discoveries for 1980 in the Bulletin de correspondance hellénique 105¹.